The parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival open their programs

A week after the announcement of the official selection, all the parallel sections of the Cannes Film Festival, which opens on Tuesday 14 May, are now updated with their programs. At the helm of the two days of cinematographers (with a magnificent poster of the emblem of aubergines signed by master Takeshi Kitano), undoubtedly the most desirable section, running from 2023, is the general delegate Julien Regel, who was a long-time distributor. Company Capricci Films.

patron “A strong editorial line that supports the singularity of the writing, not the map of world production”, this year will announce a selection that includes nine short films and twenty one feature films. Among the latter stands out the excellent French selection that loves the public testing ground offered by Fortnight. At the opening we will name my life my faceof Sophie Filliere, director of seven bawdy and bitter comedies, who died in July 2023, aged 58. In this autobiographical opus we find Agnes Jaoui and Philippe Caterine.

Let’s quote one more time as his faceThierry de Peret (who continues his intense chronicle of Corsican violence); Prisoner of BordeauxPatricia Mazoui (in which Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Hertz bump into each other in prison corridors); eat at night, by Caroline Pogue and Jonathan Vinelli (presented as an apocalyptic romance); finally Plastic gunsThe third feature from Jean-Christophe Meurice, founder of the group Les Chiens de Navarre, looks set to close the festive ban with a bang.

Let’s celebrate the welcome opening of cinema in all its diversity (features animation, documentary, essay) and in this selection two American lines of power. Four young people from the United States unknown in our latitudes, as well as local independent cinema; and three films from Latin America, Argentinian, Brazilian and Chilean.

Asia and teenage friendship

The paths of cinema are mysterious, waiting for films that deal with great modern tragedies – above all the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine – will be disappointed at every box office this year. Genre cinema – from comedy to horror, including thrillers – on the other hand, seems to be making a comeback. Ava Kahn, Critics’ Week General Delegate for Emerging Filmmakers, presents these 63^e Publication, thriller GhostsBy Jonathan Millett (On the Hunt for Syrian War Criminals), Early and Terrible an animalFranco-Algerian director Emma Benestani (with Wild Beast and Disturbing Disappearance).