Competition
LES AMANDIERS (FOREVER YOUNG)23 directed by VALERIA BRUNI TEDESCHI
HOLY SPIDER (LES NUITS DE MASHHAD) directed by ALI ABBASI
HEOJIL KYOLSHIM (DECISION TO LEAVE) directed by PARK CHAN-WOOK
Decision to Leave sees an insomniac detective in Busan form an intimate bond with a beguiling murder subject of his latest case and leaves the viewer off balance at every turn. It’s a gorgeous and grippingly made black-widow noir romance, featuring a glorious leading turn from the Chinese star Tang Wei.
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (LES CRIMES DU FUTUR) directed by DAVID CRONENBERG
It’s a piece which is deliberate, but not sterile; disturbing, but too grounded in reality to be truly frightening, even though it attempts to blend the fears of body horror with climate change. It’s pure, essential Cronenberg.
Premiere
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION (L’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE LA DESTRUCTION) directed by SERGEI LOZNITSA
ALL THAT BREATHES directed by SHAUNAK SEN
NOS FRANGINS (OUR BROTHERS) directed by RACHID BOUCHAREB
MOONAGE DAYDREAM directed by BRETT MORGEN
For his feature documentary, Brett Morgen takes a more impressionistic approach, exploring the Bowie persona as a composite creation, a chameleonic alien who shrugged o$ the enigma to engage with the world as himself only in the last two decades of his life. It’s a glorious celebratory montage of archive material, live performance footage, Bowie’s own experimental video art and paintings, movie and stage work.
Un Certain Regard
KURAK GÜNLER (BURNING DAYS) directed by EMIN ALPER
JOYLAND directed by Saim Sadiq
Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
LES CINQ DIABLES (THE FIVE DEVILS) directed by LÉA MYSIU3S
EL AGUA (THE WATER) directed by ELENA LÓPEZ RIERA
DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA directed by VÉRÉNA PARAVEL & LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR
LES ANNÉES SUPER 8 (THE SUPER 8 YEARS) directed by DAVID ERNAUX-BRIOT & ANNIE ERNAUX
PAMFIR directed by DMYTRO SUKHO LYTKYY-SOBCHUK
“It’s amazing to be here and have my feature play in the festival but it’s not what belongs to my reality,” he says a few hours before the premiere of Pamfir, a drama about a man who faces small town corruption in Western Ukraine. “My reality is my country and it’s in the middle of an awful war.”
Semaine de la Critique
NOS CÉRÉMONIES (SUMMER SCARS) directed by SIMON RIETH
TASAVOR (IMAGINE) directed by ALI BEHRAD
SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 1
