The 2023 Cannes Film Festival lineup was officially announced on April 13, but on Monday the organization listed the last of the entries for the competition and non-competition categories, most notably with the addition of Robert Rodriguez’s “Hypnotic,” a science fiction work starring Ben Affleck and Alice Braga, in the Midnight section.
Other high-profile titles include Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies,” a New York-set drama starring Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan and Mike Tyson, Catherine Corsini’s animated French film “Le Retour,” and Sahra Mani’s documentary “Bread and Roses”. concerning Afghan women living under the Taliban regime.
Below are the 14 new feature films and shorts that complete the lineup of the Cannes Film Festival 2023:
COMPETENCE
“Black Flies” (Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire)
“RETURN
The return (Catherine Corsini)
PREMIERE IN CANNES
Lost in the night (Amat Escalante)
“L’Amour et les Forets” (Valérie Donzelli)
Eureka (Lisandro Alonso)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“L’abbe Pierre – A life of combat” (Frédéric Tellier)
UNCERTAIN LOOK
“Only the river flows” (Wei Shujun)
One night (Alex Lutz)
The film will be screened Out of Competition – Closing of Un Certain Regard
SHORT FILM
“Filles du Feu” (Pedro Costa)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“The Blue Girl” (Mona Achache)
“Bread and Roses” (Sahra Mani)
“Marguerite’s Theorem” (Anna Novion)
MIDNIGHT SCREENING
“Hypnotic” (Robert Rodriguez)
“Project Silence” (Kim Tae-gon)
