2018 Cannes Official Lineup: Spike Lee, Jean-Luc-Godard In Competition; Women Still Underrepresented

Erik Anderson April 12, 2018

The announcement of the film playing the 71st Cannes Film Festival has been announced and they include Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Livre D’image, Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces and Alice Rohrwacher’s Lazzaro Felice. Two Americans are in the lineup: Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman from Focus Features and David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake from A24.

Some notable misses from this morning’s announcement include Brian De Palma’s Domino, Mia Hanson-Løve’s Maya, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built and Naomi Kawase’s Visions. With 18 films announced, at least two or three more films will be announced in the coming weeks along with the jury that will decide the Palme D’or under president Cate Blanchett. Of the 17 In Competition titles revealed just three are directed by women (Eva Husson, Nadine Labaki and Alice Rohrwacher). Un Certain Regard averaged a little better with four of 12 titles directed by women. Last year, jury member Jessica Chastain tore into the festival during the closing press conference on the lack of female representation both in terms of stories being told and the directors telling them.

Previously announced out of competition titles include the world premiere of Disney’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. Director’s Fortnight and Cannes Classics (including the restored 70mm of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey) will be announced in the coming days.

In Competition

Todos los Saben (Everybody Knows), Asghar Farhadi (Opening Night film)
Ahlat Agaci (The Wild Pear Tree), Nuri Bilge Ceylan
En Guerre (In War), Stéphane Brizé
Akya (The Little One), Sergei Dvortsevoy
Dogman, Matteo Garrone
Un Couteau dans le Cœur (Knife in the Heart), Yann Gonzalez
Le Livre D’image (The Image Book), Jean-Luc Godard
Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II), Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Plaire Aimer Et Courir Vite (Pleasure, Love and Run Fast aka Sorry Angel), Christophe Honoré
Les Filles Du Soleil (Girls Of The Sun), Eva Husson
Jiang Hu Er NV (The Eternal aka Ash Is Purest White), Jia Zhang-Ke
Manbiki Kazoku (A Family Matter aka Shoplifters), Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Capharnaüm (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki
Buh-Ning (Burning), Lee Chang-Dong
Blackkklansman, Spike Lee
Under The Silver Lake, David Robert Mitchell
Se Rokh (3 Faces), Jafar Panahi
Zimna Wojna (Cold War), Pawel Pawlikowski
Lazzaro Felice (Happy as Lazzaro), Alice Rohrwacher
Yomeddine, A.B Shawky
Leto (Summer), Kirill Serebrennikov

Out Of Competition

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Terry Gilliam (Closing Night film)
Solo: A Star Wars Story, Ron Howard
Le Grand Bain, Gilles Lellouche
The House That Jack Built, Lars von Trier

Un Certain Regard

Border, Ali Abassi
Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Bi Gan
Manto, Nandita Das
Girl, Lukas Dhont
Donbass, Sergei Loznitsa (Opening Night film)
Muere, Monstruo, Muere, Alejandro Fadel
Gueule D’ange (Angel Face), Vanessa Filho
Euphoria, Valeria Golino
Rafiki (Friend), Wanuri Kahiu
Mon Tissu Préféré (My Favorite Fabric), Gaya Jiji
Die Stropers (The Harvesters), Etienne Kallos
In My Room, Ulrich Köhler
El Angel, Luis Ortega
The Dead and the Others, João Salaviza and Renée Nader Messora
The Gentle Indifference Of The World, Adilkhan Yerzhanov
À Genoux Les Gars (Sextape), Antoine Desrosières

Special Screenings

Ten Years In Thailand, Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The State Against Mandela And The Others, Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte
O Grande Circo Místico (Le Grand Cirque Mystique), Carlo Diegues
Les Âmes Mortes (Dead Souls), Wang Bing
À Tous Vents (To The Four Winds), Michel Toesca
La Traversée, Romain Goupil
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, Wim Wenders

Midnight Screenings

Fahrenheit 451, Ramin Bahrani
Whitney, Kevin Macdonald
Arctic, Joe Penna
Gongjak (The Spy Gone North), Yoon Jong-bin

For more 2018 Cannes-related stories:

2018 Cannes Film Festival: Official Short Films and Cinéfondation Selection

2018 Cannes: Official Poster for the 71st Cannes Film Festival

2018 Cannes: Festival Offers 3-Day Passes to 18-28 year-olds

2018 Cannes: Edouard Baer will be Master of Ceremonies for 71st Cannes Film Festival

2018 Cannes: Ursula Meier is President of the Jury of the Caméra d’or

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.