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Cannes 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cannes International Film Festival<\/b>
\n8-19 May 2018
\nCannes, France
\nCannes website<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Cannes Film Festival is planning to shake things up a bit during its 71st edition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When the official festival line-up was announced last month, a sigh went through the crowd. Not only had Netflix been barred from this year\u2019s Official Competition, but what\u2019s worse was the repeatedly low number of female directors on display \u2013 only three out of 21 this time, undoubtedly a meagre result.<\/p>\n

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However, despite these obvious omissions and shortfalls, the selection remains promising: Among the 21 selected films competing for the Palme d\u2019Or are new films from It Follows<\/em> director David Robert Mittchell (Under the Silver Lake<\/em>), Eva Husson (Girls of the Sun), Jean-Luc Godard (The Image Book<\/em>), Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro<\/em>), Jia Zhang-ke (Ash is Purest White<\/em>) and Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters<\/em>). It was also recently announced that Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em> will premiere on 15 May at Cannes \u2013 10 days before the movie\u2019s anticipated official opening. Plus, with a bunch of new regulations for press screenings and premieres, Cannes is certainly planning to shake things up a bit during its 71st edition.<\/p>\n

Opening the festival tonight will be Asghar Farhadi\u2019s Spanish-language psychological thriller Everybody Knows<\/em>, starring starring Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Dar\u00edn, and it will be interesting to see if the Iranian director has handled the jump to a different language and location well enough to still intrigue audiences in the same way as he did with his earlier work.<\/p>\n

Another title to look forward to is Cold War<\/em>, the new film by Pawel Pawlikowski, which revolves around a love story between two mismatched people in Poland during the cold war of the 1950s. And then, of course, there is Spike Lee\u2019s BlacKkKlansman<\/em>, which brings this director to Cannes for the first time since 1991, when he was at the festival with Jungle Fever<\/em>. His latest offering is produced by Get Out<\/em> director Jordan Peele and depicts the real-life story of Ron Stallworth, a black police officer who went undercover in 1978 to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

For anyone interested in casting the net a little wider than the Official Competition, the festival\u2019s sub-section Un Certain Regard this year focuses on films by daring but perhaps less established filmmakers, while the always exciting Directors\u2019 Fortnight (programmed by the French Directors Guild) is also often the place were avant-garde and up-and-coming directors are spotted.<\/p>\n

Pamela Jahn<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Check out the full line-up of the Official Selection below.<\/p>\n

Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

At War<\/em> – St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9
\nAsako I & II<\/em> – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
\nAsh Is Purest White<\/em> – Jia Zhangke
\nBurning<\/em> – Lee Chang-dong
\nBlackkklansman<\/em> – Spike Lee
\nCapharna\u00fcm<\/em> – Nadine Labaki
\nCold War<\/em> – Pawel Pawlikowski
\nDogman<\/em> – Matteo Garrone
\nEverybody Knows<\/em> – Asghar Farhadi
\nGirls of the Sun<\/em> – Eva Husson
\nHappy as Lazzaro<\/em> – Alice Rohrwacher
\nThe Image Book<\/em> – Jean-Luc Godard
\nKnife + Heart<\/em> – Yann Gonzalez
\nAyka<\/em> – Sergey Dvortsevoy
\nSorry Angel<\/em> – Christophe Honor\u00e9
\nShoplifters<\/em> – Hirokazu Koreeda
\nSummer<\/em> – Kirill Serebrennikov
\n3 Faces<\/em> – Jafar Panahi
\nUnder the Silver Lake<\/em> – David Robert Mitchell
\nThe Wild Pear Tree<\/em> – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
\nYomeddine<\/em> – A.B Shawky<\/p>\n

Out of Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Solo: A Star Wars Story<\/em> – Ron Howard
\nLe Grand Bain<\/em> – Gilles Lellouche<\/p>\n

Un Certain Regard<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sextape<\/em> – Antoine Desrosi\u00e8res
\nEl angel<\/em> – Luis Ortega
\nBorder<\/em> – Ali Abbasi
\nEuphoria<\/em> – Valeria Golino
\nThe Gentle Indifference of the World<\/em> – Adilkhan Yerzhanov
\nGirl<\/em> – Lukas Dhont
\nAngel Face<\/em> – Vanessa Filho
\nIn My Room<\/em> – Ulrich K\u00f6hler
\nLong Day\u2019s Journey into Night<\/em> – Bi Gan
\nManto<\/em> – Nandita Das
\nMy Favorite Fabric<\/em> – Gaya Jiji
\nRafiki (Friend)<\/em> – Wanuri Kahiu
\nThe Harvesters<\/em> – Etienne Kallos<\/p>\n

Midnight Screenings<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arctic<\/em> – Joe Penna
\nGongjak (The Spy Gone North)<\/em> – Yoon Jong-bing<\/p>\n

Special Screenings<\/strong><\/p>\n

To the Four Winds<\/em> – Michel Toesca
\nLe Grand Cirque mystique<\/em> – Carlo Diegues
\nDead Souls<\/em> – Wang Bing
\nPope Francis: A Man of His Word<\/em> – Wim Wenders
\nThe State against Mandela and the Others<\/em> – Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte
\nTen Years in Thailand<\/em> – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wisit Sasanatieng, Aditya Assarat, Chookiat Sakveerakul and Chulayarnnon Siriphol
\nLa Travers\u00e9e<\/em> – Romain Goupil<\/p>\n

For more information on the full line-up, visit the Cannes website<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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