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
