71st Cannes Film Festival: Shows films in competition
Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina are in the spotlight on the 2018 Cannes Film Festival poster. As you can find out below, the organizers used a photo of the feature film Pierrot the crazy Jean-Luc Godard who will be competing with « The book of images »
The selection list was announced at a press conference led by Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémeaux on Thursday 12 April 2018 at the UGC Normandie cinema, on the Champs-Elysées, Paris
COMPETITION 8-19 May 2018
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« War », by Stéphane Brisée
« Dogman », by Matteo Garrone
« The Image Book »by Jean-Luc Godard
« Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II) », of Ryusuke Hamaguchi
« Plaire Love and Run fast », by Christophe Honoré
« The Daughters of the Sun » (Girls of the Sun)
« Ash Is Purest White », from Jia Zhang-Ke
« Shoplifters », by Kore-Eda Hirokazu
« Capernaum » (Capernaum), Nadine Labaki
« Buh-Ning » (Burning), by Lee Chang-Dong
« Blackkklansman », by Spike Lee
« Under the Silver Lake », by David Robert Mitchell
« Three Faces », from Jafar Panahi
« Zimna Wojna » (Cold War), by Pawel Pawlikowski
« Lazzaro Felice », d'Alice Rohrwacher
« Yomeddine », d'A. B Shawky
« Leto » (Summer) by Kirill Serebrenniko
The man who killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam will be the closing movie.
The competition includes 21 feature films in total, and there will be a knife in the heart (Knife + Heart) by Yann Gonzalez (with Vanessa Paradis), Ahlat Agaci (The Wild Pear Tree/Le Poirier sauvage) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Palme d'or 2014 with Winter Sleep) and Ayka by Sergey Dvortsevoy.
Lars Von Trier will return to the Croisette with The House That Jack Build (with Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman), presented out of competition.
In Midnight, festivalgoers will discover Whitney (a documentary by Kevin Macdonald on Whitney Houston) and Fahrenheit 451 by Ramin Bahrani, a new adaptation of the cult novel Ray Bradbury after that of François Truffaut (Sofia Boutella, Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon are at the casting).
JURY
Composed of 5 women and 4 men, the jury chaired by actress Cate Blanchettwill also include Chinese actor Chang Chen, American writer Ava DuVernay, Burundian singer Khadja Nin and Russian director Andrei Zviaguintsev.
OUT OF COMPETITION
« The Great Bath », by Gilles Lellouche
« Solo : A Star Wars Story », by Ron Howard
SPECIAL MEETINGS
« 10 years in Thailand », de Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul
« The State Against Mandela and the Others », by Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte
« Crossing », by Romain Goupil with Daniel Cohn-Bendit
« The Dead Souls », (Dead Souls) by Wang Bing
« Pope Francis – A Man of Word »From Wim Wenders.
On January 4, the organizers of the Cannes Film Festival announced the personality that will be the president of the jury for 2018. It's Cate Blanchett! However, it is still too early to know who was chosen to compose the jury of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
On which channel watch the Festival de Cannes 2018?
As every year, it is Canal + that offers live and clear retransmission of the great ceremony of the Cannes Festival. It will of course be possible to view it on the official website of the encrypted channel, as well as on the official Dailymotion channel of the Cannes Film Festival.
