In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
Shannon Murphy is an actress and director, known for Babyteeth (2019), On the Ropes (2018) and Rake (2010). She has been married to Dan Wyllie since December 2014. They have one child. Raised in Hong Kong, Singapore, Africa and Australia, Shannon Murphy is an award-winning theatre director and deviser. In 2007 she attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and has since been named the most influential graduate of the decade by Sydney Magazine.