Cannes unveils 2022 Official Selection

Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy Z will open the festival out of competition.

47 titles were unveiled (as well as the previously announced Elvis and Top Gun: Maverick), which is down on last year’s 83, although more titles are expected to be announced in the lead up to the festival.

The Cannes Premiere strand, introduced at last year’s event, features four titles so far, compared to ten in 2021.

This year’s edition is returning to a more traditional May 17-28 slot after being moved to July in 2021 due to the pandemic.

View the full line up below:

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Competition

• Eo, Jerzy Skolimowski
• Tchaïkovski’s Wife, Kirill Serebrennikov
• Boy From Heaven, Tarik Saleh
• Leila’s Brothers, Saeed Roustaee
• Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt
• Decision To Leave, Park Chan-Wook
• Triangle Of Sadness, Ruben Östlund
• RMN, Cristian Mungiu
• Nostalgia, Mario Martone
• Broker, Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Armageddon Time, James Gray
• Close, Lukas Dhont
• Frère Et Sœur, Arnaud Desplechin
• Stars At Noon, Claire Denis
• Tori And Lokita, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
• Crimes Of The Future, David Cronenberg
• Les Amandiers, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
• Holy Spider, Ali Abbasi

Out Of Competition

• Z, Michel Hazanavicius (Opening film)
• Masquerade, Nicolas Bedos
• Three Thousand Years Of Longing, George Miller
• Novembre, Cédric Jimenez
• Elvis, Baz Luhrmann
• Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski

Midnight Screening 

• Hunt, Lee Jung-Jae
• Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen
• Fumer Fait Tousser, Quentin Dupieux

Cannes Premiere

• Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas
• Dodo, Panos H. Koutras
• Nightfall, Marco Bellocchio
• Nos Frangins, Rachid Bouchareb

Special Screenings

• Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, Ethan Coen
• The Natural History Of Destruction, Sergei Loznitsa
• All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen

Un Certain Regard

• The Silent Twins, Agnieszka Smocynska
• The Stranger, Thomas M Wright
• Joyland, Saim Sadiq (first film)
• Rodeo, Lola Quivoron (first film)
• Godland, Hlynur Pálmason
• Butterfly Vision, Maksim Nakonechnyi (first film)
• Corsage, Marie Kreutzer
• Beast, Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (first film)
• Plan 75, Hayakawa Chie (first film)
• Domingo And The Mist, Ariel Escalante Meza
• Sick Of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli
• All The People I’ll Never Be, Davy Chou
• Metronom, Alexandru Belc (first film)
• Burning Days, Emin Alper
• Les Pires, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (first film)