With the Cannes Film Festival lineup now out of the bag, it’s time for the sidebars to do their thing, and Cannes Critics’ Week has kicked things off today by unveiling their slate of films. The sidebar tends to focus on less established names, but on cinematic voices that could make an impact in years to come. So even if you don’t know these filmmakers yet, chances are you soon will.
But that’s not say there won’t be any stars. Mélanie Laurent‘s sophomore directorial feature “Breathe” will play Out Of Competition at the Critics’ Week. Based on the novel by Anne-Sophie Brasme, Laurent co-wrote the film with Julien Lambroschini that stars Lou de Laâgeand and Joséphine Japy as two teenage girls whose abusive friendship turns deadly.
Andrea Arnold heads up the jury this year, with Cannes Critics’ Week running from May 15-23. Check out the lineup and official poster below.
COMPETITION
Darker Than Midnight Sebastiano Riso
Gente de Bien Franco Lolli
Hope Boris Lojkine
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Self Made Shira Geffen
The Tribe Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
When Animals Dream Jonas Alexander Arnby
OUT OF COMPETITION
Breathe Mélanie Laurent
The Kindergarten Teacher Nadav Lapid
Hippocrate Thomas Lilti
SHORT AND MID-LENGTH FILMS
Young Lions of Gypsy Jonas Carpignano
Goodnight Cinderella Carlos Conceicao
The Chicken Una Gunjak
Back Alley Cecile Ducrocq
Crocodile Gaelle Denis
Les fleuves m’ont laissée descendre où je voulais Laurie de Lassale
Little Brother Remi St-Michel
Safari Gerardo Herrero
TrueLoveStory Gitanjali Rao
A Blue Room Tomasz Siwinski