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The first annual Cannes Film Festival was held at the resort city of Cannes on French Riviera from 20 September to 5 October 1946. 21 nations presented their films at the first Cannes International Film Festival, which took place at the former casino of Cannes. The festival has initially intended to make its debut in 1939, but the outbreak of World War II forced it's cancellation. The world's first annual international film festival was in 1932, but by 1938, the Venice Film festival had become a vehicle for Fascist and Nazi propaganda. Outraged, France decided to organize an alternative film festival at Cannes, was announced in Paris, France.
The Cannes Festival, until 2003 called the International Film Festival known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all categories including documentaries from all around the world. It's origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the Americans and the British.
The reason for deciding Cannes was because of its touristic appeal as a French Riviera resort town and also because the city hall also offered to increase the municipality’s financial participation and promising for building a dedicated venue for the event. The first event was planned to be held from 1 to 20 September 1939 in an auditorium at the Municipal Casino and Louis Lumière was going to be the honorary president to inaugurate. Its aim was to encourage the development of all forms of cinematographic art and foster a spirit of collaboration between film-producing countries.
Now more than 30,000 people come to Cannes each May to attend the annual Cannes Film Festival, about 100 times the number of film devotees who showed up for the first Cannes in 1946.
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