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Cannes 2022: Films By Alex Garland, Mia Hanson-Love Part Of Director's Fortnight Line-Up
Alex Garland-directed "Men" and Mia Hanson-Love's "One Fine Morning" are among the 23 feature films to be selected for the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. The festival organisers unveiled the line-up for the sidebar event on Tuesday in a press conference, and it also includes nine movies by first-time filmmakers and 11 films by women directors.
Italian
auteur
Pietro
Marcello's
"Scarlet" will
open
the
section
on
May
18,
while
French
director
Nicolas
Pariser-directed
"The
Green
Perfume"
will
serve
as
the
closing
film.
Garland's
"Men",
which
is
his
third
directorial
efforts
after
critically-acclaimed
movies
"Ex
Machina"
and
"Annihilation",
will
play
as
a
Special
Screening
at
the
film
gala.
French director Hansen-Love returns to Cannes with "One Fine Morning", starring Lea Seydoux, after she presented her last movie "Bergman Island" at the 2021 edition. Also part of the lineup is Paul Mescal and Emily Watson-starrer "God's Creatures", directed by Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis, and Mark Jenkin's "Enys Men". Filmmaker Alice Winocour, best known for her 2019 movie "Proxima", will show her new feature "Paris Memories".
The first-time filmmakers who will presenting their films at Directors' Fortnight include Fabian Hernandez, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Charlotte Le Bon, Elena Lopez Riera, Youssef Chebbi, Annie Ernaux & David Ernaux-Briot, Ali Cherri and Manuela Martelli.
Meanwhile, filmmaker Kelly Reichardt will receive Director's Fortnight's honorary award Carrosse d'Or. The filmmaker, known for movies like "River of Grass", "Old Joy", "Wendy and Lucy" and "Certain Women", will host a masterclass at the festival and also present her latest film "Showing Up" in Competition. The 54th edition of Director's Fortnight runs May 18 to 27.
