The Official Selection
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The Official Selection
COMPETE
Etreintes brisées by Pedro Almodovar
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
Un Prophète by Jacques Audiard
Vincere by Marco Bellocchio
Bright Star by Jane Campion
Map of the sounds by Tokyo of Isabel Coixet
A l'origine by Xavier Giannoli
Le Ruban blanc by Michael Haneke
Taking Woodstock by Ang Lee
Looking for Eric by Ken Loach
Nuit d'ivresse printanière by Lou Ye
Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza
Soudain le vide by Gaspar Noe
Thirst by Park Chan-wook
Les Herbes folles by Alain Resnais
Le Temps qu'il reste by Elia Suleiman
Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
Vengeance by Johnnie To
Visage by Tsai Ming-liang
Antichrist by Lars Von Trier
NOT IN COMPETITION
Là-haut by Pete Docter (opening movie)
Agora by Alejandro Amenabar
L'Armée du Crime by Robert Guédiguian
L'Imaginarium du Docteur Parnassus by Terry Gilliam
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Jan Kounen (closing movie)
"SEANCE SPECIALE" (Special Meeting)
Mon voisin, mon tueur by Anne Aghion
Manila by Adolfo Alix and Raya Martin
Min Ye by Souleymane Cisse
L'Epine dans le cœur by Michel Gondry
Pétition, la cour des plaignants by Zhao Liang
Jaffa by Keren Yedaya
Cendres et Sang by Fanny Ardant
"SEANCES DE MINUIT" (Midnight Screenings)
Panique au village by Vincent Patar et Stéphane Aubier (1er film)
Jusqu'en enfer by Sam Raimi
Ne te retourne pas by Marina De Van
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Mother by Bong Joon Ho
Irène by Alain Cavalier
Precious by Lee Daniels
Demain dès l'aube by Denis Dercourt
A Deriva by Heitor Dhalia
Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh by Bahman Ghobadi
Les Voyages du vent by Ciro Guerra
Le Père de mes enfants by Mia Hansen-Love
Contes de l'âge d'or by Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu et Ioana Uricaru
Kynodontas by Yorgos Lanthimos
Skazka pro temnotu by Nikolay Khomeriki
Le Tsar by Pavel Lounguine
Nang Mai by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Independencia by Raya Martin
Politist, Adjectiv by Corneliu Porumboiu
Mourir comme un homme by Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Eyes Wide Open by Haim Tabakman (1er film)
Samson and Dalilah by Warwick Thornton (1er film)
The Silent Army by Jean Van De Velde
Air Doll by Kore-Eda Hirokazu
SHORT MOVIES - Compete
After Tomorrow by Emma Sullivan
Arena by João Salaviza
Ciao Mama by Goran Odvorcic
Klusums by Laila Pakalnina
Larsog Peter by Daniel Borgman
L'Homme à la Gordini by Jean-Christophe Lie
Missen by Jochem De Vries
Rumbo a peor by Alex Brendemühl
The Six dollar fifty man by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland
La Semaine de la critique
COMPETE - Movies
Huacho by Alejandro Fernández Almendras (Chile / French / German)
Ordinary People by Vladimir Perisic (Serbian / French)
Lost Persons Area de Caroline Strubbe (Belgian)
Adieu Gary de Nassim Amaouche (French)
Mal día para pescar (Bad Day to Go Fishing) by Alvaro Brechner (Uruguayan / Spanish)
Sirta la gal ba (Whisper with the Wind) by Shahram Alidi (Irak)
Altiplano de Peter Brosens et Jessica Woodworth (Belgian / German / Dutch)
COMPETE - Short Movies
Together by Eicke Bettinga (German / UK)
Noche adentro by Pablo Lamar (Paraguayan)
Runaway by Cordell Barker (Canadian)
C’est gratuit pour les filles by Marie Amachoukeli et Claire Burger (French)
Tulum (La virée) by Dalibor Matanic (Croatian)
Logorama by H5 (French)
Slitage (Seeds of the Fall) by Patrick Eklund (Swedish)
SPECIAL MEETINGS - Movies
Rien de personnel by Mathias Gokalp (French) - Opening night
Hierro de Gabe Ibañez (Spanish)
Lascars by Albert Pereira Lazaro and Emmanuel Klotz
SPECIAL MEETINGS - Short Movies
La Baie du renard by Grégoire Colin (French) - Closing night
1989 by Camilo Matiz (Colombian) - Closing night
Faiblesses by Nicolas Giraud (French)
6 Hours by Moon Seong-hyeok (South Corean)
Les Miettes by Pierre Pinaud (French)
Elo de Vera Egito (Brasilian)
Espalhadas pelo ar (Dispercées dans l’air) by Vera Egito (Brasilian)
La Quinzaine des réalisateurs
Movie Selection
Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani (Israëlian) * closing
Amreeka by Cherien Dabis (American)
Les Beaux Gosses by Riad Sattouf (French) *
Carcasses by Denis Coté (Canadian)
Daniel y Ana by Michel Franco (Mexican) *
Eastern Plays by Kamen Kalev (Bulgarian) *
La Famille Wolberg by Axelle Ropert (French) *
Go Get Some Rosemary by Benny and Joshua Safdie (American)
Here by Tzu-Nyen Ho (Singapour) *
Humpday de Lynn Shelton (American)
I Love You Phillip Morris by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (American)*
J’ai tué ma mère by Xavier Dolan (Canadian) *
Jal Aljido Motamyunseo (Like You Know It All) by Hong Sangsoo (Corean)
Karaoke by Chan Fui (Malaisian) *
La Merditude des choses by Felix Van Groeningen (Belgian)
Navidad by Sebastian Lelio (Chile)
Ne change rien by Pedro Costa (Portuguese)
Oxhide II by Liu Jiayin (Chinese)
La Pivellina by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Austrian)
Polytechnique by Denis Villeneuve (Canadian)
Le Roi de l’évasion by Alain Guiraudie (French)
La Terre de la folie by Luc Moullet (French)
Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola (Argentina, Spanish, Italian)
Yuki & Nina by Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Girardot (French, Japanese)
* movies competing for "la Caméra d’Or"
Short Movies - Selection
A Repüles Története (The History of Aviation) by Balint Kenyeres (Hongrian)
American Minor by Charlie White (American)
Anna by Rúnar Runarsson (Danish)
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 (The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5) by
Chema Garcia Ibarra (Spanish)
Canção de amor e saúde (Chanson d’amour et de bonne santé/Song Of Love And
Health) by João Nicolau (Portuguese, French)
Cicada by Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Austrian)
Drömmar Från Skogen by Johannes Nyholm (Swedish)
Dust Kid by Yumi Jung (Corean)
Les Fugitives (The Fugitives) by Guillaume Leiter (French)
Jagdfieber by Alessandro Comodin (Belgian)
John Wayne Hated Horses by Andrew Betzer (American)
Nice by Maud Alpi (French)
SuperBarraco by Renata Pinheiro (Brasilian)
Thermidor by Virgil Vernier (French)
SPECIAL MEETING
Montparnasse by Mikhaël Hers (French)
The Official Selection
COMPETE
Etreintes brisées by Pedro Almodovar
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
Un Prophète by Jacques Audiard
Vincere by Marco Bellocchio
Bright Star by Jane Campion
Map of the sounds by Tokyo of Isabel Coixet
A l'origine by Xavier Giannoli
Le Ruban blanc by Michael Haneke
Taking Woodstock by Ang Lee
Looking for Eric by Ken Loach
Nuit d'ivresse printanière by Lou Ye
Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza
Soudain le vide by Gaspar Noe
Thirst by Park Chan-wook
Les Herbes folles by Alain Resnais
Le Temps qu'il reste by Elia Suleiman
Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
Vengeance by Johnnie To
Visage by Tsai Ming-liang
Antichrist by Lars Von Trier
NOT IN COMPETITION
Là-haut by Pete Docter (opening movie)
Agora by Alejandro Amenabar
L'Armée du Crime by Robert Guédiguian
L'Imaginarium du Docteur Parnassus by Terry Gilliam
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Jan Kounen (closing movie)
"SEANCE SPECIALE" (Special Meeting)
Mon voisin, mon tueur by Anne Aghion
Manila by Adolfo Alix and Raya Martin
Min Ye by Souleymane Cisse
L'Epine dans le cœur by Michel Gondry
Pétition, la cour des plaignants by Zhao Liang
Jaffa by Keren Yedaya
Cendres et Sang by Fanny Ardant
"SEANCES DE MINUIT" (Midnight Screenings)
Panique au village by Vincent Patar et Stéphane Aubier (1er film)
Jusqu'en enfer by Sam Raimi
Ne te retourne pas by Marina De Van
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Mother by Bong Joon Ho
Irène by Alain Cavalier
Precious by Lee Daniels
Demain dès l'aube by Denis Dercourt
A Deriva by Heitor Dhalia
Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh by Bahman Ghobadi
Les Voyages du vent by Ciro Guerra
Le Père de mes enfants by Mia Hansen-Love
Contes de l'âge d'or by Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu et Ioana Uricaru
Kynodontas by Yorgos Lanthimos
Skazka pro temnotu by Nikolay Khomeriki
Le Tsar by Pavel Lounguine
Nang Mai by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Independencia by Raya Martin
Politist, Adjectiv by Corneliu Porumboiu
Mourir comme un homme by Joao Pedro Rodrigues
Eyes Wide Open by Haim Tabakman (1er film)
Samson and Dalilah by Warwick Thornton (1er film)
The Silent Army by Jean Van De Velde
Air Doll by Kore-Eda Hirokazu
SHORT MOVIES - Compete
After Tomorrow by Emma Sullivan
Arena by João Salaviza
Ciao Mama by Goran Odvorcic
Klusums by Laila Pakalnina
Larsog Peter by Daniel Borgman
L'Homme à la Gordini by Jean-Christophe Lie
Missen by Jochem De Vries
Rumbo a peor by Alex Brendemühl
The Six dollar fifty man by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland
La Semaine de la critique
COMPETE - Movies
Huacho by Alejandro Fernández Almendras (Chile / French / German)
Ordinary People by Vladimir Perisic (Serbian / French)
Lost Persons Area de Caroline Strubbe (Belgian)
Adieu Gary de Nassim Amaouche (French)
Mal día para pescar (Bad Day to Go Fishing) by Alvaro Brechner (Uruguayan / Spanish)
Sirta la gal ba (Whisper with the Wind) by Shahram Alidi (Irak)
Altiplano de Peter Brosens et Jessica Woodworth (Belgian / German / Dutch)
COMPETE - Short Movies
Together by Eicke Bettinga (German / UK)
Noche adentro by Pablo Lamar (Paraguayan)
Runaway by Cordell Barker (Canadian)
C’est gratuit pour les filles by Marie Amachoukeli et Claire Burger (French)
Tulum (La virée) by Dalibor Matanic (Croatian)
Logorama by H5 (French)
Slitage (Seeds of the Fall) by Patrick Eklund (Swedish)
SPECIAL MEETINGS - Movies
Rien de personnel by Mathias Gokalp (French) - Opening night
Hierro de Gabe Ibañez (Spanish)
Lascars by Albert Pereira Lazaro and Emmanuel Klotz
SPECIAL MEETINGS - Short Movies
La Baie du renard by Grégoire Colin (French) - Closing night
1989 by Camilo Matiz (Colombian) - Closing night
Faiblesses by Nicolas Giraud (French)
6 Hours by Moon Seong-hyeok (South Corean)
Les Miettes by Pierre Pinaud (French)
Elo de Vera Egito (Brasilian)
Espalhadas pelo ar (Dispercées dans l’air) by Vera Egito (Brasilian)
La Quinzaine des réalisateurs
Movie Selection
Ajami by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani (Israëlian) * closing
Amreeka by Cherien Dabis (American)
Les Beaux Gosses by Riad Sattouf (French) *
Carcasses by Denis Coté (Canadian)
Daniel y Ana by Michel Franco (Mexican) *
Eastern Plays by Kamen Kalev (Bulgarian) *
La Famille Wolberg by Axelle Ropert (French) *
Go Get Some Rosemary by Benny and Joshua Safdie (American)
Here by Tzu-Nyen Ho (Singapour) *
Humpday de Lynn Shelton (American)
I Love You Phillip Morris by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (American)*
J’ai tué ma mère by Xavier Dolan (Canadian) *
Jal Aljido Motamyunseo (Like You Know It All) by Hong Sangsoo (Corean)
Karaoke by Chan Fui (Malaisian) *
La Merditude des choses by Felix Van Groeningen (Belgian)
Navidad by Sebastian Lelio (Chile)
Ne change rien by Pedro Costa (Portuguese)
Oxhide II by Liu Jiayin (Chinese)
La Pivellina by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Austrian)
Polytechnique by Denis Villeneuve (Canadian)
Le Roi de l’évasion by Alain Guiraudie (French)
La Terre de la folie by Luc Moullet (French)
Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola (Argentina, Spanish, Italian)
Yuki & Nina by Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Girardot (French, Japanese)
* movies competing for "la Caméra d’Or"
Short Movies - Selection
A Repüles Története (The History of Aviation) by Balint Kenyeres (Hongrian)
American Minor by Charlie White (American)
Anna by Rúnar Runarsson (Danish)
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 (The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5) by
Chema Garcia Ibarra (Spanish)
Canção de amor e saúde (Chanson d’amour et de bonne santé/Song Of Love And
Health) by João Nicolau (Portuguese, French)
Cicada by Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Austrian)
Drömmar Från Skogen by Johannes Nyholm (Swedish)
Dust Kid by Yumi Jung (Corean)
Les Fugitives (The Fugitives) by Guillaume Leiter (French)
Jagdfieber by Alessandro Comodin (Belgian)
John Wayne Hated Horses by Andrew Betzer (American)
Nice by Maud Alpi (French)
SuperBarraco by Renata Pinheiro (Brasilian)
Thermidor by Virgil Vernier (French)
SPECIAL MEETING
Montparnasse by Mikhaël Hers (French)









