The Festival de Cannes has announced the lineup for the official selection, including the Competition and Un Certain Regard sections, as well as special screenings, for the 74th edition of the festival. See also the full lineups of Directors' Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
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COMPETITION
The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson): On the death of the Editor-in-Chief, the editorial staff decides to publish a last, memorial edition highlighting the three best stories which appeared over the ten-year existence of the magazine.The stories involve an artist sentenced to life imprisonment; student riots, and a kidnapping.
Paris, 13th District (Jacques Audiard): Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy—They’re friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
Casablanca Beats (Nabil Ayouch): A realistic drama set in the cultural center in Casablanca’s Sidi Moumen neighborhood, a poor suburb that became infamous in 2003 due to a terrorist attack perpetrated by locals.
Red Rocket (Sean Baker): Finding himself down and out in Los Angeles, a 39-year-old “suitcase pimp” decides to crawl back to his hometown in Texas, where his estranged family is living. He then meets a young woman working the cash register at a local doughnut shop. He falls right back into his old habit.
Annette (Leos Carax): The glamorous life of a provocative stand-up comedian and a world-famous soprano takes an unexpected turn when their daughter—Annette is born with a unique gift.
La fracture (Catherine Corsini): Two women on the verge of a breakup, in a hospital, are further stressed on the night of a big demonstration by the overwhelmed staff and by angry, injured protestors who land up besieging the building.
Titane (Julia Ducournau): A young man with a bruised face is discovered in an airport. He claims his name to be Adrien Legrand—a child who disappeared ten years ago. As he’s finally reunited with his father, gruesome murders are piling up in the region.
On a Half Clear Morning (Bruno Dumont): A celebrity journalist, juggling her busy career and personal life, has her life over-turned by a freak car accident.
The Story of My Wife (Ildikó Enyedi): A sea captain makes a bet in a cafe with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in.
A Hero (Asghar Farhadi)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi): An aging, widowed actor seeks a chauffeur. The actor turns to his go-to mechanic who ends up recommending him to a 20-year-old girl. Despite their initial misgivings, a very special relationship develops between the two.
Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve): The film revolves around an American filmmaking couple who retreat to the island for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Bergman.
Lingui (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun): Thirty-year-old Amina, a practicing Muslim, lives alone with her only child, the fifteen-year-old Maria. When Amina learns Maria is not only pregnant but wishes to abort the child, the two women face an impossible situation in a country where abortion is legally and morally condemned.
Compartment No.6 (Juho Kuosmanen): A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a rough Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own loneliness and yearning for human connection.
Nitram (Justin Kurzel): Nitram is based on the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which is one of the worst crimes in Australian history that saw a mass shooter kill 35 people and injure another 23.
The Restless (Joachim Lafosse): Given the intensity of Damien’s latest relapse, and despite his efforts to get better, will Leïla ever be able to look at her lover – the father of their child – as anything other than a bipolar man?
Ahed's Knee (Nadav Lapid): An Israeli filmmaker throws himself in the midst of two battles doomed to fail: one against the death of freedom, the other against the death of a mother.
Three Stories (Nanni Moretti): On the three floors of a building in the Israeli city, where the three main families live. The distinctive feature of the story is Freud’s psychology; the three families described by Nevo reflect the three different Freudian instances of the personality of ‘Id, Ego and Superego’.
Everything Went Fine (François Ozon): When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuelle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it’s your own father?
Flag Day (Sean Penn): A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.
Petrov's Flu (Kirill Serebrennikov): The story of an ordinary Yekaterinburg family that hide their secret desires under a layer of constant routine. While Petrov lives his life in a parallel comic universe, his wife is a librarian with manic inclinations.
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier): A modern dramedy about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo. It chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven): Set in the late 17th century and inspired by true events, Benedetta follows a young woman who joins a convent in Pescia, Tuscany as a plague ravages the land that surrounds it. Capable of performing miracles from an early age, Benedetta’s impact on life in the community is immediate and momentous.
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul): An orchid farmer visits her ill sister in Bogota. While there, she befriends a French archaeologist in charge of monitoring the construction project and a young musician. Each night, she is bothered by increasingly loud bangs which prevent her from getting any sleep.
OUT OF COMPETITION
In His Lifetime (Emmanuelle Bercot): The film tells the story of three people for a year: a son diagnosed with cancer, a mother suffering from helplessness and a doctor to do her job: One year and four seasons for these three characters to deal with the disease, to tame it, and to understand what it means to die while alive.
Emergency Declaration (Han Jae-Rim): An aircraft is forced to declare an emergency when an unprecedented terror incident occurs in-flight.
The Velvet Underground (Todd Haynes): The Velvet Underground explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of the most influential bands in rock and roll.
Stillwater (Tom McCarthy): A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his daughter who has been arrested for murder.
Aline, The Voice of Love (Valérie Lemercier): Comedian Valérie Lamercier is ‘Céline’, ehh Aline! This French-Canadian tribute to a certain world star and pop icon tells her entire story: about her humble childhood in Canada, Eurovision, ‘Titanic’, about her relationship with her manager, and how her heart did go on after that.
Bac nord (Cédric Jimenez): A police brigade working in the dangerous northern neighborhoods of Marseille, where the level of crime is higher than anywhere else in France.
Where is Anne Frank? (Ari Folman)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Onoda — 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (Arthur Harari)
Playground (Laura Wandel): 7-year-old Nora and her big brother Abel are back to school. When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him by warning their father. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora will ultimately try to find her place, torn between children's and adult's worlds.
The Innocents (Eskil Vogt): During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren’t looking. In this original and gripping supernatural thriller, playtime takes a dangerous turn.
After Yang (Kogonada): In a world where robotic children are purchased as live-in babysitters, a father and daughter attempt to save the life of their robotic family member, Yang, who has become unresponsive.
Commitment Hasan (Semih Kaplanoğlu): Making his living from gardening and farming in the land he inherited from his father, Hasan tries to get rid of the power pole that is going to be installed in the midst of his land. His impending voyage to Mecca for pilgrimage leads to soul searching into his past.
Lamb (Valdimar Jóhannsson): A childless couple, María and Ingvar discover a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland. The unexpected prospect of family life brings them much joy, before ultimately destroying them.
Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo): In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn’t make it to her hiding place in time.
Bonne mère (Hafsia Herzi): After her son is arrested in a gas station robbery, housekeeper Nora does everything she can to help him as he remains incarcerated awaiting trial.
House Arrest (Aleksey German Jr.): David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings being investigated, David is himself accused of embezzlement and placed under house arrest. Despite the overbearing surveillance, double-crossing acquaintances, and growing media interest, David remains defiant and will not apologise. With the court case drawing ever nearer, does David have any hope of winning this battle against Goliath?
Blue Bayou (Justin Chon): As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Money Boys (C.B. Yi): Fei makes a living in the big city working as a Moneyboy. His world collapses when he realizes that his family accepts his money but not his homosexuality. Broken-hearted, Fei struggles to create a new beginning in his life.
Freda (Gessica Généus): Freda lives with her mother, sister and little brother in a popular neighbourhood of Haiti. They survive with their little street food shop. The precariousness and violence of their daily life pushes them to do everything they can to escape their situation in the hope of finding a better life.
Let There Be Morning (Eran Kolirin): Sami thought he found his place in life, but then, without any conceivable reason, the Arab village where he grew up is suddenly surrounded by an ominous wall. Now he is forced to deal with questions of identity and national belonging. A bitter sweet comedy about a state of siege, both internal and external and about a man who built a wall around his heart, and how that walls starts coming apart when another, more real wall is built around the village where he was born.
Women Do Cry (Mina Mileva, Vesela Kasakova): A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman applies make-up to two kittens. A mother looks for magic in the lunar calendar. These events are commonplace for this seemingly normal family, revealing the fine line they live between fragility and absurdity. In the meantime, their country Bulgaria is shaken up by anti-gender and anti-equality protests with an undercurrent of violence. These women are united by a shared trauma, but now they are ready to confront their father’s troubling past. Based on a true story.
La civil (Teodora Ana Mihai): La Civil tells the story of Cielo, a mother in search of her daughter, abducted by a criminal cartel in Northern Mexico. As the authorities fail to offer support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and turns from housewife into avenging activist. The story was inspired by true events.
Unclenching the Fists (Kira Kovalenko): High in the mountains of North Ossetia, a small mining town of Mizur nestles between the sheer cliffs. Following certain dramatic events, Zaur moved his children Ada, Akim and Dakko here. Zaur is a strict father who prizes discipline above all and doesn’t feel the difference between care and overprotection. His eldest son, Akim, already escaped from his father to work in Rostov, the closest city to Mizur. His younger brother, Dakko, has yet to decide what he wants from life, and their sister Ada is actively planning her escape. She is a grown woman but her father still treats her as a baby. Ada will soon realize that it will be very hard to escape her father's embrace and begin her own new life. The return of her older brother Akim will illuminate the family’s unspoken and unhealed traumas.
Rehana Maryam Noor (Abdullah Mohammad Saad): Rehana, a 37-year-old assistant professor in a private medical college, struggles to keep the harmony between her work and family as she juggles the complex roles of a teacher, doctor, sister, daughter and mother. Her life starts to spiral out of control on a quiet evening when she witnesses a female student storm out of a professor’s office in tears. Meanwhile, she receives a complaint about aggressive behaviour against her 6-year-old daughter. Both incidents leave a searing impact on her. Unable to accept the madness of this society, Rehana embarks on an extraordinary journey to seek justice for her student and daughter, all the while grappling with her ego, sense of morality and repressed anger.
Mes frères et moi (Yohan Manca)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
The Year of the Everlasting Storm (Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul): A love letter to cinemas, and its storytellers.
H6 (Yé Yé)
Black Notebooks (Shlomi Elkabetz)
Mariner of the Mountains (Karim Aïnouz): The film between the fiction and the documentary, even the auto-fiction. Karim Aïnouz, the Brazilian director, by using his personal background, invites the audience to follow/discover an incredible journey through space and time...
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (Oliver Stone): Stone sets Kennedy’s assassination in context politically, and presents interviews, documents, and forensics reports that change how Kennedy’s life, political career, and assassination is considered.
Jane par Charlotte (Charlotte Gainsbourg): Directorial debut of Charlotte Gainsbourg, a portrait film about her mother, Jane Birkin.
Val (Ting Poo, Leo Scott): ‘Val’ traces the life and career of Val Kilmer through interviews and behind-the-scenes footage supplied by the mercurial actor.
Babi Yar. Context (Sergei Loznitsa)
Bill Murray's Party: New Worlds, The Cradle of a Civilization (Andrew Muscato)
Mi iubita Mon amour (Noémie Merlant)
Les Héroïques (Maxime Roy)
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (Wen Shipei)
CANNES PREMIERE
Evolution (Kornél Mundruczo)
Deception (Arnaud Desplechin): An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women… His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge… A student he loved in another life… A former lover confined to a hospital in New York…
Cow (Andrea Arnold): A close-up portrait of the daily lives of two cows.
Love Songs for Tough Guys (Samuel Benchetrit)
Mothering Sunday (Eva Husson): A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
Hold Me Tight (Mathieu Amalric): She is gone, she left husband and children… Or on the contrary.
In Front of Your Face (Hong Sang-soo)
Vortex (Gaspar Noé)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Bloody Oranges (Jean-Christophe Meurisse): Simultaneously, a retired couple overwhelmed by debt tries to win a dance contest, as the minister of economy is suspected of tax evasion, and a teenage girl encounters a sexual maniac, while a young lawyer attempts to climb the social ladder.
Tralala (Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu)
Suprêmes (Audrey Estrougo)
CANNES CLASSICS
The Killing Floor (Bill Duke, United States)
The Moon Has Risen (Kinuyo Tanaka, Japan)
The Path (Ana Mariscal, Spain)
Murder in Harlem (Oscar Micheaux, United States)
Black Orfeus (Marcel Camus, France / Brazil / Italy)
The Flowers of St. Francis (Roberto Rossellini, Italy)
The Hussy (Jacques Doillon, France)
I Know Where I'm Going! (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, United Kingdom)
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (Raoul Peck)
Friendship's Death by Peter Wollen, United Kingdom)
Bal poussière (Henri Duparc, Ivory Coast)
The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski, France / Poland)
F for Fake (Orson Welles, France/ Iran / Germany)
Demon Pond (Masahiro Shinoda, Japan)
The War is Over (Alain Resnais, France)
Not Delivered (Gilles Grangier, France)
Louise (Philippe de Broca, France / Italy)
Diary for my Children (Márta Mészáros, Hungary)
The Cassandra Cat (Vojtech Jasný, Czech Republic)
Repentance (Tenguiz Abouladzé, Georgia)
The Fourteenth Day (Zdravko Velimirovic, Montenegro / Serbia)
The Path of Hope (Pietro Germi, Italy)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, USA)
Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, USA)
CANNES CLASSICS: DOCUMENTARIES
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (Mark Cousins, United Kingdom)
Satoshi Kon, l'illusionniste (Pascal-Alex Vincent, France/Japan)
Buñuel, un cineasta surrealista (Javier Espada, Spain)
All About Yves Montand (Yves Jeuland, France)
The Story of Film: a New Generation (Mark Cousins, United Kingdom)
Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone By (André Bonzel, France)
Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Black Filmmaking (Francesco Zippel)