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PARIS (AP) -- A Civil conflict movie with the aid of Sofia Coppola, a Ukrainian street film and a drama about AIDS activism are among the many 18 movies competing for prime prizes this year on the Cannes movie competition , a global cinema extravaganza that organizers hope can help counter rising nationalist sentiment world wide.
competition director Thierry Fremaux and President Pierre Lescure on Thursday announced a lineup that comprises Cannes' first virtual-truth entry, tackles subject matters from animal cruelty to the migrant crisis and presents four chances to look Nicole Kidman onscreen.
Contenders for the desirable Palme d'Or prize at the seventieth Cannes competition encompass Coppola's spooky Civil warfare drama "The Beguiled," starring Kidman and Kirsten Dunst; American director Noah Baumbach's household saga "The Meyerowitz reports," starring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler; and fellow American Todd Haynes' 1920s-set drama "Wonderstruck."
also aiming to impress a contest jury headed by way of Spanish director Pedro Almodovar are "Okja,"a fable thriller with an animal-rights theme by using South Korea's Bong Joon-ho starring Tilda Swinton; French director Michel Hazanavicius' tribute to the French New Wave, "Le Redoutable"; intercourse-trafficking drama "You were on no account really right here" from Britain's Lynne Ramsay; and "The Killing of a Sacred Deer," a thriller from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos starring Kidman and Colin Farrell.
Kidman additionally appears at Cannes in John Cameron Mitchell's out-of-competitors entry "how to talk to ladies at events" and in Jane Campion's television crime drama "desirable of the Lake."
Austrian director Michael Haneke, a two-time Palme d'Or winner, returns with "chuffed end," whose title, Fremaux stated, bears little relation to its content material.
French filmmaker Robin Campillo's "120 Beats Per Minute" appears on the upward thrust of AIDS activism, while Fremaux referred to as Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa's "a mild Creature" a highway movie "concerning the situation of Russia."
In all, forty nine films may be proven all over the might also 17-28 competition, together with out-of-competitors entries and the sidebar competition "Un certain Regard." Twelve of the movies are by means of girls -- up from nine last year.
Director Alejandro G. Inarritu will be in Cannes with the virtual truth short movie "Carne y enviornment" ("Meat and Sand"), suggested to be about migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Fremaux noted it became "a gorgeous movie, you are shivering when you come out of it." He in comparison the wonders of digital truth to the wonders unleashed through cinema's founding fathers the Lumiere brothers more than a century ago.
protection may be tight for festival, which is held just down the French coast from satisfactory, the place an Islamic State neighborhood-inspired truck assault killed 86 individuals in July.
Lescure stated safety turned into "at its highest" in 2016 and "there were no severe incidents."
"i'm hoping to see the same consequences this year," he noted.
world routine will forged a shadow over Cannes' noted Croisette, the town's picturesque seafront promenade, after a yr that has considered Britain's vote to depart the ecu Union and the election of the unpredictable U.S. President Donald Trump.
France could have a new president via the pageant's opening evening, with the ultimate stage of the country's two-circular election set for may also 7.
In a mirrored image of altering business economics, a few entries at Cannes this yr had been funded via Netflix or Amazon. And this hallowed floor of cinema is also making room for tv, with previews of David Lynch's revived "Twin Peaks" and a brand new sequence of Campion's "precise of the Lake."
Political documentaries include "An Inconvenient Sequel," comply with-up to Al Gore's local weather-exchange movie "An Inconvenient truth"; Claude Lanzmann's film about North Korea, "Napalm"; and actress Vanessa Redgrave's directorial debut "Sea Sorrow," about refugees and people attempting to assist them.
"once in a while americans say the Cannes film pageant is awfully political," Fremaux mentioned. "it's now not real. it be no longer us, it be no longer me -- or not it's cinema. The makers are involved about politics."
Fremaux stated he hopes the pageant can "look to the longer term" and hang "the promise of dwelling together in harmony."
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Lawless mentioned from London. Masha Macpherson in Paris contributed.
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