Handing in their almost finished homework, we expect an extra of titles to be added to the sixteen titles that were unveiled today. The upcoming Un Certain Regard programme has eight feature debuts with notables in Harris Dickinson (Urchin) and Scarlett Johansson (Eleanor the Great) making the move behind the camera. Also in the newbie club we find the highly anticipated films by Morad Mostafa in Aisha Can’t Fly Away and Diego Céspedes‘ The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo. Charlie Polinger‘s The Plague, Akinola Davies Jr.‘s My Father’s Shadow (a Mubi pick-up), Zuzana Kirchnerová‘s Karavan and Harry Lighton’s Pillion – the A24 Kinky Queer Romance film starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling are also up for the Camera d’Or prize.
In faces that we discovered on the Croisette, we find some Directors’ Fortnight alumni in Under the Figs director Erige Sehiri with her new film Promised Sky and The Tale of King Crab‘s Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis with Heads or Tails? — which is inspired by a true event that took place during Buffalo Bill’s stay in Italy. John C. Reilly plays Buffalo Bill. Here are the selections:
A Pale View of Hills – Kei Ishikawa
Aisha Can’t Fly Away – Morad Mostafa
Eleanor the Great – Scarlett Johansson
Heads or Tails? – Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Homebound – Neeraj Ghaywan
Karavan – Zuzana Kirchnerová
L’inconnue de la Grande Arche – Stephane Demoustier
The Last One for the Road – Francesco Sossai
Meteors – Hubert Charuel
My Father’s Shadow – Akinola Davies Jr.
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo – Diego Céspedes
Once Upon a Time in Gaza – Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser
Pillion – Harry Lighton
The Plague – Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky – Erige Sehiri
Urchin – Harris Dickinson
