Women have talent, in front but also behind the camera. The women directors, however, are in the minority in the cinema, which according to Virginie Despentes remains an industry "controlled by men". To counter the clichés, here are 10 women directors who have marked the Croisette!

• Alice Rohrwacher

In her film The Wonders (The Meraviglie), the Italian Alice Rohrwacher delicately chronicles, in the manner of a fable, the sometimes difficult life of a family of beekeepers. A poetic film, committed, a filmmaker apart, out of fashion and models, which is reminiscent of the world of Jane Campion Jury President in his presentation ... A film heritage that will fuel the controversy on the choice - legitimate or not - of the film in the competition.

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• Maïwenn (the Besco)

With "Polisse", Maïwenn (Besco) signs a third film whose raw and stubborn sincerity gives a punch to French cinema. The former model, ex-wife of Luc Besson and great regulars Jet Set parties, shatters the cliches of spoiled child that weigh on her. She won the Jury Prize: she is finally considered a full-fledged director. In 2015, she presents - a heartfelt blow to mariecaire.fr - the movie Mon Roi in Cannes, which will win the interpretation prize awarded to Emmanuelle Bercot (herself a director).

Poliss film image capture from Maïwenn

• Jane Campion

The one and only director who won the Cannes Palme d'Or in the history of the festival! In 1993, the innovative lyricism of The Piano Lesson is going to excite the Croisette but also the public. Her eclectic and personal universe make this New Zealand director a highly respected figure in the world of cinema. She will return to Cannes in 2009 with a new film Bright Star that recounts the last years of the life of the English poet John Keats, then in 2014 as president of the jury.

Jane Picion Piano Lesson

• Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold is a British director and screenwriter. She was particularly well known with Fish Tank who won the Jury Prize in 2009. A kind of female version of Ken Loach whose films tell with a certain sensuality and sensitivity the violence and social distress of the British suburbs. She presents this year the very promising American Honey where she turned for the first time outside her native Great Britain, in the United States.

Fish Tank movie capture of Andre Arnold

• Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola, presenting Marie-Antoinette in Cannes for the 2006 Palme d'Or, had already made a name for herself, rather see a first name, as director of Virgin Suicides and Lost in translation . His project is nevertheless considered ambitious to propose a very aesthetic and "trendy" cinematographic version of the world of Marie-Antoinette, herself a pop star icon. The reaction will be mixed, even cruel (film booed on the Croisette), even if for others the director excels in the pictoriality of this film, become cult.

Marie Antoinette film image capture of Sophia Coppola

• Agnès Jaoui

Agnès Jaoui is a committed and free filmmaker, who has been awarded numerous prizes, notably at the Césars. With her film Comme une image she will go up the steps of Cannes with Jean-Pierre Bacri, her ex-companion and co-author, in 2004. The duo will obtain the Prize of the scenario. These films in the "second degree" address many topics of society in which the director does not spare anyone, starting with his own medium "brain-boo".

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• Catherine Corsini

It is in 2001 that the rehearsal , the fourth film of Catherine Corsini will be in official selection of the Festival of Cannes. A film that accurately digs the range of emotions sometimes contradictory love rivalry. This year in Cannes, the French director has been chosen to chair the "Caméra d'Or", which rewards the best first film each year.

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• Nicole Garcia

It was after a great career as an actress that Nicole Garcia began in 1990 as a director. His talent and his human and distanced look have been widely recognized with highly acclaimed films such as The Favorite Son (1994), L'Adversaire (2002), starring Daniel Auteuil, and Selon Charlie, which will be presented at Cannes in 2006. She returns this year on the Croisette with Mal de Pierres (Marion Cotillard) in competition.


Movie image capture According to Nicole Garcia's Charlie

• Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase is a very talented Japanese writer and director, whose uniqueness is matched only by her deep sensitivity. "UFO" films but nevertheless accessible that allowed the one who explains "working with Japanese ideas while looking for universal significance" to be often rewarded in Cannes with Suzaku , his first feature film, which in 1997 won the Camera gold, but also his film The Forest of Mogari who won the Grand Prize in 2007, and several films in competition including the Spirit of the mountains in 2011.

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• Valérie Donzelli

Actress, screenwriter and French director, Valérie Donzelli is one of those artists whose talent is to have the qualities of her faults ... Touch to everything, undisciplined and hyperactive, the actress soon decided to shoot her own films that reflect her intensity, his passion and raw talent. His second feature film, La guerre est découverte, opened the International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival 2011. It will be a huge success on the Croisette but also in theaters with more than 800,000 admissions. In 2015 The director makes a drama of Marguerite and Julian era that will have a more mixed success.

Capture image film War is declared by Valérie Donzelli