This morning, The line-up for one of the most prestigious films festivals in the festival calendar, Cannes, was revealed by Festival president Pierre Lescure and general delegate Thierry Fremaux.
Notable omissions from the 2000 strong submissions, is the lack of British offerings from the line-up and only a token amount of US projects. The Cannes snobbery has gone into overdrive for 2018 with a number of shakes up, including the banning non-French theatrical releases from the main competition. This means that Netflix has refused to submit any of its films even though they were eligible to submit to the out of competition category.
The line-up includes the new films from directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Ron Howard’s Solo: A Star Wars story – which features in the out of competition category – Pawel Pawlikowski, Jafar Panahi, Lee Chang-Dong, David Robert Mitchell, Matteo Garrone and Asghar Farhadi. The full list is below.
Also in the news – Damian Lewis cast as former Toronto Mayor in Run This Town
MAIN COMPETITION
Everybody Knows (d. Asghar Farhadi)
En Guerre (d. Stephane Brize)
Dogman (d. Matteo Garrone)
Le Livre d’Image (d. Jean-Luc Godard)
Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II) (d. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
Plaire Aimer et Courir Vite (d. Christophe Honore)
Les Filles du Soleil (d. Eva Husson)
Ash Is Purest White (d. Jia Zhang-Ke)
Shoplifters (d. Kore-Eda Hirokazu)
Capharnaum (d. Nadine Labaki)
Buh-Ning (Burning) (d. Lee Chang-Dong)
BlacKKKlansman (d. Spike Lee)
Under the Silver Lake (d. David Robert Mitchell)
Three Faces (d. Jafar Panahi)
Zimna Wojna (Cold War) (d. Pawel Pawlikowski)
Lazzaro Felice (d. Alice Rohrwacher)
Yomeddine (d. A.B. Shawky)
Leto (d. Kirill Serebrennikov)
OUT OF COMPETITION
Solo: A Star Wars Story (d. Ron Howard)
Le Grand Bain (d. Gilles Lelouche)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Ten Years in Thailand (d. A. Assarat, W. Sasanatieng, C. Sriphol and A. Weerasthakul)
The State Against Mandela and the Others (d. Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte)
To the Four Winds (d. Michel Toesca)
Le Traversee (d. Romain Goupil)
O Grande Circ Mistico (d. Carlo Diegues)
Pope Francis – A Man of His Word (d. Wim Wenders)
Dead Souls (d. Wang Bing)
Arctic (d. Joe Penna)
Gongjak (The Spy Gone North) (d. Yoon Jong-Bin)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Day’s Journey Into Night (d. Bi Gan)
Little Tickles (d. Andrea Bescond & Eric Metayer)
Sofia (d. Meyem Benm’Barek)
Grans (Border) (d. Ali Abbasi)
Guele d’Ange (d. Vanessa Filho)
Girl (d. Lukas Dhont)
A Genoux les Gars (Sextape) (d. Antoine Desrosieres)
Manto (d. Nandita Das)
Euphoria (d. Valeria Golino)
Rafiki (d. Wanuri Kahiu)
My Favorite Fabric (d. Gaya Jiji)
The Harvesters (d. Etienne Kallos)
In My Room (d. Ulrich Kohler)
El Angel (d. Luis Ortega)
The Gentle Indifference of the World (d. Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
The 2018 Cannes Film Festival will begin May 8th and run through May 19th.
