In recent days the Cannes Film Festival has slowly revealed itself. After the films in the running for the coveted Palme d’Or, the films screened at Midnight Screenings, at the Cannes Premiere or at Critics’ Week, it is the turn of the The Directors’ Fortnight to reveal your selection.
Films from the Official Selection May 14-25i: who will take home the Palme d’Or?
- The apprentice –Ali Abbasi
- Motel Destiny – Karim Ainouz
- Bird –Andrea Arnold
- Emilia Perez – Jacques Audiard
- Anora –Sean Baker
- Megalopolis –Francis Ford Coppola
- The fraud –David Cronenberg
- The substance – Coralie Fargeat
- Fantastic trip –Miguel Gomes
- Marcello Mio – Christophe Honoré
- Caught by the tides –Jia Zhang-Ke
- Everything we imagine as light – Payal Kapadia
- Types of kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos
- ugh love – Gilles Lellouche
- Rough diamond – Agata Riedinger
- Oh Canada –Paul Schrader
- Limonov – The ballad – Kirill Serebrennikov
- Partenope – Paolo Sorrentino
- The girl with the needle –Magnus Von Horn
A certain consideration: original and daring films by emerging directors
- Will be – Tawfik Alzaidi
- The shameless one – Konstantin BOJANOV
- The kingdom –Giuliano Colonna
- Twenty Gods – Louise COURVOISIER
- The dog test – Laetitia Dosch
- Black Dog – GUAN Hu
- The Village near paradise – Mo HARAWE
- September sayings – Ariane Labed
- Souleymane’s story – Boris Lojkine
- The damned –Roberto MINERVINI
- Home Becoming a Guinea Fool – Rungano Nyoni
- My ray of sunshine –Hiroshu Okuyama
Midnight screenings and special screenings: a more personal (and sometimes extreme) cinema.
Midnight sessions
- Twilight of the Walled Warrior – Soi Cheng
- I, the executioner –Seung Wan Ryoo
- Out of competition:
- Mad Max 5: Furiosa –George Miller
- Horizon, an American saga –Kevin Cosner
- Has No Name: Chan Peter Ho-Sun
- Voices – Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
- Women on the balcony – Noémie Merlant
- The surfer–Lorcan Finnegan
Special sessions
- The beauty of Gaza – Yolande Zauberman
- Learn – Claire Simon (on education, teachers and children)
- The invasion – Sergei Loznitsa
- Ernest Cole, photographer –Raoul Peck
- Row -Daniel Auteuil
Cannes Première, films by the big names in cinema, out of competition
- Mercy – Alain Guiraudie
- It’s not me – Leo Carax
- Everyone loves Touda – Nabil Ayouch
- With fanfare – Emmanuel Courcol
- Meeting with Pol Pot –Rithy Pahn
- Jim’s novel – Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
Critics’ week, discovering young talents
- The Ghosts – Jonathan Millet
- Baby – Marcelo Caetano
- Palace of the Blue Sun – Constance Tsang
- Julie zwijgt – Leonardo Van Dijl
- Locust – KEFF
- The Pampa – Antoine Chevrollier
- Rafaat einy ll sama – Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir
- Simon de la montaña – Federico Luis
- The sea in the distance – Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
- Drama Queens – Alexis Langlois
- Animal – Emma Benestan
The Directors’ Fortnight, to give more visibility to little-known filmmakers
- My life, my faceSophie Fillières
- Like his appearanceThierry de Peretti
- Christmas Eve at Miller’s PointTylerTaormina
- Namibian desertYoko Yamanaka
- East of noonHala Elkoussy
- Eat at nightCaroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
- EefusCarson Lund
- GasRyan J. Sloan
- The ghost cat AnzuYoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita
- Good boyIndia Donaldson
- BastardChiang Wei Liang and You Qiao Yin
- The Prisoner of BordeauxPatricia Mazuy
- The savannah and the mountainsPaolo Carneiro
- Sister MidnightKaran Kandhari
- Something old, something new, something borrowedHernan Rosselli
- The fall of the skyEryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
- The HyperboreansCristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
- September without delayJonas Trueba
- Towards an unknown landMahdi Fleifel
- A universal languageMatthew Rankin
- Plastic gunsJean Christophe Meurisse
- Stories of America: Food, Family, and PhilosophyChantal Akermann
Parisian audiences will have the opportunity to discover the films of the month’s Directors’ Fortnight June at the Forum des Images.
ACID, to watch independent films
- It’s just goodbye – Guillaume Brac
- Red Castle – Hélène Milan
- Photogenic – Marcia Romano and Benoît Sabatier
- In retreat -Maisam Ali
- It doesn’t matter – Josh Mond
- Kyuka – Before the End of Summer – Kostis Charamomountanis
- Mi Bestia – Camila Beltrán
- Most people die on Sunday – Iair said
- A town in flames – Mona Convert
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