The Sou­venir Part II will pre­mière in Cannes Direc­tors’ Fortnight

After the rev­e­la­tion yes­ter­day that Fast 9 will have its French pre­mière on the Croisette, the announce­ments keep com­ing from the team at Cannes with the line-up for the Direc­tors’ Fort­night side­bar bring­ing some famil­iar names with it.

The pre­mière of Joan­na Hogg​’s hot­ly-antic­i­pat­ed sequel to her Sun­dance Grand Jury Prize-win­ning dra­ma The Sou­venir is like­ly to be the big-tick­et screen­ing, but there’s plen­ty to get excit­ed about, includ­ing a wealth of female film­mak­ing tal­ent which puts the main competition’s line-up to shame.

The selec­tion will open with French direc­tor and author Emmanuel Carrère’s Ouistre­ham, star­ring Juli­ette Binoche; giv­en that both are Cannes reg­u­lars, they’re sure to receive a warm recep­tion. Oth­er French film­mak­ers in the line-up include Yas­sine Qnia, Anaïs Volpé, Luà­na Bajra­mi and Jean-Gabriel Péri­ot, while British film­mak­er Clio Barnard’s fourth fea­ture, Ali & Ava, will also première.

Anoth­er intrigu­ing title is Futu­ra, helmed by the Ital­ian trio of Pietro Mar­cel­lo, Alice Rohrwach­er and Francesco Mun­zi. The doc­u­men­tary is described as ​“a por­trait of the coun­try [Italy] observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imag­ine them­selves, torn between the oppor­tu­ni­ties that sur­round them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of fail­ing, the tri­als they hope to overcome.”

Ara­bi­an Nights direc­tor Miguel Gomes will also return to Director’s Fort­night, as his lock­down film Tsug­ua Diaries, co-direct­ed with doc­u­men­tar­i­an Mau­reen Fazen­deiro, is sched­uled to pre­mière. Director’s Fort­night is tra­di­tion­al­ly one of Cannes’ most excit­ing line-ups, offer­ing plen­ty of oppor­tu­ni­ties for dis­cov­er­ing the next film­mak­ing sen­sa­tion (Sofia Cop­po­la, Chantel Ack­er­man, Xavier Dolan and Jim Jar­musch are among the lumi­nar­ies who got their big break in the pro­gram) so we’ll be keep­ing an ear to the ground.

Ouistre­ham, Emmanuel Car­rère
A Chiara, Jonas Carpig­nano
Ali & Ava, Clio Barnard
Clara Sola, Nathalie Álvarez Mesen
De bas étage, Yas­sine Qnia
Diários de Otso­ga, Miguel Gomes, Mau­reen Fazen­deiro
El emplea­do y el patrón, Manuel Nieto Zas
Entre les vagues, Anaïs Volpé
Europa, Haider Rashid
Futu­ra, Pietro Mar­cel­lo, Alice Rohrwach­er, Francesco Mun­zi
Hit the Road, Panah Panahi
Între­galde, Radu Muntean
The Hill Where Lioness­es Roar, Luà­na Bajra­mi
Les Mag­né­tiques, Vin­cent Maël Car­dona
Medusa, Ani­ta Rocha da Sil­veira
Muri­na, Antone­ta Ala­mat Kusi­janović
Nep­tune Frost, Saul Williams, Anisia Uzey­man
A Night of Know­ing Noth­ing, Pay­al Kapa­dia
Re Gran­chio, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Mat­teo Zop­pis
Retour à Reims (Frag­ments), Jean-Gabriel Péri­ot
Rip­ples of Life, Shu­jun Wei
The Sea Ahead, Ely Dagher
The Sou­venir Part II, Joan­na Hogg

Anx­ious Body, Yoriko Mizushiri
El Espa­cio sider­al (The Side­re­al Space), Sebastián Sch­jaer
The Par­ents’ Room (La Cham­bre des par­ents), Diego Mar­con
Simone est par­tie (Simone Is Gone), Mathilde Cha­vanne
Syco­rax, Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro
Train Again, Peter Tscherkassky
The Van­dal, Eddie Alcazar
When Night Meets Dawn (Quand la Nuit ren­con­tre l’Aube), Andreea Cristi­na Borțun
The Wind­shield Wiper, Alber­to Mielgo