54rd Quinzaine des Réalisateurs Selection

Today, Tuesday April 19, the selection committee lead by Paolo Moretti announced the line-up for 2022 edition. Worth mentioning that Moretti will step down at the end of the 2022 edition and the new artistic director will assume her/his duties in November 2023 to prepare for the 2023 edition.

2022 Directors' Fortnight is dedicated by the SRF to Lituanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, killed in Ukraine, to his colleague Oleg Sentsov currently fighting in the front line and to all artists forced to make war rather than films.

The 54th edition will run from May 18 to 24 and today unveiled their program with 23 feature films, due to technical issues one Asian film still pending to be announced, with a strong European presence, 17 filmmakers, and even stronger presence of French films (9) that include films by the likes of Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour, Léa Mysius, Philippe Faucon and more. Most interesting is the non-European presence of first feature films, remember these films compete for the Camera d'Or, by directors from South America (Chile and Colombia), Tunisia (2), and Lebanon (1).

If we include the previously announced opening film plus the one pending to be announced, there will be twenty-five (25) films in this edition.  From those already announced there are 10 films by female filmmakers, one is a co-directing with another female director and another with a male director.

Today was also announced that Kelly Reichardt is honored with Le Carrosse d'Or from Société des réalisateurs de films (SRF) which will be presented during the Quinzaine openning ceremony on May 18. Reichardt's 2010 film Meek's Cutoff will be screened on May 18 with an in-person meeting with the director.

An excerpt from the letter written by SRF Board that includes Jacques Audiard, Phippe Faucon, Claire Simon, and more:
"From River of Grass to First Cow, we have consistently admired the spirit of freedom that radiates from your work. This is proof to us that cinema is often reinvented and re-energized in its most handcrafted forms. We sense a gentle resistance to the standardized perception of society and film throughout your filmography.
Your unique approach to the characters that fill your stories - sensitive, critical and compassionate all at once - takes root in our imagination. This specificity, so different from the many clichéd views of America, is inscribed in the geography of your films, and is a great source of inspiration for us."

The List

Official Selection
Opening Film: L'Envol (Scarlet), Pietro Marcello, France, Italy, Germany and Russia
Closing Film: Le Parfum Vert (The Green Perfume), Nicolas Pariser, France
1976, Manuela Martelli, Chile and Argentina  (1st feature film )
السّد Al-Sadd (The Dam), Ali Cherri, Lebanon, France and Qatar (1st feature film)
أشكال Ashkal, Youssef Chebbi, Tunisia, France and Qatar (1st feature film)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (The Fabric of the Human Body), Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor, France, USA and Switzerland (documentary)
El Agua (The Water), Elena López Riera, Spain, France and Switzerland (1st feature film)
Enys Men, Mark Jenkin, UK
Falcon Lake, Charlotte Le Bon, Canada and France (1st feature film)
Fogo-fátuo (Will-o’-the-Wisp), João Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal
Funny Pages, Owen Kline, USA (1st feature film)
God's Creatures, Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis, USA, UK and Ireland
La dérive des continents (au sud) (Continental Drift (South)), Lionel Baier, Switzerland
La Montagne (The Mountain), Thomas Salvador, France
Les années super 8 (The super 8 years), Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot, France (documentary) (1st feature film)
Les Cinq diables (The Five Debils), Léa Mysius, France
Les Harkis (Harkis), Philippe Faucon, France and Belgium
Памфір Pamfir, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ukraine (1st feature film)
Revoir Paris (Paris Memories), Alice Winocour, France
تحت الشجرة Tath Alshajra (Under the Fig Trees), Erige Sehiri, Tunisia, Switzerland, France and Qatar
Un Beau Matin (One Fine Morning), Mia Hansen-Løve, France and Germany
Un varón (A Male), Fabián Hernández, Colombia, France, Netherlands and Germany (first feature film)

Special Screenings
Men, Alex Garland, UK

Short Films
Aribada, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Natalia Escobar, Colombia and Germany, 30'
As Time Passes, Jamil McGinnis, USA and Turkey, 14'
Beben (Tremor), Rudolf Fitzgerald Leonard, Germany, 18'
Des jeunes filles enterrent leur vie (Burial of Life as a Young Girl), Maïté Sonnet, France 33'
Happy New Year, Jim, Andrea Gatopoulos, Italy, 9'
Jitterbug, Ayo Akingbade, UK, 24'
Maria Schneider, 1983, Elisabeth Subrin, France, 24'
Potemkinistii (The Potemkinists), Radu Jude, Romania 18'
Staging Death, Jan Soldat, Germany and Austria, 8'
The Spiral, Maria Silvia Esteve, Argentina, 20'

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Press Conference video