The 70th Cannes Film Festival starts today and there is no shortage of important documentaries which will be screened among different sections. Even though none of them is in the official competition, four docs are in the Out of Competition section while two more films are part of the Critic’s week.
Here all the docs of this year’s edition:
Out of Competition
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, sequel of the Oscar winner doc An Inconvenient Truth by Bonni Cohen e Jon Shenk. Produced by Participate Media, the film follows the former vice-president of the US Al Gore in his battle against the climate change.
12 jours by Raymond De Pardon is a doc about the confinement of human beings in a psychiatric hospital. The title refers to the time in which the hospital has to decide to confine or release a patient. The film is produced by Palmeraie et Désert in coproduction with France 2 Cinema and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Cinéma.
Napalm by Claude Lanzmann is produced by Margo Cinéma in coproduction with Orange Studio. It tells the story of a brief encounter between a French delegate of the Wester Europe and a Red Cross’ nurse in Pyonjang in 1858, after the War of Korea. The only word they share is “Napalm”.
Sea Sorrow by Vanessa Redgrave, produced by Dissent Projects and Twickenham Film Studios. The film is a painful meditation on the migrants’ tragedy through the voices of the refugees.
Critic’s week
The two documentaries part of the Critic’s week section are both produced by Bathysphère Productions: the first one is Alive in France by Abel Ferrara, which tells the story of the French tour of Ferrara’s band, while the second is Makala by Emmanuel Gras. The doc follows a boy from a village in Congo who desperately tries to give his family a better future.
