Last Thursday festival president Iris Knobloch and festival director Thierry Frémaux announced the official line-up for the main categories. Germany is represented in the main competition by the actress Diane Kruger appearing in David Cronenberg's THE SHROUDS and actor Franz Rogowski in BIRD by Andrea Arnold.

The German co-productions MOTEL DESTINO by Karim Aïnouz and GRAND TOUR by Miguel Gomes (both Match Factory Productions) will also be screening In Competition.

The Quinzaine Des Cinéastes sidebar will feature two majority German-produced shorts. OUR OWN SHADOW (Academy of Media Arts Cologne) is Agustina Sánchez Gavier’s graduation film. The film uses a solar eclipse in Argentina to show the destructive relationship between man and nature. The images shown in the film are documentary footage from the province of Misiones. The short film IMMACULATA (filmfaust) by Kim Lêa Sakkal is about the domestic worker Derya and her strange pregnancy. Little by little, signs of the supernatural and the divine emerge, calling into question the true origin of her mysterious pregnancy.

German Films will also be back in Cannes this year. The German Pavilion (Village International Riviera, Pavilion 127), in cooperation with the German Federal Film Board (FFA), Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), and Focus Germany (FilmFersehFonds Bayern (FFF), Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Hessen Film & Medien, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, MV Filmförderung and nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen) will once again serve as a platform for filmmakers to meet and exchange ideas. 

All of the German productions and co-productions in Cannes at a glance:

IN COMPETITION
MOTEL DESTINO by Karim Aïnouz (BR/FR/DE, Match Factory Productions)
GRAND TOUR by Miguel Gomes (PT/IT/FR/DE/JP/CN, Match Factory Productions)

UN CERTAIN REGARD
SANTOSH by Sandhya Suri (UK/FR/IN/DE, Razor Film Produktion)
ARMAND by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel (NO/NL/SE/DE, One Two Films)
SEPTEMBER SAYS by Ariane Labed (FR/DE/IE/UK, Match Factory Productions)
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe (AT/ FR/ DE/ SO, NiKo Film)

OUT OF COMPETITION
RUMOURS by Evan Johnson, Galen (CA/DE, Maze Pictures)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
AN UNFINISHED FILM by LOU Ye (SGP/DE, Essential Filmproduktion)

QUINZAINE DES CINÉASTES
OUR OWN SHADOW by Agustina Sánchez Gavier (DE/AR, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln)
IMMACULATA by Kim Lêa Sakkal (DE/FR, filmfaust)
TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel (UK/FR/DE/GR/NL/QAT/SAU/PSE, Salaud Morisset)

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
GHOST TRAIL by Jonathan Millet (FR/DE/BE, NiKo Film)

IMMERSIVE SELECTION
EMPEROR by Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen (FR/DE, Reynard Films)