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Festivals

New films by Claire Denis, Sean Bak­er and Abel Fer­rara to debut in Cannes

20 Apr 2017

Words by David Jenkins

Two people sitting on the floor of a colourful, covered walkway with railings and trees visible outside.
Two people sitting on the floor of a colourful, covered walkway with railings and trees visible outside.
The 2017 Direc­tors’ Fort­night line-up is even more tan­ta­lis­ing than the main Competition.

While bulbs flash and celebs pout down at one end of the Croisette in Cannes, there’s cin­e­mat­ic action of a more hard­core stripe hap­ping a few hun­dred metres down the road. The Direc­tors’ Fort­night, a sub-strand of films loose­ly asso­ci­at­ed with the main fes­ti­val, is seen gen­er­al­ly seen as a place to catch titles which were per­haps a lit­tle too edgy for the competition.

But if this year’s stel­lar line-up is any­thing to go by, it looks like it’s man­aged to cull some major movie scalps – includ­ing new films by Sean Bak­er (The Flori­da Project), Bruno Dumont (Jeanette) and, most excit­ing of all, Claire Denis (Un Beau Soleil Interieur). The full line-up is list­ed below, and if we’re being hon­est, it looks like one of the sin­gle strongest set of films put togeth­er for a mod­ern film fes­ti­val. And there are six films by female direc­tors. Here’s the line-up in full:

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Un Beau Soleil Interieur by Claire Denis (Open­ing film)
A Ciambra by Jonas Carpig­nano
Alive in France by Abel Fer­rar­ra
L’Amant d’un Jour by Philippe Gar­rel
Bush­wick by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott
Cuori Puri by Rober­to De Pao­lis
The Flori­da Project by Sean Bak­er
Frost by Sharunas Bar­tas
I Am Not a Witch by Rungano Nyoni
Jeanette, the Child­hood of Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont
The Intrud­er by Leonar­do Di Costan­za
Mobile Homes by Vladimir de Fonte­nay
Mar­li­na The Mur­der­er In Four Acts direct­ed by Surya Mouly
The Defence of the Drag­on by Natalia San­ta
Noth­ing­wood by Sonia Kro­n­lund
Just To Be Sure by Carine Tardieu
The Rid­er by Chloé Zhao
West Of The Jor­dan Riv­er direct­ed by Amos Gitai
Pat­ti Cake$ by Gere­my Jasper (Clos­ing film)

The 2017 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val begins on 17 May.

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