Cannes 2022: Shaunak Sen’s documentary All That Breathes to have a special screening

Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes, which won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, will have a special screening at the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Set in Delhi, Sen’s documentary looks at brothers who tend to injured black kites, which are increasingly getting wounded in the polluted capital.

Meanwhile, Pakistani filmmaker Saim Sadiq's first film Joyland will compete in Un Certain Regard. His short film Darling became the first Pakistani film to be premiered at the 76th Venice Film Festival in 2019; it won the award for Best Short Film.

Michel Hazanavicius’s Z will open the historic edition. New anticipated features by filmmakers David Cronenberg, Claire Denis, Hirokazu Kore-eda, the Dardenne brothers, and Park Chan-wook will compete for the Palme d'Or. The Tom Cruise-starrer Top Gun: Maverick, directed by Joseph Kosinski, and Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic starring Austin Butler as the American crooner and Tom Hanks will be seen out of competition.  

Interestingly, the singer’s granddaughter Riley Keough makes her directorial debut in Un Certain Regard with Gina Gammell in Beast.

More titles are due to be announced in the coming weeks. The French festival will be held physically from 17 to 28 May.

Here’s the full lineup for the 75th edition:

Competition
Holy Spider - Ali Abbasi
Les Amandiers - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Crimes Of The Future - David Cronenberg
The Stars At Noon - Claire Denis
Frere Et Soeur - Arnaud Desplechin
Tori And Lokita - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Close - Lukas Dhont
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Nostalgia - Mario Martone
R.M.N. - Cristian Mungiu
Triangle Of Sadness - Ruben Ostlund
Decisions To Leave - Park Chan-Wook
Showing Up - Kelly Reichardt
Leila’s Brothers - Saeed Roustayi
Boy From Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Tchaikovsky’s Wife - Kirill Serebrennikov
Hi-Han (Eo) - Jerzy Skolimowski

Un Certain Regard
Les Pires - Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
Burning Days - Emin Alper
Metronom - Alexandru Belc
Retour A Seoul - Davy Chou
Sick Of Myself - Kristoffer Borgli
Domingo Y La Niebla - Ariel Escalante Meza
Plan 75 - Hayakawa Chie
Beast - Riley Keough and Gina Gammell
Corsage - Marie Kreutzer
Butterfly Vision - Maksym Nakonechnyi
Volada Land - Hlynur Palmason
Rodeo - Lola Quivoron
Joyland - Saim Sadiq
The Stranger - Thomas M Wright
The Silent Twins - Agnieszka Smoczynska

Cannes Premiere
Outside Night - Marco Bellocchio
Nos Frangins - Rachid Bouchareb
Irma Vep - Olivier Assayas (Series)
Dodo - Panos H. Koutras

Special Screenings
The Natural History Of Destruction - Sergei Loznitsa
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind - Ethan Coen
All That Breathes - Shaunak Sen

Midnight Screenings
Moonage Daydream - Brett Morgen
Smoking Makes You Cough - Quentin Dupieux
Hunt - Lee Jung-Jae

Out of Competition
Top Gun: Maverick - Joseph Kosinski
Elvis - Baz Luhrmann
Three Thousand Years of Longing - George Miller
November - Cédric Jimenez
Masquerade - Nicolas Bedos