Cannes 2016 reveals Official Selection, Brillante Mendoza part of Main Competition

Cannes 2016 reveals Official Selection, Brillante Mendoza part of Main Competition

The Philippines is on a roll in the Big Three! Coming on the heels of Hele sa Hiwahang Hapis‘ inclusion in Berlinale’s Main Competition, Cannes Film Festival president Pierre Lescure and artistic director Thierry Fremaux announced Thursday that Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’ Rosa will compete for the highly coveted Palme d’Or. This is the director’s third time to be in competition following Serbis and Kinatay, the latter of which earned him Best Director in  2009.

FULL LIST: 69th Festival de Cannes official lineup

Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay (2009)

The Main Competition lineup includes a number of previous Palme d’Or winners, including brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, who have won this honor twice for Rosetta in 1999 and The Child in 2005, Ken Loach for The Wind That Shakes the Barley in 2006, and Cristian Mungiu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days in 2007. This is also not the first rodeo in this category for many of the other directors, including Pedro Almodovar, Olivier Assayas, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook, and Xavier Dolan, who served as part of the jury last year.

Woody Allen’s Cafe Society is set to open the festival, and three other US films will be screened out of competition. These are Steven Spielberg’s much anticipated The BFG, Jodie Foster’s George Clooney-starrer Money Monster, and Shane Black’s buddy comedy The Nice Guys. The 69th Cannes Film Festival will run from May 11 to 22, 2016. Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller will head this year’s jury.

FULL LIST: 69th Festival de Cannes official lineup

Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart star in Woody Allen’s Cafe Society.

Check out the full lineup below:

Main Competition
Toni Erdman” directed by Maren Ade
Julieta” directed by Pedro Almodovar
Personal Shopper” directed by Olivier Assayas
American Honey” directed by Andrea Arnold
The Unknown Girl” directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
It’s Only the End of the World” directed by Xavier Dolan
Slack Bay” directed by Bruno Dumont
Paterson” directed by Jim Jarmusch
Rester Vertical” directed by Alain Guiraudie
Aquarius” directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho
From the Land of the Moon” directed by Nicole Garcia
I, Daniel Blake” directed by Ken Loach
Ma’Rosa” directed by Brillante Mendoza
Bacalaureat” directed by Cristian Mungiu
Loving” directed by Jeff Nichols
The Handmaiden” directed by Park Chan-Wook
The Last Face” directed by Sean Penn
Sieranevada” directed by Cristi Puiu
Elle” directed by Paul Verhoeven
The Neon Demon” directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

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Varoonegi” directed by Behnam Behzadi
Apprentice,” directed by Boo Junfeng
Voir du Pays” directed by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin
La Danseuse” directed by Stephanie di Giusto
Clash” directed by Mohamed Diab
La Tortue Rouge” directed by Michael Dubok de Wit
Fuchi Bi Tatsu” directed by Fukada Koji
Omar Shakhsiya” directed by Maha Haj
Me’Ever Laharim Vehagvaot” directed by Eran Kolirin
After The Storm” directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Hymyileva Mies” directed by Juho Kuosmanen
La Large Noche de Francisco Sanctis” directed by Francisco Marquez and Andrea Testa
Caini” directed by Bogdan Mirica
Pericle Il Nero” directed by Stefano Mordini
Captain Fantastic” directed by Matt Ross
The Transfiguration” directed by Michael O’Shea
Uchenik” directed by Kirill Serebrennikov

Out of Competition
The BFG” directed by Steven Spielberg
Goksung” directed by Na Hong-Jin
Money Monster” directed by Jodie Foster
The Nice Guys” directed by Shane Black

Special Screenings
L’ultima Spiaggia” directed by Thanos Anastopoulous and Davide del Degan
A Chad Tragedy” directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
The Death of Louis XIV” directed by Albert Serra
Le Cancre” directed by Paul Vecchiali

Midnight Screenings
Gimme Danger” directed by Jim Jarmusch
The Train to Busan” directed by Yeon Sang-Ho

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