Cannes 2018 Cheat Sheet
The 71st Cannes Film Festival begins today! To preview the festival, we’ve put together a “cheat sheet” to the key feature films screening in Cannes, all in one place. It’s a survey of the Cannes titles that give you a first look at what this edition’s filmmakers have come up with. Then, don’t miss our daily Cannes edition of The Film Comment Podcast with special guests—starting tomorrow (Wednesday, May 9). It’ll give you an essential run-down on each day’s movies in informed discussions, alongside other published coverage by our all-star correspondents. And now, without further ado…
Competition
Asghar Farhadi, Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows) Opening Night Film
Trailer
Stéphane Brizé, At War
Matteo Garrone, Dogman
Jean-Luc Godard, Le livre d’image
Trailer
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II)
Christophe Honoré, Sorry Angel
Eva Husson, Girls of the Sun
Jia Zhang-ke, Ash Is Purest White
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shoplifters
Nadine Labaki, Capernaum
Lee Chang-dong, Buh-ning (Burning)
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
David Robert Mitchell, Under the Silver Lake
Jafar Panahi, 3 Faces
Pawel Pawlikowski, Zimna Wojna (Cold War)
Alice Rohrwacher, Lazzaro felice
Trailer
Kirill Serebrennikov, Leto
Clip
A.B Shawky, Yomeddine
Yann Gonzalez, Un Couteau dans le coeur (Knife + Heart)
Sergey Dvortsevoy, Ayka
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ahlat Agaci (The Wild Pear Tree)
Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Closing Night Film (out of competition)
Un Certain Regard
Sergei Loznitsa, Donbass Opening Night Film
Vanessa Filho, Gueule d’ange (Angel Face)
Ali Abbasi, Gräns (Border)
Valeria Golino, Euphoria
Wanuri Kahiu, Rafiki (Friend)
Trailer
Adilkhan Yerzhanov, The Gentle Indifference of the World
Lukas Dhont, Girl
Etienne Kallos, Die Stropers (The Harvesters)
Ulrich Köhler, In My Room
Andréa Bescond & Eric Metayer, Les chatouilles (Little Tickles)
Gaya Jiji, My Favorite Fabric
Antoine Desrosières, À genoux les gars (Sextape)
Meryem Benm’Barek, Sofia
Nandita Das, Manto
Bi Gan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Alejandro Fadel, Muere, Monstruo, Muere (Die, Monster, Die)
João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora, Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos (The Dead and the Others)
Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week Competition)
Anja Kofmel, Chris the Swiss
Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Diamantino
Zsófia Szilágyi, Egy Nap (One Day)
Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Fuga (Fugue)
Benedikt Erlingsson, Kona fer í stríð (Woman at War)
Camille Vidal-Naquet, Sauvage
Rohena Gera, Sir
Critics’ Week—Special Screenings
Paul Dano, Wildlife Opening Night Film
Guillaume Senez, Nos batailles (Our Struggles)
Jean-Bernard Marlin, Shéhérazade
Alex Lutz, Guy Closing Night Film
Quinzaine (Directors’ Fortnight)
Philippe Faucon, Amin
Arantxa Echevarría, Carmen y Lola
Gaspar Noé, Climax
Julio Hernández Cordón, Cómprame un revólver (Buy Me a Gun)
Guillaume Nicloux, Les Confins du monde
Agustin Toscano, El motoarrebatador (The Snatch Thief)
Pierre Salvadori, En Liberté! (The Trouble with You)
Marie Monge, Joueurs (Treat Me Like Fire)
Debra Granik, Leave No Trace
Beatriz Seigner, Los Silencios
Ming Zhang, Ming wang xing shi ke (The Pluto Moment)
Panos Cosmatos, Mandy
Mamoru Hosoda, Mirai
Romain Gavras, Le monde est à toi (Mister Freeze)
Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego, Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)
Jaime Rosales, Petra
Stefano Savona, Samouni Road
Ognjen Glavonic, Teret (The Load)
Gianni Zanasi, Troppa Grazia
Mohamed Ben Attia, Weldi (Dear Son)
ACiD
Michaël Dacheux, L’Amour debout
Olga Korotko, Bad Bad Winter
Marie Losier, Cassandro the Exotico!
Caroline Capelle & Ombline Ley, Dans la terrible jungle (In the Mighty Jungle)
Anne Alix, Il se passe quelque chose (Something Is Happening)
Hanna Ladoul & Marco La Via, We the Coyotes
Marta Bergman, Seule à mon mariage (Alone at My Wedding)
Jim Cummings, Thunder Road
Clément Schneider, Un violent désir de bonheur (A Violent Desire for Joy)