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‘Janet Planet,’ ‘Inside,’ ‘The Village Next to Paradise’ Set to Compete in Melbourne Festival’s Bright Horizons Section
‘Janet Planet,’ Inside’ and ‘The Village Next to Paradise’ are among ten films set to compete in the Melbourne festival’s Bright Horizons section.
They include: India Donaldson’s “Good One”; Luna Carmoon’s “Hoard”; Annie Baker’s “ Janet Planet ”; Leonardo Van Dijl’s “Julie Keeps Quiet”; Ena Sendijarević’s “Sweet Dreams”; Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language”; Mo Harawe’s “The Village Next to Paradise”; Gints Zabalodis’ animated “Flow”; Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”; and Australian director Charles Williams’ debut feature “Inside.” The non-competitive Headliners section, which showcases films that have premiered at other festivals, includes: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis”; Mumbai-based director Payal Kapadia was recently the first Indian director for 30 years with a film in competition in Cannes presents “All We Imagine as Light”; Coralie Fargeat’s Demi Moore-starring “The Substance”; Jia Zhangke ’s “Caught by the Tides”; Sebastian Stan in Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”; Cannes best director-winning Asian odyssey, “Grand Tour,” by Miguel Gomes; Cate Blanchett , Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance in Guy Maddin ’s audacious “Rumours”; Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”; and David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds.” The parallel International section includes: Lou Ye’s “An Unfinished Film”; “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” by poet and photographer Raven Jackson; Alice Lowe ’s second feature “Timestalker”; Hong Sang-soo’s “A Traveler’s Needs”; Cannes Camera d’Or winner “Mongrel” by Chiang Wei Liang and You Qiao Yin and “Some Rain Must Fall,” by Paris-based Chinese director Qiu Yang, which won a Berlinale Encounters Special Jury Award.
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