Cannes 2022 lineup includes Claire Denis, David Cronenberg and new BFI-backed film from Ruben Östlund
The festival will open with a new zombie comedy from the director of The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius.
After intense speculation, the competition lineup for the 2022 Cannes Film Festival was revealed today. The new David Lynch film that has been rumoured to exist was not among them, but there will be new work from the likes of Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, Kelly Reichardt, Park Chan-wook, James Gray, Arnaud Desplechin and Hirokazu Koreeda.
Ruben Östlund returns to the competition after he won the Palme d’Or in 2017 for The Square. His new film, Triangle of Sadness, is backed by the BFI Film Fund (awarding funds from the National Lottery), whose editor-at-large, Lizzie Francke, comments: “Congratulations to all those in selection and we are incredibly proud to see the audaciously brilliant Triangle of Sadness premiering in competition. We are committed to furthering our creative relationships across Europe, so through the BFI Film Fund it’s wonderful to support Ruben Östlund, a world class talent, and UK producer Mike Goodridge, who has a vibrant international outlook for cinema.”
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) will open the festival with his zombie comedy Z, while high-profile films screening out of competition include Top Gun: Maverick, George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
The festival runs 17 to 28 May, with further sections still to be announced.
Opening Night
Z, Michel Hazanavicius
Competition
Holy Spider, Ali Abbasi
Les Amandiers, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg
The Stars at Noon, Claire Denis
Frere et Soeur, Arnaud Desplechin
Tori and Lokita, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Close, Lukas Dhont
Armageddon Time, James Gray
Broker, Hirokazu Koreeda
Nostalgia, Mario Martone
R.M.N., Cristian Mungiu
Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Ostlund
Decisions to Leave, Park Chan-wook
Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt
Leila’s Brothers, Saeed Roustayi
Boy from Heaven, Tarik Saleh
Tchaikovsky’s Wife, Kirill Serebrennikov
Hi-Han (Eo), Jerzy Skolimowski
Un Certain Regard
Les Pires, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
Burning Days, Emin Alper
Metronom, Alexandru Belc
Sick of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli
Retour à Seoul, Davy Chou
Domingo y La Niebla, Ariel Escalante Meza
Plan 75, Hayakawa Chie
Beast, Riley Keough and Gina Gammell
Corsage, Marie Kreutzer
Butterfly Vision, Maksym Nakonechnyi
Volada Land, Hlynur Palmason
Rodeo, Lola Quivoron
Joyland, Saim Sadiq
The Silent Twins, Agnieszka Smoczynska
The Stranger, Thomas M. Wright
Cannes Premiere
Outside Night, Marco Bellocchio
Nos Frangins, Rachid Bouchareb
Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas (Series)
Dodo, Panos H. Koutras
Special Screenings
The Natural History of Destruction, Sergei Loznitsa
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, Ethan Coen
All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen
Midnight Screenings
Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen
Smoking Makes You Cough, Quentin Dupieux
Hunt, dir: Lee Jung-Jae
Out of Competition
Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski
Elvis, Baz Luhrmann
Three Thousand Years of Longing, George Miller
November, Cédric Jimenez
Masquerade, Nicolas Bedos
