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Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy's La Fee (The Fairy) will open this year's Directors' Fortnight on May 12 and Bouli Lanners's Les Géants (The Giants) will close it on May 22. Here's how the full lineup of 25 films pans out.

The Fairy. From MK2: "Dom works the night shift in a small hotel near the industrial sea port of Le Havre. One night, a woman arrives with no luggage and no shoes. Her name is Fiona. She tells Dom she is a fairy and grants him three wishes. Fiona makes two wishes come true, then mysteriously disappears. Dom, who by then has fallen in love with Fiona searches for her everywhere and eventually finds her. In the psychiatric hospital where she has been interned. The filmmakers behind the critically acclaimed Iceberg and Rumba are back to enchant the world."

Karim Ainouz's O abismo prateado.

Urszula Antoniak's Code Blue.

This year Korean writer and director Bong Joon-Ho will preside over the jury that hands out the Camera d'Or (Golden Camera) award - the only cross-section award on the Croisette that is given to the best first feature. This year's winner will join the ranks of Michael Rowe (Leap Year, 2010), Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah, 2009), Steve McQueen (Hunger, 2008), Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen (Jellyfish, 2007), Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest, 2006) who all won the prestigious prize in the last five years. There are 19 first features contenders are spread out in all the competition sections including a pair in the official Main Comp, Un Certain Regard, Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight. It's anybody's guess at this point what Joon-Ho and jury will pick but the winner will join the ranks of auteurs (Jim Jarmusch, Tran Anh Hung and Naomi Kawase) that were discovered and crowned at the world's greatest festival. Here are the...

The final Cannes sidebar of new feature films to unveil its lineup, the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), announced 25 features this morning - 21 competing, and 4 special screenings. This year's edition is especially heavy on European films, which take up a whopping 17 of the 21 competing slots. Just like the Critic's Week selection, we've got a majority of debut films and films by little known directors, but also a handful of names that most cinephiles will already be familiar with. This is, of course, part of the pleasure of discovery in these sections: the ability to be taken completely by surprise (ie. last year's Two Gates of Sleep and Le Quattro Volte) that you don't get with finding a masterpiece in the Competition. The Fortnight runs parallel with the Official Competition, opening on May 12th and ending on the 21st. Looking at the lineup, there are a number of names that we saw coming,...

The lineup for the Cannes film festival has been finalized with the announcement of the Directors’ Fortnight lineup, which includes Guilty of Romance by one of my personal favourite directors, Sion Sono. The Directors’ Fortnight is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The section was created in 1969 after the events of May 1968, in which the Cannes festival was canceled in solidarity with striking workers.

The Directors’ Fortnight showcases a programme of shorts and feature films as well as documentaries from all over the world.

Here’s the complete list of titles:

Directors’ Fortnight Lineup

“Apres le sud,” France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret

“Blue Bird,” Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe

“Breathing,” Austria, Karl Markovics

“Code Blue,” Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak

“Corpo celeste,” Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher

“End of Silence,” France-Austria, Roland Edzard

“La Fee,” Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)

“Les Geants,” Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)

“Impardonnables,...

We got the first round of Cannes Film Festival line-up last week, then the Critics’ Week contenders yesterday. Today, the line-up for Director’s Fortnight and Short Film competition has been released. Check out the line-ups below via Deadline and Twitch. Twitch also provides images for Irish director Rebecca Daly‘s debut in the Director’s Fortnight film The Other Side Of Sleep.

It’s worth noting that jury president Michel Gondry will award the Short Film Palme d’Or on the last day of the fest, May 22nd. Bright Star director Jane Campion and Lynne Ramsay, who directed this year’s competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, both got their start in this competition. Check out the line-ups below and come back for our coverage straight from the fest.

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Completing the list of the Official Selection of the 64th Festival de Cannes, and composed this...

Vimukthi Jayasundara

An Indo-France co-production, Chhatrak (Mushrooms) directed by Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara is a part of the official lineup of Cannes Directors Fortnight.

Co-produced by Bappaditya Bandopadhyay from India, Mushrooms is Vimukthi Jayasundara’s third feature film. His debut film The Forsaken Land had won the Camera d’Or for best debut feature at Cannes in 2005.

The complete lineup for Directors Fortnight includes 25 films out of which 6 are first films making them eligible to compete for Camera d’Or.

Directors’ Fortnight Lineup

Apres le sud, France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret

Blue Bird, Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe

Breathing, Austria, Karl Markovics

Code Blue, Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak

Corpo celeste, Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher

End of Silence, France-Austria, Roland Edzard

La Fee, Belgium-France, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy (opening film)

Les Geants, Belgium-France-Luxembourg, Bouli Lanners (closing film)

Impardonnables, France, Andre Techine

The Island, Bulgaria-Sweden, Kamen Kalev

Iris in Bloom, France, Valerie Mrejen

Joan Captive,...

The complete lineup for the Director's Fortnight lineup at Cannes 2011 has been announced and joining Sion Sono's Guilty of Romance are films about a sleepwalking woman hunting down her mother's killer and a wheelchair bound man who hijacks a plane using a pair of hand grenades tucked into his adult diaper.Typically the edgier of the Cannes sidebar programs the Fortnight this year is dominated by French and Belgian titles with Sono's title being one of only three Asian selections.Here's the complete list of titles: Directors' Fortnight Lineup "Apres le sud," France, Jean-Jacques Jauffret "Blue Bird," Belgium, Gust Van den Berghe "Breathing," Austria, Karl Markovics "Code Blue," Netherlands-Denmark, Urszula Antoniak "Corpo celeste," Italy-Switzerland-France, Alice Rohrwacher "End of Silence," France-Austria, Roland Edzard "La Fee," Belgium-France,...

The Cannes Directors Fortnight revealed its 2011 selection with 21 features taking part in this year's lineup. Additionally, 14 shorts and four special screenings will round out this year's selctions. This year's Directors Fortnight with details provided by the event. 21 features: "Après le sud," Jean-Jacques Jauffret, France - 1h29 (2011) A modern drama freely based on real events. One sweltering afternoon in the south of France, four lives intersect: ...

Linda Cardellini plays a soldier who returns home from a tour of duty and has trouble adjusting in artist-turned-director Liza Johnson’s debut feature Return. John Slattery and Michael Shannon co-star. Return is the only U.S. movie selected to play in the prestigious Cannes sidebar Directors' Fortnight, announced this morning in Paris. Johnson is one of several female directors injecting a dose of estrogen into this year’s 25-film lineup. Other women directors include Ireland's Rebecca Daly, whose first film The Other Side of Sleep tells the story of a sleepwalker in a rural town searching for her mother’s killer; Polish filmmaker Urszula Antoniak (Code Blue); Canada’s Isabelle Lavigne and Stephane Thibault (At Night They Dance); and Morocco’s Leila Kilani (Sur La Planche). Directors’ Fortnight runs May 12-22. The lineup: -- Apres le sud (France) - Jean-Jacques Jauffret -- Blue Bird (Belgium) - Gust Van den Berghe...