Checkout the complete list of films in competition at Cannes Film Festival 2017
Cannes Film Festival is honouring it’s 70th anniversary this year. It started on 17th May 2017 and will continue till 28th May 2017. With a long list of films competing for the highest accolade at the festival, Palme D’Or, the movie Ismail’s Ghost would be screened for the opening of the festival.
70th Cannes International Film Festival, is an annual film festival held during the month of May in the beautiful city of Cannes, France. Pedro AlmodĂłvar, a Spanish director and screenwriter has been selected as the president of the jury. The poster for this year’s festival features Tunisian film actress Claudia Cardinale. Th actress gleefully said,
“âI am honoured and proud to be flying the flag for the 70th Festival de Cannes, and delighted with this choice of photo. Itâs the image I myself have of the Festival, of an event that illuminates everything around ⊠Happy anniversary!”
Here is the entire list of the films competing for Palme D’Or at Cannes 2017 –Â
Opening film
out of competition
Les FantĂŽmes dâIsmaĂ«l (director: Arnaud Desplechin)
Competition
(BPM) Beats Per Minute (dir: Robin Campillo)
The Beguiled (dir: Sofia Coppola)
The Day After (dir: Hong Sang-soo)
A Gentle Creature (dir: Sergei Loznitsa)
Good Time (dirs: Benny & Josh Safdie)
Happy End (dir: Michael Haneke)
In the Fade (dir: Fatih Akin)
Jupiterâs Moon (dir: KornĂ©l MundruczĂł)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
Redoubtable (dir: Michel Hazanavicius)
Loveless (dir: Andrey Zvyagintsev)
The Meyerowitz Stories (dir: Noah Baumbach)
Okja (dir: Bong Joon-ho)
Radiance (dir: Naomi Kawase)
The Square (dir: Ruben Ostlund)
Wonderstruck (dir: Todd Haynes)
You Were Never Really Here (dir: Lynne Ramsay)
Un Certain Regard
Barbara (dir: Mathieu Amalric) â opening film
Aprilâs Daughter (dir: Michel Franco)
Beauty and the Dogs (dir: Kaouther Ben Hania)
Before We Vanish (dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Closeness (dir: Kantemir Balagov)
The Desert Bride (dir: Cecilia Atan and Valeria Pivato)
Directions (dir: Stephan Komandarev)
Dregs (dir: Mohammad Rasoulof)
Jeune Femme (dir: LĂ©onor Serraille)
LâAtelier (dir: Laurent Cantet)
La Cordillera (dir: Santiago Mitre)
Lucky (dir: Sergio Castellitto)
The Nature of Time (dir: Karim Moussaoui)
Out (dir: György Kristóf)
Walking Past the Future (dir: Li Ruijun)
Western (dir: Valeska Grisebach)
Wind River (dir: Taylor Sheridan)
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Out of competition
Based on a True Story (dir: Roman Polanski)
Blade of the Immortal (dir: Takashi Miike)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties (dir: John Cameron Mitchell)
Visages, Villages (dirs: AgnĂšs Varda & JR)
Midnight screenings
A Prayer Before Dawn (dir: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
The Merciless (dir: Byun Sung-hyun)
The Villainess (dir: Jung Byung-gil)
Special screenings
12 Jours (dir: Raymond Depardon)
24 Frames (dir: Abbas Kiarostami)
An Inconvenient Sequel (dir: Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk)
Carré 35 (dir: Eric Caravaca)
Claireâs Camera (dir: Hong Sang-soo)
Demons in Paradise (dir: Jude Ratman)
Le Vénérable W (dir: Barbet Schroeder)
Napalm (dir: Claude Lanzmann)
Promised Land (dir: Eugene Jarecki)
Sea Sorrow (dir: Vanessa Redgrave)
They (dir: Anahita Ghazvinizadeh)
Top of the Lake (TV â dir: Jane Campion)
Twin Peaks (TV â dir: David Lynch)
Childrenâs screening
Zombillénium (dir: Arthur de Pins and Alexis Ducord)
Virtual reality
Carne y Arena (dir: Alejandro G Iñårritu)
Directors Fortnight
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A Ciambra (dir: Jonas Carpignano)
Alive in France (dir: Abel Ferrara)
LâAmant dâun Jour (dir: Philippe Garrel)
Bushwick (dirs: Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott)
Cuori Puri (dir: Roberto de Paolis)
The Florida Project (dir: Sean Baker)
Frost (dir: Sharunas Bartas)
I Am Not a Witch (dir: Rungano Nyoni)
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (dir: Bruno Dumont)
LâIntrusa (dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo)
La Defensa Del DragĂłn (dir: Natalia Santa)
Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (dir: Mouly Surya)
Mobile Homes (dir: Vladimir De Fontenay)
Nothingwood (dir: Sonia Kronlund)
Ătez-moi dâun Doute (dir: Carine Tardieu)
Patti Cake$ (dir: Geremy Jasper) â closing film
The Rider (dir: Chloé Zhao)
Un Beau Soleil IntĂ©rieur (dir: Claire Denis) â opening film
West of the Jordan River (Field Diary Revisited) (dir: Amos Gitai)
Criticsâ Week
Competition
Ava (dir: LĂ©a Mysius)
La Familia (dir: Gustavo RondĂłn CĂłrdova)
Gabriel and the Mountain (dir: Fellipe Gamarano Barbosa)
Makala (dir: Emmanuel Gras)
Oh Lucy! (dir: Atsuko Hirayanagi)
Los Perros (dir: Marcela Said)
Tehran Taboo (dir: Ali Soozandeh)
Special Screenings
Sicilian Ghost Story (dir: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza) â opening film
Brigsby Bear (dir: Dave McCary) â closing film
Bloody Milk (dir: Hubert Charuel)
A Violent Life (dir: Thierry de Perretti)
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