Previous titles include Harry Wootliff’s True Things, Jim Archer’s Brian and Charles, Rose Glass’ Saint Maud and Rungano Nyoni’s I Am Not a Witch.Ĭannes Flashback: Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor Thrilled the Fest With 'Young Adam' in 2003 All of the features will be available to buyers during the Cannes Marché. Now in its fifth edition, the 2022 Great8 showcase is funded and run by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4, and will see unseen footage from all of the titles introduced by their filmmakers and exclusively screened on May 12 to buyers and festival programmers and made available across five different time zones.
The other six films are all in post-production. Of the features, Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men has been selected for the official Directors’ Fortnight competition, while Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun is in Critics’ Week. filmmakers that it will showcase to international distributors and festival programmers in the run-up to the Marche du Film in Cannes. The British Film Institute has named its 2022 crop of ‘Great8’ films, eight features from emerging U.K.