Cannes Film Festival 2022 Official Selection

by Alexa Dalby

Forest Whitaker to be awarded the Honorary Palme d’or at the 75th Festival de Cannes

CANNES 2021 OFFICIAL SELECTION

French director Michel Hazanavicius has renamed his Cannes opening film Coupez! for the French market and Final Cut for international territories from Z (Comme Z) due to the letter Z’s association with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

COMPETITION
Les Amandiers, dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Holy Spider, dir: Ali Abbasi
Crimes Of The Future, dir: David Cronenberg
Stars At Noon, dir: Claire Denis
Frère Et Soeur, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
Tori And Lokita, dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Armageddon Time, dir: James Gray
Close, dir: Lukas Dhont
Broker, dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda
RMN, dir: Cristian Mungiu
Triangle Of Sadness, dir: Ruben Ostlund
Showing Up, dir: Kelly Reichardt
Decision To Leave, dir: Park Chan-wook
Nostalgia, dir: Mario Martone
Tchaikovski’s Wife, dir: Kirill Serebrennikov
Boy From Heaven, dir: Tarik Saleh
Leila’s Brothers, dir: Saeed Roustaee
Eo, dir: Jerzy Skolimowski
ADDITIONS
LE OTTO MONTAGNE Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix Van Groeningen Italy/Belgium
UN PETIT FRÈRE Léonor Serraille France
TOURMENT SUR LES ÎLES Albert Serra Spain

UN CERTAIN REGARD
Father & Soldier by Mathieu Vadepied, starring Omar Sy, Alassane Diong and Jonas Bloquet to open Un Certain Regard. Produced by Bruno Nahon and Omar Sy, Father & Soldier is the second feature film of director, screenwriter and cinematographer Mathieu Vadepied. The film highlights the story of the Senegalese infantry men, forgotten heroes of World War One, forced to leave their homeland and fight to liberate France. The world premiere of Father & Soldier will open Un Certain Regard on Wednesday, 18 May.

*Les Pires, dirs: Lisa Akoka, Romane Gueret
Burning Days, dir: Emin Alper
*Metronom, dir: Alexandru Belc
All The People I’ll Never Be, dir: Davy Chou
Sick Of Myself, dir: Kristoffer Borgli
Domingo And The Mist, dir: Ariel Escalante Meza
*Plan 75, dir: Hayakawa Chie
*Beast, dirs: Riley Keough, Gina Gammell
Corsage, dir: Marie Kreutzer
*Butterfly Vision, dir: Maksim Nakonechnyi
The Silent Twins, dir: Agnieszka Smocynska
The Stranger, dir: Thomas M Wright
*Joyland, dir: Saim Sadiq
*Rodeo, dir: Lola Quivoron
Godland, dir: Hlynur Palmason
ADDITIONS
PLUS QUE JAMAIS Emily Atef Germany/France
MEDITERRANEAN FEVER Maha Haj Palestine
LE BLEU DU CAFTAN Maryam Touzani Morocco
HARKA Lotfy Nathan Tunisia (1st film

Un Certain Regard will feature 20 films this year, including 8 first films and 9 films by female directors, just as Maryland by Alice Winocour, Montparnasse Bienvenue by Léonor Serraille who won the Caméra d’or and whose new film is in competition, A Brother’s love by Monia Chokri and Good Mother by Hafsia Herzi in 2021. Last year’s winner of Un Certain Regard was Russian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko’s Unclenching the fists.

Un Certain Regard Jury

Following British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, Valeria Golino will be the President of the Jury of Un Certain Regard at the 75th Festival de Cannes. Along with 4 members from Poland (actress Joanna Kulig), Venezuela (actor Édgar Ramírez), the United States (director Debra Granik), and France (singer-songwriter and actor Benjamin Biolay), she will select the winners of this section which celebrates young, auteur and revelation films.

Valeria Golino – President
Director, actress, producer
Italy

Debra Granik
Director
United States

Joanna Kulig
Actress
Poland

Benjamin Biolay
Singer-songwriter, producer, actor
France

Édgar Ramírez
Actor, producer
Venezuela

CANNES PREMIERE
Nos Frangins, dir: Rachid Bouchareb
Nightfall, dir: Marco Bellocchio
Dodo, dir: Panos H Koutras
Irma Vep (series), dir: Olivier Assayas
ADDITIONS
DON JUAN Serge Bozon France
LA NUIT DU 12 Dominik Moll France
CHRONIQUE D’UNE LIAISON PASSAGÈRE Emmanuel Mouret France

OUT OF COMPETITION
Michel Hazanavicius’ Z (Comme Z) (Final Cut) to open
Top Gun: Maverick, dir: Joseph Kosinski
Elvis, dir: Baz Luhrmann
Novembre, dir: Cédric Jimenez
Three Thousand Years Of Longing, dir: George Miller
Mascarade, dir: Nicolas Bedos
ADDITION
L’INNOCENT Louis Garrel France

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Hunt, dir: Lee Jung-Jae
Moonage Daydream, dir: Brett Morgen
Fumer Fait Tousser, dir: Quentin Dupieux
ADDITION
REBEL Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah Belgique

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
All That Breathes, dir: Shaunak Sen
The Natural History Of Destruction, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, dir: Ethan Coen
ADDITIONS
MI PAIS IMAGINARIO Patricio Guzmán Chile (Documentary)
THE VAGABONDS Doroteya Droumeva Germany (1st film)
RIPOSTE FÉMINISTE Marie Perennès, Simon Depardon France
(Documentary – 1st film)
RESTOS DO VENTO Tiago Guedes Portugal
LE PETIT NICOLAS QU’EST-CE QU’ON ATTEND POUR ÊTRE HEUREUX ?
Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre France (Animation – 1st film)

*Denotes first film, eligible for the Camera d’Or

Jury to be announced.

The Jury 26 April 2022

Vincent Lindon – President
Actor
France

Rebecca Hall
Actress, producer, screenwriter, director
United Kingdom / United States

Deepika Padukone
Actress
India

Noomi Rapace
Actress
Sweden

Jasmine Trinca
Actress, director
Italy

Asghar Farhadi
Director, producer, screenwriter
Iran

Ladj Ly
Director, screenwriter, actor, producer
France

Jeff Nichols
Director, screenwriter
United States

Joachim Trier
Director, screenwriter
Norway

We are also announcing that Jasmine Trinca’s first feature film Marcel! will be presented
in Special Screening.

Additions

The anniversary celebration of the festival will be on Tuesday, 24 May.

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
LONGS MÉTRAGES En compétition
Aftersun
Royaume-Uni – États-Unis / 1H36
Charlotte Wells
Alma Viva
France – Portugal / 1H25
Cristèle Alves Meira
Dalva
Belgique – France / 1H23
Emmanuelle Nicot
La Jauría
Colombie / 1H26
Emmanuelle Nicot
Nos cérémonies
France / 1H44
Simon Rieth
Tasavor (Imagine) Iran / 1H18
Ali Behrad
Metsurin tarina
(The Woodcutter Story)
Finlande – Danemark – Pays-Bas – Allemagne 1H38
Mikko Myllylahti
Canker
Chine / 13’
Lin Tu
Las criaturas que se derriten bajo el sol
(Les créatures qui fondent au soleil)
Chili – France / 16’
Diego Céspedes
Cuerdas (Chords) Espagne / 30’
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Dang Wo Wang Xiang Ni De Shi Hou
(Will You Look At Me / Regarde-moi)
Chine / 20’
Shuli Huang
Ice Merchants
Portugal – Royaume-Uni – France / 14’
João Gonzalez
It’s Nice In Here
Pays-Bas / 15’
Robert-Jonathan Koeyers
Nisam je stigao voljeti
(I Didn’t Make It To Love Her)
Bosnie – Espagne – Royaume-Uni / 17’
Anna Fernandez De Paco
(Sur le trône de Xerxès)
Grèce / 15’
Evi Kalogiropoulou
Raie Manta
France / 30’
Anton Bialas
Swan dans le centre
France / 25’
Iris Chassaigne

LONGS MÉTRAGES Séances spéciales
Film d’ouverture
When You Finish Saving the World
États-Unis / 1H28
Jesse Eisenberg
Séances spéciales
Goutte d’or
France / 1H38
Clément Cogitore
Tout le monde aime Jeanne
France / 1H35
Céline Devaux
Film de Clôture
Da-eum-so-hee (Next Sohee) Corée du Sud / 2h14
Jung July
Amo
France / 20’
Emmanuel Gras
Hideous
Royaume-Uni / 22’
Yann Gonzalez
Scale
France – Royaume Uni – République Tchèque Belgique / 15’
Joseph Pierce

L’ACID CANNES 2022

As a laboratory of cultural action, ACID has been programming a parallel section in Cannes Film Festival, since 1992. It is the only section where films are chosen exclusively by filmmakers.

This year, 15 filmmakers screened several hundred films over a period of months and selected 9, with, as usual, a special focus on films without French distributors and first features.

99 MOONS

A film by Jan GASSMANN
Fiction l 110 min l Switzerland l 2022
Fifth feature

WORLD PREMIERE

ATLANTIC BAR

A film by Fanny MOLINS
Documentary l 77 min l France l 2022
First feature

WORLD PREMIERE

GRAND PARIS

A film by Martin Jauvat
Fiction l 80 min l France l 2022
First feature

WORLD PREMIERE

HOW TO SAVE A DEAD FRIEND

A film by Marusya SYROECHKOVSKAYA
Documentary l 103 min l Sweden, Norvway, France, Germany l 2022
First feature

FRENCH PREMIERE

MAGDALA

A film by Damien Manivel
Fiction l 88 min l France l 2022
Fifith feature

WORLD PREMIERE

POLARIS

A film by Ainara VERA
Documentary l 78 min l France, Greenland l 2022
First feature

WORLD PREMIERE

THE HILL (La Colline)

A film by Denis GHEERBRANT & Lina TSRIMOVA
Documentary l 87 min l France, Belgium l 2022
First feature in co-direction

WORLD PREMIERE

THE STRANGE CASE OF JACKY CAILLOU (Jacky Caillou)

A film by Lucas DELANGLE
Fiction l 92 min l France l 2022
First feature

WORLD PREMIERE

YAMABUKI

A film by Juichiro YAMASAKI
Fiction l 97 min l France, Japan l 2022
Third feature

FRENCH PREMIERE

The Short films Competition

After watching 3,507 films from more than 140 countries, 9 shorts will be presented in Competition from the following 11 countries: China, South Korea, Costa Rica, the United States, France, Ghana, Hong Kong, Italy, Lithuania, Mexico, and Nepal. The Short Film Palme d’or will be awarded on Saturday, May 28 during the closing ceremony.

TSUTSUE Amartei Armar
Ghana/France -15′

PO SUI TAI YANG ZHI XIN (A SHORT STORY) Bi Gan
China -15′

LORI (MELANCHOLY OF MY MOTHER’S LULLABIES) Abinash Bikram Shah
Nepal/Hong Kong -14′

HAI BIAN SHENG QI YI ZUO XUAN YA (THE WATER MURMURS) Story Chen
China -14′

UOGOS (CHERRIES) Vytautas Katkus
Lithuania/Italy -15′

SAME OLD Lloyd Lee Choi
United States -15′

LE FEU AU LAC (FIRE AT THE LAKE) Pierre Menahem
France -15′

GAKJIL (PERSONA) Sujin Moon
South Korea – 6′

LUZ NOCTURNA (NIGHT LIGHT) Kim Torres
Costa Rica/Mexico -14′

La Cinef Selection

For its 25th edition, La Cinef has selected 13 live-action and 3 animated shorts directed by 6 male directors and 10 women directors, from among the 1,528 submitted by film schools all over the world. Four of them are from schools taking part for the first time and these 16 shorts reflect the diversity of filmmaking education in the world. The 3 Cinef prices will be handed at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 26 May, in the Buñuel Theatre.

CHLIEB NÁŠ KAŽDODENNÝ (LIQUID BREAD) Alica Bednáriková
FTF VŠMU-Film and Television Faculty – Slovakia – 26′

MUMLIFE Ruby Challenger
AFTRS – Australia -15′

TOUT CECI VOUS REVIENDRA (ALL OF THIS BELONGS TO YOU) Lilian Fanara
La Fémis – France – 29′

LES HUMAINS SONT CONS QUAND ILS S’EMPILENT (HUMANS ARE DUMBER WHEN CRAMMED UP TOGETHER) Laurène Fernandez
La CinéFabrique – France – 4′

IL BARBIERE COMPLOTTISTA (A CONSPIRACY MAN) Valerio Ferrara
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Italy – 19′

THE PASS Pepi Ginsberg
NYU – United States -15′

SHEHERUT (KINSHIP) Orin Kadoori
The Steve Tisch School of Film & Television Tel Aviv University – Israel – 24′

NAUHA Pratham Khurana
Whistling Woods International – India – 26’

JUTRO NAS TAM NIE MA (WE ARE NOT THERE TOMORROW) Olga K?yszewicz
The Polish National Film School in ?ód? – Poland – 8′

DI ER (SOMEWHERE) Li Jiahe
Hebei University of Science and Technology School of Film and Television – China – 23′

FENG ZHENG (THE SILENT WHISTLE) Li Yingtong
Emerson College – United States -18’

MISTIDA Falcão Nhaga
ESTC – Portugal – 30′