As announced previously, the Cannes Festival has unveiled the films which are added to the official selection of this 75th edition to be held from May 17 to 28, 2022.
Seventeen new additions were announced, joining the 47 films unveiled at the April 14 press conference and the two films Elvis And Top Gun: Maverickannounced earlier. This brings the total number of films in selection to date at 64 against 83 during the July 2021 edition.
Among these seventeen films, seven come from France, thus bringing to 18 the number of French films in official selection, or 28 % of the programming. The new additions also see eight directors joining the different sections of the official selection, to represent 26% of the filmmakers whose films will have their first in Cannes. In official competition, five films out of twenty-one are made by women, which is a record. In 2021, there were only four.
What is also remarkable is that In the a certain look sectionthree of the four added films come from Arab countries:
- Mediterranean Fever Of the Palestinian screenwriter and director Maha Haj, tells the story of Waleed, a budding writer of Haifa, his forties, depressed, unhappy in his marriage and not assuming his role as father, who binds himself from his neighbor in the hope that he will help him to accomplish a sinister plan.
Maha Haj’s first feature film, Personal Affairshad also been presented in this same section in 2016.
Cannes 2022 – Mediterranean Fever by Maha Haj - The blue of the caftanSecond fictional feature of the Moroccan director Maryam Touzani, produced by her husband Nabil Ayouch and co -produced by Amine Benjelloun, features Halim (Saleh Bakri) and Mina (Lubna Azabal), a couple managing a Caftans shop in the medina of Salé, who live in the denial of the homosexuality of the husband until a young apprentice quo.
Adamthe first fiction feature by Maryam Touzani had also made its world premiere in this same section in 2019. The film was subsequently screened in several renowned festivals and had been the official selection of Morocco for the Oscar race for best international film.
Cannes 2022 – Lubna Azbal and Saleh Bakri in “Le Bleu du Caftan”
List of seventeen films added to the official selection:
In official competition:
- The Otto Mountain by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen (Italy/Belgium)
- A little brother by Léonor Serraille (France)
- Torment on the islands Albert Serra (Spain)
In the a certain look section
- More than ever Emily Atef (Germany/France)
- Mediterranean Fever from Maha Haj (Palestine)
- The blue of the caftan from Maryam Touzani (Morocco)
- Harka Lotfy Nathan (Tunisia) (1st film)
Premier rods
- DON JUAN de Serge Bozon (France)
- The night of 12 by Dominik Moll (France)
- Chronicle of a temporary affair Emmanuel Mouret (France)
Midnight sessions
- Rebel of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Belgium)
Out of competition
- Innocent de Louis Garrel (France)
Special sessions
- Mi Pais Imaginario by Patricio Guzmán (Chile) (documentary)
- The Vagabonds Doroteya Droumeva (Germany) (1st film)
- Feminist response by Marie Perennès and Simon Depardon (France) (documentary – 1st film)
- Vento restaurants de Tiago Guedes (Portugal)
- The little Nicolas what are we waiting for to be happy? d’Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre (France) (Animation – 1st film)
Neïla Driss
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