Here is a list of the films selected in competition for the prestigious Directors' Fortnight, from May 13 to 23, and Critics' Week, May 13 to 21, running alongside the main Cannes Film Festival.
Directors' Fortnight
"All Good Children" by Alicia Duffy, Britain
"Ano Bisiesto" by Michael Rowe, Mexico
"Benda Bilili" by Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye, France
"La Casa Muda" ("The Silent House") by Gustavo Hernandez, Uruguay
"Ha'Meshotet" ("The Wanderer") by Avishai Sivan, Israel
"Little Baby Jesus of Flandr" by Gust Vandenberghe, Belgium
"Picco" by Philip Koch, Germany
"Somos Lo Que Hay" ("We Are What We Are") by Jorge Michel Grau, Mexico
"Todos Vos Sodes Capitans" by Oliver Laxe, Spain
"Two Gates of Sleep" by Alistair Banks Griffin, United States
"Un Poison Violent" by Katell Quillevere, France
Critics' Week
Feature films:
"Armadillo" by Janus Metz, Denmark
"Bedevilled" by Jang Cheol So, South Korea
"Bell Epine" by Rebecca Zlotowski, France
"Bi, Dung So!" by Phan Dang Di, Vietnam
"The Myth of the American Sleepover" by David Robert Mitchell, United States
"Sandcastle" by Boo Junfeng, Singapore
"Sound of Noise" by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjarne Nilsson, Sweden
Short films:
"A Distracao de Ivan" by Cavi Borges and Gustavi Melo, Brazil
"The Boy Who Wanted to be a Lion" by Alois Di Leo, Britain
"Deeper than Yesterday" by Ariel Kleiman, Australia
"Love Patate" by Gilles Cuvelier, France
"Native Son" by Scott Graham, Britain
"Vasco" by Sebastien Laudenbach, France
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