The Directors Fortnight runs from 18-28 May in Cannes.
The Cannes film festival has continued its emphasis on politics with the announcement of the lineup for the Directors Fortnight, the separately organised selection that runs parallel to the official festival.
The sole British director in the main line-up is Zambian-Welsh film-maker Rungano Nyoni, whose debut I Am Not a Witch – a Zambian-set film about a nine-year-old girl accused of witchcraft – has been backed by the BFI and Film4.
The Fortnight has chosen some socially combative American films that suit the confused mood of the times: Bushwick, the Sundance hit that posits a civil war and military intervention in Brooklyn; The Florida Project, the new film from Sean Baker (Tangerine) about kids growing up in the shadow of Disney World in Florida; and another Sundance hit, the indie comedy Patti Cake$, about a poor white teen girl trying to make it as a rapper.