French films at the Cannes Film Festival 2018

French cinema remains, year after year, a major reference on the world cinema map, and Cannes maintains its role as a launching pad – be it for international or French cinema – for the year ahead. The festival is also, once again, the sounding board for French co-productions (with around thirty selected this year at Cannes), very important on a global scale. The greatest film festival in the world is hence the ideal place to take stock of this French presence more open and vibrant than ever.

This year, the artistic director of the festival seems to have opted for younger filmmakers and renewal, by choosing, in particular, two second features (Yann Gonzalez and Eva Husson) among the 5 French films presented in Official Competition.

We also congratulate the selection of ACID, the independent filmmakers cooperative, which will welcome 7 women filmmakers among the 11 directors presenting a film.

All the French films (or French co-productions) presented in the 4 Cannes sections

Official Selection

Competition:

• Knife + Heart by Yann Gonzalez
• Girls Of The Sun by Eva Husson
• Sorry Angel by Christophe Honoré
• The Image Book by Jean-Luc Godard
• At War by Stéphane Brizé
• The Wild Pear Tree by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (minority)
• Dogman by Matteo Garrone (minority)
• Everybody Knows by Asghar Farhadi (minority)
• Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher (minority)
• Capernaum by Nadine Labaki (minority)
• Ash Is Purest White by Jia Zhang-Ke (minority)
• Asako I & II by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (minority)
• Cold War by Pawel Pawlikowski (minority)

Out of Competition:

• Sink or Swim by Gilles Lellouche
• The House that Jack Built by Lars Von Trier (minority)
• The Man who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam (minority)

Special Screenings:

• La Traversée by Romain Goupil, Daniel Cohn-Bendit
• To the Four Winds by Michel Toesca
• Dead Souls by Wang Bing
• The State against Mandela and the Others by Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte
• The Great Mystical Circus by Carlos Diegues (minority)
• Pope Francis - a Man of his Word by Wim Wenders (minority)

Un Certain Regard:

• Little Tickles by Andrea Bescond and Eric Metayer
• The Harvesters by Étienne Kallos
• Sextape by Antoine Desrosières
• Angel Face by Vanessa Filho
• My Favorite Fabric by Gaya Jiji
• Sofia by Meryem Benm'Barek
• Donbass by Sergei Loznitsa (minority)
• The Gentle Indifference of the World by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (minority)
• Rafiki by Wanuri Kahiu (minority)
• Murder me, Monster by Alejandro Fadel (minority)
• Long Day's Journey into Night by Bi Gan (minority)

Short Films - Official Selection:

• Gabriel by Oren Gerner

Short Films - Cinéfondation:

• Sailor's Delight by Louise Aubertin, Éloïse Girard, Marine Meneyrol, Jonas Ritter, Loucas Rongeart, and Amandine Thomoux
• A Piece of Tragedy by Laura Garcia

Directors' Fortnight

Selection:

• The World is Yours by Romain Gavras
• To the Ends of the World by Guillaume Nicloux
• Climax by Gaspar Noé
• Amin by Philippe Faucon
• The Trouble with You by Pierre Salvadori
• Samouni Road by Stefano Savona
• Treat Me Like Fire by Marie Monge
• Dear Son by Mohamed Ben Attia
• The Load by Ognjen Glavonic (minority)
• Petra by Jaime Rosales (minority)
• Birds of Passage by Olivier Ringer (minority)
• Los Silencios by Beatriz Seigner (minority)

Short Films:

• Las Cruces by Nicolas Boone
• Basses by Félix Imbert
• The Song by Tiphaine Raffier
• The Night of the Plastic Bags by Gabriel Harel
• This Magnificent Cake! by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels

Critics' Week

Features

• Sauvage by Camille Vidal-Naquet
• A Woman at War by Benedikt Erlingsson (minority)
• Sir by Rohena Gera (minority)
• Diamantino by Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt (minority)

Closing Film:

• Guy by Alex Lutz

Special Screenings:

• Shéhérazade by Jean-Bernard Marlin
• Our Struggles bye Guillaume Senez (minority)

Short Films

• Pauline Enslaved by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
• La Persistente by Camille Lugan
• A Wedding Day by Élias Belkeddar

Short Films - Special Screenings:

• Apocalypse After by Bertrand Mandico
• The Fall by Boris Labbé

ACID

Selection:

• Alone at my Wedding by Marta Bergman
• Love Blooms by Michaël Dacheux
• In the Mighty Jungle by Caroline Capelle, Ombline Ley
• A Violent Desire for Joy by Clément Schneider
• Something is Happening by Anne Alix
• We the Coyotes by Hanna Ladoul, Marco La Via
• Cassandro the Exotico ! by Marie Losier

Acid Trip:

• Colo by Teresa Villaverde (minority)