The 76th edition of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival is about to start, arousing the excitement of moviegoers from around the world.
Last April, the organizers announced the official selection of feature films in competition, which promises to be exciting and varied. This year, no less than 21 films will compete to win the honors, 7 of which are made by women, marking a significant increase in the female presence behind the camera.
The selection includes both renowned and confirmed directors, as well as young emerging talents. A special mention deserves to be given to a young director who makes her debut in competition with her very first film, thus testifying to the opening and inclusion of the festival towards the new talents.
The event has a particular meaning for Tunisia, Because the country has managed to place a film in official competition for the first time since 1970. This historical achievement is an important step for the Tunisian film industry and reflects the dynamism and creativity of the country’s filmmakers.
While excitement goes up to Cannes, a question remains: what films will leave with prestigious awards? The jury, made up of personalities from the world of cinema, will have the difficult task of choosing the winners from such a competitive selection. The films in competition tackle various subjects, ranging from intimate to politics, from drama to comedy, offering spectators a rich and diversified cinematographic experience.
What if this year was that of a director to win the famous Palme d’Or?
The film industry has experienced a positive development in recent years in terms of representation and recognition of women directors. A victory for a director for the Palme d’Or would be a strong symbol of this evolution and an encouragement for women filmmakers from around the world.
Firebrand from Karim Ainouz
With Alicia Vikander, Jude Law and Amr Waked
Synopsis: Catherine Parr is the sixth wife of King Henri VIII, whose previous wives were either repudiated or decapitated (only one having died following a disease). With the help of her ladies, she tries to thwart the traps that the bishop, the court and the king tend to her …
Asteroid City of Wes Anderson
With Tilda Swinton, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Edward Norton, Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, and many others.
Synopsis: The program for a conference of young astronomers and spaces of space (organized to bring together students from all over the country and their parents during a school competition) will be jostled by events upset the world.
Dodin-bouffant’s passion From Tran Anh Hung
With Benoit Magimel and Juliet Binoche.
Synopsis: Eugénie, an outstanding cook, has been in the service of the famous Gastronome Dodin for 20 years. By dint of spending time together in cooking, a love passion was built with each other where love is closely linked to the practice of gastronomy. From this union are born very tasty and delicate dishes than each other who go so far as to amaze the greatest of this world. However, Eugénie, eager for freedom, never wanted to marry Dodin. The latter then decides to do something he has never done: cook for her.
Rapito/Removing by Marco Bellocchio
With Fausto Russo Alessi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala and Leonardo Maltese
Synopsis: In 1858, in the Jewish district of Bologna, the Pope soldiers burst into the Mortara family. On the orders of the Cardinal, they came to take Edgardo, their seven -year -old son. The child would have been baptized in secret by his nurse being a baby and the pontifical law is indisputable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, upset, will do everything to recover their son. Supported by the public opinion of liberal Italy and the international Jewish community, the fight of the Mortara quickly takes on a political dimension. But the church and the pope refuse to make the child, to establish an increasingly flickering power …
Olffa’s girls by Kaouther Ben Hania
With Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui, Hend Sabry, Nour Karoui, Ichraq Matar and Majd Mastoura
Synopsis: Between light and darkness stands olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear.
Youth (spring) Wang Bing
Synopsis: Zhili, 150 km from Shanghai. In this city entirely dedicated to textile making, young people flock to all rural regions crossed by the Yangtze river. They are 20 years old, sleep together in the dormitories of the workshops, eat in the passageways. They flirt, joke and bicker behind their sewing machines. They work tirelessly to one day be able to buy a house, raise a child or set their own workshop. Between them, friendships and romantic connections are formed and untied according to seasons, bankruptcies and family pressures.
Dry herbs from Nuri Bilge Ceylan
With Deniz Celiloglu, Wonder Dizdar and Musab Ekici
Synopsis: Samet is a young teacher in a remote village in Anatolia. While he had been waiting for several years his transfer to Istanbul, a series of events makes him lose all hope. Until the day he meets Nuray, a young teacher like him …
Last summer by Catherine Breillat
With Léa Drucker, Samuel Kircher, Olivier Rabourdin
Synopsis: A renowned lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to break her family by affecting her 17-year-old stepson.
The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer
With Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth
Synopsis The Commander of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house with garden next to the camp.
May December of Todd Haynes
With Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore
Synopsis: Twenty years after their love story has made the press of the press, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe-23 years younger-are preparing for the start of their twins in high school. When the Hollywood actress, Elizabeth Berry, comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, whom she will embody in a film, the family dynamic is fraying. Joe has the impression of having missed his youth. At the same time, Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the similarities and the differences between the two women then begin to fade …
Zero club by Jessica Hausner
With Mia Wasichowska and Elsa Zylberstein
Synopsis: Miss Novak joins a private high school where she initiated a nutrition lesson with an innovative concept, shaking up eating habits. Without awakening the suspicions of teachers and parents, some students fall under her grip and integrate the very closed circle of the mysterious zero club.
Dead leaves of Aki Kaurismaki
With Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen
Synopsis: Two lonely people meet by chance one night in Helsinki and each tries to find in the other their first, unique and last love. Their path to this commendable goal is obscured by man alcoholism, the loss of a telephone number, the ignorance of their reciprocal respective names and addresses. Life tends to put obstacles on the road to those looking for happiness.
Monster from Hirokazu Kore-Eda
With Andō Sakura, Nagayama Eita, Kurokawa Soya, Hiiragi Hinata and Tanaka Yūko
Synopsis: The dispute of two children in an unless history college will take on an unexpected magnitude that each protagonist will have lived in a different way.
The old oak from Ken Loach
With Dave Turner and Ebla Mari
Synopsis: TJ Ballantyne is the owner of the “Old Oak”, an ad that is threatened with closing after the arrival of Syrian refugees placed in the village without any notice. Soon, always meets a young Syrian, Yara, who has a camera. A friendship will be born between them …
Towards a bright future from Nanni Moretti
With Mathieu Amalric, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando and Nanni Moretti
Synopsis: Giovanni, a renowned Italian filmmaker, is about to start filming a political fresco. But between his couple in crisis, his co -producer on the edge of bankruptcy and the world of cinema that changes, everything seems to play against him! Always on the tightrope, Giovanni will have to rethink his way of doing things if he wants to lead all his little world to a bright future.
The chimera Alice Rohrwacher
With Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Isabella Rossellini, Alba Rohrwacher
Synopsis: Back in its small town on the Tyrrhenian seaside, Arthur finds his joyful band of Tombaroli, these looters of Etruscan tombs and archaeological wonders. Arthur has a gift he puts at the service of his brigand friends: he feels the void. The emptiness of the earth in which the remains of a past world are located. The same emptiness as left in him the memory of his lost love, Beniamina.
Banel and Adamafirst film by Ramata-Toulaye Sy
With Khady Mane and Mamadou Diallo.
Synopsis: Banel and Adama love each other. They live in a distant village north of Senegal. From the world, they only know that, outside, nothing exists. But the absolute love that unites them will come up against the conventions of the community. Because where they live, there is no room for passions, and even less for chaos.
Anatomy of a fall Justine Triet
With Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth and Saadia Bentaieb.
Synopsis: Sandra, Samuel and their peculiar son of 11 years, Daniel, have lived for a year far from everything, in the mountains. One day, Samuel was found dead at the foot of their house. An investigation for suspect death is open. Sandra is soon charged despite the doubt: suicide or homicide? A year later, Daniel attended the trial of his mother, a true dissection of the couple.
Perfect Days from Wim Wenders
With Koji Yakusho
Synopsis: The intrigue is located in public toilets of the urban renovation project known as “The Tokyo Toilet Project” which implies the creation of 17 public toilets in key places in the Japanese capital.
Black Flies From Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
With Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan
Synopsis: In New York, Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan), a young ambulancer, teams up with Rutkovsky (Sean Penn), an experienced emergencyist. Confronted with extreme violence, he discovers the risks of a profession which every day shakes his certainties on life … and death.
The return by Catherine Corsini
With Cedric Appietto, Harold Orsini and Marie-Ange Geronimi
Synopsis: Khedidja works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers him to take care of children for a summer in Corsica. The opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, on this island that they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances.
While Khedidja is struggling with his memories, the two teenage girls allow themselves to go to all summer temptations: unexpected meetings, 400 shots, first romantic experiences. This trip will be an opportunity for them to discover a hidden part of their history.
Neïla Driss
