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A Glimpse At Cannes 2023 Film Festival Lineup

The 76th Cannes Film Festival roster, released on April 13, includes new works by Wes Anderson, Wim Wenders, and Ken Loach.

Anderson’s sci-fi pastiche Asteroid City, Wenders’ Perfect Days, and Loach’s The Old Oak are among the 19 films contending for the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.

Previous Palme d’Or winners such as Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nanni Moretti, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, and Hirokazu Kore-eda are back this year. Wenders also has a film in Special Screenings, while Kore-eda has the Japanese drama Monster in the mix after 2022’s Korean-language Broker.

The following is a list of the 19 films competing for the top prize, the Palme d’Or

‘Asteroid City’ by Wes Anderson

‘The Zone of Interest’ by Jonathan Glazer

‘May/December’ by Todd Haynes

‘Monster’ by Hirokazu Kore-eda

‘The Old Oak’ by Ken Loach

‘Perfect Days’ by Wim Wenders

‘About Dry Grasses’ by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

‘Fallen Leaves’ by Aki Kaurismaki

‘Il sol dell’avvenire’ by Nanni Moretti

‘Four Daughters’ by Kaouther Ben Hania

‘Club Zero’ by Jessica Hausner

‘Anatomy of a Fall’ by Justine Triet

‘La Chimera’ by Alice Rohrwacher

‘Shanghai Youth’ by Wang Bing

‘Banel et Adama’ by Ramata-Toulaye Sy

‘Firebrand’ by Karim Ainouz

‘Rapito’ by Marco Bellocchio

‘The Pot au Feu’ by Tran Anh Hung

‘Last Summer’ by Catherine Breillat

Among the rest of the Official Selection, Steve McQueen’s Occupied City has a Special Screenings slot, while Takeshi Kitano’s Kubi has a Cannes Premiere. Anurag Kashyap has a Midnight Screenings slot with Kennedy, and Sam Levinson’s HBO’s The Idol is screening in the Out of Competition strand.

Spriha Rai

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