The prestigious Cannes Film Festival is returning from July 6–17 after last year's hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic
Like most film festivals that have been hampered by the pandemic last year, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival also had to cancel its run.
But it's set to return this year for its 74th edition from July 6–17 and Cannes has announced its studded lineup of past Palme d'Or winners, French titles and arthouse fan favourites for the competition. Festival director Thierry Frémaux announced that 63 films from around the world are premiering this year and remarked that "cinema is not dead".
A total of 24 titles are in the Official Competition (competing for the Palme d'Or), 18 in Un Certain Regard and other promising titles in other categories. Here's the full list of the lineup:
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Official Selection
- Annette by Leos Carax (France)
- The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson (USA)
- Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands)
- A Hero by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
- Tout s'est Bien Passé (Everything Went Well) by Francois Ozon (France)
- Tre Piani (Three Floors) by Nanni Moretti (Italy)
- Titane (Titan) by Julia Ducournau (France)
- Red Rocket by Sean Baker (USA)
- Petrov's Flu by Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
- Par un Demi-Clair Matin (now known by the title "France") by Bruno Dumont (France)
- Nitram by Justin Kurzel (Australia)
- Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
- Lingui by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad)
- Les Olympiades (Paris' 13th District) by Jacques Audiard (France)
- Les Intranquilles (The Restless Ones) by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium)
- La Fracture by Catherine Corsini (France)
- The Worst Person in the World by Joachim Trier (Norway)
- Compartment No 6 by Juho Kuosmanen (Finland)
- Casablanca Beats by Nabil Ayouch (France-Morocco)
- Ahed's Knee by Nadav Lapid (Israel)
- Drive My Car by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
- Bergman Island by Mia Hansen-Love (France)
- The Story of My Wife by Ildiko Enyedi (Hungary)
- Flag Day by Sean Penn (USA)
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