Cannes 2017: Here's everything you need to know about the Cannes Film Festival

Apart from being a prestigious event that has every fashion enthusiast putting their best foot forward, The Cannes Film Festival is about great films, a powerful guest list and a rich history, to name a few. 

Made popular in India by the gorgeous Aishwarya Rai Bachchan a good fourteen years ago, the lovely actress still makes us proud as punch as I write this. Her uber glam red carpet appearances have almost made the headlines and with each year, Ash ups her game a notch higher. 

Though Aishwarya remains one of the first Indian actress to make it to Cannes (after Smita Patil and Shabana Azmi), there have been other actresses to join her at the reputed film festival including Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor and Katrina Kaif. 

Having mentioned these bevy of beauties who have graced the event, I'd like to add that the presence of these glamour girls is the only thing that some people know about Cannes. And any true film enthusiast like myself, will just not would insist that you know just a little bit more. 

If you're one of those, here's some quick trivia for you to brush up on your Cannes IQ...

1. 'Cannes' is a tiny French city on the French Riviera.

2. The city has a very small population of 73,903. The population swells to 200,000 during the festival.

3. The first Cannes festival was born out of necessity. In 1939 Jean Zay, France's then Minister for Education and Fine Arts, desired to establish an alternative to the Venice Film Festival which had become a vehicle for fascist propaganda films.

4. In 1952, the festival found a permanent home at the specifically built Palais Des Festivals on the boulevard of Promenade de la Croisette. A new Palais was constructed in the late 70s and finally opened in December 1982. Today it has 25,000 square metres for exhibitions and 18 auditoriums.

5. Palme D'or - the most prestigious (24 carat gold) award is given to the best film every year. 

6. The budget for the Cannes Film Festival touches twenty million Euros, more than half of which comes from public funding.

7. Cannes 2016 was attended by 134 countries - with over 4038 journalists and 350 photographers in attendence.

8. The first festival was delayed by 7 years due to World War 2.

9. 6 new languages were introduced in 2010, to emphasize on the international reputation of the festival 

10. The Cannes red carpet is 2 kilometers long and is changed 3 times a day and around 40 times over the course of the festival.