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Control, by Anton Corbijn

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT ANNOUNCES SELECTION WITH NINE DEBUT FILMS

"How do you capture feelings on film? seems to be the question nagging both young auteurs and veteran filmmakers”, says the editorial of the 39th edition of Directors’ Fortnight. An initiative by the French entity Film Directors’ Society, this selection, parallel to the Cannes Festival, was created in 1968 on the verve of the students’ demonstrations claiming for liberal changes and freedom of expression.

According to the same text, “the 23 chosen films, among which many first features, deal with the violence, paradoxical beauty and complexity of our times”. CONTROL, by debut Dutch filmmaker Anton Corbijn, will open the fortnight. The filmmaker comes from a wide experience in the production of video clips for U2,

Depeche Mode, New Order, Nirvana, Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others. CONTROL tells the life and death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the legendary post-punk rock band Joy Division. The musician committed suicide on the eve of the band’s first U.S.A. tour, in May 1980.Since its creation, the Directors’ Fortnight has discovered names that are celebrated nowadays, such as Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Nagisa Oshima, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Jim Jarmush, Michael Haneke, Spike Lee, the Dardenne brothers, Sofia Coppola, besides having honor guests as Robert Bresson, Manoel de Oliveira and Stephen Frears.

The complete selection of the features of the Directors’ Fortnight brings the following names:

APRÉS LUI, by Gaël Morel (France); AVANT QUE J’OUBLIE, by Jacques Nolot (Francd); CARAMEL, first feature by Nadine Labaka (Lebanon, France); CHOP SHOP, by Ramin Bahrani (USA); CONTROL, first feature by Anton Corbijn (UK, Australia); DAÍ NIPPONJIN, first feature by Hotosi Matumoto (Japan); ELLE S’APPELLE SABINE, first feature by the also notorious actress Sandrine Bonnaire (France); L’ETAT DU MONDE, collective by Chantal Akerman, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Vicente Ferraz, Avisha Abraham, Wang Bing and Pedro Costa (Portugal); FOSTER CHILD, by Brillante Mendoza (the Phillipines); LA FRANCE, by Serge Bozon (France); GARAGE, by Lenny Abrahamson (Ireland); GEGENÜBER, first feature by Jan Bonny (Germany); LA INFLUENCIA, first feature by Pedro Aguilera (Spain, México); MUTUM, first feature by Sandra Kogut (Brazil, France); PLOY, by Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thailand); PVC-1, first feature by Spiros Stathoulopoulos (Colombia); LA QUESTION HUMAINE, by Nicolas Klotz (France); SAVAGE GRACE, by Tom Kalin (Spain, USA, France); SMILEY FACE, by Gregg Araki (USA); TOUT EST PARDONNÉ, first feature by Mia Hansen-Løve (France); UM HOMME PERDU, by Danielle Arbid (Lebanon, France); YUMURTA/ EGG, by Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey, Greece) and ZOO, by Robinson Devor (USA). Sinopsis at http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com/go/selection/ .

More information on the restored classics in :
www.festival-cannes.org

English version: Laura Rebessi