Asian Films And Filmmakers At Cannes 2022

The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival will see two Asian films in the official In-Competition section. The highly-anticipated Broker by Japanese filmmaker Kore-eda Hirokazu and Decision to Leave by the prolific Park Chan-Wook will be part of the 21-film competitive category. Hunt, the directorial debut of Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae, will premiere in the midnight screening section.

A familiar face at Cannes, Park’s last film was The Handmaiden (2016), which also competed at the festival and later went on to gross nearly US$38 million worldwide. In 2003, he burst onto the scene with Cannes Grand Prix winner Oldboy.

Led by French actor Vincent Lindon, the Competition jury includes Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone and Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi. In 2021, Farhadi received the Grand Prix prize at Cannes for his film A Hero. Previously, he received two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for his films A Separation (2011) and The Salesman (2016).

The Competition section also includes Stars at Noon by Claire Denis, Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, Showing Up by Kelly Reichardt and Tori and Lokita by brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, among others.

In the Un Certain Regard section, All the People I’ll Never Be by Cambodia’s Davy Chou and Plan 75 by Japan’s Hayakawa Chie will receive their world premieres at the festival. Chou’s film traces the journey of a French woman in Seoul, South Korea, the place of her birth. An extension of her short film of the same name that was part of the 2018 Ten Years Japan anthology, Plan 75 is Hayakawa’s first feature-length film and is a co-production between Japan, France and The Philippines.

All That Breathes by Shaunak Sen, winner of Sundance’s Grand Jury Priz in World Cinema Documentary Competition, will also have a special screening at Cannes.