
As we already know, the
Cannes Film Festival opens in France on May 16th, and a documentary about the world's waste will get a special screening.
All in all, there are seven new movies added to the official line-up, as following:
Trashed, by British director
Candida Brady; Australian director
Wayne Blair‘s
The Sapphires, a musical about an Australian aboriginal singing group, joins the midnight movies roster along with
Franck Khalfoun‘s Franco-American horror remake
Maniac; Organizers also added three films Monday to the festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar –
Djeca, by
Aida Begic from Bosnia-Herzegovina;
Renoir, by France's
Gilles Bourdos; and
Gimme the Loot,
Adam Leon‘s film about Bronx graffiti artists.
The Cannes lineup also includes
Final Cut, a montage film produced by Hungarian auteur
Bela Tarr.
Also, final decision for the jury presided by Italian filmmaker
Nanni Moretti is:
German actress
Diane Kruger, British actor
Ewan McGregor, fashion designer
Jean-Paul Gaultier,
The Descendants director
Alexander Payne, Palestinian actress
Hiam Abbass, British writer
Andrea Arnold, French actress
Emanuelle Devos and Haitian filmmaker
Raoul Peck.