Programme edition 2022
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Alcarràs
Carla Simón
In her semi-autobiographical Golden Bear winner Alcarràs, Catalan filmmaker Carla Simón shares the joys and sorrows of a family of peach farmers. Together they have to face the uncertain future of their traditional way of life.
B
The Banshees of Inisherin
Martin McDonagh
Oscar winner Martin McDonagh ships the team from In Bruges to his homeland Ireland for The Banshees of Inisherin. Set against the beautiful landscape, a tragicomic character study unfolds about the rift between two old friends.
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Call Jane
Phyllis Nagy
Phyllis Nagy, screenwriter of Carol, makes her directorial debut with a stylish period drama about 'the Janes', a Chicago women's collective that performed safe abortions.
Close
Lukas Dhont
Lukas Dhont's sophomore feature (after Girl) is a sensitive and empathic look at a friendship between two thirteen-year-old boys. Fragile, deeply moving Belgian cinema that was awarded the Grand Prix in Cannes.
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Devotion
J.D. Dillard
In the war film Devotion, J.D. Dillard shows the forgotten Korean War (1950 - 1953) through the eyes of a black American pilot and his wingman.
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Empire of Light
Sam Mendes
The pen of director Sam Mendes and the brush of his chief of photography Roger Deakins conjure up a profoundly human ode to love and cinema.
En los márgenes (On the Fringe)
Juan Diego Botto
Evictions leave tens of thousands of Spanish families out in the cold every year. The tense ensemble drama En los márgenes, led by performances from Penélope Cruz and Luis Tosar, makes a fist against social injustice.
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Fumer fait tousser (Smoking Causes Coughing)
Quentin Dupieux
Quentin Dupieux proves once again that you don't need a lot of time, money or a complex story to make a unique, entertaining film. His latest is a parody within a parody starring a kitschy superhero team.
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Sophie Hyde
In the profound human comedy Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, filmmaker Sophie Hyde and actress Emma Thompson explore the mystery of female pleasure.
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Holy Spider
Ali Abbasi
Holy Spider is both a thriller in which a serial killer is chased by a journalist, and a merciless dissection of Iran, the homeland of director Ali Abbasi (Gräns).
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Joyland
Saim Sadiq
The first Pakistani film ever to be screened in the Official Selection of Cannes, Saim Sadiq's debut Joyland is about a man who falls in love with a trans woman.
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Leila's Brothers (برادران لیلا)
Saeed Roustayi
The international press proclaimed Leila's Brothers the best film of Cannes 2022. Through the ups and downs of a family, director Saeed Roustayi paints a staggering portrait of Iranian society.
Living
Oliver Hermanus
A Japanese classic with a British bowler hat. Director Oliver Hermanus (Skoonheid, Moffie) remakes Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, telling the story of an ageing civil servant fighting in his final days for a small victory over the bureaucracy of existence.
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The March on Rome (Marcia su Roma)
Mark Cousins
Mark Cousins exposes all the lies about the March on Rome in this critical and ambitious documentary.
Master Gardener
Paul Schrader
After First Reformed and The Card Counter, Master Gardener is Paul Schrader's latest variation on the quest for redemption for lost souls.
Metronom
Alexandru Belc
Freedom under Ceauşescu’s despotic regime is a thing of the past. Younger generations live in great uncertainty about their future. Alexandru Belc's fiction debut follows seventeen-year-old Ana, who is dragged into a totalitarian nightmare after she gathers with friends to ...
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Un petit frère (Mother and Son)
Léonor Serraille
In Un petit frère, Léonor Serraille follows a single mother and her two sons who leave Ivory Coast for Paris in the late 1980s.
Plus que jamais (More Than Ever)
Emily Atef
After 3 Days in Quiberon, about a deteriorating Romy Schneider, the French-Iranian filmmaker Emily Atef again refuses to shy away from uncomfortable questions and the confrontation with death. With More Than Ever, she tells the story of a dying young woman, starring Vicky Krieps ...
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Rimini
Ulrich Seidl
Ten years after Ulrich Seidl zoomed in on a seaside resort in Kenya with Paradies: Liebe, the Austrian filmmaker focuses on an Italian resort in Rimini.
Rodéo
Lola Quivoron
In her feature debut Rodéo, Lola Quivoron follows a young woman who makes many in the Parisian motorcross scene bite the dust.
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She Said
Maria Schrader
A testament to the power of investigative journalism, She Said is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett and the New York Times bestseller She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite ...
The Son
Florian Zeller
After The Father, a compelling portrait of dementia, Florian Zeller now adapts the second part of his trilogy about a father a mother and a son for the big screen.
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War Pony
Gina Gammell, Riley Keough
In their Cannes award-winning directorial debut War Pony, Gina Gammell and Riley Keough take an honest and tender look at the hard lives of two young Native Americans.
What's Love Got to Do With It?
Shekhar Kapur
A filmmaker in search of the formula for true love makes a documentary about her best friend's arranged marriage into the British romantic comedy What's Love Got to Do with It? Or as she calls it, Love Contractually.
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Zee van tijd (Sea of Time)
Theu Boermans
In Theu Boermans' comeback film, a couple ends up in turbulent waters during a sailing trip. Will the storm subside forty years later?