The Documentary section is particularly strong, as both Project Nim and Resurrect Dead have been two of my personal favourites of the year.
The entire announcement is below.
FICTION
A selection that combines big names in contemporary film with young artists appearing around the festival circuit.
-The Day He Arrives (Sang-soo Hong): A game of meta-language in the Korean master's most accessible film.
- Vampire (Shunji Iwai): The director of All About Lily Chou-Chou travels to North America to explore juvenile anguish in a generic key and paying tribute to Martin of George A. Romero.
- 22 mei (Koen Mortier): The director of Ex Drummer is back to explore post 9/11 paranoia.
- 4:44: The Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara): A reflective, intimate exercise from the director of The Addiction revolving around fear of the end of the world.
- Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto): The return of the director of Tetsuo to the most reflective and transgressive horror cinema.
- Hanezu no tsuki (Naomi Kawase): Mythological meditation on the loss of transcendental values in today's society.
- La belle endormie (Catherine Breillat): A very personal and atypical version of Perrault's story.
- The Tempest (Julie Taymor): A spectacular, fantastic adaptation of one of Shakespeare's strangest works by the director of Titus and Frida.
- Le petit poucet (Marina de Van): Another feminine, atypical version of a famous children's story from the director of Don't Look Back.
- Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos): A bizarre science fiction exercise with roots in the 70's genre tradition that was one of the big sensations at this year's Tribeca festival.
NON-FICTION
Confirmation of the growth of the creative documentaries that have been screened during recent editions of the Festival.
- Arirang (Kim Ki-duk): A self-reflective exercise from the director of The Isle, winner of the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes 2011.
- Magic Trip: Ken Kelsey's Search for a Kool Place (Alison Ellwood and Alex Gibney): Reconstruction of Ken Kelsey's psychedelic trip and a passionate study of LSD culture.
- Project Nim (James Marsh): The Academy Award winning director of Man on Wire delves into a fascinating experiment about animal intelligence.
- The Bengali Detective (Philip Cox): A blend of social documentary and comedy that surprisingly explores the complex society of present-day India.
- Knuckle (Ian Palmer): An incredible documentary on street boxing.
- Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles (Jon Foy): Award winner at Sundance for best documentary director and a real science fiction experiment with a dose of millenarian paranoia.
DISCOVERY
A selection of films made from independent, experimental postulates and investigating new possibilities of film language and the fantastic genre.
- Vlogger (Ricard Gras): A Catalan produced audiovisual experiment that translates the mixture of material from the Internet and generic fiction into a fictional plot. Its world premiere will be in Sitges.
- Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass (Pat Tremblay): The apocalypse as a theme, this time playing with textures and images and dispensing with dialogue.
- Invasion of the Alien Bikini (Young-doo Oh): A superhero movie, with large doses of pop culture and zany comedy. A surprise that goes way beyond its title.