A total of 17 titles have been selected for screening during La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, commonly known as the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film festival.
Among these are Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights, which is a six-hour trilogy.
Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women, is to fill in the headline opening slot, while Rick Famuyiwa’s Sundance hit comedy Dope bagged the closing slot.
Some titles worth mention include Arnaud Desplechlin’s My Golden Years, despite its Palme d’Or snub; Jaco Van Dormael’s religious satire The Brand New Testament; the thrilling gangster-vampire crossover thriller Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld by Takashi Miike.
If you like your foreign films star-studded and without the subtitles, however, keep your peepers peeled for Fernando León de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day, which stars Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins and Olga Kurylenko in a drama set in the Balkans.
The Directors’ Fortnight runs from 14-24 May.
