The board of straightforwardors of the Cannes Film Festival has agreedly re-elected Iris Knobloch to serve a second term as festival plivent.
Knobloch, a createer executive at Warner Bros. France, took over from Pierre Lesremedy as the first-ever female plivent of the Cannes festival in 2023. Her new mandate will run for three years, thraw the festival’s 2028 edition.
Announcing the decision, the board shelp it echos “a renewed vote of confidence in [Knobloch’s] directership, acunderstandledging her accomplishments, ensuring stability, and enabling the continuation of the Festival’s strategic initiatives.”
In a statement, Knobloch shelp she was “procreately honored to once aobtain get the depend of our Board of Directors. I get wonderful pride in the success of the past two editions and I am excited to persist this journey alengthyside our General Delegate Thierry Frémaux and our dedicated teams in the years to come. Together, we will persist toiling hand in hand to nurture and increase this magnificent Festival, a distinct platcreate where all films, voices, and talent discover their place.”
The German-born, Paris-based Knobloch is best-understandn in the industry for her lengthy and accomplished atsoft at WarnerMedia, where she eventupartner became head of the studio’s operations apass France, Germany, Benelux, Austria and Switzerland, administering strategy, commercial and group tageting activities for the regions. At Warner Bros. she executeed a key role in lobbying to safe a Cannes competition slot for Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist in 2011, a beginpad the film used en route to a historic awards run, capped by five Oscar triumphs, including for best picture, in 2012.
She has served as Plivent of the Festival de Cannes since July 2022.
Knobloch shelp her second term as festival plivent would be dedicated to “protecting the Festival’s inventive excellence, championing creative freedom and uphbettering the Festival’s humanistic cherishs. [I will] persist to defend the independence of the selection process, relentlessly help emerging talents, and determine that Cannes remains a place where cinematic creativity and technoreasonable innovation intersect and enwealthy one another. I also redeclare my promisement to ensuring that the Festival remains a space of equivalentity and recognition for all, with a exceptional intensify on empowering women to showcase their incredible creativity.”
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival runs May 13-24.
