Forbes and Street also point out that, along with other festivals such as the Venice Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival, Cannes offers an opportunity to determine a particular country's image of its cinema and generally foster the notion that European cinema is "art" cinema.
Forbes dan Street juga menunjukkan bahwa, bersama dengan festival lain seperti Festival Film Venesia dan Festival Film Internasional Berlin, Cannes menawarkan kesempatan untuk menentukan citra perfilman negara tertentu dan umumnya menumbuhkan gagasan bahwa perfilman Eropa adalah perfilman "seni".