Cannes Festival: Films in competition

The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13-24. Photo: Bertrand GUAY / AFP
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Nineteen films were announced Thursday successful the main contention astatine Cannes Film Festival, which kicks disconnected connected the French Riviera connected May 13.

Another fistful volition beryllium added successful the coming weeks, festival manager Thierry Fremaux told reporters successful Paris.

Here are the confirmed movies truthful far:

'A Simple Accident' by Jafar Panahi (Iran)

The repeatedly detained Iranian manager "asked america not accidental thing astir his movie", Fremaux said, alluding to the pressures connected him successful his homeland.

'The Phoenician Scheme' by Wes Anderson (US)

A spy drama starring Benicio Del Toro, Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, and Mia Threapleton, Kate Winslet's daughter.

'Young Mothers' by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium)

Belgian directors Jean-Pierre Dardenne (R) and Luc Dardenne (L). Photo: JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP
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The Belgian brothers, who person already won the Palme d'Or for champion movie doubly ("Rosetta" successful 1999 and "The Child" successful 2005), archer the communicative of 5 young mothers staying successful a maternity location successful their autochthonal Belgium.

'Alpha' by Julia Ducournau (France)

Four years aft winning the Palme d'Or with Titane, the French manager presents a caller movie starring Iranian-French Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim astir a young miss confronted with the AIDS epidemic successful the 1980s.

'Sentimental Value' by Joachim Trier (Norway)

A drama play featuring a filmmaker trying to reconnect with his daughters from a manager whose past feature "The worst idiosyncratic successful the world" besides premiered successful contention astatine Cannes successful 2021.

'Romeria' by Carla Simon (Spain)

The Spanish manager returns to her traumatic puerility with a household travel of a young Catalan miss successful Galicia who has mislaid her parents to AIDS.

'Sound of Falling' by Mascha Schilinski (Germany)

US manager Kelly Reichardt. Photo: Nicholas Hunt / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP
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A play that brings unneurotic 4 women from 4 antithetic generations surviving connected the aforesaid farm.

'Eagles of the Republic' Tarik Saleh (Sweden/Egypt)

On the brink of losing everything, Egypt's astir adored histrion accepts a relation helium can't garbage nether unit from the country's authorities.

'The Mastermind' by Kelly Reichardt (US)

The communicative of an creation heist acceptable against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the nascent women's liberation movement.

'Dossier 137' by Dominik Moll (France)

An researcher astatine France's IGPN agency, which investigates constabulary abuses, probes an incidental successful which a constabulary serviceman injures a young antheral during a protest.

'The Secret Agent' by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil)

A governmental thriller acceptable successful the precocious 1970s, during the last years of Brazil's subject dictatorship.

'Fuori' by Mario Martone (Italy)

French histrion Hafsia Herzi. Photo: JOEL SAGET / AFP
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A biopic astir the Italian histrion and writer Goliarda Sapienza.

'Two Prosecutors' by Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine)

A movie by a Ukrainian director, whose documentary astir the "madness of war" screened astatine Cannes past year, that is acceptable successful the 1930s USSR during Stalin's purges.

'Nouvelle Vague' by Richard Linklater (US)

A movie acceptable successful 1960 Paris astir the making of Jean-Luc Godard's cinema classical "Breathless".

'Sirat' by Oliver Laxe (Spain)

A "road movie of misfits, of radical extracurricular society," according to Fremaux.

'The Last One' by Hafsia Herzi (France)

The French histrion and manager adapts Fatima Daas's eponymous novel, telling the communicative of the youngest subordinate of an Algerian migrant household who gradually frees herself from her household and traditions.

'The History of Sound' by Oliver Hermanus (South Africa)

During World War I, 2 young men determine to grounds the lives, voices and music of their American compatriots.

'Renoir' by Chie Hayakawa (Japan)

A play astir coming of age, resilience, the healing powerfulness of imaginativeness and a traumatised household struggling to reconnect.

'Eddington' by Ari Aster (US)

A movie astir modern America, starring Joaquin Phoenix.

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