This section of the Cannes Film Festival features films with "a certain look" that stand out for their unusual styles and stories. It is the place for films that are too original, daring and innovative for the official competition.
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R U There
Drama
2010
1h.23min
6
Pro-gamer Jitze has to take a forced break from a tournament in Taipei and meets a young woman who changes his view of the world.
And Along Come Tourists
Drama, Independent
2007
1h.25min
0 FSK
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a touching story of reconciliation takes place between a young German and a concentration camp survivor.
Wendy and Lucy
Drama
2008
1h.20min
6 FSK
Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy.
The Harvesters
Drama
2018
1h.46min
16+
Tense psychological drama and mesmerizing portrait of adolescence set in South Africa brims with religious motives and impending doom.
Freda
Drama
2021
1h.33min
16+
Haitian anthropology student FREDA must navigate the tensions between family expectations, postcolonial structures, Christianity, and voodoo.
Personal Affairs
Drama
2017
1h.30min
16+
This bitingly funny episodic film subtly interweaves the conflicts of a Palestinian family with the political realities of the Middle East conflict.
The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis
Drama
2017
1h.16min
16+
Argentine 1977: Francisco, a former communist, is given the chance to save two dissidents from the hounds of the military junta.
Fire Will Come
Drama
2019
1h.26min
16+
The strange loner Amador was blamed for a devastating forest fire. After serving his prison sentence, he is now no longer welcome in his village.
Marseille
Drama
2004
1h.31min
0 FSK
"German cinema can be this exciting: Angela Schanelec's fourth film MARSEILLE" (taz)
Liberté
Drama
2019
2h.2min
18
An erotic nirvana somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin shortly before the French Revolution in 1774.
After the War
Crime, Drama
2018
1h.31min
16+
One man's acts of political violence in 1970s Italy rebound on his family decades later.
August 32nd on Earth
Classics
1998
1h.28min
16+
In Denis Villeneuve's feature film debut, a young model narrowly escapes death and endeavors to give her life new meaning by becoming a mother.
Euphoria
Drama, Queer
2018
1h.50min
12 FSK
Two dissimilar brothers find each other again through a stroke of fate.
Reunion in Travers
Classics
1989
1h.41min
16 FSK
During the French Revolution, in the village of Travers ensconced in neutral Switzerland, Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the verge of divorcing wife ...
Stopped on Track
Drama
2011
1h.49min
6 FSK
A heartbreaking drama about love and transience. Winner of four German Film Awards.
All Together
Drama
2010
1h.32min
6 FSK
Five long-time friends hatch a daring scheme to escape from their old people's home. Their plan is to become roomates in their own place.
Cemetery of Splendour
Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2015
2h.2min
0 FSK
A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.
Until the Birds Return
Drama
2017
1h.53min
6 FSK
Director Moussaoui interweaves three stories into a multi-faceted portrait of Algeria between slums and luxury apartments, tradition and modernity.
October
Comedy
2010
1h.19min
12 FSK
A Peruvian comedy about a cold and uptight pawnbroker, who suddenly learns about warmth, love and compassion in the form of a baby and a woman. In short, ...