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April 12, 2018

Official Films Selections for the forthcoming 71st Festival de Cannes (8 to 19 May 2018)

Photo: Actress Penelope Cruz arrives at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA, on Sunday, March 7, 2010. Image provided by & copyright © Matt Petit / © A.M.P.A.S. Penelope Cruz stars in Asghar Farhadi’s new film, Todos Lo Saben — Everybody Knows, which is the opening film to be screened at the 71st Festival de Cannes.

This year’s forthcoming Festival de Cannes will open with a screening of Asghar Farhadi’s new film Everybody Knows (Todos Lo Saben) in Competition at the Grand Théâtre Lumière in the Palais des Festivals on Tuesday 8 May. This psychological thriller stars Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem from Spain and Ricardo Darín from Argentina.

Meanwhile, the Official Selection of the Films for the 71st Festival de Cannes (8 to 19 May 2018) was announced today during a press conference.

Here is the list of the feature films selected for screening in these categories — “In Competition”, “Un Certain Regard”, “Out of Competition”, “Midnight Screenings”, and “Special Screenings”.

The 2018 Official Selection

“In Competition”

DIRECTOR — FILM

• Asghar FARHADI — TODOS LO SABEN (EVERYBODY KNOWS)
• Stéphane BRIZÉ — AT WAR
• Matteo GARRONE — DOGMAN
• Jean-Luc GODARD — LE LIVRE D’IMAGE
• Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI — NETEMO SAMETEMO (ASAKO I & II)
• Christophe HONORÉ — SORRY ANGEL
• Eva HUSSON — GIRLS OF THE SUN
• JIA Zhang-Ke — ASH IS PUREST WHITE
• KORE-EDA Hirokazu — SHOPLIFTERS
• Nadine LABAKI — CAPERNAUM
• LEE Chang-Dong — BUH-NING (BURNING)
• Spike LEE — BLACKKKLANSMAN
• David Robert MITCHELL — UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
• Jafar PANAHI — THREE FACES
• Pawel PAWLIKOWSKI — ZIMNA WOJNA (COLD WAR)
• Alice ROHRWACHER — LAZZARO FELICE
• Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV — LETO
• A.B SHAWKY — YOMEDDINE

“Un Certain Regard”

DIRECTOR — FILM

• Ali ABBASI — GRÄNS (BORDER)
• Meryem BENM’BAREK — SOFIA
• Andréa BESCOND / Eric METAYER — LITTLE TICKLES
• BI Gan — LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
• Nandita DAS — MANTO
• Antoine DESROSIÈRES — SEXTAPE
• Lukas DHONT — GIRL
• Vanessa FILHO — ANGEL FACE
• Valeria GOLINO — EUPHORIA
• Gaya JIJI — MY FAVORITE FABRIC
• Wanuri KAHIU — RAFIKI (FRIEND)
• Etienne KALLOS — DIE STROPERS (THE HARVESTERS)
• Ulrich KÖHLER — IN MY ROOM
• Luis ORTEGA — EL ANGEL
• Adilkhan YERZHANOV — THE GENTLE INDIFFERENCE OF THE WORLD

“Out of Competition”

DIRECTOR — FILM

• Ron HOWARD — SOLO A STAR WARS STORY
• Gilles LELLOUCHE — LE GRAND BAIN

“Midnight Screenings”

DIRECTOR — FILM

• Joe PENNA — ARCTIC
• YOON Jong-Bin — GONGJAK (THE SPY GONE NORTH)

“Special Screenings”

DIRECTOR(S) — FILM

• Aditya ASSARAT / Wisit SASANATIENG / Chulayarnon SRIPHOL / Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL — 10 YEARS IN THAILAND
• Nicolas CHAMPEAUX / Gilles PORTE — THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA AND THE OTHERS
• Carlo DIEGUES — O GRANDE CIRCO MÍSTICO (THE GREAT MYSTICAL CIRCUS)
• Romain GOUPIL — LA TRAVERSÉE
• Michel TOESCA — TO THE FOUR WINDS
• WANG Bing — DEAD SOULS
• Wim WENDERS — POPE FRANCIS - A MAN OF HIS WORD

THE 2018 SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

This year, the selection committee received 3,943 short films.The 2018 Short Films Competition comprises eight films (7 works of fictions and 1 animation), from Australia, China, France, Iran, Japan, Philippines, Poland and USA.

These films are all in the running for the 2018 Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Bertrand Bonello, President of the Jury, at the official award ceremony of the 71st Festival de Cannes on May 19th.

DIRECTOR(S) — FILM — COUNTRY

• Oren GERNER — GABRIEL — France
• Raymund Ribay — GUTIERREZ JUDGEMENT — Philippines
• Celine HELD & Logan GEORGE — CAROLINE — USA
• Saeed JAFARIAN TARIKI — (UMBRA) — Iran
• Marta PAJEK — III animation — Poland
• Masahiko SATO, Genki KAWAMURA, Yutaro SEKI, Masayuki TOYOTA, Kentaro HIRASE — DUALITY — Japan
• WEI Shujun — ON THE BORDER — China
• Charles WILLIAMS — ALL THESE CREATURES — Australia

THE CINÉFONDATION SELECTION 2018

The Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 17 films this year (14 live-action and 3 animated films), from among the 2,426 submitted by film schools all over the world. Fourteen countries on four continents will be represented.

The jury will hand over the three Cinéfondation prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 17th May, in the Buñuel Theatre.

DIRECTOR(S) — FILM — FILM SCHOOL

• Ori AHARON — DOLFIN MEGUMI (Rubber Dolphin) — Steve Tisch School of Film & Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Zhannat ALSHANOVA — END OF SEASON — The London Film School, UK
• Louise AUBERTIN, Éloïse GIRARD, Marine MENEYROL, Jonas RITTER, Loucas RONGEART, Amandine THOMOUX — SAILOR’S DELIGHT — ESMA, France
• Lucia BULGHERONI — INANIMATE — NFTS, UK
• Diego CÉSPEDES — EL VERANO DEL LEÓN ELÉCTRICO (The Summer of the Electric Lion) — Universidad de Chile - ICEI, Chile
• Jamie DACK — PALM TREES AND POWER LINES — NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA
• DI Shen — DONG WU XIONG MENG (The Storms in Our Blood) — Shanghai Theater Academy, China
• Laura GARCIA — FRAGMENT DE DRAME (A Piece of Tragedy) — La Fémis, France
• Constanza GATTI — CINCO MINUTOS AFUERA (Five Minutes Outside) — Universidad del Cine (FUC), Argentina
• Ariel GUTIÉRREZ — LOS TIEMPOS DE HÉCTOR (Hector’s Nightfall) — CCC, Mexico
• Eryk LENARTOWICZ — DOTS — AFTRS, Australia
• Marta MAGNUSKA — INNY (The Other) — PWSFTviT, Poland
• Georgiana MOLDOVEANU — ALBASTRU SI ROSU, IN PROPORTII EGALE (Equally Red and Blue) — UNATC I.L. CARAGIALE, Romania
• Pier Lorenzo PISANO — COSÃŒ IN TERRA (As It Is on Earth) — Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy
• Igor POPLAUHIN — KALENDAR (Calendar) — Moscow School of New Cinema, Russia
• Arian VAZIRDAFTARI — MESLE BACHE ADAM (Like a Good Kid) — Tehran University of Dramatic Arts, Iran
• Andrew ZOX — I AM MY OWN MOTHER — San Francisco State University, USA

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