The curtain of Cannes Film Festival 2021 is finally going to unveil on July 7 at the Palais De Festival Center in Cannes of France. It will continue till its grand finale on July 17 when the winner of Palm d’Or will be announced. After its founding in 1946, Cannes Film Festival has been recognizing films of new styles around the world every year.
Pierre Lescure, the French journalist and TV executive elected as president in 2014, is remaining as the president. Thierry Fremaux, who became the general delegate of the festival in 2007, is coordinating the entire event.
Movies Lineup in Cannes Film Festival 2021
Official Selection
In Competition
1. Leos Carax’s ‘Annette’
2. Ildiko Enyedi’s ‘The Story of My Wife’
3. Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Benedetta’
4. Mia Hanse’s ‘Bergman Island’
5. Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’
6. Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’
7. Nadav Lapid’s ‘Ahed's Knee’
8. Nabil Ayouch’s ‘Casablanca Beats’
9. Juho Kuosmanen’s ‘Compartment No 6’
10. Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy’s final part ‘The Worst Person in the World’
11. Catherine Corsini’s ‘The Divide’
12. Joachim Lafosse’s ‘The Restless Ones’
13. Jacques Audiard’s ‘Paris' 13th District’
14. Saleh Haroun’s ‘Lingui’
15. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Memoria’
16. Justin Kurzel’s ‘Nitram’
17. Bruno Dumont’s ‘France’
18. Kirill Serebrennikov’s ‘Petrov's Flu’
19. Sean Baker’s ‘Red Rocket’
20. Wes Anderson’s ‘The French Dispatch’
21. Julia Ducournau’s ‘Titan’
22. Nanni Moretti’s ‘Three Floors’
23. Francois Ozon’s ‘Everything Went Well’
24. Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Hero’
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Un Certain Regard
1. Arthur Harari’s ‘Onoda’
2. C.B Yi’s ‘Money Boys’
3. Justin Chon’s ‘Blue Bayou’
4. Gessica Geneus’s ‘Freda’
5. Alexey German Jr.’s ‘House Arrest’
6. Hafsia Herzi’s ‘Bonne Mere’
7. Tatiana Huezo’s ‘Prayers for the Stolen’
8. Valdimar Johannsson’s ‘Lamb’
9. Semih Kaplanoglu’s ‘Commitment Hasan’
10. Kogonada’s ‘After Yang’
11. Eran Kolirin’s ‘Let There Be Morning’
12. Kira Kovalenko’s ‘Unclenching The Fists’
13. Youhann Manca’s ‘La Traviata, My Brothers And I’
14. Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova’s ‘Women Do Cry’
15. Abdullah Mohammad Saad’s ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’
16. Sebastian Meise’s ‘Great Freedom’
17. Teodora Ana Mihai’s ‘La Civil’
18. Na Jiazuo’s ‘Gaey Wa'r’
19. Eskil Vogt’s ‘The Innocents’
20. Laura Wandel’s ‘Playground’
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Out of Competition
1. Nicholus Bedos’s ‘OSS 117: From Africa with Love’
2. Emmanuelle Bercot’s ‘Peaceful’
3. Ani Folman’s ‘Where is Anne Frank’
4. Han Jae-rim’s ‘Emergency Declaration’
5. Todd Haynes’s ‘The Velvet Underground’
6. Cedric Jimenez’s ‘Bac Nord’
7. Valérie Lemercier’s ‘Aline, The Voice Of Love’
8. Tom McCarthy’s ‘Stillwater’
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Cinema De La Plage
1. Justin Lin’s ‘Fast and Furious 9’
Midnight Screening
1. Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s ‘Bloody Oranges’
2. Audrey Estrougo’s ‘Supremes’
3. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s ‘Tralala’
Cannes Premier
1. Mathieu Amalric’s ‘Hold Me Tight’
2. Andrea Arnold’s ‘Cow’
3. Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Marx Can Wait’
4. Samuel Benchetrit’s ‘Love Songs For Tough Guys’
5. Arnaud Desplechin’s ‘Deception’
6. Charlotte Gainsbourg’s ‘Jane’ by Charlotte
7. Hong Sang-soo’s ‘In Front Of Your Face’
8. Eva Husson’s ‘Mothering Sunday’
9. Kornel Mundruczo’s ‘Evolution’
10. Gaspar Noe’s ‘Vortex’
11. Ting Poo and Leo Scott’s ‘Val’
12. Oliver Stone’s documentary JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass
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Special Screening
1. Karim Ainouz’s ‘Mariner of the Mountains’
2. Shlomi Elkabetz’s ‘Black Notebooks I and II’
3. Nadav Lapid’s ‘The Star’
4. Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Babi Yar. Context’
5. Noemi Merlant’s ‘Mi Iubita Mon Amour’
6. Andrew Muscato’s ‘New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization’
7. Maxim Roy’s ‘The Heroics’
8. Wen Shipei’s ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’
9. Ye Ye’s ‘H6’
10. Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura
Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘The Year of the Everlasting Storm’
11. Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: A New Generation
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Cinema for the Climate
1. Marie Amiguet’s ‘Velvet Queen’
2. Cyril Dion’s ‘Animal’
3. Louise Garrel’s ‘The Crusade’
4. Rahul Jain’s ‘Invisible Demons’
5. Zhao Liang’s ‘I Am So Sorry’
6. Aissa Maiga’s ‘Above Water’
7. Flore Vasseur’s ‘Bigger Than Us’
Short Film
1. Marija Apcevska’s ‘North Pole’
2. Samir Karahoda’s ‘Displaced’
3. Casper Kjeldsen’s ‘In the Soil’
4. Mohammadreza Mayghani’s ‘Orthodontics’
5. Adrian Moyse Dullin’s ‘The Right Words’
6. Diogo Salgado’s ‘Through the Haze’
7. Carlos Segundo’s ‘Sideral’
8. Tang Yi’s ‘All the Crows in the World’
9. Jasmin Tenucci’s ‘August Sky’
10. Wu Lang’s ‘Absence’
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Cinefondation
1. Sacha Amaral’s ‘Billy Boy’
2. Carina-Gabriela Dasoveanu’s ‘Love Stories on the Move’
3. Theo Degen’s ‘The Salamander Child’
4. Natalia Durszewicz’s ‘Beasts among Us’
5. Huang Menglu’s ‘The Cat from the Deep Sea’
6. Lina Kalcheva’s ‘Other Half’
7. Mya Kaplan Habikur’s ‘Night Visit’
8. Auden Lincoln-Vogel’s ‘Bill and Joe Go Duck Hunting’
9. Aleksandra Odic’s ‘Frida’
10. Anna Podskalska’s ‘Red Shoes’
11. Gonzalo Quincoces’s ‘The Fall of the Swift’
12. Rodrigo Ribeyro’s ‘Cantareira’
13. Oliver Rudolf’s ‘Fonica M-120’
14. Oskar Kristinn Viginsson’s ‘Free Men’
15. Adele Vincenti-Crasson’s ‘King Max’
16. Lukas Von Berg’s ‘Saint Android’
17. Yoon Daewoen’s ‘Cicada’
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Cannes Classic
1. Marcel Camus’s ‘Black Orpheus’ of 1959
2. Vojtech Jasny’s ‘The Cassandra Cat’ of 1963
3. Henri Duparc’s ‘Dancing in the Dust’ of 1989
4. Philippe de Broca’s ‘Dear Louise’ of 1972
5. Masahiro Shinoda’s ‘Demon Pond’ of 1979
6. Marta Meszaros’s ‘Diary for My Children’ of 1983
7. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s ‘The Double Life of Veronique’ of 1991
8. Orson Welles’s ‘F for Fake’ of 1973
9. Roberto Rossellini’s ‘The Flowers of St. Francis’ of 1950
10. Zdravko Velimirovic’s ‘The Fourteenth Day’ of 1960
11. Peter Wollen’s ‘Friendship’s Death’ of 1987
12. Jacques Doillon’s ‘The Hussy’ of 1978
13. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s ‘I Know Where I’m Going’ of 1945
14. Bill Duke’s ‘The Killing Floor’ of 1985
15. Max Ophuls’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’ of 1948
16. Raoul Peck’s ‘Lumumba, Death of a Prophet’ of 1990
17. Kinuyo Tanaka’s ‘The Moon Has Risen’ of 1955
18. David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ of 2001
19. Oscar Micheaux’s ‘Murder in Harlem’ of 1935
20. Gilles Grangier’s ‘Not Delivered’ of 1957
21. Ana Mariscal’s ‘The Path’ of 1958
22. Pietro Germi’s ‘Path of Hope’ of 1950
23. Tengiz Abuladze’s ‘Repentance’ of 1987
24. Alain Resnais’s ‘The War Is Over’ of 1966
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Latest Documentary
25. Yves Jeuland’s ‘All About Yves Montand’
26. Javier Espada’s ‘Bunuel, A Surrealist Filmmaker’
27. Andre Bonzel’s ‘Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone’
28. Francesco Zippel’s ‘Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Blck Filmmaking’
29. Pascal-Alex Vincent’s ‘Satoshi Kon: The Dream Machine’
30. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Storms of Jeremy Thomas’
31. Mark Cousins’ ‘The Story of Film: A New Generation’
Parallel Sections
International Critics’ Week
Feature Films
1. Simon Mesa Soto’s ‘Amparo’
2. Omar El Zohairy’s ‘Feathers’
3. Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s ‘The Gravedigger’s wife’
4. Clara Roquet’s ‘Libertad’
5. Elie Grappe’s ‘Olga’
6. Laura Samani’s ‘Small Body’
7. Julie Lecoustre & Emmanuel Marre’s ‘Zero F*cks Given’
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Short Films
1. Manolis Mavris’s ‘Brutalia, Days of Labour’
2. Zou Jing’s ‘Lili Alone’
3. Hao Zhao & Yeung Tung’s ‘An Invitation’
4. Nicolai G.H. Johansen’s ‘Inherent’
5. Andrei Epure’s ‘Intercom 15’
6. Elinor Nechemya’s ‘If It Ain’t Broke’
7. Marie Larrive’s ‘Noir-Soleil’
8. Ian Barling’s ‘Safe’
9. Jimmy Laporal-Tresor’s ‘Soldat Noir’
10. Jela Hasler’s ‘On Solid Ground’
Special Screenings
1. Constance Meyer’s ‘Robust’
2. Vincent Le Port’s ‘Bruno Reidal, Confession of a Murderer’
3. Samuel Theis’ ‘Softie’
4. Sandrine Kiberlain’s ‘A Radiant Girl’
5. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s ‘Anais in Love’
6. Leyla Bouzid’s ‘A Story of Love and Desir’
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Films for Invitations
1. Pablo Giles’ ‘Bisho’
2. Jorge Sistos Moreno’s ‘La Oscuridad’
3. Indra Villasennor Amador’s ‘Pinky Promise’
4. Mariano Renteriia Garnica’s ‘A face covered with kisses’
Directors Fortnight
Feature films
1. Jonas Carpignano’s ‘A Chiara’
2. Payal Kapadia’s ‘A Night of Knowing Nothing’
3. Clio Barnard’s ‘Ali & Ava’
4. Nathalie Alvarez Mesen’s ‘Clara Sola’
5. Yassine Qnia’s ‘A Brighter Tomorrow’
6. Miguel Gomes’ ‘The Tsugua Diaries’
7. Manuel Nieto Zas’ ‘The Employer and the Employee’
8. Anais Volpe’s ‘The Braves’
9. Haider Rashid’s ‘Europa’
10. Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘Futura’
11. Radu Muntean’s ‘Intregalde’
12. Panah Panahi’s ‘Hit The Road’
13. Vincent Mael Cardona’s ‘Magnetic Beats’
14. Luana Bajrami’s ‘The Hill where Lionesses Roar’
15. Anita Rocha da Silveira’s ‘Medusa’
16. Rachel Lang’s ‘Our Men’
17. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s ‘Murina’
18. Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s ‘Neptune Frost’
19. Emmanuel Carrere’s ‘Between Two Worlds’
20. Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ ‘The Tale of King Crab’
21. Jean-Gabriel Periot’s ‘Returning to Reims (Fragments)’
22. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part II’
23. Shujun Wei’s ‘Ripples of Life’
24. Ely Dagher’s ‘The Sea Ahead’
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Special Screenings
1. Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Monrovia, Indiana’
2. Joanna Hogg’s ‘The Souvenir Part I’
Short and Medium Length Movies
1. Eddie Alcazar’s ‘The Vandal’
2. Andreea Cristina Bortun’s ‘When Night Meets Dawn’
3. Mathilde Chavanne’s ‘Simone Is Gone’
4. Diego Marcon’s ‘The Parents’ Room’
5. Alberto Mielgo’s ‘The Windshield Viper’
6. Yoriko Mizushiri’s ‘Anxious Body’
7. Lois Patino and Matias Pineiro’s ‘Sycorax’
8. Sebastian Schjaer’s ‘The Sidereal Space’
9. Peter Tscherkassky’s ‘Train Again’
Summing up
Like previous years, Cannes Film Festival 2021 will also be filled with the marching sounds of the new brilliant filmmakers. Despite the notion of its bringing the European films as art films, World filmmakers will get some tips to come out of the orthodox films and meet the new film appetite of the cinephiles.