72nd Cannes Film Festival 2019 -Directors’ Fortnight Lineup

Directors’ Fortnight Lineup

Feature Films

Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux) – Opening Film
Yves (Benoît Forgeard) – Closing
Alice and the Mayor (Nicolas Pariser)
And Then We Danced (Levan Akin)
The Halt (Lav Diaz)
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää)
Song Without a Name (Melina León)
Ghost Tropic (Bas Devos)
Give Me Liberty (Kirill Mikhanvovsky)
First Love (Takashi Miike)
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)

Lillian (Andreas Horwath)
Oleg (Juris Kursietis)
Blow It to Bits (Lech Kowalski)
The Orphanage (Shahrbanoo Sadat)
Les Particules (Blaise Harrison)
Perdrix (Erwan Le Duc)
For the Money (Alejo Moguillansky)
Sick Sick Sick (Alice Furtado)
Tlamess (Ala Eddine Slim)
To Live to Sing (Johnny Ma)
An Easy Girl (Rebecca Zlotowski)
Wounds (Babak Anvari)
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)

Special Screenings
Red 11 (Roberto Rodriguez)
The Staggering Girl (Luca Guadagnino)

Shorts
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (Beatrice Gibson)
The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady (Gabriel Abrantes)
Grand Bouquet (Nao Yoshigai)
Je Te Tiens (Sergio Caballero)
Movements (Dahee Jeong)
Olla (Ariane Labed)
Piece of Meat (Jerrold Chong & Huang Junxiang)
Ghost Pleasure (Morgan Simon)
Stay Awake, Be Ready (An Pham Thien)

ACID Lineup

Features
Blind Spot (Pierre Trividic, Patrick-Mario Bernard)
Des Hommes (Jean-Robert Viallet, Alice Odiot)
Indianara (Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcello Barbosa)
Kongo (Hadrien La Vapeur, Corto Vaclav)
Mickey And The Bear (Annabelle Attanasio)
Solo (Artemio Benki)
As Happy As Possible (Alain Raoust)
Take Me Somewhere Nice (Ena Sendijarevic)
Vif-Argent (Stéphane Batut)

ACID TRIP #3: ARGENTINA
Las Vegas (Juan Villegas)
Brief Story From The Green Planet (Santiago Loza)
Sangre Blanca (Barbara Sarasola-Day)

72nd Festival de Cannes -Short Films in Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection 2019.

 72^nd Festival de Cannes announced the Short Films in Competition and the 
Cinéfondation Selection 2019.

Presided by Claire Den

THE 2019 SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

This year, the selection committee has viewed 4240 short films.

The 2019 Short Films Competition comprises 11 films (9 works of fictions, 1 documentary, and 1 animation), from Albania, Argentina, France, Finland, Greece, Israel, Ukraine, Sweden and USA.These films are all in the running for the 2019 Short Film Palme d'Or, to be awarded by President of the Jury, Claire Denis, at the Closing Ceremony of the 72^nd Festival de Cannes on Saturday, May 25^th.

Erenik BEQIRI	THE VAN	Albania, France	15'
Dekel BERENSON	ANNA	Ukraine, Israel, United Kingdom	15’
Vanessa DUMONT Nicolas DAVENEL	THE JUMP Documentary	France	12’
Vasilis KEKATOS	THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US AND THE SKY	Greece / France	9’
Teemu NIKKI	ALL INCLUSIVE	Finland	15’
Elin ÖVERGAARD	INGEN LYSSNAR (WHO TALKS)	Sweden	14’
Agnès PATRON	AND THEN THE BEAR Animation Movie	France	14'
Yona ROZENKIER	PARPARIM (BUTTERFLIES)	Israel	7’
Agustina SAN MARTIN	MONSTRUO DIOS (MONSTER GOD)	Argentina	10'
Chloë SEVIGNY	WHITE ECHO	USA	15'
Federico Luis TACHELLA	LA SIESTA (THE NAP)	Argentina	14'

THE 2019 SELECTION CINEFONDATION

For its 22^nd edition, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 17 films (14 live-action and 3 animated films), from among the 2,000 submitted by schools all over the world. The important presence of Central and Eastern Europe highlights the vitality of filmmaking education in these countries. Six of the selected shorts come from schools taking part for the first time.

The Jury will hand over the three Cinéfondation prizes at a ceremony preceding the screening of the awarded films on Thursday 23^rd May, in the Palais des Festivals Buñuel Theatre.

Wisam AL JAFARI	AMBIENCE	Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture Palestine	15’
Louise COURVOISIER	MANO A MANO	CinéFabrique France	23’
Ondřej ERBAN	STO DVACET OSM TISÍC (ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND)	FAMU Czech Republic	16’
Kenya GILLESPIE	JEREMIAH	The University of Texas at Austin USA	10’
Martin GONDA	PURA VIDA	FTF VŠMU – Film and Television Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts Slovakia	30’
Shoki LIN	ADAM	Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore	19’
Yarden LIPSHITZ LOUZ	NETEK (RIFT)	Sapir College Israel	21’
David MCSHANE	SOLAR PLEXUS	NFTS United Kingdom	9’
Antonio MESSANA	ROSSO: LA VERA STORIA FALSA DEL PESCATORE CLEMENTE (ROSSO: A TRUE LIE ABOUT A FISHERMAN)	La Fémis France	28’
Katalin MOLDOVAI	AHOGY EDDIG (AS UP TO NOW)	Budapest Metropolitan University (METU) Hungary	24’
Martin MONK	FAVORITEN (FAVOURITES)	Filmakademie Wien Austria	18’
Leszek MOZGA	ROADKILL	University of the Arts London (UAL) United Kingdom	8’
Barbara RUPIK	DUSZYCZKA (THE LITTLE SOUL)	PWSFTviT Poland	9’
Richard VAN	HIẾU	CalArts USA	24’
Flo VAN DEUREN	BAMBOE	RITCS Belgium	19’
Olesya YAKOVLEVA	SLOZHNOPODCHINENNOE (COMPLEX SUBJECT)	St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television Russia	26’
YEON Jegwang	REONGHEE (ALIEN)	Korea National University of Arts South Korea	15’

FOCUS

72nd Festival de Cannes -Official Poster depicting Agnès Varda , in the bright sunlight.

Like a manifesto, this still photo from the set sums up everything about Agnès Varda: her passion, aplomb, and mischievousness. Ingredients of a free artist, forming a recipe she never stopped improving. Her 65 years of creativity and experimentation almost match the age of the Festival de Cannes, who celebrates each year visions which reveal, dare and rise higher. And who remains keen to remember.

72nd Festival de Cannes -Jim Jarmusch’s new film The Dead Don’t Die, will be screened at the Opening, and in Competition – a world premiere

Jim Jarmusch at the Opening of the 2019 Festival de Cannes!

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The Opening Ceremony of the 72nd Festival de Cannes will take place on May 14th 2019. It will be broadcast free-to-air by Canal +, as well as in partner cinemas. Actor and director Edouard Baer will be the Master of Ceremonies. The Competition Jury, chaired by Alejandro González Iñárritu, will present the Palme d'Or at the Closing Ceremony on Saturday May 25th.The Dead Don’t Die, Jim Jarmusch’s new film, will be screened at the Opening, and in Competition – a world premiere! The 72nd Festival de Cannes will open with the Competition screening of Jim Jarmusch's new film, The Dead Don't Die. On Tuesday May 14th, on the screen of the Grand Théâtre Lumière, the film by the American director and screenwriter will be this year’s first Palme d'Or competition screening.In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors.  No one quite knows why. News reports are scary and scientists are concerned.  But no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing Centerville:  THE DEAD DON’T DIE -- they rise from their graves and savagely attack and feast on the living -- and the citizens of the town must battle for their survival. The independent filmmaker's newest foray into genre film (after the western with Dead Man, Samurai/crime film with Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and his vampire film,Only Lovers Left Alive ) promises to be "the greatest zombies cast ever disassembled": Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Selena Gomez, RZA, Sara Driver, Austin Butler, Luka Sabbat, Eszter Balint, Carol Kane and Tom Waits.  The Dead Don’t Die  also reunites Jarmusch with many of his frequent collaborators including Director of Photography Frederick Elmes (Night on Earth, Paterson, Broken Flowers ) and Editor Affonso Gonçalves (Only Lovers Left Alive, Paterson ).The Dead Don’t Die  is Jim Jarmusch's thirteenth feature film and stands as not just a humorous and sometimes scary subversion of the genre (with a nod to George Romero’s seminal film, Night of the Living Dead ) but also a tribute to cinema itself. Since Stranger Than Paradise, Caméra d'or winner at the Festival de Cannes in 1984, which was a landmark in the history of new independent American cinema, Jim Jarmusch has been sharing with us his artful, soulful universes, inspired soundtracks,  offbeat humour, and the meanderings of his anti-heroes in an always slightly strange world. At Cannes, his elegant, rock and roll cinema, often presenting an alternative America, has been honoured with four awards, including the Short Film Palme d'or in 1993 for Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California  and the Grand Prix in 2005 for Broken Flowers. In 2016, Jim Jarmusch had two films in the Official Selection: Paterson with Golshifteh Farahani and Adam Driver, in Competition, and Gimme Danger, the music documentary on Iggy and the Stooges as part of the Midnight Screenings. A Focus Features presentation produced by Joshua Astrachan and Carter Logan, The Dead Don’t Die will be distributed by Focus Features and Universal Pictures International around the world – alongside Longride in Japan. The film will be released in France on the same day as its Cannes screening in the evening of May 14th, in the United States on June 14th 2019 and then worldwide.

72nd Festival de Cannes -Alejandro González Iñárritu-President of the Jury

Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is to be President of the Jury of the 72nd Festival de Cannes, taking place in May 2019.

“Cannes is a festival that has been important to me since the beginning of my career, he has declared. I am humbled and thrilled to return this year with the immense honor of presiding over the Jury. Cinema runs through the veins of the planet and this festival has been its heart. We on the jury will have the privilege to witness the new and excellent work of fellow filmmakers from all over the planet. This is a true delight and a responsibility, that we will assume with passion and devotion.” For their part, Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, are delighted that the filmmaker has accepted their invitation: “It is very rare for Alejandro G. Iñárritu to agree to take part in a jury, and this is the first time that the Festival de Cannes Jury is to be chaired by a Mexican artist. Cannes embraces all types of cinema, and through the presence of the Babel 's director, it is Mexican cinema that the Festival will be celebrating.” “Not only is he a daring filmmaker and a director who is full of surprises, Alejandro is also a man of conviction, an artist of his time. We are always happy to welcome him on the Croisette and, in 2017, have been particularly proud to present "Carne y Arena" (Virtually present, Physically invisible) into the Official Selection, a virtual reality installation that addressed the question of migrants with great strength and humanity.” Alejandro G. Iñárritu succeeds Cate Blanchett, Jury President of the 71st Festival de Cannes, whose jury awarded the Palme d’or to Shoplifters  by Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu.  The Festival de Cannes 2019 will take place from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 25 May.

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday
Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.” For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.
When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 
“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 
I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

'Last Supper, Italian Cenacolo, one of the most famous artworks in the world, painted by Leonardo da Vinci probably between 1495 and 1498 for the Dominican monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It depicts the dramatic scene described in several closely connected moments in the Gospels, including Matthew 26:21–28, in which Jesus declares that one of the Apostles will betray him and later institutes the Eucharist. According to Leonardo’s belief that posture, gesture, and expression should manifest the “notions of the mind,” each one of the 12 disciples reacts in a manner that Leonardo considered fit for that man’s personality. The result is a complex study of varied human emotion, rendered in a deceptively simple composition.’
..................................................................................................”After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”

22 His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. 23 One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. 24 Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, “Ask him which one he means.”

25 Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, “Lord, who is it?”

26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.

So Jesus told him, “What you are about to do, do quickly.” 28 But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. 29 Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. 30 As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.”