14-04-2017

FNE at Cannes 2017: Official Programme Lineup

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    CANNES: The 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (17-28 May) has unveiled its official selection and the Latvians and Lithuanians will be on the Croissette as coproducers of Sergei Loztnitsa’s new film A Gentle Creature, which will screen in the main competition.

    The film is a highly anticipated French, Netherlands, German, Latvian and Lithuanian coproduction with much of the shooting taking place in Latvia and is inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short story of the same title written in 1876. The film was supported by National Film Center of Latvia Fund and The Riga Film Fund, Lithuanian Film Centre.

    Bulgarian helmer Stephan Komandarev has scored a slot in the Certain Regard lineup with Posoki / Directions, his new film which is a Bulgarian, German, Macedonian coproduction. Based on real events, the script written by Simeon Ventsislavov and Stephan Komandarev interweaves six contemporary taxi drivers’ stories and a free interpretation of Anton Chekhov’s short story Grief.

    The Slovak, Latvian, Czech, Hungarian, French coproduction Out directed by Gyorgy Kristof also scored a slot in the Certain Regard line-up. The project participated in Cinéfondation L’Atelier in Cannes and in MIDPOINT 2013, pitch and feedback KVIFF 2013, BES’T EAVE 2013, NCN Roma 2013 and Sofia Meetings 2015 before scoring its Cannes slot.

    Another regional success story in Certain Regard is Western directed by Valeska Griseback, a German, Bulgarian, Austrian coproduction about a group of German construction workers working on a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside.

    In total 49 films from 29 countries will be shown including 12 by female directors and nine debuts. Arnaud Desplechin will open the festival with a screening of new flick Ismael’s Ghosts, which stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Marion Cotillard. The ACID section of the festival will inaugurate a new section ACID-TRIP, which this year will feature a selection of young Serbian cinema. The Quinzaine des Réalisateurs announces its line-up on 20 April.

    Competition

    Wonderstruck (USA)
    Directed by Todd Haynes

    Le Redoutable (France)
    Directed by Michel Hazanavicius

    Geu-Hu / The Day After (Korea)
    Directed by Hong Sangsoo

    Hikari / Radiance (Japan, France)
    Directed by Naomi Kawase

    The Killing of a Sacred Deer (UK, Ireland, USA)
    Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

    A Gentle Creature (Netherlands, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, France)
    Directed by Sergei Loznitsa
    Slot Machine (France), ARTE France Cinéma (France), Graniet Film BV (Netherlands)   LOOKS Film & TV Produktionen (Germany) Solar Media EntertainmentStudio Uljana Kim (Lithuania) Wild at Art (Netherlands) Film Angels (Latvia)
    Supported by National Film Center of Latvia Fund and The Riga Film Fund, Lithuanian Film Centre

    Jupiter's Moon (Hungary, Germany)
    Directed by Kornél Mundruczó

    L'amant Double (France, Belgium)
    Directed by François Ozon

    You Were Never Really Here (UK, France)
    Directed by Lynne Ramsay

    Good Tim (USA)
    Directed by Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie

    Loveless (Russia, France, Belgium, Germany)
    Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev

    The Meyerowitz Stories (USA)
    Directed by Noah Baumbach

    Ismael's Ghosts (France)
    Directed by Arnaud Desplechin

    In the Fade (Germany, France)
    Directed by Fatih Akin

    Okja (Korea, USA)
    Directed by Bong Joon-Ho

    120 Battements Par Minute (France)
    Directed by Robin Campillo

    The Beguiled (USA)
    Directed by Sofia Coppola

    Rodin (France, Belgium)
    Directed by Jacques Doillon

    Happy End (France, Germany, Austria)
    Directed by Michael Haneke

    Out of Competition

    Blade of the Immortal (Japan)
    Directed by Takashi Miike

    How to Talk to Girls at Parties
    Directed by John Cameron Mitchell

    Visages, Visages
    Directed by JR and Agnès Varda

    Un Certain Regard

    Barbara (France)
    Directed by Mathieu Amalric

    La Novia del Desierto / The Desert Bride (Argentina)
    Directed by Cecilia Atán, Valeria Pivato

    Jeune Femme (France)
    Directed by Léonor Serraille

    Lerd / Dregs (Iran)
    Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof

    En Attendant Les Hirondelles / The Nature Of Time (France)
    Directed by Karim Moussaui

    Anpo Suru Shinryakusha / Before We Vanish (Japan)
    Directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi

    Out (Slovakia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Hungary, France)
    Directed by Gyorgy Kristof
    Produced by sentimentalfilm (Slovakia), Mirage Film Studio (Hungary) Arizona Productions (France) , Film Angels Studio (Latvia) endorfilm (Czech Republic)
    Supported by Slovak Audiovisual Fund , Czech Film Fund, National Film Center of Latvia Fund

    Posoki / Directions (Bulgaria, Germany, Macedonia)
    Directed by Stephan Komandarev
    Produced by Argo Film (Bulgaria)
    Coproduced by Aktis Film Production and Sector Film (Macedonia)

    Supported by Bulgarian National Film Center, Bulgarian National Television, the German Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), the Macedonian Film Agency and Eurimages

    Western (Germany, Bulgaria, Austria)
    Directed by Valeska Grisebach
    Produced by coop99 filmproduktion (Austria), Komplizen Film (Germany), Chouchkov Brothers (Bulgaria), KNM and ZDF, Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Arte

    Las Hijas De Abril / April’s Daughter (Mexico)
    Directed by Michel Franco

    Fortunata / Lucky (Italy)
    Directed by Sergio Castellitto

    L’atelier (France)
    Directed by Laurent Cantet

    Aala Kaf Ifrit / Beauty and the Dogs (Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Norway, Lebanon, Sweden)
    Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania

    Tesnota / Closeness (Russia)
    Directed by Kantemir Balagov

    After The War (France, Italy)
    Directed by Annarita Zambrano

    Wind River (USA)
    Directed by Taylor Sheridan

    Special Screenings

    Clair's Camera
    Directed by Hong Sangsoo

    12 Jours
    Directed by Raymond Depardon

    They
    Directed by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

    Promised Land
    Directed by Eugene Jarecki

    Napalm
    Directed by Claude Lanzmann

    Demons in Paradise
    Directed by Jude Ratman

    Sea Sorrow
    Directed by Vanessa Redgrave

    Midnight Screenings

    The Villainess
    Directed by Jung Byung-Gil

    The Merciless
    Directed by Byun Sung-Hyun

    Prayer Before Dawn
    Directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire