This Thursday, April 14, the list of 18 films in the running for the Palme d’or of the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which will take place from May 17 to 28, 2022, was unveiled. 2,200 films were viewed by the Festival team. .
The composition of the jury and the festival poster will be announced in the coming days, said the general delegate Thierry Frémaux. The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will open with an out-of-competition zombie comedy by Michel Hazanavicius, one of the four directors already awarded the Palme d’Or and present in this 2022 edition. Z (Like Z), is the title, will evoke the passion for cinema and the decisive force of the collective in cinema.
Boy From Heaven by Egyptian director Tarik Saleh will be the only film from the African continent present in the competition of the biggest cinema event in the world. The story tells of the day of the start of a prestigious religious university in Cairo when the grand imam collapses, dead, in front of the students.
Seventeen years after presenting A History of ViolenceDavid Cronenberg will show Crimes of the Futurea dive into a world of transformed and mutated human bodies, with Viggo Mortenson, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart.
The double Palmes d’or Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne will return with Tori and Lokita. Two unknown actors, Pablo Schils and Joely Mbundu, portray two young exiles in Belgium.
Claire Denis’ last presence at the official competition dates back to 1988, with Chocolate. This year, she celebrates her comeback with The Stars at Noona ” diplomatic thriller “, according to Thierry Frémaux.
The last participation of Jerzy Skolimowski, 83, in the Cannes competition dates back to 1989, with Torrents of Spring, with Nastasia Kinski. The filmmaker, considered one of the great names of New Polish Cinema of the 1960s, will present Hi-Han (Eo).
Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, Palme d’or in 2018 with A family matterreturns with the road movie broker.
Romanian Cristian Mungiu, also winner of the Palme d’Or with 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days in 2007, will defend his new film, NMR
American director James Gray, another great regular on the Croisette, will present Armageddon Timeperformed by Anthony Hopkins and Anne Hathaway.
And Sweden’s Ruben Ostlund, five after winning the Palme d’Or with The SquareHe realised Triangle of Sadness, a comedy with Woody Harrelson.
Opening film (out of competition)
Z (like Z) by Michel Hazanavicius (France)
In competition
holy spider by Ali Abbasi (Iran)
The Almond Trees by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (France)
Crimes of the Future by David Cronenberg (Canada)
Tori and Lokita by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium)
stars at noon by Claire Denis (France)
Brother and sister by Arnaud Desplechin (France)
Close by Lukas Dhont (Belgium)
Armageddon Times by James Gray (USA)
broker by Hirokazu Kore-Eda (Japan)
Nostalgia by Mario Martone (Italy)
NMR by Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Sweden)
Decision to Leave by Park Chan-Wook (South Korea)
Show-Up by Kelly Reichardt (USA)
Leila’s Brothers by Saeed Roustaee (Iran)
Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh (Egypt)
Tchaikovsky’s wife by Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
Hi-Han (Eo) by Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
Special screenings
All we breathe by Shaunak Sen (India)
The Natural History of Destruction by Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine)
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind by Ethan Coen (USA)
Midnight sessions
Hunt by Lee Jung-Jae (Korea)
Moonage Day Dream by Brett Morgen (USA)
Smoking makes you cough by Quentin Dupieux (France)
Out of competition
Top Gun: Maverick by Joseph Kosinski (USA)
Elvis by Baz Luhrmann (Australia)
November by Cedric Jimenez (France)
3000 Years of Longing by George Miller (USA)
Masquerade by Nicolas Bedos (France)
Cannes Premiere
Our brothers by Rachid Bouchareb (France)
Esterno Notte (Nightfall) by Marco Bellochio (Italy)
Dodo by Panos H. Koutras (Greece)
Irma Vep, a series by Olivier Assayas (France)
In some perspective
The worst by Lise Akoka and Romane Guéret (France)
Kurak Gunler (Burning Days) by Emin Alper (Turkey)
metronom by Alexandru Belc (Romania)
Back to Seoul (All the People I’ll Never Be) by Davy Chou (France, Cambodia)
Sick of Myself by Kristoffer Borgli (Norway)
Domingo y la Niebla (Domingo and the mist) by Ariel Escalante Meza (Costa Rica)
Map 75 by Hayakawa Chie (Japan)
Beast by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (USA)
Bodice by Marie Kreutzer (Austria)
Bachennya Metelyka (Butterfly vision) by Maksim Nakonechnkyi (Ukraine)
Vanskabte Land / Volada Land (Godland) by Hlynur Palmason (Denmark)
Rodeo by Lola Quivoron (France)
joyland by Saim Sadiq (Pakistan)
The Stranger by Thomas M. Wright (Australia)
The Silent Twins by Agnieszka Smoczynska (Poland)