Due to heavy-cast shade courtesy of Arnaud Desplechin and Miguel Gomes, the prestigious Directors' Fortnight programme at Cannes 2015 looks set to be one of the most formidable in the festival's history. Both saw their films shunned from competition for the Palme d'Or (no doubt in favour of lesser titles), and opted themselves to shun the Un Certain Regard sidebar and instead screen in Directors' Fortnight. Their films, respectively My Golden Days - the prequel to Desplechin's 1996 competition feature My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument - and the six-hour-plus Arabian Nights, contribute to one of the finest slates for the sidebar in recent memory.
Gomes' latest entry into this selection is not the only one for a returning filmmaker here: Jeremy Saulnier made a big name for himself when he showed Blue Ruin in Directors' Fortnight two years ago, kicking off a promising career in feature films, while former Camera d'Or recipient Jaco van Dormael also has a film in play. Perhaps Thomas Bidegain, known for co-writing Cannes hits such as A Prophet and Rust and Bone could win that award this year; his film Les Cowboys appears also.
The Societe des Realisateurs Francais, which organises this section of the festival, has also selected three films by women and a number more focusing on women, marking a clear improvement over the main competition - with fewer competition titles here too - and one of two Garrel family films to open - veteran Philippe Garrel's In the Shadow of Women, while closing up will be heavily-hyped Sundance comedy Dope. And Miike Takashi makes yet another return to the Croisette with a film only Miike could have gotten a screening at the world's premier film fest, gangland thriller Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld. Cannes 2015 runs from the 15th to the 24th of May. Full details below:
- Allende, Mi Abuelo Allende (Marcia Tambutti)
- Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)
- The Brand New Testament (Jaco van Dormael)
- Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain)
- Dope (Rick Famuyiwa) - closing film
- Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)
- Fatima (Philippe Faucon)
- Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
- The Here After (Magnus von Horn)
- In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel) - opening film
- Much Loved (Nabil Ayouch)
- Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven)
- My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
- Peace to Us in Our Dreams (Sharunas Bartas)
- A Perfect Day (Fernando Leon de Aranoa)
- Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Chloe Zhao)
- Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld (Miike Takashi) - special screening
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