The Cannes Film Festival It will mark the debut of several films with a very powerful program. We will be very attentive to all the titles that will compete at the Festival, and even more so now that we know that there will be a Spanish film competing for the Palme d’Or with the inclusion of the new work by Albert Serra.
Closing the final list
Barely a month before the festival starts, Cannes has already released the latest titles included in the Official section, where it has finally entered ‘Bora Bora’the new film by Albert Serra.
Almost all the films that compete in the different sections of the festival are French or in co-production with France, as is the case with ‘Bora Bora’ (‘Tourment Sur Les Îles’ in its international title). Serra is already a veteran of Cannes and already in 2019 he won the special jury prize in the Un Certain Regard section with his film ‘Liberté’.
The cast of ‘Bora Bora’ is headed by Benoit Magimel and Sergi Lopez, with the plot of the film revolving around a writer who has succeeded with her novel and returns home to an island in French Polynesia. As she suffers from a terrible creative block that prevents her from writing, she accepts a job as a translator for an ambassador and a love attraction develops between them in the midst of a tense political situation.
In addition to Almodóvar’s films that have been seen at the festival, the last Spanish film that competed in Cannes was Isabel Coixet’s ‘Maps of the Sounds of Tokyo’ in 2009, so the inclusion of Serra’s film is a milestone and a great victory for Spanish cinema.
We will also have more Spanish representation in other sections of the Cannes Film Festival, including the feature film debut of Elena López Riera in the Directors’ Fortnight. Two Spanish short films will compete in Critics’ Week: ‘Nisam Je Stigao Vojeti’, by Anna Fernández de Paco, and ‘Cuerdas’, by Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren.
These are the last minute additions that can be seen during the Cannes Film Festival:
‘Le otto motagne’, by Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen.
‘Un petit frère’, by Léonor Serraille France
‘Bora Bora’, by Albert Serra
‘Don Juan’, by Serge Bozon
‘The night of 12’, by Dominik Moll
‘Chronique d’une liason passagere’, by Emmanuel Mouret
‘Rebel’, by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah
‘More than ever’, by Emily Atef
‘Mediterranean Fever’ by Maha Haj
Le bleu du kaftan, by Maryam Touzani
‘Harka’, Lotfy Nathan’s debut
Out of competition is ‘L’innocent’, by Louis Garrel, and in the special screenings section you can see ‘My imaginary country’, by Patricio Guzmán, ‘The Vagabonds’, by Doroteya Droumeva, ‘Riposte féministe’, by Marie Perennès and Simon Depardon, ‘Restos do vento’, by Tiago Guedes’, and ‘Le petit Nicolas qu’este-ce qu’on attend être hereux’, by Amadine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre.