Indian director Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy will be part of the official sections of the Cannes Film Festival. It will run under midnight screening. This was announced today in Paris by Festival Director, Thierry Fremaux.
Kashyap has been a regular at Cannes. His Gangs of Wasseypur was screened at the 2012 Director’s Fortnight, an important sidebar of the 12-day event starting on 16 May. “Bombay Talkies”, an anthology, had Kashyap as a director. It was part of a special screening at the 2013 Cannes.
Kashyap’s thriller “Ugly” was also screened in the Directors’ Fortnite section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, followed by Raman Raghav 2.0 in the 2016 Directors’ Fortnite.
In addition to Kennedy, the festival will feature works by Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Wim Wenders, Kore-eda Hirokazu and Todd Haynes. These filmmakers will premiere films both in and out of competition, meaning only a select few will have a chance to capture the Palme d’Or, the festival’s highest honor. All of these filmmakers are a familiar presence on the Croisette, having screened films there before.
This time around, Cannes will have more women directors – after criticism for failing to give them enough representation. There will be a record number of six films from the women’s side — including Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” Jessica Hausner’s “Club Zero,” Catherine Brellet’s “Last Summer,” Justine Triet’s “Anatomy d’Un Chute,” Ramata -Toulay C’s “Bunell” is included. et Adama,” and Kouthar Ben Haniya’s documentary “Daughters of Olfa.”
The top competition slot will feature several Italian titles from auteurs such as Nanni Moretti (“The Son of the Future”), Marco Bellocchio (“Rapito”) and Rohrwacher, who previously competed with “The Wonders” and “Happy Age Lazzaro”. . which won the Jury Prize and Screenplay Award respectively.
The second most important section of Cannes A Certain Regard will showcase the works of emerging directors from around the world, including a large delegation of films from the African continent and Mongolia’s debut, Zolzargal Purvdash’s “If Only I Could Hibernate”. A Certain Regard will begin with the French film “Le Regne Animal” by Thomas Kelly, whose feature debut “Les Combatants” won a few César Awards.
Here is the complete list:
Competition
“Club Zero,” Jessica Hausner
“Asteroid City,” Wes Anderson
“Joan of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer
“Fallen Leaves,” Aki Kaurismaki
“Les Filles d’Olfa” (“The Four Daughters”), Kauthar ben Haniya
“Anatomy of a Fall,” Justin Truitt
“Monster,” Kore-eda Hirokazu
“The Sun of the Future,” Nanni Moretti
“Chimera,” Alice Rohrwacher
“About Dry Grass,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan
“Last Summer,” Catherine Brellette
“The Passion of Dodin Bouffant,” Tran Anh Hung
“Kidnapped,” Marco Bellocchio
“May December,” Todd Haynes
“Firebrand,” Karim Ainouz
“The Old Oak,” Ken Loach
“Perfect Days,” Wim Wenders
“Bunnell and Adam,” Ramta-Taulay Si
“Youth,” Wang Bing
in some perspective
“Los Delincuentes” (“The Delinquents”), Rodrigo Moreno
“How to Have Sex,” Molly Manning Walker
“Goodbye Julia,” Mohammed Kordofani
“Croara (The Bertie Flower),” João Salaviza and Renee Nader Mesora
“Simple Like Sylvain,” Monia Chokri
“Kadib Abyad” (“The Mother of All Lies”), Asma el Moudir
“Los Colonos” (“The Settlers”), Felipe Gálvez
“Shagun,” Baloji Tashiyani
“The Breaking Ice,” Anthony Chen
“Rosalie,” Stephanie Di Giusto
“The New Boy,” Warwick Thornton
“If I Could Only Hibernate,” Zolzargal Shudhvadash
“Hopeless,” Kim Chang-hoon
“Terrestrial Verses,” Ali Asfari and Alireza Khatami
“Nothing to Lose,” Delphine DeLoguet
“The Pax,” Kamal Lajrak
“Le Regne Animal,” Thomas Kelly
out of competition
“The Assassins of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese
“The Idol,” Sam Levinson
“Cobweb,” Kim Ji-woon
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” James Mangold
“Jeanne Du Barry,” Maven
midnight screening
“Omar La Fries,” Elias Belkedar
“Kennedy,” Anurag Kashyap
“Acid,” Just Philpott
special screening
“Retratos Fantasmas,” (“Pictures of Ghosts”), Kléber Mendonca Filho
“Anselm,” Wim Wenders
“Occupied City,” Steve McQueen
“Man in Black,” Wang Bing
cannes premiere
“Time to Love,” Ketel Quillevre
“Close Your Eyes,” Victor Aris
“Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe,” Martin Provost
“Kubi,” Takeshi Kitano
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