Cannes 2018 Cheat Sheet
The 71st Cannes Film Festival begins today! To preview the festival, we’ve put together a “cheat sheet” to the key feature films screening in Cannes, all in one place. It’s a survey of the Cannes titles that give you a first look at what this edition’s filmmakers have come up with. Then, don’t miss our daily Cannes edition of The Film Comment Podcast with special guests—starting tomorrow (Wednesday, May 9). It’ll give you an essential run-down on each day’s movies in informed discussions, alongside other published coverage by our all-star correspondents. And now, without further ado…
Competition
Asghar Farhadi, Todos lo saben (Everybody Knows) Opening Night Film
Trailer
Stéphane Brizé, At War
Matteo Garrone, Dogman

Jean-Luc Godard, Le livre d’image
Trailer
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Netemo Sametemo (Asako I & II)
Christophe Honoré, Sorry Angel

Eva Husson, Girls of the Sun

Jia Zhang-ke, Ash Is Purest White
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shoplifters

Nadine Labaki, Capernaum
Lee Chang-dong, Buh-ning (Burning)

Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
David Robert Mitchell, Under the Silver Lake

Jafar Panahi, 3 Faces

Pawel Pawlikowski, Zimna Wojna (Cold War)

Alice Rohrwacher, Lazzaro felice
Trailer

Kirill Serebrennikov, Leto
Clip
A.B Shawky, Yomeddine

Yann Gonzalez, Un Couteau dans le coeur (Knife + Heart)

Sergey Dvortsevoy, Ayka

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Ahlat Agaci (The Wild Pear Tree)
Terry Gilliam, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Closing Night Film (out of competition)
Un Certain Regard
Sergei Loznitsa, Donbass Opening Night Film
Vanessa Filho, Gueule d’ange (Angel Face)

Ali Abbasi, Gräns (Border)

Valeria Golino, Euphoria

Wanuri Kahiu, Rafiki (Friend)
Trailer

Adilkhan Yerzhanov, The Gentle Indifference of the World
Lukas Dhont, Girl

Etienne Kallos, Die Stropers (The Harvesters)

Ulrich Köhler, In My Room

Andréa Bescond & Eric Metayer, Les chatouilles (Little Tickles)
Gaya Jiji, My Favorite Fabric
Antoine Desrosières, À genoux les gars (Sextape)

Meryem Benm’Barek, Sofia

Nandita Das, Manto

Bi Gan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
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Alejandro Fadel, Muere, Monstruo, Muere (Die, Monster, Die)

João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora, Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos (The Dead and the Others)
Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week Competition)
Anja Kofmel, Chris the Swiss

Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt, Diamantino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zbusIJqeRQ
Zsófia Szilágyi, Egy Nap (One Day)

Agnieszka Smoczyńska, Fuga (Fugue)
Benedikt Erlingsson, Kona fer í stríð (Woman at War)

Camille Vidal-Naquet, Sauvage

Rohena Gera, Sir
Critics’ Week—Special Screenings

Paul Dano, Wildlife Opening Night Film

Guillaume Senez, Nos batailles (Our Struggles)

Jean-Bernard Marlin, Shéhérazade
Alex Lutz, Guy Closing Night Film
Quinzaine (Directors’ Fortnight)
Philippe Faucon, Amin
Arantxa Echevarría, Carmen y Lola

Gaspar Noé, Climax

Julio Hernández Cordón, Cómprame un revólver (Buy Me a Gun)
Guillaume Nicloux, Les Confins du monde
Agustin Toscano, El motoarrebatador (The Snatch Thief)

Pierre Salvadori, En Liberté! (The Trouble with You)

Marie Monge, Joueurs (Treat Me Like Fire)
Debra Granik, Leave No Trace

Beatriz Seigner, Los Silencios

Ming Zhang, Ming wang xing shi ke (The Pluto Moment)
Panos Cosmatos, Mandy
Mamoru Hosoda, Mirai
Romain Gavras, Le monde est à toi (Mister Freeze)
Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego, Pájaros de verano (Birds of Passage)
Jaime Rosales, Petra

Stefano Savona, Samouni Road

Ognjen Glavonic, Teret (The Load)

Gianni Zanasi, Troppa Grazia
Mohamed Ben Attia, Weldi (Dear Son)
ACiD
Michaël Dacheux, L’Amour debout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjpFVBOmq-I
Olga Korotko, Bad Bad Winter
Marie Losier, Cassandro the Exotico!
Caroline Capelle & Ombline Ley, Dans la terrible jungle (In the Mighty Jungle)
Anne Alix, Il se passe quelque chose (Something Is Happening)
Hanna Ladoul & Marco La Via, We the Coyotes
Marta Bergman, Seule à mon mariage (Alone at My Wedding)
Jim Cummings, Thunder Road
Clément Schneider, Un violent désir de bonheur (A Violent Desire for Joy)
