The 79th Festival de Cannes has unveiled its Official Selection, following its recent announcement that La Vénus électrique will open the event.
Cannes Film Festival’s Competition selection includes the likes of Amarga Navidad (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, cin. Pau Esteve Birba), Parallel Tales (dir. Asghar Farhadi, cin. Guillaume Deffontaines AFC) and A Woman’s Life (dir. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, cin. Noé Bach AFC).
Elsewhere, Un Certain Regard ranges from Rafiki Fariala’s Congo Boy to Katharina Rivilis’ I’ll Be Gone in June, while Andy Garcia’s Diamond and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell line up Out of Competition.
As previously revealed, John Travolta’s directorial debut Propeller One-Way Night Coach will premiere at the festival, as will Daniel Auteuil’s La Troisième Nuit and Volker Schlöndorff’s Heimsuchung (Visitation).
Meanwhile, Midnight Screenings include Quentin Dupieux’s Full Phil and Marion Le Corroller’s Sanguine, and Special Screenings feature Ron Howard’s Avedon and Steven Soderbergh’s John Lennon: The Last Interview.
The full Official Selection running at Cannes – which takes place from 12-23 May – is available below.
Opening Film
LA VÉNUS ÉLECTRIQUE
Pierre Salvadori
Out of Competition
Competition
| AMARGA NAVIDAD Pedro ALMODÓVAR |
| PARALLEL TALES Asghar FARHADI |
| A WOMAN’S LIFE Charline BOURGEOIS-TACQUET |
| LA BOLA NEGRA Javier CALVO & Javier AMBROSSI |
| COWARD Lukas DHONT |
| DAS GETRÄUMTE ABENTEUER Valeska GRISEBACH |
| ALL OF A SUDDEN HAMAGUCHI Ryusuke |
| THE UNKNOWN Arthur HARARI |
| ANOTHER DAY Jeanne HERRY |
| SHEEP IN THE BOX KORE-EDA Hirokazu |
| HOPE NA Hong-jin |
| NAGI NOTES FUKADA Koji |
| GENTLE MONSTER Marie KREUTZER |
| NOTRE SALUT Emmanuel MARRE |
| FJORD Cristian MUNGIU |
| THE BIRTHDAY PARTY Léa MYSIUS |
| MOULIN László NEMES |
| FATHERLAND Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI |
| THE MAN I LOVE Ira SACHS |
| EL SER QUERIDO (THE BELOVED) Rodrigo SOROGOYEN |
| MINOTAUR Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV |
Un Certain Regard
| TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA Jane SCHOENBRUN |
| ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG Abinash BIKRAM SHAH 1st film |
| IRON BOY Louis CLICHY |
| BEN’IMANA Marie-Clémentine DUSABEJAMBO 1st film |
| CONGO BOY Rafiki FARIALA |
| CLUB KID Jordan FIRSTMAN 1st film |
| UĻA Viesturs KAIRIŠS |
| LA MÁS DULCE (STRAWBERRIES) Laïla MARRAKCHI |
| EL DESHIELO (THE MELTDOWN) Manuela MARTELLI |
| SIEMPRE SOY TU ANIMAL MATERNO (FOREVER YOUR MATERNAL ANIMAL) Valentina MAUREL |
| YESTERDAY THE EYE DIDN’T SLEEP Rakan MAYASI |
| I’LL BE GONE IN JUNE Katharina RIVILIS 1st film |
| WORDS OF LOVE Rudi ROSENBERG |
| EVERYTIME Sandra WOLLNER |
| ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT SODE Yukiko |
Out of Competition
| LA BATAILLE DE GAULLE : L’ÂGE DE FER Antonin BAUDRY |
| KARMA Guillaume CANET |
| DIAMOND Andy GARCIA |
| L’ABANDON Vincent GARENQ |
| L’OBJET DU DÉLIT Agnès JAOUI |
| HER PRIVATE HELL Nicolas WINDING REFN |
Midnight Screenings
| FULL PHIL Quentin DUPIEUX |
| SANGUINE Marion LE CORROLLER 1st film |
| ROMA ELASTICA Bertrand MANDICO |
| JIM QUEEN Marco NGUYEN & Nicolas ATHANÉ 1st film |
| GUN-CHE (COLONY) YEON Sang-ho |
Cannes Premiere
| LA TROISIÈME NUIT Daniel AUTEUIL |
| THE MATCH Juan CABRAL & Santiago FRANCO |
| KOKUROJO (THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER) KUROSAWA Kiyoshi |
| HEIMSUCHUNG (VISITATION) Volker SCHLÖNDORFF |
| PROPELLER ONE-WAY NIGHT COACH John TRAVOLTA |
Special Screenings
| REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION Pegah AHANGARANI 1st film |
| LES MATINS MERVEILLEUX Avril BESSON 1st film |
| L’AFFAIRE MARIE-CLAIRE Lauriane ESCAFFRE & Yvo MULLER |
| AVEDON Ron HOWARD |
| LES SURVIVANTS DU CHE Christophe Dimitri RÉVEILLE 1st film |
| JOHN LENNON: THE LAST INTERVIEW Steven SODERBERGH |
| CANTONA David TRYHORN & Ben NICHOLAS |
