Directors' Fortnight Selection 2022
by Alexa DalbyThe 54th edition of Director’s Fortnight runs from 18 to 27 May.
The selection includes Alex Garland’s Cannes debut Men, the Jessie Buckley-starring movie from the surreal sci-fi master. The film will play as a Special Screening in Cannes before release in the US in May.
Opening the selection will be Pietro Marcello’s Scarlet, and closing will be The Green Perfume by Nicolas Pariser.
Kelly Reichardt will receive this year’s Director’s Fortnight’s honorary Carrosse d’Or honour and will host a masterclass at the festival. The American director will also be in Cannes to premiere her last film, Showing Up, in Competition.
Quinzaine des Réalisateurs/Directors’ Fortnight
FEATURE FILMS
L’ENVOL (Scarlet)
by Pietro Marcello
Opening film
1976
by Manuela Martelli
First feature film
THE DAM (Al-Sadd, Le Barrage)
by Ali Cherri
First feature film
LES ANNÉES SUPER 8 (The Super 8 Years)
by Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot
First feature film
ASHKAL
by Youssef Chebbi
First feature film
LES CINQ DIABLES (The Five Devils)
by Léa Mysius
DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA
by Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor
LA DÉRIVE DES CONTINENTS (AU SUD) (Continental Drift (South))
by Lionel Baier
EL AGUA (The Water)
by Elena López Riera
First feature film
ENYS MEN
by Mark Jenkin
FALCON LAKE
by Charlotte Le Bon
First feature film
FOGO-FÁTUO (Will-o’-the-Wisp, Feu follet)
by João Pedro Rodrigues
FUNNY PAGES
by Owen Kline
First feature film
GOD’S CREATURES
by Anna Rose Holmer & Saela Davis
LES HARKIS (Harkis)
by Philippe Faucon
MEN
by Alex Garland
Special screnning
LA MONTAGNE (The Mountain)
by Thomas Salvador
PAMFIR
by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
First feature film
REVOIR PARIS (Paris Memories)
by Alice Winocour
TAHT ALSHAJRA (Under the Fig Trees, Sous les figues)
by Erige Sehiri
UN BEAU MATIN (One Fine Morning)
by Mia Hansen-Løve
UN VARÓN (A Male)
by Fabian Hernández
First feature film
LE PARFUM VERT (The Green Perfume)
by Nicolas Pariser
Closing film
The last title of the selection will be announced soon, as well as the selection of short and medium-length films.
54TH DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT : SHORT FILMS SELECTION
ARIBADA
by Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau & Natalia Escobar
30’ – Germany, Colombia
AS TIME PASSES
by Jamil McGinnis
14’ – United States, Turkey
BEBEN (Tremor, Tremblement)
by Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard
15’ – Germany
DES JEUNES FILLES ENTERRENT LEUR VIE
by Maïté Sonnet
33’ – France
HAPPY NEW YEAR, JIM (Bonne année, Jim)
by Andrea Gatopoulos
9’ – Italy
JITTERBUG
by Ayo Akingbade
24’ – UK
MARIA SCHNEIDER, 1983
by Elisabeth Subrin
24’ – France
POTEMKINISTII (The Potemkinists)
by Radu Jude
18’ – Romania
STAGING DEATH
by Jan Soldat
8’ – Germany, Austria
THE SPIRAL (La Spirale)
by María Silvia Esteve
19’ – Argentina
