For the 2016 edition, features produced by France represent more than half of the Competition titles in the Official Selection, 66% of the films selected for Directors' Fortnight and 85% of the films in Competition in Critics' Week.
Fifty features with a French production component (among which 31 are 100% French or majority-French productions) will be presented this year at the Cannes Film Festival.This very rich harvest confirms France as a crucial country in film production worldwide.
12 features in Competition in the Official Selection, plus 8 in Special Screenings (being the entire strand), 1 in Midnight Screenings, 8 films in Un Certain Regard, 9 films in Critics' Week (out of 12 films presented overall, Official Selection and Special Screenings), and 13 films in Directors' Fortnight (including the Opening Film). And this is without mentioning ACID, whose selection is traditionally always oriented towards French productions.
The result: Of the 80 features presented in the three main selections, 51 involve French participation in their financing (compared to 59 last year, out of a total of 93 features). France hence remains central to art cinema production worldwide.
Short films also have a strong showing, with nine films presented in these three same selections. This year, actors who have taken the step into directing stand out: Félix Moati will present his first short in the Official Selection, and Critics' Week will close with world premieres of short films by Sandrine Kiberlain and Laetitia Casta.
News focusing on French short films to be presented at Cannes will be posted soon.
Official Selection
Features - Competition:
- Slack Bay by Bruno Dumont
- From the Land of the Moon by Nicole Garcia
- Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas
- Staying Vertical by Alain Guiraudie
- Elle by Paul Verhoeven
- The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi
- The Unknown Girl by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne (minority production)
- I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach (minority production)
- It's Only the End of the World by Xavier Dolan (minority production)
- Sieranevada by Cristi Puiu (minority production)
- Bacalaureat by Cristian Mungiu (minority production)
- Aquarius by Kleber Mendonça Filho (minority production)
Features - Special Screenings:
- Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Exile by Rithy Panh
- Le Cancre by Paul Vecchiali
- The Death of Louis XIV by Albert Serra
- Wrong Elements by Jonathan Littell
- Fool Moon by Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
- Chouf by Karim Dridi
- L'Ultima spiaggia by Thanos Anastopoulos and Davide Del Degan (minority production)
Features - Midnight Screenings:
Features - Un Certain Regard:
- The Dancer by Stéphanie Di Giusto
- The Red Turtle by Michael Dudok De Wit
- The Stopover by Muriel Coulin, Delphine Coulin
- Dogs by Bogdan Mirica
- Clash by Mohamed Diab (minority)
- Harmonium by Koji Fukada (minority)
- Pericles by Stefano Mordini (minority)
- Apprentice by Boo Junfeng (minority)
Directors' Fortnight
Features - Opening Film:
- Sweet Dreams by Marco Bellocchio (minority production)
Features - Selection:
- Divines by Houda Benyamina
- Mercenary by Sacha Wolff
- The Together Project by Solveig Anspach
- Tour de France by Rachid Djaïdani
- The Lives of Thérèse by Sébastien Lifshitz
- Like Crazy by Paolo Virzi (minority production)
- After Love by Joachim Lafosse (minority production)
- My Life as a Courgette by Claude Barras (minority production)
- Mean Dreams by Nathan Morlando (minority production)
- Neruda by Pablo Larraín (minority production)
- Endless Poetry by Alejandro Jodorowsky (minority production)
- Wolf and Sheep by Shahrbanoo Sadat (minority production)
Critics' Week
Features - Competition:
- Diamond Island by Davy Chou
- Raw by Julia Ducournau
- Tramontane by Vatché Boulghourjian (minority production)
- Mimosas by Oliver Laxe (minority production)
- A Yellow Bird by K. Rajagopal (minority production)
- Album by Mehmet Can Mertoglu (minority production)
Features - Special Screenings:
- In Bed with Victoria by Justine Triet (opening film)
- Apnée by Jean-Christophe Meurisse
- Happy Times Will Come Soon by Alessandro Comodin (minority production)
