By The full line-up for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been announced and brings with it entries from many acclaimed filmmakers.
The likes of Francis Ford Coppola, George Miller, Yorgos Lanthimos, David Cronenberg, Kevin Costner, Andrea Arnold, Paolo Sorrentino, Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Paul Schrader, Guy Maddin, Ali Abbasi and Leos Carax are all set to debut works there this year.
Greta Gerwig will lead the jury this year and the festival will now expand beyond the Palais des Festivals and onto the Palm Beach venue located on the opposite side of the Croisette. George Lucas will be honored with a lifetime achievement award.
It also follows on from last year’s stellar line-up which saw Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” premiering and going on to become Best Picture nominees as well as winning Oscars in other categories. The line-up is as follows:
OPENING NIGHT:
“Second Act,” Quentin Dupieux
COMPETITION:
“Megalopolis,” Francis Ford Coppola
“The Apprentice,” Ali Abbasi
“Motel Destino,” Karim Ainouz
“Bird,” Andrea Arnold
“Emilia Perez,” Jacques Audiard
“Anora,” Sean Baker
“The Shrouds,” David Cronenberg
“The Substance,” Coralie Fargeat
“Grand Tour,” Miguel Gomes
“Marcello Mio,” Christophe Honore
“Caught by the Tides” (“Feng Liu Yi Dai”), Jia Zhang-Ke
“All We Imagine as Light,” Payal Kapadia
“Kinds of Kindness,” Yorgos Lanthimos
“L’Amour Ouf,” Gilles Lellouche
“Wild Diamond” (“Diamant Brut”), Agathe Riedinger
“Oh Canada,” Paul Schrader
“Limonov: The Ballad,” Kirill Serebrennikov
“Parthenope,” Paolo Sorrentino
“The Girl With the Needle,” Magnus von Horn
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“Norah,” Tawfik Alzaidi
“The Shameless,” Konstantin Bojanov
“Le Royaume,” Julien Colonna
“Vingt Dieux!,” Louise Courvoisier
“Who Let the Dog Bite?” (“Le Proces du Chien”), Laetitia Dosch
“Black Dog” (“Gou Zhen”), Guan Hu
“The Village Next to Paradise,” Mo Harawe
“September Says,” Ariane Labed
“L’Histoire de Souleymane,” Boris Lojkine
“The Damned” (Les Damnes”), Roberto Minervini
“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” Rungano Nyoni
“My Sunshine” (“Boku No Ohisama”), Hiroshi Okuyama
“Santosh,” Sandhya Suri
“Viet and Nam,” Truong Minh Quy
“Armand,” Halfdan Ullman Tondel
OUT OF COMPETITION
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” George Miller
“Horizon, an American Saga,” Kevin Costner
“She’s Got No Name,” Chan Peter Ho-Sun
“Rumours,” Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
CANNES PREMIERE
“Misericorde,” Alain Guiraudie
“C’est Pas Moi,” Leos Carax
“Everybody Loves Touda,” Nabil Ayouch
“En Fanfare” (“The Matching Bang”), Emmanuel Courcol
“Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot,” Rithy Panh
“Le Roman de Jim,” Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Twilight of the Warrior Walled In,” Soi Cheang
“I, the Executioner,” Seung Wan Ryoo
“The Surfer,” Lorcan Finnegan
“The Balconettes” (“Les Femmes au Balcon”), Noemie Merlant
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“The Beauty of Gaza” (“La Belle de Gaza”), Yolande Zauberman
“Apprendre,” Claire Simon
“L’Invasion,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Ernest Cole, Lost and Found,” Raoul Peck
“Le Fil,” Daniel Auteuil
Cannes success stories of the past five years in competition have included Best Picture winner “Parasite” along with “riangle of Sadness,” “Pain and Glory,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Another Round,” “Small Axe,” “Drive My Car,” “The Worst Person in the World,” “Broker,” “Decision to Leave,” “May December” and “The French Dispatch”. Out of competition debuts have included “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Elvis,” “Killers of the FLower Moon,” “Elemental” and “Rocketman”
The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival runs May 15th-25th.
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