One day after the Cannes Film Festival announced its Critic’s Week lineup, and that F9 is the mystery blockbuster that will screen on the beach, the festival has revealed the features and shorts that will screen in its prestigious Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. The buzziest title in the lineup is The Souvenir Part II, Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to The Souvenir. The film, like its predecessor, stars the mother-daughter dream team of Honor Swinton Byrne and Tilda Swinton, as well as Richard Ayoade, and is executive-produced by Martin Scorsese. The Souvenir, one of Slant’s favorite films of 2019, ended with the death of Tom Burke’s Anthony, and the sequel picks up on the life Swinton Byrne’s aspiring film student Julie in the wake of the tragedy. The film also stars Charlie Heaton, Harris Dickinson, and Joe Alwyn.
This year’s Directors’ Fortnight opens with Emmanuel Carrère’s Between Two Worlds, starring Juliette Binoche, and closes with Rachel Lang’s Our Men. Other notable titles include Jonas Carpignano’s A Chiara, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava, Radu Muntean’s Integralded, and The Tsugua Diaries, which is co-directed by Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro.
For the complete lineup, see below.
Feature Films
A Chiara, Jonas Carpignano
A Night of Knowing Northing, Payal Kapadia
Ali & Ava, Clio Barnard
Clara Sola, Nathalie Álvarez Mesen
A Brighter Tomorrow, Yassine Qnia
The Tsugua Diaries, Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro
The Employer and the Employee, Manuel Nieto Zas
The Braves, Anaïs Volpé
Europa, Haider Rashid
Furuta, Alice Rohrwacher, Pietro Marcello, and Francesco Munzi
Integralded, Radu Muntean
Hit the Road, Panah Panahi
Magnetic Beats, Vincent Maël Cardona
The Hill where Lionesses Roar, Luàna Bajrami
Medusa, Anita Rocha da Silveira
Our Men, Rachel Lang
Murina, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Neptune Frost, Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman
Between Two Worlds, Emmanuel Carrère
The Tale of King Crab, Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
Fragments, Jean-Gabriel Périot
The Souvenir Part II, Joanna Hogg
Ripples of Life, Shujun Wei
The Sea Ahead, Ely Dagher
Short Films
Anxious Body, Yoriko Mizushiri
The Sidereal Space, Sebastián Schjaer
The Parents’ Room, Diego Marcon
Simone Is Gone, Mathilde Chavanne
Sycorax, Lois Patiño and Matías Piñeiro
Train Again, Peter Tscherkassky
The Vandal, Eddie Alcazar
When Night Meets Dawn, Andreea Cristina Borțun
The Windshield Wiper, Alberto Mielgo
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