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Directors’ Monday kicks off its 54th edition!

For the 2022 vintage – led by the last Paolo Moretti, who will leave the post of General Delegate at the end of the festival – the parallel section offers itself a very good lineup that combines well-known names for festival lovers (Philippe Foconi, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Nicolas Parზეniorri, La Parcenorio Mi , Leah Misius, by the way) and many new filmmakers.

As the two-day directorial mission accompanies the first steps of the directors, this edition will present the first films of 18 cinemas (three of the 24 titles are co-directed).

Expected stars include Leah Seiduks, Virgin Efira, Vincent Lacoste, Adele Exarchopoulos, Sandrine Cyberlen, but also Irish actress Paul Mescal, a revelation from the Normal People series. Also pay attention to Jesse Buckley (revealed by Wild Rose and recently seen in “The Lost Daughter”) alongside director Alex Garland, who was first selected in Cannes, along with Eux (Men), for a special screening.

The selection also gives pride of place to female directors – 11 of them – including Ani Erno’s first work! The author actually shot the film with his son, David Erno-Briot, Super 8 Years.

The director is always in the spotlight, with the Golden Coach being handed over to American Kelly Reichard this year. The filmmaker will also compete in the official selection with his 8th feature film “Showing up”.

As often “Strong existence of French cinema“Remarkable.”Received 336 French feature films“, – pointed out Paolo Moretti. A strong presence that”Responds to the richness and vitality of French cinemaDirectors’ Monday is held from 18 to 27 May 2022.

Discover the official selection for the 54th edition of Quinzaine des Réalisateurs:

Feature Films:

3rd feature film Nicholas Pariser After a great game and Alice and Mayor, Green perfume Is a detective comedy “Between Tintin and HitchcockAnd combines Vincent Lacoste and Sandrine Cyberlen.

Square: In the middle of the play, in front of a dumb audience, a comedy-French actress is poisoned to death. Martin, one of the actors in the Army, a direct witness to this murder, is soon suspected by the police and pursued by a mysterious organization that ordered the murder. With the help of a cartoonist, Claire, Martin will try to unravel the mystery of this violent death during a very tense journey through Europe.

• 1976 Manuela Martel (1 feature film)
• El Agua Elena Lopez Riera (1st Feature Film)
• The Dam (Al-Sadd, السّد, Le Barrage) by Ali Cherry (first feature film)
• Super 8 years By Annie Erno and David Erno-Briot (First Feature)

Surprise with the first directorial announcement: novelist Annie Erno! For the first time he is signing a feature film shot with his son, David Erno-Briot, Les Années Super 8, the author’s autobiographical documentary.

“As is often the case in his works, here too he gives a universal dimension to a very personal work. Here we rely on unique material: their family films, shot in Super 8 from 1976 to 1981, are woven around images and new and elevated text, an intimate, social and political story.“, Specifies the selection committee of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.

For reference, author Annie Erno recently became the subject of an adaptation of two films: Daniel Arbid’s Passion simple and Audrey Diwan’s L’Evénement, The Golden Lion in Venice in 2021.

Five years later, the excellent first full-length film “Ava” starring Noah Abita and Lor Kalam, selected for Cannes Critics’ Week, director and screenwriter. Leah Mission present Five devilsHis second feature film, the start of which was delayed due to a pandemic and restriction.

According to the Queens Committee, this is a film “Dazzling and mysterious“, Which”The registry is fantastic“, Together”Incandescent Adele Exarchopoulos“.

The brief description is as follows: Vicky, a strange and lonely little girl, has a gift: she can smell and reproduce all the scents of her choice, which she collects in carefully labeled jars. He secretly removed the scent from his mother, Joan, to whom he has a mad and exclusive, almost sickly love. One day Julia, her father’s sister, invades their lives. Vicky begins to develop her scent. He is then transported to dark and magical memories where he discovers the secrets of his village, family and his own existence.

Bergman Island a year after taking part in the official selection last year, Mia Hansen Love Has already returned to Croisette good morning. The film stars Leah Seidou, Pascal Gregor, Nicole Garcia and Melville Pupa.

We follow Sandra, a young mother who is raising her daughter alone, who often visits her ailing father, George. When he and his family start a course of obstacles to cure him, Sandra meets Clement, a friend he has not seen for a long time …

The film is presented by a two-week selection committee of directors as “A delicate chronicle of a young woman’s daily life that rediscovers the taste of life“, with”Modesty and elegance on highly contemporary issues“.

• Owen Klein Funny Pages (Feature 1)
• Falcon Lake by Charlotte Le Bon (1st Feature)

After trying her hand at directing the short film “Talents Adami” (Judith Hotel), Charlotte Le Bonnie switched to feature films, adapting Bastien Vives’s comics very freely. Დa (Custerman Publishing), co-written by François Shock.

The film is titled Lake Falcon Combines Joseph Engel (a young actor who has been spotted in the films of Louis Garrel, The Faithful Man, and the Crusades), Arthur Iguall, Sarah Monpet, Monia Chokri, and Carine Gontier Heindman. “A story of love and ghosts, both gentle and cruel“According to two days.

• Fogo-Fatuo (Will-o’-the-Wisp, Wisp) Joao Pedro Rodriguez
• Creatures of God by Anna Rose Holmer and Saella Davis
• Harkis by Philip Focon
• Men (they) Alex Garland (special show)

After Ex Machina and Annihilation, Alex Garland returns with him Them (Men), a film titled “Sky-hot and visible“, Which combines Jesse Buckley, Rory Kinnear and Pappa Esedu. This is his first skin choice.

Story: After a personal tragedy, a woman returns alone to the most beautiful countryside of England to recover a place. But someone or something in the nearby forest seems to be attacking him … it will become a nightmare for the heroine.

• Dmitro Sukholitik-Sobchuk Pamphyry (1 Feature Film)
• The Man (Un Varon) by Fabian Hernandez (first feature film)
• Revisiting Paris by Alice Vinocour

4th feature film for Alice Vinocour. After Augustine, Maryland and Proxima, director and screenwriter runs in astronaut costume with Eva Green See Paris again. The film stars Virgin Efira, Benoit Magimel and Gregor Colin. Remind you that the mistress of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Virgin Efira Festival is also expected.

Directors’ Monday is held from 18 to 27 May 2022.