There’s a genuine feeling of Christmas morning excitement when the Cannes Film Festival announce their annual lineup. Not least from the lucky few who’ll get to hove into town and indulge their cinematic sweet-tooth over the course of twelve days.
This morning new films from Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Nicholas Winding Refn and many more were announced, both in and out of competition. The complete list is below but immediately the prospect of seeing new work from Andrea Arnold, Jeff Nichols and Xavier Dolan shines like a beacon on the filmic horizon.
It’ll also give us the chance to catch Spielberg’s version of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, as well the throw ourselves in with Ken Loach once again, a decade after he won the Palme d’Or for The Wind The Shakes the Barley.
The festival runs from the 11th to the 22nd of May, and we’ll be there to bring you reviews and interviews from the world’s premiere movie festival.
Here is what’s playing.
In Competition
Cafe Society (Woody Allen)
Acquarius (Kleber Mendonca Filho)
American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
Baccalaureat, (Cristian Mungiu)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
From the Land of the Moon (Nicole Garcia)
The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)
Julieta (Pedro Almodovar)
The Last Face (Sean Penn)
Loving (Jeff Nichols)
Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)
The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
Sierra-Nevada (Cristi Puiu)
Slack Bay (Bruno Dumont)
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Out of competition
The BFG (Steven Spielberg)
Goksung (Na Hong-jin)
Money Monster (Jodie Foster)
Nice Guys (Shane Black)
Un Certain Regard
After the Storm (Hirokazu Kore-eda).
Apprentice (Boo Junfeng).
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross).
La Danseuse (Stephanie Di Giusto).
Dogs (Bogdan Mirica).
Eshteback (Mohmaed Diab).
Fuchi Ni Tatsu (Fukada Koji).
Hymyileva Mies (Juho Kuosmanen).
La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis (Andrea Testa).
Me’ever Laharim Vehagvaot (Eran Kolirin).
Omor Shakhsiya (Maha Haj).
Pericle Il Nero (Stefano Mordini).
The Red Turtle (Michael Dudok de Wit).
The Transfiguration (Michael O’Shea).
Uchenik (Kirill Serebrennikov).
Varoonegi (Behnam Behzadi).
Voir du Pays (Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin)
