The list of films for the 68th Cannes Film Festival came with the expected and the snubbed, as it usually does, with new films from Todd Haynes, Gus van Sant and Denis Villeneuve among the In Competition films. Cannes favorites Nanni Morreti, Paolo Sorrentino and Kore-eda Hirokazu also found a place to compete for this year’s Palme D’or. Only one first-time filmmaker made the cut this year: Hungarian director Lazló Nemes with Son of Saul, a Holocaust drama about an Auschwitz prisoner who devises a plan to save his adopted son. Suffering a case of the snubs are Sean Penn’s The Last Face, Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special and Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation, highlighting a competition heavy on European films this year. In total, 17 films were announced to the competition and 14 in the Un Certain Regard section. As usual, films will be added to the lineup in the coming days.
The follow-up to the press conference held on 16th April, the Festival de Cannes has completed its Official Selection with the inclusion of the following films:
IN COMPETITION
Chronic by Michel Franco
Valley of love by Guillaume Nicloux
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Alias Maria by José Luis Rugeles Gracia
Taklub by Brillante Mendoza
Lamb by Yared Zeleke – 1st film first entry of Ethiopia in Official Selection
Cemetery of Splendour by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
AN by Naomi Kawase, will be presented in Opening of Un Certain Regard
SPECIAL SCREENING
Une histoire de fou (Don’t Tell me the Boy was Mad) by Robert Guédiguian
MIDNIGHT SCREENING
Love by Gaspar Noé
| Opening Film | ||
| Emmanuelle BERCOT | LA TÊTE HAUTE(STANDING TALL)Out of Competition | 2h00 |
| *** | ||
| Jacques AUDIARD | DHEEPAN (TEMPORARY TITLE) | 1h49 |
| Stéphane BRIZÉ | LA LOI DU MARCHÉ(A SIMPLE MAN) | 1h32 |
| Valérie DONZELLI | MARGUERITE ET JULIEN(MARGUERITE AND JULIEN) | 1h50 |
| Matteo GARRONE | IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI (TALE OF TALES) | 2h05 |
| Todd HAYNES | CAROL | 1h58 |
| HOU Hsiao Hsien | NIE YINNIANG (THE ASSASSIN) | 2h00 |
| JIA Zhang-Ke | SHAN HE GU REN (MOUTAINS MAY DEPART) | 2h00 |
| KORE-EDA Hirokazu | UMIMACHI DIARY (OUR LITTLE SISTER) | 2h03 |
| Justin KURZEL | MACBETH | 1h53 |
| Yorgos LANTHIMOS | THE LOBSTER | 1h58 |
| MAÏWENN | MON ROI | 2h10 |
| Nanni MORETTI | MIA MADRE | 1h42 |
| László NEMES | SAUL FIA (SON OF SAUL)1st film | 1h47 |
| Paolo SORRENTINO | YOUTH | 1h58 |
| Joachim TRIER | LOUDER THAN BOMBS | 1h45 |
| Gus VAN SANT | THE SEA OF TREES | 1h50 |
| Denis VILLENEUVE | SICARIO | 1h45 |
| Neeraj GHAYWAN | MASAAN 1st film | 2h00 |
| Grímur HÁKONARSON | HRÚTAR (RAMS) | 1h30 |
| KUROSAWA Kiyoshi | KISHIBE NO TABI (JOURNEY TO THE SHORE) | 2h08 |
| Laurent LARIVIÈRE | JE SUIS UN SOLDAT (I AM A SOLDIER) 1st film | 1h36 |
| Dalibor MATANIC | ZVIZDAN (THE HIGH SUN) | 2h03 |
| Roberto MINERVINI | THE OTHER SIDE | 1h30 |
| Radu MUNTEAN | UN ETAJ MAI JOS (ONE FLOOR BELOW) | 1h33 |
| OH Seung-Uk | MU-ROE-HAN (THE SHAMELESS) | 1h58 |
| David PABLOS | LAS ELEGIDAS (THE CHOSEN ONES) | 1h45 |
| Ida PANAHANDEH | NAHID 1st film | 1h44 |
| Corneliu PORUMBOIU | COMOARA (THE TREASURE) | 1h30 |
| Gurvinder SINGH | CHAUTHI KOOT (THE FOURTH DIRECTION) | 1h55 |
| SHIN Suwon | MADONNA | 2h01 |
| Alice WINOCOUR | MARYLAND | 1h40 |
| Woody ALLEN | IRRATIONAL MAN | 1h36 |
| Pete DOCTER Ronaldo DEL CARMEN | INSIDE OUT | 1h42 |
| George MILLER | MAD MAX : FURY ROAD | 2h00 |
| Mark OSBORNE | THE LITTLE PRINCE | 1h48 |
| HONG Won-Chan | O PISEU (OFFICE) 1st film | 1h49 |
| Asif KAPADIA | AMY | 2h07 |
| Samuel BENCHETRIT | ASPHALTE | 1h40 |
| Souleymane CISSE | OKA | 1h50 |
| Elad KEIDAN | HAYORED LEMA’ALA 1st film | 1h45 |
| Natalie PORTMAN | SIPUR AL AHAVA VE CHOSHECH (A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS) 1st film | 1h35 |
| Barbet SCHROEDER | AMNESIA | 1h36 |
| Pavle VUCKOVIC | PANAMA 1st film |
The announcement of the 2015 Official Selection will begin with the short films In Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection, in the run-up to the press conference for the 68th Festival de Cannes, to be held on Thursday 16th April.
Following their deliberations, the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Abderrahmane Sissako, will decide on the best films both from the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation.
THE 2015 SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
This year, the selection committee received 4,550 short films – 1,000 more than in 2014 – from over 100 countries.
The 2015 Short Films Competition comprises nine films (seven works of fiction and two animations), mostly from Asia and Europe, with one representative of Latin America and one from Oceania.
These films are all in the running for the 2015 Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Abderrahmane Sissako, President of the Jury, at the official prize-giving ceremony of the 68th Festival de Cannes on 24th May.
SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION:
| Ely DAGHER | WAVES ’98 | 14’ | Lebanon, Qatar |
| Shane DANIELSEN | THE GUESTS | 10’ | Australia |
| Ziya DEMIREL | SALI(Tuesday) | 12’ | Turkey, France |
| Céline DEVAUX | LE REPAS DOMINICAL(Sunday Lunch) | 13’ | France |
| Dan HODGSON | LOVE IS BLIND | 6’ | United Kingdom |
| Basil KHALIL | AVE MARIA | 14’ | Palestine, France, Germany |
| Jan ROOSENS, Raf ROOSENS | COPAIN (Buddy) | 14’ | Belgium |
| Eva RILEY | PATRIOT | 14’ | United Kingdom |
| Iair SAID | PRESENTE IMPERFECTO(Present Imperfect) | 15’ | Argentina |
THE 2015 CINÉFONDATION SELECTION
To mark its 18th year, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 18 films (14 works of fiction and four animations), from among the 1,600 works submitted this year by film schools from all four corners of the globe. 16 countries from four continents are represented.
Over a third of the films selected come from schools taking part for the first time, and it is also the first time that a Spanish film school has seen one of its films reach the selection stage. There is a strong showing from Europe once again, with 11 out of the 18 films selected.
The three Cinéfondation prizes will be awarded at a ceremony preceding the screening of the prize-winning films on Friday 22nd May in the salle Buñuel.
THE CINÉFONDATION SELECTION:
| Behzad AZADI | KOSHTARGAH(Slaughterhouse) | 24’ | Art University of Tehran Iran |
| Mateo BENDESKY | EL SER MAGNÉTICO(The Magnetic Nature) | 17’ | Universidad del Cine (FUC) Argentina |
| Pippa BIANCO | SHARE | 11’ | AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women USA |
| Simon CARTWRIGHT | MANOMAN | 11’ | National Film and Television School United Kingdom |
| Ian GARRIDO LÓPEZ | VICTOR XX | 20’ | ESCAC Spain |
| Maria GUSKOVA | VOZVRASHENIE ERKINA(The Return of Erkin) | 28’ | High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors Russia |
| Félix HAZEAUX Thomas NITSCHE Edward NOONAN Franck PINA Raphaëlle PLANTIER | LEONARDO | 6’ | MOPA (ex Supinfocom Arles) France |
| Ignacio JURICIC MERILLÁN | LOCAS PERDIDAS(Lost Queens) | 28’ | Carrera de Cine y TV Universidad de Chile Chile |
| Sofie KAMPMARK | TSUNAMI | 7’ | The Animation Workshop Denmark |
| Tomáš KLEIN Tomáš MERTA | RETRIEVER | 23’ | FAMU Prague Czech Republic |
| Aurélien PEILLOUX | LES CHERCHEURS(The Wheel of Emotions) | 32’ | La Fémis France |
| Eliza PETKOVA | ABWESEND(Absent) | 13’ | Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie (dffb) Germany |
| Miki POLONSKI | ASARA REHOVOT MEA ETSIM(Ten Buildings Away) | 25’ | Minshar for Art Israel |
| Maksim SHAVKIN | 14 STEPS | 37’ | Moscow School of New Cinema Russia |
| Héctor SILVA NÚÑEZ | ANFIBIO(Amphibian) | 15’ | EICTV Cuba |
| Salla SORRI | AINAHAN NE PALAA(To Return Until) | 17’ | Aalto University, ELO Film School Helsinki Finland |
| Laura VANDEWYNCKEL | HET PARADIJS(Paradise) | 6’ | RITS School of Arts Brussels Belgium |
| Qiu YANG | RI GUANG ZHI XIA(Under the Sun) | 19’ | The VCA, Film & TV School, Melbourne University Australia |
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