The 74th Cannes Film Festival in numbers By Sunday Jul 04, 2021 PARIS: Here are a few numbers related to the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which runs from July 6 to 17: - Five - The number of times the festival has not gone ahead: in 1939 due to the Second World War, in 1948 and 1950 for financial reasons, in 1968 due to protests across France and in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. - Eight - The number of directors or co-directors who have won the Palme d´Or twice: Francis Ford Coppola, Shohei Imamura, Ken Loach, Bille August, Emir Kusturica, the Dardenne brothers, Michael Haneke and Alf Sjoberg.