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