Dakota Johnson is at the Cannes Film Festival for the first time with “Splitsville,” a dark comedy from “The Climb” director Michael Angelo Covino that debuts in the festival’s Cannes Premiere section. Not only does Johnson star in the film but she also produced it through TeaTime Pictures, the production banner she co-founded six years ago with good friend Ro Donnelly. The two women joined Variety’s Angelique Jackson in Cannes for a Kering Women in Talk ahead of their big premiere.

“So much of why I wanted to start a production company and make my own movies is because I want more from this industry,” Johnson said. “I want more from my experience as an artist. I felt so thirsty for more conversation and more creativity and more collaboration. I found myself as an actor, a few times, showing up to the premiere of a movie to see...