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The 57th Cannes Critics’ Week was announced today and Paul Dano’s directorial debut, Wildlife, starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal will open the selection, which runs May 9-17. The film debuted at Sundance this January and is based on the novel by Richard Ford. It’s set for US distribution by IFC Films.
The Closing film will be Guy, the second feature by Alex Lutz. Of the seven films in competition, four are directed by women and all come from European countries.
Joachim Trier will preside over the jury and by joined actress and director Chloë Sevigny, BPM (Beats Per Minute) star Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Vienna film festival director Eva Sangiorgi and French culture journalist Augustin Trapenard.
Competition titles
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Fuga (Fugue) The second feature by Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska, who debuted with The Lure, tells the story of a woman’s impossible return to her family life, infusing this psychological thriller with fantasy.
Kona Fer í Stríð (Woman At War) The second film of Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson tells the story of a female hero who fights a war on her own to protect an endangered planet.
Sauvage, Camille Vidal-Naquet’s first French film, follows the fate of a young man looking for love in the world of male prostitution. Félix Maritaud, whom the public discovered in BPM (Beats Per Minute), stars.
In comedy Diamantino, their first Portuguese feature film, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt imagine a famous football player everybody lusts after.
In her first film, Chris the Swiss, Swiss director Anja Kofmel offers an original blend of documentary and animation. She investigates the story of her cousin, who was found assassinated in the midst of the war in Yugoslavia.
Indian director Rohena Gera debuts with romantic comedy Sir, which describes the budding relationship between a young, open-minded bourgeois young man and his housekeeper who is seeking emancipation, played by Tillotama Shome.
Egy Nap (One Day), the first feature film by Hungarian director Zsofia Szilagyi, explores the life of a couple living under the yoke of routine.
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CLOSING FILM
FEATURE FILMS IN COMPETITION
FEATURE FILMS SPECIAL SCREENINGS
SHORT FILMS SPECIAL SCREENINGS
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
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