These are the films selected at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in its official section and that aspire to win the Palme d’Or this Saturday. Among the candidates in a very open competition is the film by Catalan director Albert Serra, which has a French production, as well as ‘Decision to leave’, by Park Chan-Wook, and ‘Armageddon time’, by James Gray. Practically all the films have a link that refers to the daily chronicles of the festival by EL PERIÓDICO film specialist Nando Salvà, who is present in Cannes.
Movie: ‘holy spider’
Director: Ali Abbassi
(Denmark)
In the Iran of 2001, a journalist enters the slums of the holy city of Mashhad to investigate a series of femicides.
Movie: ‘Les amandiers’ (Forever Young)
Director: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
(France)
A group of twentysomethings are accepted into the famous Théâtre des Amadiers acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans in Nanterre.
Movie: ‘Crimes of the Future’
Director: David Cronenberg
(Canada)
In a future world in which mutations occur in human bodies, an artist performs in which he exhibits these transformations.
Movie: ‘Tori and Lokita’
Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
(Belgium)
Two African boys who have emigrated to Europe alone face a terrifyingly hostile environment in modern-day Belgium.
Movie: ‘Stars at noon’
Director: Claire Dennis
(France)
In the Nicaragua of the 1980s, an English businessman and an American journalist start a relationship. Soon they will be immersed in the complicated political atmosphere of the moment.
Movie: ‘Frère et soeur’ (Brother and sister)
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
(France)
An actress and her brother, a teacher and poet, have been estranged for 20 years. They will be forced to put aside their hatred to coincide in the funeral of their parents.
Movie: ‘Close’
Director: Lukas Dhont
(Belgium)
Two 13-year-old boys, Léo and Rémi, two great friends until an event separates them. Léo approaches the mother of his partner to try to understand what has happened.
Movie: ‘Armageddon Time’
Director: James Gray
(USA)
The director tells the story of a boy who grows up in Brooklyn in the 1980s and has many parallels with his own experience.
Movie: ‘Broker’
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
(Japan)
A young woman abandons her baby one rainy night. All those who come across the little one will see how her destiny is transformed.
Movie: ‘Nostalgia’
Director: Mario Marten
(Italy)
After 40 years of absence, Felice returns to her hometown, Naples, while adjusting to her own past, adapting to the new codes of the neighborhood.
Movie: ‘NMR’
Director: Cristian Mungiu
(Romania)
A Romanian worker who has lived in Germany for many years quits his job and returns to his village in Transylvania to meet his son and his father.
Movie: triangle of sadness
Director: Ruben Ostlund
(Sweden)
A couple of models embark on a millionaires cruise. When the ship is shipwrecked on a desert island, the only person capable of helping them survive is the housekeeper.
Movie: ‘Haeojil Gyeolsim’ (Decision to leave)
Director: Park Chan-Wook
(Korea)
A veteran detective investigates the death of a man on top of a mountain. The main suspect will be the victim’s widow, with whom he will begin to fall in love.
Movie: ‘Show up’
Kelly Reichardt
(USA)
An artist is about to open an exhibition while she finds herself in a difficult social situation that she will take advantage of for her art.
Movie: ‘Leila’s Brothers’
Saeed Roustaee
(Iran)
Leila and her siblings try to get the family out of their financial straits that have become more pressing with the patriarch’s expenses and his poor health.
Movie: ‘Walad min Al Janna’ (Boy from heaven)
Director: Tarik Salem
(Sweden)
The son of a humble fisherman enters the most prestigious university in Cairo and soon finds himself immersed in a power struggle between religious and political elites.
Movie: ‘Zhena Tchaikovsky’ (Tchacikovski’s wife)
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
(Russia)
A feminist biopic that explores the complex relationship between the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky and his wife Antonina Miliukova.
Movie: ‘Pacification’
Director: Albert Serra
(French Spain)
The French Replica representative in Tahiti, French Polynesia, faces the danger of a local uprising while spotting submarines that could indicate nuclear tests are underway.
Film: ‘Un petit frère’ (Mother and Son)
Director: Leonor Serraille
(France)
The film follows the trajectory of an African family in France since the mother and her two children decide to emigrate in the 1980s.
Movie: ‘eo’
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
(Poland)
The film is told through the eyes of Eo, a donkey who, throughout his life’s journey, meets good and bad people and experiences joy and pain.
Movie: ‘Le otto montagne’ (The eight mountains)
Directors: Charlotte Vandermeeresch and Felix Van Groeningen
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