The Cannes Director’s Fortnight lineup has been unveiled and unlike last year, which had higher profile films such as Francis Ford Coppola’s “Tetro,” Pedro Costa’s “Ne change rien,” Lynn Shelton’s “Humpday” and “I Love You Phillip Morris,” by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa this year’s lineup focuses pretty much exclusively on lesser known talents.
In change of heart from last year, artistic director Frédéric Boyer said in remarks translated by Variety, “Films by well-known directors don’t interest us as much. The Quinzaine’s purpose is to discover new talent. I’m more interested in filmmakers that have never been seen before.” Mission accomplished.
The only titles we’re curious about (and recognize, frankly) are special screening documentaries by Frederick Wiseman who will be unspooling “Boxing Gym” and Stephan Kijak who will be showing his Rolling Stones doc “Stones In Exile.” Full line up after the jump.
FEATURE FILMS
“Alegria” (Joy) directed by Marina Méliande et Felipe Braganca (Brazil)
“All Good Children” directed by Alicia Duffy (UK)
“Alting bliver godt igen” (Everything Will Be Fine) directed by Christoffer Boe (Denmark-Sweden-France)
“Año bisiesto,” directed by Michael Rowe (Mexico)
“Benda Bilili!,” directed by Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye (France) (documentary)
“La Casa muda” (The Silent House) directed by Gustavo Hernandez (Uruguay)
“Cleveland vs. Wall Street,” directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron (Switzerland – France) (documentary)
“Des Filles en noir,” directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac (France)
“Ha’Meshotet” (The Wanderer) directed by Avishai Sivan (Israel)
“Illégal,” directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse (Belgium-Luxembourg-France)
“The Light Thief,” directed by Aktan Arym Kubat (Kyrgyzistan)
“Little Baby Jesus of Flandr,” directed by Gust Vandenberghe (Belgium)
“La Mirada invisible” (The Invivible Eye) directed by Diego Lerman (Argentina-France-Spain) “Picco,” directed by Philip Koch (Germany)
“Pieds nus sur les limaces” (Lily Sometimes) directed by Fabienne Berthaud (France)
“Le Quattro volte,” directed by Michelangelo Frammartino (Italy-Germany-Switzerland)
“Shit Year,” directed by Cam Archer (U.S.)
“Somos lo que hay” (We Are What We Are) directed by Jorge Michel Grau (Mexico)
“Tiger Factory,” directed by Woo Ming jin (Malaysia)
“Todos vós sodes capitáns,” directed by Oliver Laxe (Spain)
“Two Gates Of Sleep,” directed by Alistair Banks Griffin (U.S.)
“Un Poison violent,” directed by Katell Quillevéré (France)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Stones In Exile,” directed by Stephen Kijak (U.K.) (documentary)
“Boxing Gym,” directed by Frederick Wiseman (U.S.A.) (documentary)
SHORT FILMS
“Cautare” (Quest), directed by Ionut Piturescu (Romania)
“Ett tyst barn” (A Silent Child),” directed by Jesper Klevenas (Sweden)
“Licht,” directed by Andre Schreuders (The Netherlands)
“Mary Last Seen,” directed by Sean Durkin (U.S.A.)
“Petit tailleur,” directed by Louis Garrel (France)
“Shadows of Silence,” directed by Pradeepan Raveendran (France)
“Shikasha,” directed by Hirabayashi Isamu (Japan)
“Tre ore” (Trois heures), directed by Annarita Zambrano (Italy)
“ZedCrew,” directed by Noah Pink (Canada – Zambia)
