Cannes broadcasts official fest line-up, Indian doc ‘All That Breathes’ in Special Screening part

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Delhi-based filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s documentary “All That Breathes” will premiere within the Special Screening section on the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, the organisers introduced Thursday as they unveiled the official line-up of the film gala.

The 10-day competition, thought of probably the most prestigious gathering of cinema expertise from the world over, will even see Hollywood spectacles comparable to “Top Gun: Maverick” and the Elvis Presley biopic its seventy fifth version.

“All That Breathes” by Delhi-based director Sen will premiere within the Special Screening section on the competition, the organisers stated in an announcement that was reside streamed on their official Twitter web page.

The 90-minute lengthy documentary follows siblings Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad, who’ve devoted their lives to rescue and deal with injured birds, particularly the Black Kites.

Working out of their derelict basement in Wazirabad, the Delhi brothers develop into the central focus of the movie and their story zooms out to doc a bigger snapshot of the town, the place the air is poisonous and the bottom is on a slowburn of social turmoil.

In January, the movie gained the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary on the Sundance Film Festival, a movie gala that promotes unbiased cinema and filmmakers.

It is Sen’s second directorial after the acclaimed 2016 “Cities of Sleep”, which was in regards to the homeless scouting for locations to sleep within the capital.

There isn’t any Indian movie within the Un Certain Regard part however neighbouring nation Pakistan’s “Joyland”, written and directed by filmmaker Saim Sadiq, options within the section.

The director beforehand gained the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film for “Darling” on the 2019 Venice Film Festival.

As beforehand introduced Paramount-Skydance’s “Top Gun: Maverick”, starring Tom Cruise, and Warner Bros/Roadshow’s “Elvis” directed by Baz Luhrmann that includes Austin Butler and Tom Hanks would be the star points of interest on the crimson carpet of the competition.

Cruise, who had attended Festival de Cannes three a long time in the past for Ron Howard’s “Far And Away”, will even be honoured with a particular profession tribute on the gala.

These two big-budget spectacles shall be screened underneath the Out of Competition section together with “Three Thousand Years of Longing” by George Miller of “Mad Max” fame, Cedric Jiminez’s “Novembre”, and “Masquerade” by Nicolas Bedos.

The gala will open on May 17 with “Z (Comme Z)” by Michel Hazanavicius, which shall be screened Out of Competition.

Palm D’Or profitable Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda will return to the Croissette with “Broker”, his Korean language debut starring Korean stars Song Kang-ho (“Parasite”), Bae Doona (“Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”), Gang Dong-won (“Peninsula”) and Lee Ji-eun, higher recognized by her stage identify IU.

“Broker” is a part of the Competition part together with South Korean grasp filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to Leave”.

Park, recognized for the “Vengeance” trilogy and “The Handmaiden”, gained the Grand Prix on the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for “Oldboy” and the Jury Prize for his vampire movie “Thirst” in 2009.

“Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind” by Ethan Coen and “The Natural History of Destruction” by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa are additionally a part of the Special Screening line-up.

South Korean star Lee Jung-jae’s directorial debut “Hunt” will premiere within the Midnight Screening part of the celebrated movie gala.

Lee, a preferred identify in his native South Korea, shot to worldwide fame and acclaim following his function of participant quantity 456 Seong gi-hun in “Squid Game”, a Netflix survival drama collection final September.

“Fumer Fait Tousser” by Quentin Dupieux and “Moonage Daydream” by Brett Morgen are additionally a part of the Midnight Screening section.

James Gray’s “Armageddon Time”, “Stars At Noon” by Claire Denis, “Crimes of the Future” (David Cronenberg), “Les Amandiers” (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), Kelly Reichardt’s “Showing Up” and “Boy From Heaven” by Tarik Saleh are included within the complete 18 movie line-up of the Competition class.

There are 15 movies within the Un Certain Regard itemizing, which additionally options “Les Pires” by director duo Lisa Akoka and Romane Gueret, Kristoffer Borgli’s “Sick Of Myself”, “Beast” helmed by actor Riley Keough and Gina Gammell, “Plan 75” (Hayakawa Chie), and “Butterfly Vision” from Maksim Nakonechnyi, amongst others.

The Cannes Premiere part will see the titles comparable to “Nos Frangins” by Rachid Bouchareb, “Nightfall” directed by Marco Bellocchio, Panos H Koutras’ “Dodo”, and the “Irma Vep” collection from director Olivier Assayas.

The seventy fifth version of the Cannes Film Festival will run by way of May 28.