Cannes 2017: Film festival features 12 films by female directors, up from nine
No female directors screened films in 2012
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Your support makes all the difference.The line-up for the highly anticipated Cannes Film Festival 2017 has been announced, unveiling a notable rise in female directors making the list.
A total of twelve will have films screened at the prestigious festival, up from 2016's nine and a significant change from 2012's festival, where no films by female directors were shown.
Cannes faced embarrassment in 2015 after several women were turned away from the premiere of Carol for wearing flat-soled shoes instead of high heels back. The poster for the 2017 festival has also been criticised for using a heavily photoshopped image of Italian actress Claudia Cardinale.
In a press conference, festival president Pierre Lescure - alongside General Thierry Frémaux - announced the Official Selection, including the eighteen films that will be in competition this year, including Naomi Kawase’s Radiance and Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here.
Kristen Stewart's directorial short film, Come Swim, will also premiere at Canne. Last year the actress starred in Olivier Assayas' film Personal Shopper, which was booed by the audience at Cannes, despite positive reviews.
Also at the festival, two episodes of the eagerly anticipated reboot of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks will be shown. The festival will take place from the 17 to 28 May.
The full schedule is as follows:
Competition
Ismael’s Ghosts – Arnaud Desplechin (opening film)
Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Good Time – Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay
A Gentle Creature – Sergei Loznitsa
Jupiter’s Moon – Kornél Mundruczó
L’Amant Double – François Ozon
The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Yorgos Lanthimos
Radiance – Naomi Kawase
The Day After – Hong Sang-soo
Le Redoutable – Michel Hazanavicius
Wonderstruck – Todd Haynes
Rodin – Jacques Doillon
Happy End – Michael Haneke
The Beguiled – Sofia Coppola
120 Battements Par Minute – Robin Campillo
Okja – Bong Joon-ho
In the Fade – Fatih Akin
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) – Noah Baumbach
Un Certain Regard
Barbara – Mathieu Amalric
The Desert Bride – Cecilia Atan and Valeria Pivato
Closeness – Kantemir Balagov
Beauty and the Dogs – Kaouther Ben Hania
L’Atelier – Laurent Cantet
Lucky – Sergio Castellitto
April’s Daughter – Michel Franco
Western – Valeska Grisebach
Directions – Stephan Komandarev
Out – Gyorgy Kristof
Before We Vanish – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Nature of Time – Karim Moussaoui
Dregs – Mohammad Rasoulof
Juene Femme – Léonor Serraille
Wind River – Taylor Sheridan
After the War – Annarita Zambrano
Out of Competition:
Blade of the Immortal – Takashi Miike
How to Talk to Girls at Parties – John Cameron Mitchell
Visages, Villages – Agnès Varda & JR
Midnight Screenings
The Villainess – Jung Byung-Gil
The Merciless – Byun Sung-Hyun
Special Screenings
An Inconvenient Sequel – Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk
12 Jours – Raymond Depardon
They – Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Clair’s Camera – Hong Sang-soo
Promised Land – Eugene Jarecki
Napalm – Claude Lanzmann
Demons in Paradise – Jude Ratman
Sea Sorrow – Vanessa Redgrave
Special Screenings – Events
Twin Peaks – David Lynch (first two episodes)
24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami
Come Swim – Kristen Stewart
Top of the Lake: China Girl – Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman
Carne y arena – Alejandro González Iñárritu
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