The official social media handles of the Festival De Cannes, aka Cannes Film Festival, today announced the films that will feature at Cannes 2022, to be held in May this year. One name shone bright and clear amidst the stellar and starry lineup for Indian film buffs. And that is Shaunak Sen‘s evocative documentary feature, ‘All That Breathes’. The film is the only one from India that has found a place in the hallowed list of films to screen at Cannes 2022.
‘All That Breathes‘ earlier won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2022, where it won rave reviews from audiences. ‘All That Breathes’ will feature in the Special Screenings section of Cannes. For the unversed, the Cannes Film Festival has several sections in which films that premiere at Cannes are categorised into. The most prestigious is the Competition Section, where films compete for the coveted Palme d’Or or the Golden Palm, that is the topmost prize. Other prizes are for Best Actor, Actress, Director, Jury Prize, among others.
The other categories are ‘Uncertain Regard’, that celebrates upcoming, innovative talent; Cannes Premiere, Special Screenings, Midnight Screenings, Out Of Competition, and several others.
The Competition Section has some interesting films competing for the top prizes. There’s David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes Of The Future’, Park Chan-Wook’s ‘Decisions to Leave’, Ali Abbasi’s ‘Holy Spider’, among a whole glittery lineup.
The Out Of Competition section will see the Cannes premiere of star-studded films, Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun Maverick’, ‘Elvis’ from Baz Luhrmann, ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ by George Miller, among others.
Ethan Coen’s ‘Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind’ will share space with Shaunak Sen’s ‘All That Breathes’ in the special screenings section.
Squid Game star Lee Jung-Jae’s directorial debut ‘Hunt’ will premiere at Cannes 2022, in the Midnight Screenings section.
Here’s the entire lineup of films at Cannes 2022 –
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 Kore-eda
“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
“Retour a Seoul,” Davy Chou
“Sick of Myself,” Kristoffer Borgli
“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 Stranger,” Thomas M. Wright
“The Silent Twins,” Agnieszka Kmocynska
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
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