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Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux and President Pierre Lescure have announced the line-up for next month’s 71st edition.
From the Champs-Elysées they unveiled 44 titles that make up the Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition and Midnight Screening sections.
The competition lineup includes Spike Lee, who will return to the Croisette after a twenty year absence to screen his new film BlacKkKlansman, starring Adam Driver, Topher Grace and Laura Harrier. The other American film bowing in competition will be David Robert Mitchell’s L.A. neo-noir Under the Silver Lake, starring Andrew Garfield and Riley Keogh, with A24 set to release the film domestically on 22 June.
Rohrwacher is one of three female directors in the main competition, the others being Lebanese actress-director Nadine Labaki (Caramel) with her feature Capernaum and French director Eva Husson's femme-centric Kurdish war film, Girls of the Sun.
The main competition will be rounded out by first-time Egyptian director A.B. Shawky with Yomeddine, a road movie about a leper; Russian helmer Kirill Serebrennikov (The Student) — currently under house arrest in Moscow — with his tale of rock music during the Brezhnev years, Summer; and Asghar Farhadi's with his previously announced opening night film, Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
Fans of the film competition should not expect to see any Netflix movies on the list. Following the announcement that the festival now bans films that lack theatrical distribution, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, confirmed in an exclusive interview with Variety that the streaming platform does not have “any reason” to bring films that won’t be considered in the competition. Last year, Netflix films Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories were shown at the festival.
Cate Blanchett serves as president of the festival’s official competition jury this year. The 2018 Cannes Film Festival kicks off on 8 May and concludes on 19 May.
Check out the full line up here.