Following his big win for Elephant, indie auteur Gus Van Sant returned to Cannes with this dreamlike tale of guilt and loneliness in suburbia. Shot by Christopher Doyle, the legendary DP best known for his work with Wong Kar-Wai, Paranoid Park is a haunting feast for the senses!

In collaboration with the festival Smells Like Teen Spirit here is the intimate portrait of teenage love which is also a surprising triangular and semi-fictitious experience, as the film follows director Claire Simon’s own daughter!

Sarah is a young athlete running middle-distance. Her life changes when she is offered a place in the best university athletics club in Montreal. Without financial support of her mother, she decides to marry her friend Antoine and to leave for the big city.

Argued as the New Wave movements most feminist entry, it follows the absurdist attitude of two hotheaded women who try to break the propriety of society by engaging in a comedic series of pranks where nothing is off limits.

A group of teenagers from the housing projects of the Paris suburbs practice a passage from the play Games of Love and Chance by Marivaux for their French class. Abdelkrim, or Krimo, falls in love with Lydia. In order to try to seduce her, he accepts the role of Arlequin and joins the rehearsal.

On a St. Valentine’s Day at the turn of the century, a party of girls from a strict boarding school go on an outing to Hanging Rock, a geological outcropping not far from their school. Part of the group vanish inexplicably.

Kevin and Perry are two 15-year-old boys whose desperation to lose their virginity is so great that it inspires a sort of awe.