55th Directors’ Fortnight and 62nd Critics’ Week selections of the 76th Cannes Film Festival

30 films have been selected for the 55th Directors’ Fortnight of the Cannes Film Festival, as announced by Julien Rejl, Artistic Director of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, including new films by Michel Gondry, Manoel de Oliveira and Hong Sang-soo.

Six films are first time features, making them eligible for Cannes’ Camera d’Or prize, which honors the maker of a first film.

Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé will be awarded the Carrosse d’Or on May 17, 2023 in Cannes, during the Directors’ Fortnight opening ceremony by the SRF – the French Film Directors’ Guild. Cissé is a director, producer, writer and exhibitor, over a 50- year career, he has become the symbol of creative freedom, both poetic and political, making him a herald of his continent and a film legend around the world

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The lineup for the 62nd Critics’ Week, which highlights first and second films, was also announced, with all competition titles Camera d’Or eligible. The jury will be led by Audrey Diwan (Happening) and feature Jason Yu’s Sleep (Jam). Yu previously worked under Cannes and Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, and his feature directorial debut includes actors Lee Sun-kyun (Parasite) and Jung Yu-mi (Train To Busan).

The 55th Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and the 62nd Critics’ Week sections begins on May 17, concurrent with the main festival, which runs May 16-27, 2023.

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT

FEATURE FILMS

VAL ABRAÃO (Val Abraham / Abraham’s Valley) 

by Manoel de Oliveira

Special screnning

LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN (The Goldman Case) 

by Cédric Kahn 

Opening film

AGRA 

by Kanu Behl

L’AUTRE LAURENS (The Other Laurens) 

by Claude Schmitz

BÊN TRONG VỎ KÉN VÀNG (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell) 

by Thien An Pham 

First feature film

BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Merle merle mûre)

by Elene Naveriani

BLAZH (Grace / La Grâce) 

by Ilya Povolotsky 

First feature film

CONANN (She Is Conann) 

by Bertrand Mandico

CREATURA 

by Elena Martín Gimeno

DÉSERTS 

by Faouzi Bensaïdi

IN FLAMES 

by Zarrar Kahn 

First feature film

LÉGUA 

by Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra

LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS (The Book of Solutions) 

by Michel Gondry

MAMBAR PIERRETTE 

by Rosine Mbakam

RIDDLE OF FIRE (Conte de feu) 

by Weston Razooli 

First feature film

THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED 

by Joanna Arnow 

First feature film

THE SWEET EAST 

by Sean Price Williams

UN PRINCE (A Prince) 

by Pierre Creton

XIAO BAI CHUAN (A Song Sung Blue) 

by Zihan Geng 

First feature film

WOO-RI-UI-HA-RU (In Our Day) 

by Hong Sang-soo 

Closing film

SHORT FILMS

AXXAM YAṚƔA, MAQAṚ ANSAḤMU (The House Is on Fire, Might as Well Get Warm / La maison brûle, autant se réchauffer) 

by Mouloud Aït Liotna 

DANS LA TÊTE UN ORAGE (A Storm Inside)  

by Clément Pérot

IL COMPLEANNO DI ENRICO (The Birthday Party / L’Anniversaire d’Enrico) 

by Francesco Sossai

J’AI VU LE VISAGE DU DIABLE (I Saw the Face of the Devil)

by Julia Kowalski

LEMON TREE 

by Rachel Walden

MARGARETHE 89 

by Lucas Malbrun

MAST-DEL 

by Maryam Tafakory

OYU 

by Atsushi Hirai

THE RED SEA MAKES ME WANNA CRY 

by Faris Alrjoob

XIA RI FU BEN (Talking to the River) 

by Yue Pan

CRITICS’ WEEK

COMPETITION

Power Alley (Levante) (Br-Fr-Uru)
Dir: Lillah Halla

Il Pleut Dans La Maison Bel-Fr)
Dir: Paloma Sermon-Daï

Inshallah A Boy (Jor-Saudi-Qat-Fr)
Dir: Amjad Al Rasheed

Sleep (Jam) (S Kor)
Dir: Jason Yu

Lost Country (Fr-Ser-Lux-Cro)
Dir: Vladimir Perisič

Le Ravissement (Fr)
Dir: Iris Kaltenbäck

Tiger Stripes (Malay-Tai-Sing-Fr-Ger-Neth-Indo-Qat)
Dir: Amanda Nell Eu

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Ama Gloria (Fr) – OPENING FILM
Dir: Maria Amachoukeli

The (Exp)erience Of Love/Le Syndrome Des Amour Passés (Bel-Fr)
Dir: Ann Sirot & Raphaël Balboni

Vincent Must Die (Fr)
Dir: Stéphan Castang

First feature film

No Love Lost (La Fille de Son Père) (Fr) – CLOSING FILM
Dir: Erwan Le Duc

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