The lineup for the 2022 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) at Cannes has been announced. See also the lineup of the Official Selection.
FEATURE FILMS
Scarlet (Pietro Marcello): In northern France, Juliette grows up alone with her father, Raphaël, a veteran of the First World War. Passionate about singing and music, the lonely young girl meets a magician one summer who promises that scarlet sails will one day take her away from her village.
1976 (Manuela Martelli): Carmen is 49 years old. Her life as a bourgeois housewife is interrupted when the priest at the church where she does charity work asks her to take care of a young revolutionary, a man he is giving asylum to, who has just been hurt.
The Water (Elena López Riera)
The Dam (Ali Cherri): Sudan. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly wanders off into the desert to build a mysterious construction made of mud. While the Sudanese people rise to claim their freedom, his creation starts to take a life of its own…
The Super 8 Years (Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot)
Ashkal (Youssef Chebbi): In the Gardens of Carthage, a district of Tunis initiated by the former Regime which construction stopped at the beginning of the Revolution, two cops, Fatma and Batal, find a burnt body in one of the lots. As construction slowly resumes, they start looking into this mysterious case.
The Five Devils (Léa Mysius): Seven-year-old Vicky lives with her mother Joanne and father Jimmie, a man struggling to find his place. When Vicky’s aunt Julia arrives after being released from prison, her presence brings back the past in a violent, magical way.
The Fabric of the Human Body (Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor): Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others.
Continental Drift (South) (Lionel Baier): Nathalie Adler is on a mission for the EU in Sicily. She organizes the next visit of Macron and Merkel to a migrant camp. Their presence has a high symbolic value to show that everything is under control. But who still wants to believe in this European family on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Probably not Albert, Nathalie's son, an NGO activist who arrives without warning. He, moreover, no longer believes in his mother.
Enys Men (Mark Jenkin): A wildlife volunteer’s daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare.
Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon): A young teenager falls in love with an older girl during a family holiday in rural Quebec.
Fogo-fátuo (Will-o’-the-Wisp) (João Pedro Rodrigues): On his deathbed, his royal highness Alfredo, King without a crown, is taken back to distant youth memories and the time he dreamt of becoming a fireman. The encounter with instructor Afonso from the fire brigade, opens a new chapter in the life of the two young men devoted to love and desire…
Funny Pages (Owen Kline)
God's Creatures (Anna Rose Holmer & Saela Davis): God’s Creatures focuses on a mother who lies to protect her son and the devastating impact that choice has on her community, her family and herself.
The Mountain (Thomas Salvador): During a business trip to Chamonix, Pierre, a Parisian in his forties, decides to take a few days to enjoy the mountains. Captivated by the beauty and calm of the peaks, he settled there longer than expected, leaving aside his life down below.
Pamfir (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk): Pamfir’s family badly needs money for Nazar’s eye surgery, which is why Pamfir decides to go and work in Europe. Pamfir needs to apply for the visa, but the money he earned is not enough for the visa services.
The Green Perfume (Nicolas Pariser): An actor was poisoned and died on stage in the middle of a performance. Martin, a member of the troupe and friend of the victim, becomes a primary suspect while being chased by a mysterious organization named the Green Perfume.
Paris Memories (Alice Winocour): One Saturday evening in autumn, Mia is caught in a terrorist attack on a Parisian bistro. Three months later, still unable to pick her life back up, and remembering only fragments of that night, Mia decides to investigate her memories to find a way back to happiness.
Under the Fig Trees (Erige Sehiri): Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.
One Fine Morning (Mia Hansen-Løve): With a father suffering from a neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While stuggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into a friend who although being in a relationship, they both embark upon a passionate affair.
A Male (Fabian Hernández): Carlos lives in a youth shelter in the center of Bogotá, a refuge meant to help mitigate the harshness of life. It’s Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his family.
SHORT FILMS
Aribada (Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar): The magical, the dreamlike and the performative coexist in the particular world of “Las Traviesas” – a group of trans women from the Embera community, living and working in the Colombian coffee region.
As Time Passes (Jamil McGinnis): Through journal entries, a mother’s words, neighborhood stories, and existential inquiries; one still searches for meaning beyond the wretches of the world…
Tremor, Tremblement (Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard): During water therapy for his chronic spasms, Leon is involved in an incident that gradually disrupts all aspects of his life.
Burial of Life as a Young Girl (Maïté Sonnet): Axelle is having the worst day of her life: while she is recovering badly from a break-up, she has to go to her sister’s bachelorette party in a ghostly spa in the mountains. Fortunately, among the guests, there is Marguerite. Through one gaze, love is awaken again.
Happy New Year, Jim (Andrea Gatopoulos): It’s New Year’s Eve. Jim and Morten are playing videogames all night long, like every day. But Morten tonight is uncomfortable.
Jitterbug (Ayo Akingbade): A day in a life chronicle of eighteen-year-old student Afeni Omolade steadily working towards her studies when unexpected news suddenly hits.
Maria Schneider, 1983 (Elisabeth Subrin): In 1983, French actress Maria Schneider gives an interview for the TV show Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when she challenges film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).
The Potemkinists (Radu Jude): In 1905, the sailors on the battleship Potemkin are given political asylum in Romania – an act of defiance against Russia. In 2021, a sculptor wants to create an artwork inspired by the event.
Staging Death (Jan Soldat): Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is cut into pieces, shot or commits suicide. Again and again his empty gaze, again and again his rigid body.
The Spiral (María Silvia Esteve): A WhatsApp audio begins, and with it, a downward spiral unfolds. The voice of a woman sinking into a health anxiety attack, quickly entangles a complex labyrinth of fears and emotions.
SPECIAL SCREENING
Men (Alex Garland): In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, a woman retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. However, someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her.