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Cannes Film Festival 2026: ‘It's on the US independent side that I see hope'

The United States pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival 2026.
The United States pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival 2026. © Siegfried Forster / RFI

Cannes – While the absence of major Hollywood studios has caused a stir in Cannes this year, Eugene Hernandez, director of the Sundance Film Festival, founded by the late Robert Redford, told RFI why this needn't be cause for concern.

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