Graduation/Bacalaureat aka Family Photos is a coproduction between Romania, France and Belgium, while Sieranevada is a coproduction involving Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and France.
Dogs is a French/Romanian/Bulgarian coproduction. Romania is also represented in the Official Competition by a minority coproduction. Toni Erdmann by the German director Maren Ade is a coproduction between Germany, Austria and Romania (Ada Solomon's Hi Film Productions).
Two Czech minority coproductions were also selected.
Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas, a ghost story taking place in the fashion underworld of Paris, was selected to the Competition and The Dancer by Stéphanie Di Giusto about Loïe Fuller, the famous dancer, who was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century, will be a part of Un Certain Regard.
Both films are made in coproduction with the Czech production company Sirena Film and were supported by the State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic (minority coproduction support and film incentives).
Romania is also the only CEE country selected for the Short Film Competition with 4:15 p.m.. The End of the World / 4:15p.m. Sfârșitul lumii by Cătălin Rotaru and Gabi Virginia Sarga,while short films from Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Hungary were selected for the Cinéfondation section: All Rivers Run to the Sea / Toate râurile curg în mare by Alexandru Badea (UNATC, Romania), Fine/ Dobro by Marta Hernaiz Pidal (film.factory, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and The Noise of Licking / A nyalintas nesze by Nadja Andrasev (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary)
The Official Selection of the 69th Cannes Film Festival was announced on 14 April 2016.
69th OFFICIAL SELECTION:
In Competition
Opening Film
Café Society (USA) Out of Comp.
Directed by Woody Allen
Toni Erdmann (Germany, Austria, Romania)
Directed by Maren Ade
Produced by Komplizen Film
Coproduced by Coop99 Filmproduktion, Hi Film Productions
Julieta (Spain)
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar
American Honey (UK)
Directed by Andrea Arnold
Personal Shopper (France, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic)
Directed by Olivier Assayas
Produced by Vortex Sutra
Coproduced by Scope Pictures, Detail Film, Scope Invest, Sirena Film, Arte France Cinema, CG Cinema
Supported by the State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic
La fille inconnue (Belgium)
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
It’s Only the End of the World / Juste la fin du monde (Canada)
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Slack Bay / Ma loute (France)
Directed by Bruno Dumont
Mal de pierres (France)
Directed by Nicole Garcia
Rester vertical (France)
Directed by Alain Guiraudie
Paterson (USA)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Aquarius (Brazil)
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
I, Daniel Blake (UK)
Directed by Ken Loach
Ma’Rosa (Philippines)
Directed by Brillante Mendoza
Graduation / Bacalaureat (Romania, France, Belgium)
Directed by Cristian Mungiu
Produced by Mobra Films
Coproduced by Why Not Productions, Les Films du Fleuve, France 3 Cinéma
Supported by the Romanian National Film Centre (CNC), Eurimages
Loving (USA)
Directed by Jeff Nichols
The Handmaiden / Agassi (South Korea)
Directed by Park Chan-Wook
The Last Face (USA)
Directed by Sean Penn
Sieranevada (Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, France)
Directed by Cristi Puiu
Produced by Mandragora
Coproduced by Studioul de Creaţie Cinematografică Romania, 2006 d.o.o., Spiritus Movens, Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production, Alcatraz Films
Supported by the Romanian National Film Centre, Eurimages, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Elle (Netherlands)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
The Neon Demon (Denmark)
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Un Certain Regard
Inversion / Varoonegi (Iran)
Directed by Behnam Behzadi
Apprentice (Singapore)
Directed by Boo Junfeng
The Stopover / Voir du Pays (France)
Directed by Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
The Dancer / La Danseuse (France,Belgium, Czech Republic) 1st film
Directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto
Produced by Les Productions du Tresor
Coproduced by Wild Bunch, Les Films du Fleuve, Sirena Film
Supported by the State Cinematography Fund Czech Republic
Clash / Eshtebak (Egypt)
Directed by Mohamed Diab
Red Turtle / La tortue rouge (Netherlands) 1st film
Directed by Michael Dudok de Wit
Harmonium / Fuchi ni tatsu (Japan)
Directed by Fukada Kôji
Personal Affairs / Omor shakhsiya (Israel) 1st film
Directed by Maha Haj
Beyond the Mountains and Hills / Me’ever laharim vehagvaot (Israel)
Directed by Eran Kolirin
After the Storm (Japan)
Directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki / Hymyileva Mies (Finland) 1st film
Directed by Juho Kuosmanen
Francisco Sanctis’s Long Night / La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis (Argentina) 1st film
Directed by Francisco Marquez, Andrea Testa ESTA
Dogs / Câini (France, Romania, Bulgaria) 1st film
Directed by Bogdan Mirică
Produced by EZ Films 14
Coproduced by 42Km Film, Argo Film
Supported by the Romanian National Film Centre, Bulgarian National Film Centre
Pericle il nero (Italy)
Directed by Stefano Mordini
The Transfiguration (USA) 1st film
Directed by Michael O’Shea HEA
Captain Fantastic (USA)
Directed by Matt Ross
The Student / Uchenik (Russia)
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Out of Competition
The Nice Guys (USA)
Directed by Shane Black
Money Monster (USA)
Directed by Jodie Foster
Goksung (South Korea)
Directed by Na Hong-Jin
Disney’s the BFG (USA)
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Midnight Screenings
Gimme Danger (USA)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Train to Busan / Bu-san-haeng (South Korea)
Directed by Yeon Sang-Ho
Special Screenings
The Last Resort / L’ultima spiaggia (Greece, Italy)
Directed by Thanos Anastopoulos, Davide Del Degan
Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy / Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne (Chad)
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Exil (Cambodia)
Directed by Rithy Panh
The Last Days of Louis XIV / La mort de Louis XIV (Spain)
Directed by Albert Serra
Le Cancre (France)
Directed by Paul Vecchiali
