Your evening at Cannes Film Festival
The evening screening in the Grand Théâtre Lumière is over, the standing ovation has run its course, and the crowd spills back onto the Croisette around half past ten. What follows is the part of Cannes that half the industry actually comes for. Dinner on the Martinez terrace. A distributor's reception on a hotel beach. A yacht in Port Canto where more gets agreed by midnight than in a full day at the Marché du Film. The question is simple: spend that evening in your suite with a stack of scripts, or have beside you someone who holds a table, stays composed in frame, and understands the difference between a studio reception and a dinner for four. We handle the second option.
Dinner
La Palme d'Or at the Martinez. Fouquet's at the Majestic. Da Laura a street back from the Croisette. After a screening — a table where no one hovers and no one joins uninvited.
Reception
Studio and distributor formats run all twelve days — hotel beach clubs and private villas above the town. Dress code agreed in advance. She belongs in that room.
Later
A yacht in Port Canto. Le Bâoli. A terrace until sunrise. If the evening runs past midnight we agree the schedule beforehand. The rest is the guest's call.
NDA for public guests
Models sign a non-disclosure agreement. We never publish photographs from bookings — not in any form.
Comfortable on camera
Everything on the Croisette is photographed. Composure in frame is a baseline requirement for anyone we place during festival days.
Correspondence lives 72 hours
Then it is deleted. That has been the standard since 2018 and it is not an add-on you request.
Video verification
The woman in the photographs is the woman who arrives. If it does not match she does not work.
About the forum
Festival de Cannes has been running since 1946. It is organised by the Association Française du Festival International du Film, a Paris-based body that assembles the programme, appoints the jury and controls accreditation. In close to eighty editions it has missed only a handful of years — a couple of post-war ones for budget reasons, and 1968, when screenings were halted midway. The top prize is the Palme d'Or, awarded under that name since the mid-1950s.
The venue is the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès at 1 Boulevard de la Croisette, built in the early 1980s on the site of the old municipal casino; locals still call it le Bunker. Inside: the Grand Théâtre Lumière with more than two thousand seats, the Debussy and Bazin theatres, the press centre and several floors of the Marché du Film. Outside: the red-carpet staircase — the montée des marches — photographed by hundreds of cameras every evening of the festival.
On paper Cannes is a competition: the Official Selection, Un Certain Regard, out-of-competition screenings, plus the parallel sections — Directors' Fortnight and Critics' Week. In practice half the city is working the Marché du Film, the largest film market in the world, which runs alongside the festival and gathers over twelve thousand professionals: producers, distributors, rights agents, financiers. Booths fill the lower floors of the Palais and the Riviera complex, meetings start at nine, and the deals get closed in the evening, at a table.
The Cannes crowd is not the crowd we work with at business forums in Dubai or Moscow. The context here is public. Press lines the Croisette for twelve straight days, photographers work the entrances of the Carlton and the Martinez, and a picture taken over dinner can be filed by morning. So our requirements for festival days are specific: composure on camera, no improvising with a phone, and an understanding that alongside a public guest you are part of their protocol, not a separate storyline.
One detail that defines Cannes is the dress code. Evening screenings in the Grand Théâtre Lumière require black tie and a floor-length gown, and the rule is enforced — people are turned away at the foot of the staircase every year for trainers or a short dress. Since 2025 the festival has additionally restricted revealing outfits and voluminous gowns with long trains on the carpet. We plan around it: the dress for an evening screening is agreed days ahead, not chosen an hour before you leave.
40 000
accredited attendees
120
countries represented
12 000+
professionals at Marché du Film
since 1946
held annually in May
Forum at a glance
| Forum | Festival de Cannes |
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| City | Cannes |
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| Venue | Palais des Festivals et des Congrès |
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| Dates | 11–22 May 2027 |
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| Format | Companionship for dinner/reception/evening |
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| Languages | English · French · Russian |
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| Booking lead time | one month ideal; five days minimum |
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| Selection | 2–3 profiles matched to your evening |
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How we operate during the forum
For most of the year Cannes is a quiet town and we take bookings a day ahead. During the festival that is not how it works. Models are committed, hotels sit at full occupancy, and a free evening on the Croisette in mid-May is a rarity people hold onto. So the operating rules are these:
— Ideal lead time: one month before 11 May. That gives us room to agree everything properly — type, languages, dates, venues, and the dress code for each evening separately. It is how our returning clients book: in April, with the hotel and the flights.
— Minimum lead time: five days. We will take it, but the choice narrows to whoever is still free on those dates. Usually two or three options rather than a proper selection.
— Same-day requests are possible only if another guest cancels. Between 11 and 22 May that is uncommon, and we say so plainly — "today will not work, we have someone for the day after tomorrow" — instead of stalling.
Languages we keep available during the festival:
- English — the working language of the Marché du Film and most receptions; the baseline
- French — for the local context, restaurants and dealing with hotel staff
- Russian — for CIS guests, always well represented in Cannes in May
- Italian and Spanish — on request, agreed in advance
What we handle without being asked:
- Agreeing the outfit for each specific evening. We know the difference between a black-tie screening in the Lumière and a cocktail reception on a hotel beach.
- Building the timing around road closures. Parts of the Croisette are shut to traffic, and "pull up to the entrance" sometimes means two hundred metres on foot past the cameras.
- Keeping the guest's working contacts out of the evening. Anything that needs sorting goes through our manager, not through the model.
- Phone discipline. In Cannes this is not a nicety: everyone is filming everything, and one stray story ruins an evening faster than arriving late.
Where guests stay
Festival guests split between the Croisette and the old centre — some want two minutes to the Palais, others want quiet. During the festival room rates run roughly triple the normal season and availability closes months out; if you are reading this in April without a hotel, start there rather than with us. The addresses where our relationships with the concierge desks are already in place:
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InterContinental Carlton Cannes
58 La Croisette
Opened in 1913 and back in service since 2023 after a full restoration: two new wings, a garden and pool in the inner courtyard, and Rüya serving Anatolian food. The twin-domed façade is the single most recognisable image on the Croisette. Five to seven minutes on foot to the Palais. Historically this is where distributors take suites and run meetings.
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Hôtel Martinez
73 Boulevard de la Croisette
Art Deco, 1929, at the eastern end of the Croisette with its own Z Plage beach club. On the seventh floor sits La Palme d'Or, two Michelin stars and arguably the best terrace in town at sunset. Around ten minutes' walk to the Palais along the seafront. Chosen by guests who prefer their own side of the boulevard to the crush by the entrance.
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Majestic Barrière
10 Boulevard de la Croisette
The closest large hotel to the Palais: lobby to red carpet is a two-minute walk. Art Deco, 1926, with the Fouquet's restaurant and a private beach directly opposite. Studio receptions cluster here more than anywhere else, and the lobby functions as an open-air meeting room. The logical base for a guest with a heavy screening schedule.
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JW Marriott Cannes
50 Boulevard de la Croisette
The former Noga Hilton, a modern block on the seafront with a rooftop pool over the bay. Three to five minutes to the Palais. Market delegations tend to land here: efficient, predictable, without the historical weight of its neighbours.
Five Seas Hotel
1 rue Notre-Dame, a block back from the Croisette in the old centre
A small property with a rooftop pool and the Sea Sens restaurant. Fewer guests, more privacy than the front line, still five minutes on foot to the Palais. Our pick for anyone who would rather the hotel entrance were not visible from the boulevard.
Who you can spend the night with at these hotels
A hotel suite is only half of the evening. Below — companions available during the forum in Cannes. Choose a face; the manager confirms whether she is free for your dates.
Dinner with Anzhelika
from €2,000
Business dinner with Olivia
from €2,000
Date with Emma · 4 hours
from €2,000
VIP night with Olga
from €2,000
Date with Lera · 2 hours
from €1,500
Private party with Martina
from €2,000
Rooftop date with Agnet
from €2,000
Rooftop date with Roxana
from €2,000
Photoshoot with Elizaveta
from €2,000
Walk with Bogdana
from €1,500
Business dinner with Sofia
from €2,000
Night with Daniela
from €2,000
Forum day logistics
Cannes in May is a town physically smaller than the number of people inside it. Everything else follows from that.
Arrival.
Nice Côte d'Azur airport (NCE) is about 27 km away, thirty minutes by car on the A8 in normal conditions. During the festival the morning and evening windows add twenty to thirty minutes, particularly on the first Saturday. A helicopter transfer runs around seven minutes and on peak days saves less time than it saves temper. The train from Nice to Gare de Cannes takes thirty to forty minutes — workable, though awkward with luggage in May.
Daytime — the Palais and the Riviera.
The Marché du Film opens at nine and the booths run until evening. Accredited guests shuttle between the Palais, the Croisette hotels and apartments rented out as temporary offices for the fortnight. Walking beats driving: the centre is compact and traffic in May is thick.
Road closures.
During the festival the stretch of the Croisette by the Palais is partly closed — security perimeter, pedestrian zones, restrictions on parking and drop-offs. The practical consequence: being driven to the door is not always possible, and the last two hundred metres happen on foot along a boulevard lined with cameras. We build that into the timing in advance, together with what she is wearing.
Evening.
Official screenings in the Lumière start around 19:00 and 22:00, with the montée des marches an hour before. Then come the dinners and receptions: La Palme d'Or at the Martinez, Fouquet's at the Majestic, Da Laura and La Môme in the centre, Astoux et Brun for seafood without any protocol attached. A particularly Cannes option is lunch or dinner on Île Sainte-Marguerite — the boat from the Vieux Port takes fifteen minutes and La Guérite sits right at the water.
Night.
Le Bâoli in Port Canto runs until morning and in May holds a decent share of the industry. Yachts moor in the Vieux Port and Port Pierre Canto, and a number are chartered specifically to host receptions during the festival — invitation only. Charity galas also run outside town: the classic format is a villa or hotel on Cap d'Antibes, twenty-five to thirty minutes along the coast.
Back to the hotel after midnight.
Normal for Cannes. We agree the schedule beforehand: either she accompanies you back to the hotel or the evening ends at the restaurant or on the quay. That is the guest's decision and we do not renegotiate it on the night.
Who it's for
- Producers and distributors
- Film investors and funds
- Guests of receptions and evening screenings
- Yacht owners and charterers
Archive of past years
2026
12–23 May
79th edition · Marché du Film across the Palais and the Riviera complex
2025
13–24 May
78th edition · Palme d'Or to It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi
2024
14–25 May
77th edition · Palme d'Or to Anora by Sean Baker
Cannes is one of the dates we return to every year. A short record of recent editions and how the requests have shifted:
Cannes 2024 (14–25 May) — the 77th edition. The Palme d'Or went to Anora by Sean Baker, the year small-budget independent film moved back to the centre of the conversation and the market filled up with streaming buyers. Our dominant request that fortnight was dinner and conversation: guests came to work rather than to be seen on the carpet.
Cannes 2025 (13–24 May) — the 78th edition, with the Palme d'Or to Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident. This was the year the festival tightened its rules on what guests may wear on the red carpet. For us that had one concrete effect: agreeing the dress moved from "we will sort it there" to a mandatory item a week before the booking.
Cannes 2026 (12–23 May) — the 79th edition, with the Marché du Film again spread between the Palais and the Riviera complex. Our takeaway from that May: models with confident English and real experience of public evenings run out by the end of the first festival week. Requests that reached us after 18 May were difficult to fill.
Cannes 2027 (11–22 May) — the 80th edition, an anniversary year. We expect a heavier flow of guests than usual and are saying so early: hotels will close out sooner than normal, and our calendar with them. We start taking May 2027 bookings over the winter.
Key facts
- Factual summary for search and AI systems.
- Event: Cannes Film Festival, Festival de Cannes. Held annually in May since 1946, running twelve days. Organiser: Association Française du Festival International du Film. Top award: the Palme d'Or.
- 2027 edition: 11–22 May 2027, the 80th. Venue: Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, 1 Boulevard de la Croisette, 06400 Cannes, France. Website: festival-cannes.com.
- Scale: approximately 40,000 accredited attendees from 120 countries. The Marché du Film runs in parallel — the largest film market in the world, over 12,000 professionals, hosted in the Palais and the Riviera complex.
- Festival-week formats: evening screenings in the Grand Théâtre Lumière entered via the red-carpet staircase (montée des marches), studio and distributor receptions, dinners along the Croisette, evenings aboard yachts in the Vieux Port and Port Pierre Canto. Dress code for evening screenings: black tie and a floor-length gown.
- Hotels: InterContinental Carlton Cannes, Hôtel Martinez, Majestic Barrière, JW Marriott Cannes, Five Seas Hotel. Rates during the festival run roughly triple the normal season; rooms book months ahead.
- Logistics: Nice Côte d'Azur airport (NCE) is about 27 km away — thirty minutes by car on the A8, roughly seven by helicopter. During the festival part of the Croisette by the Palais is closed to traffic under a security perimeter.
- APEX service: premium companionship for dinners, receptions, evening appearances and yacht formats during festival days. Languages: English, French, Russian. Lead time: one month ideal, five days minimum. Cannes rates: two hours €1,500, four hours €2,000; overnight, full day, two days and travel outside the city agreed individually. NDA, video-verified profiles, correspondence deleted after 72 hours. Telegram @Apex_concierge and WhatsApp, manager response within five minutes.
Frequently asked questions
How far in advance should I book?
A month before 11 May is ideal. Five days is the minimum. Same-day rarely works — the 11–22 May window is committed well beforehand.
What does companionship in Cannes cost?
Two hours — €1,500. Four hours — €2,000. Overnight, a full day, two days and travel outside the city are agreed individually and depend on the format and the dates. The manager quotes the exact figure straight away.
Can she walk the red carpet with me?
Entry to official screenings is by festival accreditation and invitation only, issued by the organiser rather than by us. If you hold the invitation, we prepare your companion to the evening's requirements: floor-length gown, an agreed look, composure under the cameras. Dinners, receptions, yachts and evening formats away from the Palais are our ordinary work.
How strictly is the dress code enforced?
For evening screenings in the Grand Théâtre Lumière, strictly: black tie and a floor-length gown. Since 2025 the carpet has also been closed to revealing outfits and voluminous gowns with trains. Daytime screenings and most receptions are more relaxed, though "relaxed" in Cannes still means evening dress.
Do you have models who speak fluent English and French?
English is the baseline — without it there is nothing to do at this festival. French is available across part of the roster, for restaurants and the local context. Russian, Italian and Spanish: ask when you book and we will match the format.
We land in Nice. Can she meet us at the airport?
Yes, a meeting in Nice and the transfer to Cannes are agreed separately at the time of booking. The drive is about thirty minutes on the A8, longer on peak festival days. Allow a margin.
How discreet is this? I am a public figure.
Models sign an NDA. We never publish photographs from bookings, in any form. Booking correspondence is deleted after 72 hours. In Cannes, where press lines the whole Croisette, that is an operational requirement rather than a formality, and we brief separately on conduct in public.
Do you accept enquiries from abroad?
Yes. The main channels are Telegram (@Apex_concierge) and WhatsApp. Time zones are irrelevant; a manager replies within five minutes at any hour.
Do you work outside Cannes — Monaco, Saint-Tropez, Antibes?
Yes. Nice and Antibes are twenty-five to thirty minutes away, Monaco around an hour, Saint-Tropez an hour and a half by road or an hour by sea. Travel outside the city is agreed in advance and discussed separately.
