June 3, 2021
The 74th annual Cannes Film Festival (which takes place in Cannes, France) has announced its lineup of feature-length movies. The event takes place from July 6 to July 17, 2021, with the prize winners announced on July 17, 2021.
COMPETITION
“Ahed’s Knee” (“Ha’berech”), directed by Nadav Lapid (Israel)
“Annette,” directed by Leos Carax (France) — OPENING FILM
“Benedetta,” directed by Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands)
“Bergman Island,” directed by Mia Hansen-Løve (France)
“Casablanca Beats,” directed by Nabil Ayouch (Morocco)
“Compartment No. 6” (“Hytti Nro 6”), directed by Juho Kuosmanen (Finland)
“Drive My Car,” directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (France)
“Everything Went Fine” (“Tout s’est bien passé”), directed by Francois Ozon (France)
“Flag Day,” directed by Sean Penn (U.S.)
“France,” directed by Bruno Dumont (France)
“The French Dispatch,” directed by Wes Anderson (U.S.)
“A Hero,” directed by Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
“La Fracture,” directed by Catherine Corsini (France)
“Lingui,” directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad)
“Memoria,” directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
“Nitram,” directed by Justin Kurzel (Australia)
“Paris, 13th District” (“Les Olympiades”), directed by Jacques Audiard (France)
“Petrov’s Flu,” directed by Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
“Red Rocket,” directed by Sean Baker (U.S.)
“The Restless” (“Les Intranquilles”), directed by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium)
“The Story of My Wife,” directed by Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary)
“Three Floors” (“Tre Piani”), directed by Nanni Moretti (Italy)
“Titane,” directed by Julia Ducournau (France)
“The Worst Person in the World,” directed by Joachim Trier (Norway)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“After Yang,” directed by Kogonada (U.S.)
“Blue Bayou,” directed by Justin Chon (U.S.)
“Bonne Mère,” directed by Hafsia Herzi (France)
“Commitment Hasan,” directed by Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey)
“Freda,” directed by Gessica Généus (Haiti)
“Gaey Wa’r,” directed by Na Jiazuo (China)
“Great Freedom,” directed by Sebastian Meise (Austria)
“House Arrest” (“Delo”), directed by Alexey German Jr. (Russia)
“The Innocents,” directed by Eskil Vogt (Norway)
“La Civil,” directed by Teodora Ana Mihai (Romania-Belgium)
“Lamb,” directed by Valdimar Jóhansson (Iceland)
“Let There Be Morning,” directed by Eran Kolirin (Israel)
“Moneyboys,“ directed by C.B. Yi (Austria)
“Noche de Fuego,” directed by Tatiana Huezo (Mexico)
“Rehana Maryam Noor,” directed by Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Bangladesh)
“Unclenching the Fists,” directed by Kira Kovalenko (Russia)
“Un Monde,” directed by Laura Wandel (Belgium)
“Women Do Cry,” directed by Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“Aline, the Voice of Love,” directed by Valerie Lemercier (France)
“Bac Nord,” directed by Cédric Jimenez (France)
“Emergency Declaration,” directed by Han Jae-Rim (S. Korea)
“Peaceful” (“De son vivant”), directed by Emmanuelle Bercot (France)
“Stillwater,” directed by Tom McCarthy (U.S.)
“The Velvet Underground,” directed by Todd Haynes (U.S.)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Bloody Oranges,” directed by Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Babi Yar. Context,” directed by Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine)
“Black Notebooks,” directed by Shlomi Elkabetz (Israel)
“H6,” directed by Yé Yé (France)
“Mariner of the Mountains” (“O Marinheiro das Montanhas”), directed by Karim Aïnouz (Brazil)
“The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” directed by Jafar Panahi (Iran), Anthony Chen (Singapore), Malik Vitthal (U.S.), Laura Poitras (U.S.), Dominga Sotomayor (Chile), David Lowery (U.S.) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
CANNES PREMIERE
“Cow,” directed by Andrea Arnold (U.K.)
“Deception” (“Tromperie”), directed by Arnaud Desplechin (France)
“Evolution,” directed by Kornél Mundruczo (Hungary)
“Hold Me Tight,” directed byMathieu Amalric (France)
“In Front of Your Face,” directed by Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
“Jane by Charlotte,” directed by Charlotte Gainsbourg (France)
“JFK Revisted: Through the Looking Glass,” directed by Oliver Stone (U.S.)
“Love Songs for Tough Guys,” directed by Samuel Benchetrit (France)
“Mothering Sunday,” directed by Eva Husson (France)
“Val,” directed by Ting Poo and Leo Scott (U.S.)