CANNES 2013 Directors' Fortnight
13 Europeans on the bill
- A wave of French films, two British productions and two from Sitzerland in the showcase of a Directors' Fortnight dominated by genre films
Crime stories, comedies, horror and suspense movies, documentaries… "There are quite a few bombshells" enthused General Delegate Edouard Waintrop when revealing at noon today in Paris the selection for the 45th Directors' Fortnight to take place from May 16th to 26th as part of the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A daring selection which has chosen to highlight new generations, with seven first feature films and three second features out of the 21 titles on the list. Among them, Europe wil be very widely represented with 13 films (signed by French, English, Irish and Swiss directors) and two minority coproductions. The United States will embark with four films, Asia with three (one Indian, one from Singapore and one from the Philippines), and South America with a Chilean movie.
France gets the lion's share with eight majority productions in the showcase. In the department of comedies which "transcend the genre", we find the off-beat movie Tip Top [+see also:
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interview: Serge Bozon
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film profile] by Guillaume Gallienne, and the "post-Godard" title, La fille du 14 juillet [+see also:
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film profile] by Antonin Peretjatko. They will be joined on the Croisette by "the cruel" Les Apaches [+see also:
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film profile] by Thierry de Peretti, "the tender" Henri [+see also:
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interview: Yolande Moreau
film profile] by Yolande Moreau (to be screened on closing night - news), the Franco-Israeli coproduction A Strange Course of Things [+see also:
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film profile] by Raphaël Nadjari (set in Israel), the documentary Un voyageur [+see also:
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film profile] by Marcel Ophüls and La danza de la realidad [+see also:
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film profile] by the French-Chilean cult director, Alejandro Jodorowsky. Who will, in fact, be doubly honoured with the American-French documentary, Jodorowsky’s Dune [+see also:
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British production has two feature films in the running: The Selfish Giant [+see also:
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interview: Clio Barnard
interview: Clio Barnard
film profile] by English director Clio Barnard (announced as "exceptional"), which delves into the world of Bradford's scrap-metal merchants, and Last Days On Mars [+see also:
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Switzerland also scores a double success with two titles in Portuguese and Persian: Après la nuit [+see also:
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interview: Basil da Cunha
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film profile] by Kaveh Bakhtiari (coproduced with France).
Finally, it's worth noting that France also distinguishes itself with another minority production: El verano de los peces voladores [+see also:
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As a reminder, the Directors' Fortnight will open with a screening of The Congress [+see also:
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Feature films:
(*Film vying for the Caméra d’Or)
The Congress - Ari Folman (opening film)
A Strange Course of Events - Raphaël Nadjari
Les Apaches* - Thierry de Peretti
Après la nuit* - Basil Da Cunha
Blue Ruin - Jeremy Saulnier
La danza de la realidad - Alejandro Jodorowsky
L’Escale* - Kaveh Bakhtiari
La Fille du 14 Juillet* - Antonin Peretjatko
Henri - Yolande Moreau
Ilo Ilo* - Anthony Chen
Jodorowsky’s Dune* - Franck Pavich
Last Days on Mars* - Ruairi Robinson
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !* - Guillaume Gallienne
Magic Magic - Sebastian Silva
On the Job - Erik Matti
Le Géant égoïste - Clio Barnard
Tip Top - Serge Bozon
Ugly - Anurag Kashyap
Un voyageur - Marcel Ophuls
El verano de los peces voladores - Marcela Said
We Are What We Are - Jim Mickle
Short films:
Gambozinos - João Nicolau
Lágy Eső - Dénes Nagy
Le Quepa sur la vilni ! - Yann Le Quellec
Man kann nicht auf einmal alles tun, aber man kann auf einmal alles lassen - Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
O umbra de nor - Radu Jude
Pouco mais de um mês - André Novais Oliveira
Que je tombe tout le temps - Eduardo Williams
Solecito - Oscar Ruiz Navia
Swimmer - Lynne Ramsay
(Translated from French)
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