With a jury headed by Cate Blanchett, the main lineup for the 71st Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled, including Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight, and Special screenings. This year’s competition lineup features some of our most-anticipated films of the year, including Jean-Luc Godard’s Le livre d’images, Lee Chang-dong’s Burning, Jia Zhangke’s Ash is Purest White, Spike Lee’s BlackKkKlansman, Jafar Panahi’s recently unveiled Three Faces, David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, and more. The Un Certain Regard section also includes one title we hoped might make it into competition: Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues follow-up Long Day’s Journey into Night.
While it’s clear there was going to be no Netflix films, there were a handful of rumored films that didn’t make the cut, though there’s the possibility of being added later. Those include Brian De Palma’s Domino, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree, Olivier Assayas’ Non Fiction, Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum, Claire Denis’ High Life, László Nemes’ Sunset, Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, Mia Hansen-Løve’s Maya, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria, Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro, Jacques Audiard’s The Sisters Brothers, and Terrence Malick’s Radegund.
Check out the lineup thus far below, with trailers and images where available, and return for our coverage.
Competition
Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi) – 2h10m
At War (Stéphane Brizé) – 1hr45m
Dogman (Matteo Garrone) – 2hr
Le livre d’images (Jean-Luc Godard) – 1hr30m
Netemo Sameteo (Asako I & II) (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi) – 1hr59m
Sorry Angel (Christophe Honoré) – 2hr12m
Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson) – 2hr
Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) 2hr30m
Shoplifter (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 2hr1m
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) – 2hr30m
Burning (Lee Chang-dong) – 2hr28m
BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee) – 2hr8m
Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) – 2hr20m
Three Faces (Jafar Panahi) – 1hr24m
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) – 1hr25m
Lazzaro Felice (Alice Rohrwacher) – 2hr10m
Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky) – 1hr37m
Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov) – 2hr
Out of Competition
Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard) – 2hr15m
Le grand bain (Gilles Lelouch)
Un Certain Regard
Gräns (Ali Abbasi) – 1hr41m
Sofia (Meye Benm’Barek) – 1hr30m
Little Tickles (Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer) – 1hr43m
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Bi Gan) – 1h50m
Manto (Nandita Das) – 1hr50m
Sextape (Antoine Desrosières) – 1hr38m
Girl (Lukas Dhont) – 1h40m
Angel Face (Vanessa Filho) – 2hr
Euphoria (Valeria Golino) – 2hr
My Favourite Fabric (Gaya Jiji) – 1hr36m
The Harvesters (Etienne Kallos) – 1hr42m
Friend (Wanuri Kahiu) – 1hr22m
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler) – 2hr
El Angel (Luis Ortega) – 2hr6m
The Gentle Indifference of the World (Adilkhan Yerzhanov) – 1hr39m
Special Screenings
10 Years in Thailand (Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 1hr32m
The State Against Mandela and the Others (Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte) – 1hr45m
O Grande Circo Místico (Carlo Diegues) – 1hr34m
Dead Souls (Wang Bing) – 8hr15m
To the Four Winds (Michel Toesca) – 1hr40m
La Traversée (Romain Goupil) – 2hr21m
Pope Francis – A Man of His Word (Wim Wenders) – 1hr36m
Midnight Screenings
Arctic (Joe Penna) – 1hr50m
The Spy Gone North (Yoon Jong-bing) – 2hr27m
Watch the full press conference below.
Cannes 2018 takes place May 8-19.