A competition filmmaker mainstay, Kirill Serebrennikov has been downgraded to the Cannes Premiere section for the world premiere to The Disappearance of Josef Mengele. He is among the veteran auteur filmmakers who make up the half dozen entries in the section which is surprisingly sans any French films. Joining the clique of Sebastián Lelio, Fatih Akin and Raoul Peck are relative newcomers in Un Certain Regard alumni pair of Michael Angelo Covino (The Climb) who surfaces with Splitsville and Alex Lutz (Une Nuit) who comes with Connemara which stars Bastien Bouillon. The actor will be in the opening night film this year in Amélie Bonnin’s Leave One Day. Of the most alluring titles not playing in the competition or the Un Certain Regard sections we lasso two feature films that fall under the Sony Pictures Classics label in Rebecca Zlotowski‘s Vie Privée and Sylvain Chomet‘s A Magnificent Life.
Opening Night
“Leave One Day” (dir. Amélie Bonnin)
Out of Competition
“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” (dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
“Colours of Sky” (dir. Cedric Klapisch)
“Vie Privée” (dir. Rebecca Zlotowski)
“The Richest Woman in the World” (dir. Thierry Klifa)
Special Screenings
“Stories of Surrender” (dir. Bono)
“Tell Her That I Love Her” (dir. Romane Bohringer)
“A Magnificent Life” (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
Cannes Premiere
“Amrum” (dir. Fatih Akin)
“Connemara” (dir. Alex Lutz)
“The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
“Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5” (dir. Raoul Peck)
“Splitsville” (dir. Michael Angelo Covino)
“The Wave” (dir. Sebastián Lelio)
Midnight
“Dalloway” (dir. Yann Gozlan)
“Exit 8” (dir. Genki Kawamura)
“Songs of the Neon Night” (dir. Juno Mak)
