We’re less than a month away from the 67th Annual Festival de Cannes and the official selection has been announced! We’ll show you the selections and a few of the posters that have been released as well. (* dictates the opening film)
IN COMPETITION
*Olivier DAHAN – GRACE DE MONACO (GRACE OF MONACO)
Olivier ASSAYAS – SILS MARIA (CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA)
Bertrand BONELLO – SAINT LAURENT
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Winter Sleep
David CRONENBERG – MAPS TO THE STARS
Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Luc DARDENNE – DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT
Xavier DOLAN – MOMMY
Atom EGOYAN – CAPTIVES
Jean-Luc GODARD – ADIEU AU LANGAGE
Michel HAZANAVICIUS – THE SEARCH
Tommy Lee JONES – THE HOMESMAN
Naomi KAWASE – FUTATSUME NO MADO (Still the water)
Mike LEIGH – MR. TURNER
Ken LOACH – JIMMY’S HALL
Bennett MILLER – FOXCATCHER
Alice ROHRWACHER – LE MERAVIGLIE
Abderrahmane SISSAKO – TIMBUKTU
Damian SZIFRON – RELATOS SALVAJES (Wild Tales)
Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV – LEVIATHAN
UN CERTAIN REGARD
*Marie AMACHOUKELI, Claire BURGER, Samuel THEIS – PARTY GIRL (1st Film)
Lisandro ALONSO – JAUJA
Mathieu AMALRIC – LA CHAMBRE BLEUE
Asia ARGENTO – INCOMPRESA
Kanu BEHL – TITLI (1st Film)
Ned BENSON – ELEANOR RIGBY
Pascale FERRAN – BIRD PEOPLE
Ryan GOSLING – LOST RIVER
Jessica HAUSNER – AMOUR FOU
Rolf de HEER – CHARLIE’S COUNTRY
Andrew HULME – SNOW IN PARADISE (1st film)
July JUNG – DOHEE-YA (A Girl at my Door) (1st film)
Panos KOUTRAS – XENIA
Philippe LACÔTE – RUN (1st film)
Ruben ÖSTLUND – TURIST
Jaime ROSALES – HERMOSA JUVENTUD
WANG Chao – FANTASIA
Wim WENDERS, Juliano RIBEIRO SALGADO – THE SALT OF THE EARTH
Keren YEDAYA – LOIN DE SON ABSENCE (Away From His Absence)
OUT OF COMPETITION
Dean DEBLOIS – DRAGONS 2
ZHANG YIMOU – GUI LAI (Coming Home)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
CHANG – PYO JEOK (The Target)
Kristian LEVRING – THE SALVATION
David MICHOD – THE ROVER
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Aida BEGIC, Leonardo DI COSTANZO, Jean-Luc GODARD, Kamen KALEV, Isild LE BESCO, Sergei LOZNITSA, Vincenzo MARRA, Ursula MEIER, Vladimir PERISIC, Cristi PUIU, Marc RECHA, Angela SCHANELEC, Teresa VILLAVERDE – LES PONTS DE SARAJEVO (Bridges of Sarajevo)
Gabe POLSKY – RED ARMY
Sergei LOZNITSA – MAIDAN
Ossama MOHAMMED – EAU ARGENTEE, SYRIE AUTOPORTRAIT (Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait)
Stéphanie VALLOATTO – CARICATURISTES – FANTASSINS DE LA DÉMOCRATIE (Cartoonists – Foot Soldiers Of Democracy)
70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF LE MONDE NEWSPAPER
Yves JEULAND – LES GENS DU MONDE
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION
This year, the Selection Committee received 3,450 short films, representing 128 production countries.
Nine films will compete in 2014 for the Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Abbas Kiarostami, President of the Jury, at the Awards Ceremony of the 67th Festival de Cannes on Saturday, May 24th.
For the first time, an Azeri (from Azerbaijan) and a Georgian (the country Georgia) film will take part in the Short Films Competition.
Ran HUANG – THE ADMINISTRATION OF GLORY China 15’
Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI – UKHILAVI SIVRTSEEBI (INVISIBLE SPACES) Georgia 10’
Sato MASAHIKO, Ohara
TAKAYOSHI, Seki YUTARO, Toyota
MASAYUKI, Hirase KENTARO – HAPPO-EN Japan 13’
Simón MESA SOTO – LEIDI Colombia, United Kingdom 15’
Sergey PIKALOV – SONUNCU (THE LAST ONE) Azerbaijan 15’
Petra SZŐCS – A KIVEGZES (THE EXECUTION) Hungary, Romania 14’
Clément TREHIN-LALANNE – AÏSSA France 8’
Laura WANDEL – LES CORPS ÉTRANGERS Belgium 15’
Hallvar WITZØ – JA VI ELSKER (YES WE LOVE) Norway 15′
THE CINEFONDATION SELECTION
The Cinéfondation Selection selected 16 films (14 fiction films and 2 animation films) among the 1,631 submitted this year by cinema schools from all around the world.
This year sees a very significant broadening of scope of the Selection, with a 38% of the schools being selected for the first time and one country – Egypt – which has never previously been selected. Besides, more than half of the sixteen selected films (9) have been directed by women.
Max CHAN – OUR BLOOD 25’ Hampshire College,USA
Pierre CLENET, Alejandro DIAZ, Romain MAZEVET, Stéphane PACCOLAT – HOME SWEET HOME 10’ Supinfocom Arles, France
Omar EL ZOHAIRY – THE AFTERMATH OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE PUBLIC TOILET AT KILOMETER 375 18’ High Cinema Institute, Academy of Arts, Égypt
Reinaldo Marcus GREEN – STONE CARS 14’ NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA
HAN Fengyu – LAST TRIP HOME 25’ Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
Meryll HARDT – UNE VIE RADIEUSE (A Radiant Life) 17’ Le Fresnoy, France
Chie HAYAKAWA – NIAGARA 27’ ENBU Seminar, Japan
Atsuko HIRAYANAGI – OH LUCY! 21’ NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Singapore
Inbar HORESH – THE VISIT 27’ Minshar for Art, School and Center, Israel
Stefan IVANČIĆ – LETO BEZ MESECA (Moonless Summer) 31′ Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Serbia
Daisy JACOBS – THE BIGGER PICTURE 7′ National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
György Mór KÁRPÁTI – PROVINCIA 21′ University of Theatre and Film Arts, Hungary
KWON Hyun-ju – SOOM (Breath) 33′ Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Léa MYSIUS – LES OISEAUX-TONNERRE (Thunderbirds) 22′ La Fémis, France
Fulvio RISULEO – LIEVITO MADRE (Sourdough) 17′ Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy
Annie SILVERSTEIN – SKUNK 16′ The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Here are some of the posters just recently released!
You can keep up with the Festival on their WEBSITE leading up to the festival and on CANNES TV during. It’s already looking to be a great time and the openers look great. Do you recognize any names on the posters? 😉
We’ll keep you posted as we inch closer to opening night.
-TPR