Ozon, Penn, Kurzel, Anderson Films Heading To Cannes 2021 Festival!

After the Pandemic that left majority of life at a standstill, 2021 will see the return of the Cannes Film Festival. Today from the luxurious French Riviera the Festival announced 2021 (74th) line-up with some big well known Auteurs bring happiness back to our lives….Leos Carax, Wes Anderson, Justin Kurzel, Sean Penn, Paul Verhoeven and François Ozon to name a few.

Festival director Thierry Frémaux announced the news at a very relaxed press conference. Over 2,500 where under consideration for the line up and we wonder if that included those films from 2020?  The long awaited debuts for Leos Carax’s Annette (Opening Gala), Paul Verhoeven‘s Benedetta and Wes Anderson‘s French Dispatch  ready to be seen for the first time.

All three of these films are all part of the Competition Strand which also includes Apichatpong Weerasethakul‘s English language debut Memoria starring Tilda Swinton. Justin Kurzel‘s Nitram, Mia Hansen-Love’s Bergman Island and Sean Baker‘s Red Rocket.

Whilst cinemas here in the UK as well as France are unable to open with 100% capacities. If you are attending Cannes, it will be 100% Capacity. The catch all delegates must a vaccination certificate or a negative PCR test taken 48 hours before the screening.

2021 Cannes Film Festival (The 74th Festival de Cannes) will will take place between 6th July until 17th July.
CANNES 2021 OFFICIAL SELECTION
Competition
Opening Film
Annette, Leos Carax (France)

The Story of My Wife, Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary)
Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands)
Bergman Island, Mia-Hansen-Love (France)
Drive My Car, Rysuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
Ha’Berech (Ahed’s Knee), Nadav Lapid (Israel)
Casablanca Beats, Nabil Ayouch (Morocco)
Compartment No 6, Juho Kuosmanen (Finland)
The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier (Norway)
La Fracture, Catherine Corsini (France)
The Restless, Joachim Lafosse (Belgium)
Paris 13th District, Jacques Audiard (France)
Lingui, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad)
Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
Nitram, Justin Kurzel (Australia)
France, Bruno Dumont (France)
Petrov’s Flu, Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
Red Rocket, Sean Baker (US)
Flag Day, Sean Penn (US)
The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson (US)
Titane, Julia Ducournau (France)
Tre Piani, Nanni Moretti (Italy)
Tour S’Est Bien Passe, François Ozon (France)
A Hero, Asghar Farhadi (Iran)

Un Certain Regard
Moneyboys, CB Yi (Austria)
Blue Bayou, Justin Chon (US)
Freda, Gessica Geneus (Haiti)
Delo (House Arrest), Alexey German Jr (Russia)
Bonne Mere, Hafsia Herzi (France)
Noche de Fuego, Tatiana Huezo (Mexico)
Lamb, Valdimar Johansson (Iceland)
Commitment Hasan, Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey)
After Yang, Kogonada (US)
Let There Be Morning, Eran Kolirin (Israel)
Unclenching the Fists, Kira Kovalenko (Russia)
Women Do Cry, Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria)
Rehana Maryam Noor, Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Bangladesh)
Great Freedom, Sebastian Meise (Austria)
La Civil, Teodora Ana Mihai (Romania/Belgium)
Gaey Wa’r, Na Jiazuo (China)
The Innocents, Eskil Vogt (Norway)
Un Monde, Laura Wandel (Belgium)

Out of Competition
De Son Vivant, Emmanuelle Bercot (France)
Emergency Declaration, Han Jae-Rim (Korea)
The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes (US)
Bac Nord, Cédric Jimenez (France)
Aline, The Voice of Love, Valérie Lemercier (France)
Stillwater, Tom McCarthy (US)

Midnight Screenings
Bloody Oranges, Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France)

Cannes Premiere
Hold Me Tight, Mathieu Amalric (France)
Cow, Andrea Arnold (UK)
Love Songs for Tough Guys, Samuel Benchetrit (France)
Deception, Arnaud Desplechin (France)
Jane Par Charlotte, Charlotte Gainsbourg (France)
In Front of Your Face, Hong Sang-Soo (Korea)
Mothering Sunday, Eva Husson (France)
Evolution, Kornél Mundruczo (Hungary)
Val, Ting Poo, Leo Scott (US)
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass, Oliver Stone (US)

Special Screenings
Mariner of the Mountains, Karim Ainouz (Brazil)
Black Notebooks, Shlomi Elkabetz (Israel)
Babi Yar. Context, Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine)
H6, Yé Yé (France)
The Year of the Everlasting Storm, Jafar Panahi (Iran), Anthony Chen (Singapore), Malik Vitthal (US), Laura Poitras (US), Dominga Sotomayor (Chile), David Lowery (US) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)