The 68th Cannes Film Festival is now little under a month away, and Variety has the skinny on the event’s impressive line-up, which includes Carol and French comedy-drama La Tete Haute – itself set to open the festival on May 13 – not to mention the likes of Pixar’s emotional animation Inside Out and Mad Max: Fury Road screening out of competition.
For a full rundown of those candidates in question, you can consult the list down below. Due to take place from May 13 to May 25, it’s expected that more films will be added to the cinematic selection in the coming days, but already the billing is chock full of eye-catching releases. Interestingly, the aforementioned La Tete Haute will be the first festival opener since 1987 to be directed by a female filmmaker, in this case, Emmanuelle Bercot.
The 68th Cannes Film Festival will begin on May 13 and run right through until May 25. Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Tete Haute will kickstart the event with a dose of French comedy-drama. To gain a gist of the candidates, be sure to check out the list below.
Opener:
La Tete haute (Emmanuelle Bercot, France)
Competition:
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
Carol (Todd Haynes, U.S.-U.K.)
Erran (Jacques Audiard, France)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece-U.K.-Ireland-Netherlands-France)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier, Norway-France-Denmark)
Macbeth (Justin Kurzel, U.K.-France-U.S.)
Marguerite and Julien (Valerie Donzelli, France)
Mon roi (Maiwenn, France)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, China-Japan-France)
My Mother (Nanni Moretti)
The Sea of Trees (Gus Van Sant, U.S.)
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve, U.S.)
A Simple Man (Stephane Brize, France)
Son of Saul (Laszlo Nemes, Hungary)
The Tale of Tales (Matteo Garrone, Italy-France-U.K.)
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy-France-Switzerland-U.K.)
Out of Competition:
Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen)
Irrational Man (Woody Allen, U.S.)
The Little Prince (Mark Osborne)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, U.S.)
Un Certain Regard:
The Chosen Ones (David Pablos)
Fly Away Solo (Neeraj Ghaywan)
The Fourth Direction (Gurvinder Singh)
The High Sun (Dalibor Matanic)
I Am a Soldier (Laurent Lariviere)
Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Madonna (Shin Suwon)
Maryland (Alice Winocour)
Nahid (Ida Panahandeh)
One Floor Below (Radu Muntean)
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini)
Rams (Grimur Hakonarson)
The Shameless (Oh Seung-uk)
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Midnight Screenings:
Amy (Asif Kapadia, U.K.)
Office (Hong Won-chan, South Korea)
Special Screenings:
Amnesia (Barbet Schroeder)
Asphalte (Samuel Benchetrit)
L’esprit de l’escalier (Pabla Lucavic)
Hayored lema’ala (Elad Keidan)
Oka (Souleymane Cisse)
Panama (Pavle Vuckovic)
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Natalie Portman)
