Julien Rejl, Artistic Director of the Directors' Fortnight, has revealed the Selection of its 55th edition.

"The Directors’ Fortnight was born when a community of directors came together with the desire to create an independent space that would encourage the emergence of free filmmaking regardless of geographical provenance or any other limiting criteria. At the heart of the creation of the Directors’ Fortnight was the singular quality of a work of art and the impossibility of pigeonholing it.

We have chosen to present 30 films to you which, through their own unique language, embody a spirit of resistance to any form of ideology and to dominant narratives."

Discover the list of selected feature films and short films and download the press kit.

AXXAM YAṚƔA, MAQAṚ ANSAḤMU (The House Is on Fire, Might as Well Get Warm / La maison brûle, autant se réchauffer) 

by Mouloud Aït Liotna 

DANS LA TÊTE UN ORAGE (A Storm Inside)  

by Clément Pérot

IL COMPLEANNO DI ENRICO (The Birthday Party / L’Anniversaire d’Enrico) 

by Francesco Sossai

J'AI VU LE VISAGE DU DIABLE (I Saw the Face of the Devil)

by Julia Kowalski

LEMON TREE 

by Rachel Walden

MARGARETHE 89 

by Lucas Malbrun

MAST-DEL 

by Maryam Tafakory

OYU 

by Atsushi Hirai

THE RED SEA MAKES ME WANNA CRY 

by Faris Alrjoob

XIA RI FU BEN (Talking to the River) 

by Yue Pan

VAL ABRAÃO (Val Abraham / Abraham’s Valley) 

by Manoel de Oliveira

Special screnning

LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN (The Goldman Case) 

by Cédric Kahn 

Opening film

AGRA 

by Kanu Behl

L’AUTRE LAURENS (The Other Laurens) 

by Claude Schmitz

BÊN TRONG VỎ KÉN VÀNG (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell) 

by Thien An Pham 

First feature film

BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Merle merle mûre)

by Elene Naveriani

BLAZH (Grace / La Grâce) 

by Ilya Povolotsky 

First feature film

CONANN (She Is Conann) 

by Bertrand Mandico

CREATURA 

by Elena Martín Gimeno

DÉSERTS 

by Faouzi Bensaïdi

IN FLAMES

by Zarrar Kahn 

First feature film

LÉGUA 

by Filipa Reis & João Miller Guerra

LE LIVRE DES SOLUTIONS (The Book of Solutions) 

by Michel Gondry

MAMBAR PIERRETTE 

by Rosine Mbakam

RIDDLE OF FIRE (Conte de feu) 

by Weston Razooli 

First feature film

THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED

by Joanna Arnow 

First feature film

THE SWEET EAST 

by Sean Price Williams

UN PRINCE (A Prince) 

by Pierre Creton

XIAO BAI CHUAN (A Song Sung Blue) 

by Zihan Geng 

First feature film

WOO-RI-UI-HA-RU (In Our Day) 

by Hong Sang-soo 

Closing film