Cannes Film Festival Delegate General Thierry Frémaux is about to unveil the lineup for this year’s edition at a press conference in Paris. Frémaux is joined at the presser by Cannes President Iris Knobloch. The event is taking place at a new venue, UGC Montparnasse, following the closure of UGC Normandy on the Champs-Élysées, where […]Cannes Film Festival Delegate General Thierry Frémaux is about to unveil the lineup for this year’s edition at a press conference in Paris. Frémaux is joined at the presser by Cannes President Iris Knobloch. The event is taking place at a new venue, UGC Montparnasse, following the closure of UGC Normandy on the Champs-Élysées, where
The Official Selection for the 78th Cannes Film Festival was revealed Thursday, with 19 movies in Competition. See full lists below.
Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Wes Anderson, who brings his latest flick The Phoenician Scheme;Richard Linklater will launch his Paris-shot Nouvelle Vague; Jochim Trier debuts his latest feature Sentimental Value; and Titane Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau returns with Alpha.
Cannes will open this year with Leave One Day by first-time French filmmaker Amelie Bonnin. Thierry Frémaux said during his presser this morning that it was the first time a debut film has been selected to open the festival. Also hitting the Croisette for the first time is horror auteur Ari Aster, who returns to feature filmmaking with his buzzy A24 feature Eddington.
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Elsewhere, American filmmaker Kelly Reichardt will screen her feature The Mastermind in Competition, Oliver Hermanus’s war drama The History of Sound plays in Competition, and Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is back at Cannes with In Simple Accident.
Veteran Hollywood actor Scarlett Johansson has landed in Un Certain Regard with her first directorial effort Eleanor the Great. British actor Harris Dickinson also is in the sidebar comp with Urchin, his debut as a director.
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Cannes regulars Kirill Serebrennikov, Raoul Peck and Sebestian Lelio will debut new works in the Cannes Premiere section, while Rebecca Zlotowski is Out of Competition with her Jodie Foster-starrer Vie Privée.
Earlier this week, the fest confirmed Tom Cruise and Paramount‘s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will debut on the Croisette. The movie will play Out of Competition on May 14 with Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie and cast treading the carpet. The trailer for the movie launched on Monday.
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Robert De Niro will receive the festival’s honorary Palme d’Or at the opening-night ceremony. French actress Juliette Binoche will serve as the President of the Jury, succeeding last year’s jury head, Greta Gerwig.
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This year’s festival runs May 13-24. Here is the Official Selection:
COMPETITION
In Simple Accident, Jafar Panahi
Sentimental Value, Jochim Trier
Romeria, Carla Simone
The Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt
Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski
The Eagles of the Republic, Tarik Saleh
Dossier 137, Dominik Moll
The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Fuori, Mario Martone
Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa
Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater
Sirat, Oliver Laxe
La Petite Derniere, Hafsia Herzi
The History of Sound, Oliver Hermanus
Young Mothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Eddington, Ari Aster
The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson
Renoir, Chie Hayakawa
Alpha, Julia Ducournau
Leave One Day, Amelie Bonnin
UN CERTAIN REGARD
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego Céspedes
My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr
Urchin, Harris Dickinson
Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson
Once Upon a Time in Gaza, Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser
Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Morad Mostafa
Meteors, Hubert Charuel
Heads or Tails?, Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
Pillion, Harry Lighton
L’inconnue de la Grande Arche, Stephane Demoustier
A Pale View of the Hills, Kei Ishikawa
The Last One for the Road, Francesco Sossai
Homebound, Neeraj Ghaywan
Karavan, Zuzana Kirchnerová
The Plague, Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky, Erige Sehiri
OUT OF COMPETITION
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie
Vie Privée, Rebecca Zlotowski
The Richest Woman in the World, Thierry Klifa
Colours of Time, Cedric Klapisch
Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee
CANNES PREMIERE
Amrum, Fatih Akin
Splitsville, Mike Corvino
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell: 2+2=5, Raoul Peck
The Wave, Sebestian Lelio
Connemara, Alex Lutz
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Stories of Surrender, Bono
The Magnificent Life, Sylvain Chomet
Tell Her That I Love Her, Romane Bohringer
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Dalloway, Yann Gozlan
Exit 8, Kawamura Genki
Sons of the Neon Night, Mak Juno