Cannes award winners Aftersun and War Pony are among the 13 features playing in competition at this year’s Deauville American Film Festival, with eight titles from first- time directors.
The festival will take up residence once again in the resort of Deauville on France’s Normandy coast, from September 2-11.
Cannes Critics Week award winner Aftersun is enjoying a strong run on the festival circuit, having also played at Munich International Film Festival, and is set to open Edinburgh International Film Festival on August 12. The US-UK co-production is UK filmmaker Charlotte Wells’ debut, and stars Paul Mescal alongside newcomer Frankie Corio. It follows a woman as she reflects on her relationship with her father by watching home video footage of a holiday they took 20 years before.
Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s Cannes Camera d’Or winner War Pony is also competing at Deauville. Keough and Gammell’s debut is inspired by true events, and follows two boys living in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, as they face the harsh realities of adulthood.
“This edition’s filmmakers, many making their feature debuts, aspire to provide an artistic answer to questions posed by the world,” said festival direct Bruno Barde. “Interrogating the future, their cameras examine childhood and youth with troubling and moving acuity, making a recurring theme out of the passage into adulthood.”
In 2021, French filmmaker Diego Ongaro’s Down With the King was awarded the grand prize, about a famous rapper who moves to a small-town farming community.
Deauville 2022 competition line-up:
*denotes debut film
1-800-Hot-Nite
Dir. Nick Richey
Aftersun*
Dir. Charlotte Wells
Dual
Dir. Riley Stearns
Emily The Criminal*
Dir. John Patton Ford
Montana Story
Dirs. Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Over/Under*
Dir. Sophia Silver
Palm Trees And Power Lines*
Dir. Jamie Dack
Peace In The Valley
Dir. Tyler Riggs
Scrap*
Dir. Vivian Kerr
Stay Awake*
Dir. Jamie Sisley
The Silent Twins
Dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
War Pony*
Dirs. Gina Gammell, Riley Keough
Watcher*
Dir. Chloe Okuno
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