Directors Fortnight Lineup Revealed As Cannes Film Festival Looms

Another day, another bit of news coming out of the Croisette, revolving around this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The festival has revealed the lineup for their Directors Fortnight sidebar, and it’s yet another top notch lineup, led by some top notch talent.

The biggest name here is Alejandro Jodorowsky, who will be bringing his new film entitled The Dance Of Reality to Cannes this year. Thought as a possible entrant for the main Cannes lineup or at least the Un Certain Regard sidebar, the film lands in the Fortnight, and joins features like the Sundance darlings Magic Magic and We Are What We Are, and even a new short film from Lynne Ramsay, entitled The Swimmer.

Personally, while the Jodorowsky film is easily this lineup’s most exciting, there is one other film that is incredibly eye grabbing. Clio Barnard, best known for the stunning alt-documentary known as The Arbor, will be bringing a new picture entitled The Selfish Giant to Cannes, and I couldn’t be more interested. Her last film is one of my favorite modern documentaries, and anything she touches is definitely something that will be worth paying attention to.

• “Above the Hill” (Raphael Nadjari)
• “Apres la nuit” (Basil Da Cunha)
• “Les Apaches” (Thierry De Peretti)
• “Blue Ruin” (Jeremy Saulnier)
• “The Congress” (Ari Folman)
• “The Dance of Reality” (Alejandro Jodorwosky)
• “L’escale” (Kaveh Bakhtiari)
• “La Fille du 14 juillet” (Antonin Peretjako)
• “Henri” (Yolande Moreau)
• “Iloilo” (Anthony Chen)
• “Jodorowsky’s Dune” (Frank Pavich)
• “Last Day on Mars” (Ruairi Robinson)
• “Magic Magic” (Sebastian Silva)
• “Me Myself and Mum” (Guillaume Gallienne)
• “On the Job” (Erik Matti)
• “The Selfish Giant” (Clio Barnard)
• “The Summer of the Flying Fish” (Marcela Said)
• “Tip Top” (Serge Bozon)
• “Ugly” (Anurag Kashyap)
• “Un voyageur” (Marcel Ophuls)
• “We Are What We Are” (Jim Mickle)

Source Variety