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Cannes 2016: Line-up announced

14 Apr 2016

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Steven Spiel­berg, Nico­las Wind­ing Refn and Jim Jar­musch are among those with new films at the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

It’s that time of year again when the world of movies and its fig­u­ra­tive wife divert their atten­tions to the French Riv­iera when art cinema’s mer­ry prankster, Thier­ry Fré­maux, final­ly puts an end to the months of heat­ed con­jec­ture and announces the line-up to the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

We’ll be on the ground cov­er­ing all the big screen­ings and report­ing on all the big rev­e­la­tions as and when they hap­pen, but in the mean­time, here are the films that make up this year’s offi­cial selection…

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Café Soci­ety by Woody Allen

Toni Erd­mann by Maren Ade
Juli­eta by Pedro Almod­ó­var
Amer­i­can Hon­ey by Andrea Arnold
From the Land of the Moon by Nicole Gar­cia
The Unknown Woman by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dar­d­enne
Per­son­al Shop­per by Olivi­er Assayas
It’s Only the End of the World by Xavier Dolan
Slack Bay by Bruno Dumont
Pater­son by Jim Jar­musch
Stay Ver­ti­cal Alain Guiraudie
Aquar­ius by Kle­ber Men­donça-Fil­ho
I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach
Ma’ Rosa Bril­lante Men­doza
Fam­i­ly Pho­tos by Cris­t­ian Mungiu
Lov­ing by Jeff Nichols
The Hand­maid­en by Park Chan-wook
The Last Face by Sean Penn
Sier­ra-Neva­da by Cristi Puiu
Elle by Paul Ver­ho­even
The Neon Demon by Nico­las Wind­ing Refn

Gok­sung by Na Hong-Jin
Mon­ey Mon­ster by Jodie Fos­ter
The Nice Guys by Shane Black
Give Me Dan­ger by Jim Jar­musch
Bu-san Haeng by Yeon Sang-ho
Hisein Habré, Une Tragedie by Mah­mat-Saleh Haroun
La Mort de Louis XIV by Albert Ser­ra
La Can­cre by Paul Vecchiali

Varoone­gi by Behnam Behza­di
La Danseuse by Stéphanie De Gus­to
Eshte­bak by Mohamed Diab
La Torte Rouge by Michel dudok de Wit
Fun­ci Ni Tat­su by Koji Fuka­da
Me’Ever Laharim Vehag­vaot by Eran Kolirin
After the Storm by Hirokazu Koree­da
Hymy­ilevä Mies by Juho Kuos­ma­n­en
La Large Noche de Franc­sis­co by Fran­cis­co Márquez and Andrea Tes­ta
Dogs by Bog­dan Mir­ca
Per­i­cle il Nero de Ste­fano Mor­di­ni
Trans­fig­u­ra­tion by Michael O’Shea
Cap­tain Fan­tas­tic by Matt Ross
Uchenik by Kir­ill Serebrennikov

The 69th Cannes Film Fes­ti­val runs 11 – 22 May. For more info vis­it fes​ti​val​-cannes​.fr

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