18 MEDIA-funded films join Cannes 2018

The 71st Cannes Film Festival takes place from 8 to 19 May with 18 Creative Europe-backed films screening as part of the official selection. They are:

In Competition

• Dogman by Matteo Garrone (Italy, France)
• Girls of the Sun/Les filles du soleil by Eva Husson (France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland)
• Lazzaro Felice/Happy as Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher (Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany)
• Zimna Wojna/ Cold War by Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland, France, UK)

Screened out of competition

• The House that Jack Built by Lars Von Trier (Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France) – screened out of competition

Special Screenings

• The Man Who Killed Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam (Spain, UK, France, Portugal)
• Another Day of Life by Raul De La Fuente & Damian Nenow (Poland, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Hungary)

Un certain Regard

• Gräns/ Border by Ali Abbasi (Sweden, Denmark)
• Die Stropers/ Les moissonneurs by Etienne Kallos (France, Greece, South Africa)
• Muere, Monstruo, Muere/ Meurs monstre by Alejandro Fadel (Chile, Argentina, France)
• Donbass by Sergey Loznitsa (Germany)

Cannes Classics

• Bergman – A Year in a Life by Jane Magnusson (Sweden)

Semaine de la Critique

• Fuga/ Fugue by Agnieszka Smoczynska (Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden)
• Kona fer í strio/ Woman at War by Benedikt Erlingsson (Island, France, Denmark)
• Nos batailles/ Our Struggles by Guillaume Senez (Belgique, France) – special screening

Quinzaine des réalisateurs

• Pájaros de verano/Birds of Passage by Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego (Colombia, Denmark)
• Samouni Road by Stefano Savona (France, Italy)
• Weldi/Dear Son by Mohamed Ben Attia (Tunisia, Belgium, France)

Find out more about the supported films on the European Commission’s website