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 75th edition of the festival. See also the full lineups of Directors' Fortnight and Critics’ Week.
Crimes of the Future
COMPETITION
Holy Spider (Ali Abbasi): We follow family man Saeed as he embarks on his own religious quest — to “cleanse” the holy Iranian city of Mashhad of immoral and corrupt street prostitutes. After murdering several women, he grows ever more desperate about the lack of public interest in his divine mission.
The Almond Tree (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi): The story takes place at the end of the 1980s. Stella, Victor, Adèle, Etienne are twenty years old. They pass the entrance examination for the famous school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre.
Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg): A beloved performance artist has embraced Accelerated Evolution Syndrome, sprouting new and unexpected organs in his body. Along with his partner, he turns the removal of these organs into a spectacle for his loyal followers to marvel at in real time theatre.
Tori and Lokita (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne): In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the cruel conditions of their exile.
Stars at Noon (Claire Denis): A mysterious English businessman and headstrong American journalist strike up a passionate romance. They soon become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country, with only each other to trust and rely on.
Brother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin): The story revolves around a brother and sister who are nearing their fifties – Alice is an actress, Louis was a teacher and a poet. They no longer speak to one another and have been avoiding each other for over twenty years, but the death of their parents will force them to cross paths.
Close (Lukas Dhont): The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi’s mother.
Armageddon Time (James Gray): Queens, New York. The 1980s. 12-year-old Paul Graff is growing up in a warm and rowdy family that includes his grandfather, who encourages his artistic aspirations. His best friend is John Crocker, an African-American boy. The two are inseparable and prone to mischief, but after an incident in which John and Paul share “tea that makes you laugh” (marijuana), Paul’s parents decide to transfer him to the private prep school his older brother Ted attends. Here, the student body is almost exclusively white, privileged - and prejudiced (it’s also Donald Trump’s alma mater). Together, the boys concoct a risky scheme to escape their lives and run away to Florida…
Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda): Baby boxes are set up for people who are no longer able to provide for their babies to anonymously give them up.
Nostalgia (Mario Martone): After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to her hometown: Naples. He rediscovers the places, the codes of the city and a past that eats away at him.
RMN (Cristian Mungiu): A reflection on the history of Romania through the meeting of its Romanian, Hungarian, Moldavian communities.
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund): A pair of models find themselves at a crossroads in their careers.
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook): A detective falls for a mysterious widow after she becomes the prime suspect in his latest murder investigation.
Showing Up (Kelly Reichardt): An artist is on the verge of a career-changing exhibition. As she navigates family, friends, and colleagues in the lead up to her show, the chaos of life becomes the inspiration for great art.
Leila's Brothers (Saeed Roustaee)
Boy From Heaven (Tarik Saleh): On the first day back after the summer holidays, the grand imam collapses and dies in front of his students in a prestigious university in Cairo. This marks the start of a ruthless battle for influence to take his place.
Tchaikovsky's Wife (Kirill Serebrennikov): Antonina Miliukova is a beautiful and bright young woman, born in the aristocracy of 19th century Russia. She could have anything she’d want, and yet her only obsession is to marry Pyotr Tchaikovsky, with whom she falls in love from the very moment she hears his music. The composer finally accepts this union, but after blaming her for his misfortunes and breakdowns, his attempts to get rid of his wife are brutal. Consumed by her feelings for him, Antonina decides to endure and do whatever it takes to stay with him. Humiliated, disgraced and discarded, she is slowly driven to madness.
Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski): A contemporary interpretation of Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar.
The Eight Mountains (Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen): An adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s 2016 novel.
Mother And Son (Léonor Serraille)
Tourment Sur Les Iles (Albert Serra): On an island in French Polynesia a writer returns to her country after having triumphed in France with a novel. However, she is disoriented and in a creative crisis. Faced with the impossibility of writing new works, she decides to accept a simultaneous translation job together with an ambassador.
CANNES PREMIERE
Our Brothers (Rachid Bouchareb): December 5th, 1986. Thousands of students protest for higher education reforms. Abdel Benyahia (20) is killed by a drunken cop in a Paris suburb. Several hours later, Malik Oussekine is pursued and beaten to death by three police officers.
Nightfall (Marco Bellocchio)
Dodo (Panos H. Koutras): A dodo, a bird that disappeared 3000 years ago, makes its appearance in Athens in the luxurious residence of a family on the verge of ruin for which the countdown has begun: the 38 crucial and saving hours that separate them from the marriage of their daughter with a rich heir.
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)
Don Juan (Serge Bozon): Laurent who is jilted on his wedding day and subsequently embarks upon a wild quest.
Night Of The 12th (Dominik Moll): A police investigator becomes obsessed with a case involving a complex female murder victim.
Diary of a Fleeting Affair (Emmanuel Mouret): A single mother and a married man become lovers. Committed to seeing each other only for fun and not feeling any romantic feelings, they are more and more surprised by their complicity…
OUT OF COMPETITION
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski): After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him.
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann): A look at the life of the legendary rock and roll star, Elvis Presley.
November (Cédric Jimenez): 5 days into the heart of the French anti-terrorism services during the hunt for suspects after the 13/11/2015 attacks in Paris.
Three Thousand Years of Longing (George Miller): A scholar, content with life, encounters a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation leads to consequences neither would have expected.
Masquerade (Nicolas Bedos): Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.
Z (Michel Hazanavicius): Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.
The Innocent (Louis Garrel): When Abel learns that his 60-year-old mother Sylvie is about to marry a man in prison he freaks out. With the help of his best friend, Clémence, he will do whatever it takes to protect her. But meeting Michel, his new stepfather, may well offer him a new perspective…
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Father & Soldier (Mathieu Vadepied)
Les pires (Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret): A group of teenagers street cast in their neighborhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer.
Burning Days (Emin Alper): Emre, a young prosecutor, newly appointed to the small town of Balkaya find himself being pulled into a political conflict during his first murder investigation.
Metronome (Alexandru Belc): Romania, the autumn of the year 1972. Ana, a 17 year-old teenager, finds out that her boyfriend will flee the country for good in a few days. The two lovers decide to spend their last days together.
All The People I'll Never Be (Davy Chou): Twenty-five-year-old French woman Freddie returns to Korea - the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple - for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn…
Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli): Signe lives without ambition, but when her partner suddenly experiences massive success as an artist, she goes uncomfortably far to create a more interesting identity.
Domingo and the Mist (Ariel Escalante Meza): The town 65-year-old Domingo lives in is being threatened by thugs hired by a developer to expel its inhabitants and pave the way for the construction of a mega highway. But his land hides a secret—the ghost of his deceased wife who visits him within the mist. Domingo is sure he will never give up his land, even if that means resorting to violence.
Plan 75 (Chie Hayakawa): Japan of the near future –– Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized in order to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer faces choices of life and death.
Beast (Riley Keough, Gina Gammell): The interlocking stories of three Lakota men living on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The three tales explore the concept of belonging: a child belonging to a family, a man belonging to “America,” and an elder belonging to his Tribe.
Corsage (Marie Kreutzer): Christmas 1877. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, turns 40. It is the average life expectancy of a woman in the late 19th century. So Elisabeth is now officially an old woman. As empress, she has exclusively representative duties. She lives locked in the courtly ritual, her duties and the expectations that are placed on her. At forty, she can soon no longer be a symbol of beauty. But what is left to her if she is no longer worshiped, but merely respected?
Butterfly Vision (Maksim Nakonechnyi): Returning home from the front line after being held captive for two months, soldier Lilia (29 y.o.) discovers that she is pregnant after being raped by her warden. Will she manage to survive this trauma and save the child in a society that is not ready to accept either of them?
Godland (Hlynur Pálmason): In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Rodeo (Lola Quivoron): Young misfit and small-time thug, Julia, is fiercely passionate about riding. One summer, she encounters a crew of dirt riders and sets off to infiltrates their male-dominated world, but an accident will compromise her ability to fit in.
Joyland (Saim Sadiq): A trans character, a fresh view in Pakistani life.
The Stranger (Thomas M. Wright): Two men who meet on a plane and strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
Silent Twins (Agnieszka Smocyncska): Feeling isolated from that unwelcoming community, June and Jennifer Gibbons turn inward and reject communication with everyone but each other, retreating into their own fantasy world of artistic inspiration and adolescent desires.
More Than Ever (Emily Atef)
Mediterranean Fever (Maha Haj)
The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani): Halim and Mina who run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is moved by his presence.
Harka (Lotfy Nathan)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
The Natural History of Destruction (Sergei Loznitsa): The Natural History of Destruction is inspired by German writer W.G. Sebald’s 1999 book of the same title. Sebald describes the phenomenon of mass destruction of the German civilian population and German cities by massive Allied air raids during World War II.
All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen): The darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind (Ethan Coen)
My Imaginary Country (Patricio Guzmán)
The Vagabonds (Doroteya Droumeva)
Riposte Féministe (Marie Perennès, Simon Depardon)
Remains Of The Wind (Tiago Guedes): A violent occurrence transforms a boy’s life forever. During a rite of passage – part of a pagan tradition in a small inland village –, a young teenager is brutally beaten by three other boys and ends up with irreversible brain damage.
Le Petit Nicolas Qu’Est-Ce Qu’On Attend Pour Etre Heureux? (Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre): It follows the adventures of a mischievous boy and his schoolmates, teacher and parents in Paris in the 1960s.
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Hunt (Jung-jae Lee): Park Pyeong-Ho and Kim Jung-Do are agents for the National Security Agency. They are both elite at their jobs and rivals. The two men chase after a North Korean spy director sent to South Korea. They soon uncover a hidden truth.
Moonage Daydream (Brett Morgen)
Smoker's Cough (Quentin Dupieux): A group of vigilantes called the “tobacco-forces” is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.
Rebel (Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah): An immensely powerful and nuanced portrayal of a family torn apart over a little Muslim boy’s future.
CANNES CLASSICS
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
The Adversary (Satyajit Ray)
Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)
Shoeshine (Vittorio de Sica)
The Circus Tent (Govindan Aravindan)
The Trial (Orson Welles)
If I Were a Spy… (Bertrand Blier)
Poil de Carotte (Julien Duvivier)
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese)
The Rites of May (Mike De Leon)
Black God, White Devil (Glauber Rocha)
Daisies (Vera Chytilová)
Viva la muerte (Fernando Arrabal)
The Last Movie Stars (Ethan Hawke)
Romy, A Free Woman (Lucie Cariès)
Jane Campion, Cinema Woman (Julie Bertuccelli)
Gérard Philipe, le dernier hiver du Cid (Patrick Jeudy)
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero (Alexandre Moi)
Hommage d’une fille à son père (Fatou Cissé)
L’Ombre de Goya par Jean-Claude Carrière (José Luis Lopez-Linares)
Three in the Drift of the Creative Act (Fernando Solanas)
Official Film of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Side A (Naomi Kawase)
Visions of Eight (Miloš Forman, Youri Ozerov, Claude Lelouch, Mai Zetterling, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger)