The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 79th edition (May 12-23). Scroll down for line-up Festival director Thierry Frémaux re
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 79th edition (May 12-23).
Scroll down for line-up
Festival director Thierry Frémaux revealed the Official Selection at a press conference at the Pathe Palace in Paris alongside festival president Iris Knobloch.
The competition features films by Andrey Zvyagintsev, Ira Sachs, Pawel Pawlikowski, Laszlo Nemes, Marie Kreutzer, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Lukas Dhont, Asghar Farhadi and Pedro Almodovar.
As previously announced, the festival will open with Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss starring Pio Marmai, Anais Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche.
Park Chan-wook will preside over the jury. Peter Jackson and Barbra Streisand will receive the honorary Palme d’Or.
More to follow.
Official selection
Competition
- Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev
- El Ser Querido, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- The Man I Love, Ira Sachs
- Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski
- Moulin, Laszlo Nemes
- Stories Of The Night, Lea Mysius
- Fjord, Cristian Mungiu
- Notre Salut, Emmanuel Marre
- Gentle Monster, Marie Kreutzer
- Nagi Notes, Koji Fukada
- Hope, Na Hong-jin
- Sheep In The Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Garance, Jeanne Herry
- The Unknown, Arthur Harari
- Sudden, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
- The Dreamed Adventure, Valeska Grisebach
- Coward, Lukas Dhont
- The Black Ball, Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
- Life Of A Woman, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
- Parallel Tales, Asghar Farhadi
- Bitter Christmas, Pedro Almodovar
Out of competition
- Diamond, Andy Garcia
- Nicolas Winding Refn, Her Private Hell
- L’Abandon, Vincent Garenq
- Karma, Guillaume Canet
- L’Objet Du Delit, Agnes Jaoui
- L’Âge de fer, Antonin Baudry
- The Electric Kiss, Pierre Salvadori
Midnight Screenings
- Colony, Yeon Sang-ho
- Roma Elastica, Bertrand Mandico
- Sanguine, Marion Le Coroller
- Full Phil, Quentin Dupieux
- Jim Queen, Nicolas Athane, Marco Nguyen
Cannes Premiere
- Propeller One-Way Night Coach, John Travolta
- Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Heimsuchung, Volker Schlondorff
- The Third Night, Daniel Auteuil
Special Screenings
- John Lennon: The Last Interview, Steven Soderbergh
- Avedon, Ron Howard
- Les Survivants du Che, Christophe Réveille
- Les Matins Merveilleux, Avril Besson
Un Certain Regard
- Everytime, Sandra Wollner
- I Am Always Your Maternal Animal, Valentina Maurel
- Everything by Sandra Wollner
- I’ll Be Gone in June, Katharina Rivilis
- Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep, Rakan Mayasi
- Congo Boy by Rafiki Fariala
- The Meltdown, Manuela Martelli
- Club Kid, Jordan Firstman
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun
- La más dulce, Laïla Marrakchi
- Le Corset by Louis Clichy
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