Mohammad Rasoulof's New Film at Cannes Film Festival

The secretary of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, announced the selected films for the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival during a press conference in Paris on Thursday, April 13. According to this announcement, Mohammad Rasoulof's latest film titled 'Lord' has been accepted in the Un Certain Regard section of the 70th Cannes Film Festival. This film, which was not accepted at the Fajr Film Festival despite being submitted and the filmmaker's presence for potential revisions, addresses bribery and administrative corruption in Iran. Anahita Qazvinizadeh, who won the Cinéfondation prize at Cannes in 2013 with her short film 'Needle', is set to present her debut feature 'They' in the Special Screenings section. Abbas Kiarostami's unreleased film '24 Frames' will also be showcased in the special section for the 70th anniversary of the festival. In the short film competition, an Iranian film titled 'Lunch Time' by Alireza Ghasemi will compete for the Palme d'Or against eight other films selected from nearly five thousand short films. In the Cinéfondation section, which is dedicated to student short films, a film titled 'Animal' by Bahman and Bahram Ark will be screened. No feature film from Iran has been accepted in the main competition, but there is still a possibility that an Iranian film may be among the two yet-to-be-announced films in the competition. The Cannes Film Festival will open with Arnaud Desplechin's latest film 'Ismael's Ghosts', which is participating out of competition. This year, the competition section of the Cannes Festival appears to be quite robust. Rumors about some films that have made it to Cannes have been circulating for a while, including Michael Haneke's new film 'Happy End'. Sofia Coppola with 'The Beguiled' and Fatih Akin with 'In the Fade' are among the figures who have participated multiple times in Cannes and have made it to the competition this year. Michel Hazanavicius, who shone at Cannes and the Oscars with 'The Artist', has been accepted with his new film 'Horrible' in the competition, and Naomi Kawase, the beloved Japanese filmmaker of Cannes, will present her film 'Radiance' at the festival. Sergei Loznitsa, who excelled at Cannes with 'A Gentle Creature' but has since focused more on documentary filmmaking, is returning to Cannes with 'A Kind Creature', and the prominent Russian filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev, who captivated Cannes with 'Leviathan' in 2014, is participating with his new film 'Loveless' in the competition. Young French filmmaker François Ozon, who has participated multiple times in Cannes, has made it to the competition with 'Double Lover', which is said to be reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's films. A special screening will feature a film directed by Vanessa Redgrave, the prominent English actress, titled 'Sea Sorrow'. 'Twin Peaks', the acclaimed work of David Lynch, will also be re-screened in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Cannes Festival. The Cannes Film Festival, regarded as the most important film festival in the world, will take place from May 17 to 28 in this coastal city in southern France.