Here are the 10 new films added to the composition of the Official Selection 2018. (of which three in the main competition)
Competition
Added films are:
Un couteau dans le cœur (Knife + Heart) by the French Yann Gonzalez starring Vanessa Paradis
Ayka by the Kazakh Sergey Dvortsevoy, director of Tulpan, winner of the Prize Un Certain Regard in 2008
These two films by Yann Gonzalez and Sergey Dvortsevoy are both directors’ second feature. It will be their first time in Competition.
Ahlat Agaci (The Wild Pear Tree / Le Poirier sauvage) by the Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan, winner of the Palme d’or 2014 for Winter Sleep
The Competition 2018 will be composed of 21 films.
Out of Competition
Festival President Pierre Lescure and his board of directors will welcome back the Danish director Lars von Trier, winner of the 2000 Palme d’or, to the Official Selection. His new film will be screened Out of Competition.
The House That Jack Built by Lars von Trier starring Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman
Lars had been banned from Cannes and declared "persona non grata" by the festival in 2011 after his press conference where he declared some sympathy for Hitler.
He was seen in Berlin bragging about this on his T-Shirt Personanon grata official selection with Cannes Palm symbol.
Un Certain Regard
Muere, Monstruo, Muere (Meurs, monstre, meurs) by the Argentinean Alejandro Fadel
Chuva E Cantoria Na Aldeia Dos Mortos (The Dead and the Others / Les Morts et les autres) by the Portugese João Salaviza and the Brasilian Renée Nader Messora
And :
Donbass by the Ukranian Sergey Loznitsa which will open Un Certain Regard 2018 on Wednesday May 9.
Midnight Screenings
Whitney, a documentary by the Scottish Kevin Macdonald, about the life of the singer Whitney Houston.
Fahrenheit 451 by the American Ramin Bahrani with Sofia Boutella, Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon. It’s the second adaptation of the novel by Ray Bradbury, after the one made by François Truffaut.
Closing film
In 2018, the Festival de Cannes renews with the Closing film tradition:
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by the British Terry Gilliam, with Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce and Olga Kurylenko
The screening will take place on Saturday May 19 after the Closing ceremony and the film will be released in France on the same day.
