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Jun 08, 2021
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The Directors Fortnight unveils its 2021 selection

 

Paolo Moretti and his selection committee have unveiled the selection of Directors’ Fortnight’s 53rd edition.

Discover the list of the selected long and short films. 

More information will soon be available on our website.

FEATURE FILMS

A Chiara by Jonas Carpignano

1h38 

A Night of Knowing Nothing by Payal Kapadia

1h30 – First feature film

Ali & Ava by Clio Barnard

1h35

Clara Sola by Nathalie Álvarez Mesen

1h48 – First feature film

De bas étage (A Brighter Tomorrowby Yassine Qnia

1h26 – First feature film

Diários de Otsoga  (Journal de Tûoa, The Tsugua Diariesby Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro

1h41 

El empleado y el patron (L’Employeur et l’Employé, The Employer and the Employee) by Manuel Nieto Zas

1h46 

Entre les vagues (The Bravesby Anaïs Volpé

1h39

Europa by Haider Rashid

1h15 – First feature film

Futura by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher

1h45 

Întregalde by Radu Muntean

1h44 

Jadde khaki (Hit the Road) by Panah Panahi

1h33 – First feature film

Les Magnétiques (Magnetic Beats) by Vincent Maël Cardona

1h38 – First feature film

Luaneshat e kodrës (La Colline où rugissent les lionnes, The Hill where Lionesses Roarby Luàna Bajrami

1h23 – First feature film

Medusa by Anita Rocha da Silveira

2h07 

Mon légionnaire (Our Menby Rachel Lang

1h46 – Closing film

Murina by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović

1h32 – First feature film

Neptune Frost by Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman

1h45 

Ouistreham (Between Two Worlds) by Emmanuel Carrère

1h47 – Opening film

Re Granchio (La Légende du Roi Crabe, The Tale of King Crab) by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis

1h30 

Retour à Reims (Fragments) – (Returning to Reims (Fragments)) by Jean-Gabriel Périot

1h23 

The Souvenir Part II by Joanna Hogg

1h46

Yong an zhen gu shi ji (Ripples of Lifeby Shujun Wei

2h 

البحر أمامكم (Face à la mer, The Sea Ahead) by Ely Dagher

1h56 – First feature film

SPECIAL SCREENING

The Souvenir Part I by Joanna Hogg

2h 

SHORT FILMS

Anxious Body by Yoriko Mizushiri

6 min

El Espacio sideral (The Sidereal Spaceby Sebastián Schjaer

17 min

Simone est partie (Simone Is Goneby Mathilde Chavanne

21 min

Sycorax by Lois Patiño and Matías Piñeiro

20 min

The Parents’ Room (La Chambre des parentsby Diego Marcon

11 min 

The Vandal by Eddie Alcazar

15 min

The Windshield Wiper by Alberto Mielgo

14 min

Train Again by Peter Tscherkassky

20 min 

When Night Meets Dawn (Quand la Nuit rencontre l’Aubeby Andreea Cristina Borțun

20 min 

CARROSSE D’OR

Monrovia, Indiana by Frederick Wiseman

2h15

 

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