The Cannes Film Festival has announced a raft of new additions to the Official Selection of its 76th edition running May 16 to 27.
Two new films have been added to Competition: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Black Flies and Catherine Corsini’s Le Retour.
According to media reports, Corsini’s Le Retour was to have been announced as the seventh female-directed film in Competition during the main line-up press conference on April 13.
Allegations of inappropriate behaviour on the Corsica-based set – detailed in reports by French newspapers Le Parisien and Libération – forced the festival to put its selection on hold, while it looked into the matter.
Cannes Delegate General Thierry Frémaux is reported to have said that he would not be swayed by rumors.
The Cannes Premiere section has been bolstered with Amat Escalante’s Perdidos en la Noche and Valérie Donzelli’s L’Amour et Les Forêts and Lisandro Alonso’s Eureka.
There will be Out of Competition screening for Frédéric Tellier’s L’Abbé Pierre – Une Vie de Combats.
Two more titles have been added to Un Certain Regard: Wei Shujun’s Only The River Flows and Alex Lutz’s Une Nuit.
There will be Special Screenings for Mona Achache’s Little Girl Blue, Sahra Mani’s Bread and Roses and Anna Novion’s La Théorème de Marguerite.
The Midnight Screening line-up now features Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic and Kim Tae-gon’s Project Silence.
These titles join 52 previously announced titles which include Martin Scorsese’s latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, and James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
The festival opens on May 16 with French actress and director Maïwenn’s costume romance Jeanne du Barry starring Johnny Depp.
The festival closes on May 27 with Pixar Animation Studio title Elemental, which will be accompanied by Pixar Creative Officer Pete Docter, director Peter Sohn, producer Denise Ream and members of the voice cast.
Remaining elements of the 76 th edition of the festival still be announced include who will join this year’s jury president Ruben Ostlund, Cannes Classics and details of a promised tribute to iconic late director Jean-Luc Godard who died last September.
