Cannes Film Festival Line-Up For 2022

The official selection for the 75th Cannes International Film Festival was announced at a press conference in Paris this morning of April 14, with an incredible line-up for its competition, including works by Kelly Reichardt, Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, the Dardenne brothers, and Park Chan-wook.

Pierre Lescure, Cannes Festival President, and Thierry Frémaux, general delegate/artistic director of the festival, unveiled the titles selected for Competition, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Premiere and Out-of-Competition for this 2022 edition, which will take place on May 17-28. This year’s jury members have not yet been announced. Frémaux confirmed that Baz Lurman’s Elvis Prestley biopic Elvis, Mad Max director George Miller’s new film Three Thousand Years Of Longing, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, and the much anticipated Top Gun sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, will all be shown out of competition.

Frémaux shared that 18 films were selected for Competition, running for the festival’s top prize, the Palme D’Or. Last year, the coveted top prize was won by Julia Ducourneau’s visceral body-horror, Titane. Five directors, whose films were selected for competition this year, have already won the coveted prize in the past. Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme D’Or in 2007, for his film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The Dardenne brothers have won 2 Palmes d’Or for Rosetta in 1999 and L’Enfant (The Child) in 2005. Swedish director Ruben Östlund received the top prize in 2017 for his film The Square. Japanese Director Kore-Eda Hirokazu won the Palme d’Or in 2018 for his film Shoplifters.

Only 3 films directed by female directors were selected for Competition. Valérie Bruni Tedeschi’s Les Amandiers, starring Louis Garrel, is set in late 1980s Paris and follows a troupe of young comedian who have been admitted to the prestigious theater school of Les Amandiers. American director Kelly Reichardt will return to Cannes with A24’s Showing Up, starring Michelle Williams. After winning the Best Director award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival for her film Avec amour et acharnement (Both Sides of the Blade), Claire Denis returns to Cannes with a new film, Stars at Noon, based on a 1980s novel by Denis Johnson, starring Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley.

While only 3 films out of 18 were directed by women for the films selected in Competition, in the Un Certain Regard section, there is a slight improvement of 6 out of the 15 films selected that were directed by women, making it a total of 9 film directed by women out of the 49 film in the official selection announced today.

This is Pierre Lescure’s last year as President of the festival. A new President was voted last March 23 by the Board of Directors of the Association Française du Festival International du Film, who elected its first female President of the festival, Iris Knobloch.

Below is the full line-up for the 75th Cannes International Film Festival, with a handful of titles to be added to the official selection next week.

Competition

Armageddon, James Gray

Boy From Heaven, Tarik Saleh

Broker, Kore-Eda Hirokazu

Close, Lukas Dhont

Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg

Decision to Leave, Park Chan-Wook

Eo, Jerzy Skolimowski

Frère et Soeur, Arnaud Desplechin

Holy Spider, Ali Abbasi

Leila’s Brothers, Saeed Roustaee

Les Amandiers, Valerie Bruni Tedeschi

Nostalgia, Mario Martone

Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt

Stars at Noon, Claire Denis

Tchaïkovski’s Wife, Kirill Serebrennikov

Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Östlund

Tori and Lokita, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

RMN, Cristian Mungiu

Un Certain Regard

All the People I’ll Never Be, Davy Chou

Beast, Riley Koeugh and Gina Gammell

Burning Days, Emin Alper

Butterfly Vision, Maksim Nakonechnyi

Corsage, Marie Kreutzer

Domingo and the Midst, Ariel Escalante Meza

Godland, Hlynur Palmason

Joyland, Saim Sadiq

Les Pires, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret

Metronom, Alexandry Belc

Plan 75, Hayakawa Chie

Rodeo, Lola Quivoron

Sick of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli

The Silent Twins, Agnieszka Smocynska

The Stranger, Thomas M. Wright

Cannes Premieres

Dodo, Panos H. Koutras

Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas

Nightfall, Marco Bellochio

Nos Frangins, Rachid Bouchareb

Special Screenings

All that Breaths, Shaunak Sen

Jerry Lewis: Trouble in Mind, Ethan Coen

The Natural History of Destruction, Sergei Loznitsa

Out Of Competition

Elvis, Baz Luhrmann

Masquerade, Nicolas Bedos

November, Cédric Jimenez

Three Thousand Years of Longing, George Miller

Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski

Z, Michel Hazanavicius (Opening Night Film)

Midnight Screenings

Hunt, Lee Jung-Jae

Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen

Smoking Makes You Cough, Quentin Dupieux