The 2017 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val line-up has been announced

Like it or not, the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val is key bell­wether to dis­cern how the year’s incom­ing cin­e­mat­ic offer­ings. A good year for Cannes is a good year for cin­e­ma, as the cream of its high­ly selec­tive pro­gramme makes its way through fes­ti­vals, cin­e­mas and (increas­ing­ly) VOD chan­nels across the globe.

And so it comes once more that fes­ti­val big cheese Thier­ry Fré­maux – a benign Don Cor­leone of world cin­e­ma – sits down and, in his cheer­i­ly avun­cu­lar deliv­ery style, reveals the title that have made it to the Croisette this year. He puts an end to the games of idle spec­u­la­tion and the base­less Twit­ter the­o­ries about what we’ll get to see, and what we won’t.

But now we get to argue about which films are the must-sees, which films will spark con­tro­ver­sy, and which films will receive the howl­ing jeers of con­de­scen­sion as the final cred­its roll.

Open­ing film

Ismael’s Ghosts by Arnaud Desplechin

Com­pe­ti­tion

Love­less by Andrey Zvya­gin­stev
Good Time by Ben­ny and Josh Safdie
You Were Nev­er Real­ly Here by Lynne Ram­say
L’Amant Dou­ble by François Ozon
Jupiter’s Moon by Kornél Man­druczó
A Gen­tle Crea­ture by Sergey Loznit­sa
The Killing of a Sacred Deer by Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos
Radi­ance by Nao­mi Kawase
The Day After by Hong Sang-soo
Le Redoubtable by Michael Haz­anavi­cius
Won­der­struck by Todd Haynes
Hap­py End by Michael Haneke
Rodin by Jacques Doil­lon
The Beguiled by Sofia Cop­po­la
120 Heart­beats Per Minute by Robin Campil­lo
Okja by Bong Joon-ho
In the Fade by Fatih Akin
The Meyerowitz Sto­ries by Noah Baumbach

Out of Competition

Blade of the Immor­tal Takas­ki Miike
How to Talk to Girls at Par­ties by John Cameron Mitchell
Faces/​Villages by Agns Var­da and JR

Spe­cial screenings

Ale­jan­dro González Iñár­ritu VR exhib­it
Top of the Lake: Chi­na Girl by Jane Cam­pi­on
Come Swim by Kris­ten Stew­art (Short)
24 Frames by Abbas Kiarosta­mi
Two episodes of Twin Peaks by David Lynch
An Incon­ve­nient Sequel by Al Gore
12 Days by Ray­mond Depar­don
They by Anahi­ta Ghazvinizadeh
Clair’s Cam­era by Hong Sang-soo
Promised Land by Eugene Jarec­ki
Napalm by Claude Lanz­mann
Demons in Par­adise by Jude Rat­man
Sea Sor­row by Vanes­sa Redgrave

Un Cer­tain Regard

Bar­bara by Math­ieu Amal­ric
The Desert Bride by Cecelia Atan and Vale­ria Piva­to
Close­ness by Kan­temir Bal­agov
Beau­ty and the Dogs by Kaouther Ben Hania
L’Atelier by Lau­rent Can­tet
Lucky by Ser­gio Castel­lit­to
April’s Daugh­ter by Michel Fran­co
West­ern by Vales­ka Grise­bach
Direc­tions by Stephan Koman­darev
Out by Gyor­gy Kristof
Before We Van­ish by Kiyoshi Kuro­sawa
Fregs by Moham­mad Rasoulof
The Nature of Time by Karim Mous­saoui
Jeune Femme by Léonor Ser­raille
Wind Riv­er by Tay­lor Sheri­dan
After the War by Annari­ta Zambrano

Mid­night screenings

Prayer before Dawn by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
The Mer­cie­less by Byun Sung-hyun
The Vil­lain­ess by Jung Bgyng-gil

The 2017 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val begins on 17 May.