With five French films in the Official Selection and a French title as opening film, the 2015 Cannes Film Festival has set a new record for French films' participation at this event now in its 68th year.
Thierry Frémaux, the Cannes Film Festival's artistic director, confirmed this fact at a press conference held April 16: there was such a large number of high quality French productions submitted for selection this year that 7 films will be presented in the festival's Competition. This means that 5 French films will be gracing the red carpet this year, without even counting the Special Screenings, the films presented Out-of-Competition, and the program of the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Not to mention all of the French majority and minority co-productions to be showcased at the festival, which show France included in the credits of 27 films in the Official Selection.
Opening film (Out-of-Competition)
Official Selection - in Competition
- Dheepan by Jacques Audiard
- The Measure of a Man by Stéphane Brizé
- Marguerite et Julien by Valérie Donzelli
- Mon roi by Maïwenn
- Valley of Love by Guillaume Nicloux
- Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone (minority co-production)
- The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos (minority co-production)
- My Mother by Nanni Moretti (minority co-production)
- Youth by Paolo Sorrentino (minority co-production)
- Plus fort que les bombes by Joachim Trier (minority co-production)
- Mountains May Depart by Jia Zhang-Ke (minority co-production)
Closing film (out-of-competition)
Out-of-Competition
Special Screenings
- Macadam Stories by Samuel Benchetrit
- Amnesia by Barbet Schroeder (co-production)
- Afterthought by Elad Keidan (minority co-production)
Un Certain Regard
- Je suis un soldat by Laurent Larivière
- Disorder by Alice Winocour
- Lamb by Yared Zeleke (majority co-production)
- Masaan by Neeraj Ghaywan (minority co-production)
- Journey to the Shore by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (minority co-production)
- The Other Side by Roberto Minervini (minority co-production)
- Fourth Direction by Gurvinder Singh (minority co-production)
- Comoara (The Treasure) by Corneliu Porumboiu (minority co-production)
- An by Naomi Kawase (minority co-production)
- Cemetery of Splendour by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (minority co-production)
