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The Festival de Cannes has just added a few titles to their Official Selection. This completes the program which was first announced on April 13th.
Among the titles announced today are the films Little Girl Blue by French-Moroccan filmmaker and actress Mona Achache and Sahra Mani's Bread and Roses, produced by Jennifer Lawrence's Excellent Cadaver, along with Mani herself, Farhad Khosravi and The Eyan Foundation.
Little Girl Blue is a docudrama featuring French actress Marion Cotillard, who plays filmmaker Achache's mom. Filming took place in Mulhouse in the Grand Est region of France between 20 November and 10 December 2022 and also stars Achache herself.
Bread and Roses is also a doc and captures the experiences of Afghan women living under the Taliban since they took back control of Kabul in 2021. Both are screening as Special Screenings.
Following is the full list of titles.
COMPETITION
Black Flies by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Le Retour by Catherine Corsini
CANNES PREMIÈRE
Perdidos en la noche by Amat Escalante
L'amour et les Fôrets by Valérie Donzelli
Eureka by Lisandro Alonso
OUT OF COMPETITION
L'abbé Pierre Un vie de combats by Frédéric Tellier
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Only the River Flows by Wei Shujun
Un nuit by Alex Lutz -- out of competition, closing film
SHORT FILM
Filles du feu by Pedro Costa
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Little Blue Girl by Mona Achache
Bread and Roses by Sahra Mani
Le Théorème de Marguerite by Anna Novion
MIDNIGHT SCREENING
Hypnotic by Robert Rodriguez
Project Silence by Kim Tae-gon
The Festival de Cannes will run from May 16th to the 27th. For more info, check out their website.
