Daily Films for Cannes May 17th ENGLISH
IN COMPETITION
PAPER TIGER by James Gray at 8:30
Runtime: 1h55
In James Gray’s deeply felt and intense drama, two brothers become entangled in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true. As they try to navigate their way through the dangerous world of the Russian mafiya, family bonds begin to fray with life-altering consequences.
THE BELOVED by Rodrigo Sorogoyen at 11:30
Runtime: 2h15
The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.
MOULIN by László Nemes at 15:00
Runtime: 2h10
June 1943. French Resistance leader Jean Moulin is arrested while attempting to unify the Secret Army’s various forces.
Interrogated by Klaus Barbie, the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Moulin is drawn into a relentless confrontation.
His final battle against manipulation and brutality begins.
The fate of Free France hangs in the balance.
GARANCE by Jeanne Herry at 18:30
Runtime: 2h00
Garance is a gifted young actress whose raw magnetism and vibrant spirit have yet to earn her the recognition she craves. Living paycheck to paycheck in a small Paris apartment, she feels increasingly suffocated by fleeting relationships, rising anxiety and the grip of an alcohol addiction quietly tightening around her life. But amid the chaos, her devotion to her sick younger sister and a tender, blossoming romance with Pauline, offer Garance a fragile lifeline. As these bonds deepen, she finds the strength to confront the darkness she has long avoided – setting her on a difficult but transformative journey to self-renewal.
HOPE by Na Hong-jin at 21:30
Runtime 2h40:
Reinforcements have been diverted to battle wildfires and all communication has been cut off.
Hope’s police outpost chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae struggle to defend a village of the elderly, while in the mountains, Sung-ki and the locals who set out to track the beast find themselves hunted instead.
What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
CANNES PREMIERES
RENDEZ-VOUS with Cate Blanchett at 14:30
Runtime: 1h30
AVEDON by Ron Howard at 18:45
Runtime: 1h44
From world leaders to pop culture icons and international supermodels, Richard Avedon’s influence is the blueprint for our image-driven world. His photographs didn’t just reflect culture, they shaped it.
AVEDON traces the life and legacy of an artist who used photography to reinvent the world around him. Drawing on unprecedented access to Richard Avedon’s personal archives—never-before-seen stills, intimate behind-the-lens footage, and new interviews with his closest collaborators—the film explores how his singular eye both reflected and reshaped the visual language of the 20th century, and why even the most iconic image is only half the story.
WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS by Daniel Auteuil at 19:15
Runtime: 1h40
August 1942. Amid the occupation, the Vichy government organizes a mass round-up of foreign Jews. Gilbert Lesage, a young civil servant at the Service Social des Étrangers, is tasked with setting up a screening commission to rule on the fate of the arrested Jews, while Father Alexandre Glasberg, a committed humanitarian, maneuvers to save them. Caught between Vichy’s bureaucracy and mutual-support networks, they will have to join forces to defy the machinery of the State and risk the unthinkable to wrench lives from the grim fate that awaits them.
JIM QUEEN by Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athané at 00:30
Runtime: 1h25
In the heart of Paris’s gay scene, Jim reigns supreme: the ultimate Gym Queen, influencer, and object of universal thirst. But when a bizarre virus called Heterosis starts turning gay men straight, his reign ends overnight. Unfollowed, abandoned, and stripped of status, Jim is left with just one unlikely ally: Lucien, a devoted scrawny twink with more loyalty than clout. Together, they plunge into the queer chaos of the Marais, chasing a rogue doctor rumored to have a cure.
UN CERTAIN REGARD
ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT by Sode Yukiko at 11:00
Runtime: 2h19
Fuyuko lives quietly, working as a freelance proofreader, her days largely free of contact with others except for occasional outings with an outgoing colleague. Accustomed to solitude, she moves through her days without expectation. Her only personal ritual is walking alone through the city at midnight on her birthday. A subtle shift begins when she meets Mitsutsuka, a reserved high school physics teacher, at a local culture center. Drawn to his gentle manner and his words—”Next time, let’s talk about light”— Fuyuko begins meeting him regularly at a café. As their encounters slowly accumulate, a fragile sense of connection takes shape. Yet both carry things they do not easily reveal.
I’LL BE GONE IN JUNE by Katharina Rivilis at 14:00
Runtime: 2h05
In 2001, Franny, a 16-year-old exchange student from Germany, arrives in the sleepy desert town of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Far from home, Franny struggles through awkward school days, stifling heat, and restless nights until she meets Elliott, a boy whose quiet sadness mirrors her own. As America reels from 9/11, something resonates within Franny and an unexpected tenderness begins to bloom.
CANNES CLASSICS
SIERRA DE TERUEL (ESPOIR) by André Malraux at 15:15
Runtime: 1h30
During the Spanish Civil War, a Republican plane, returning from a mission, lands at the airfield where volunteers from various countries await to fight against fascism. In Teruel, held by Franco’s forces, a group of resistance fighters attempts a sortie to aid the villagers of Linas and blow up a bridge vital to fascist reinforcements. Two planes bomb the enemy airfield and the bridge but are attacked by fighters, which manage to take off. Returning safely, one of the crews learns that the other aircraft has crashed in the mountains above Teruel. The commander oversees the recovery of the dead and wounded from the crash. A human chain forms on the mountain to accompany the valiant fighters.
THE DULL-ICE FLOWER by Yang Li-kuo at 16:30
Runtime: 1h40
As dull-ice flowers come into bloom, art teacher KUO Yun-tien arrives to teach in a rural village. He discovers KU A-ming, a mischievous boy gifted with a vivid imagination and a natural talent for painting. Despite growing up in poverty, A-ming captures the world around him with an optimistic brush. When KUO passionately recommends him for a competition, he is forced to confront the harsh realities and obstacles that stand in the way.
Adapted from the novel of the same title by Taiwanese literary giant CHUNG Chao-cheng, the film uses an unadorned visual style to lay bare the social realities beneath everyday life. Its eponymous theme song, entwined with a tearful story of longing, has been sung and remembered across generations. It previously selected and premiered at Berlinale in 1990.
MAVERICK – THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF DAVID LEAN by Barnaby Thompson at 19:00
Runtime: 1h45
David Lean was one of the greatest film directors of all time. He redefined what movies could be, but his singular vision and dogged determination to film the impossible gained him the reputation of being an obsessive maverick. He was a master of his art, able to create love and beauty on screen, but whose own life was often messy, rootless, and painful. An in-depth study of the man and his films. Narrated by Cate Blanchett, Kenneth Branagh is the voice of Lean, and featuring interviews with contemporary directors including Wes Anderson, Paul Greengrass, Alfonso Cuaron, Celine Song, Brady Corbet, Francis Ford Coppola, Denis Villeneuve, Nia DaCosta and Joe Wright.
SÉANCES DU LENDEMAIN
FOREVER YOUR MATERNAL ANIMAL by Valentina Maurel at 8:30
Runtime: 1h40
After years in Europe, Elsa, 28, returns to Costa Rica and reunites with her younger sister Amalia, 20, who is drifting into a path as esoteric as it is existential. While their father Nahuel seeks reassurance through a series of romantic conquests and their mother Isabel immerses herself in republishing the erotic poems of her youth, Elsa hesitates: should she try to save a sister who refuses to be saved, or flee in turn
A GIRL’S STORY by Judith Godrèche at 10:30
Runtime: 1h57
Annie Ernaux is invited to sign her latest book in the city of her childhood, Rouen. As she travels there, she is overcome with vertigo and is plunged back into her first night with a man. A night whose shockwave spread violently through her body and across the rest of her life…
SHEEP IN THE BOX by Koreeda Hirokazu at 12:45
Runtime: 2h06
In the not-so-distant future, a grieving couple who has lost their son takes into their lives a humanoid with the same appearance and voice as their late child.
VISITATION by Volker Schlöndorff at 21:00
Runtime: 1h58
At the heart of VISITATION is a place: a house on a lake near Berlin, where three families live from the 1930s until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Jewish family is forced to sell their house.
An architect builds a house in the Bauhaus style and, after the war, tries to realize in East Berlin what was denied him under the Nazis: to finally build on the GDR’s major construction projects.
After his escape to the West, the house becomes a refuge for a writer couple upon their return from Soviet exile.
VISITATION tells the story of twelve people who dream of a home. But world history does not spare their small shore. The house remains nearly untouched by the passions and fates of its inhabitants.
