5 rising stars to watch

While the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival is full of famous stars and directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Terrence Malick, we select five new talents to watch at this year's festival:

– Camila Morrone –

Up to now, she is best known as Leonardo DiCaprio's incredibly glamorous girlfriend, but the Argentine model is about to make itself known as that actress with whom one has to count.

Mickey and the Bear an Iranian girl addicted to opioids, brings a real depth to the American independent film, presented in the ACID section of the festival.

Morrone, 21, a

Both parents were models and her mother, Lucia Sola, is a television star in Buenos Aires, although this 43-year-old woman is probably better known as Al Pacino. former partner.

The pair are no longer together, Pacino, 75, having joined a younger actress last year. Morrone had considered him as his "stepfather" during their nine years. His mother and Pacino were together

The two men will be reunited on the Cannes red carpet with Pacino in the lead role of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood "

– Robert Eggers –

His first film The witch is considered a clbadic of modern horror, and the young American director, so obsessed, seems not to have compromised for his second, The Lighthouse premiered in the Directors' Fortnight

The conditions on the set were so harsh, according to Robert Pattinson, who directs the cast alongside Willem Dafoe, that he was L & # The actor admitted that "the closer to me than I came to hit a director," admitted the actor.

Pattinson, exhausted, recounted how he had opposed Eggers after having to take five shots on a freezing beach of the New Scotland.

"I feel like you're spraying a fire hose in your face," he said.

"And it was like," I was spraying a fire hose. "It was like a kind of torture," said Pattinson.

The two men are still friends, but the star has vowed to keep silent about the plot of the historic film horror black and white "that takes place in the world of old myths about the sea ".

– Waad al-Kateab –

The Syrian documentary filmmaker is facing a fierce struggle to bring his film to Cannes.

For Sama al-Kateab lived five years in the city of Aleppo, his hometown, besieged, marrying one of the last doctors in the city and giving birth to his girl, to whom the film is dedicated.

The documentary is a kind Letter to the little girl explaining how she was born in the conflict and what happened to her home.

Al-Kateab, who now lives in London, won an Emmy Award in 2017 for his films made inside Aleppo for the British channel 4 News, which would be the most watched reports of the war.

The tragedy of the struggle to save babies and children in the last hospital in the city – in which she ended up living – revealed to the house the horror inflicted on civilians.

– Jessica Hausner –

The Austrian director Funny Games by Michael Haneke begins to be screenplay badistant for the Palme d 'Or with his first film in English , Little Joe .

This science-based cooler with Ben Whishaw, Emily Beecham, and Kerry Fox about a genetically modified plant that affects all the living things it comes into contact with could be its epic movie.

After his debut in Cannes with the beautiful Rita . Back in 2001, Hausner, now 46 years old, has gradually built a haunting reputation through a handful of films such as Hotel Crazy Love and ] Lourdes which took over four awards in Venice in 2009.

– Mati Diop – [19Diopestdevenuelaréalisatriceségalaise

She is the niece of Djibril Diop Mambety, the pioneer creator of Touki Bouki . , a film created in Cannes in 1973 and which inspired Beyonce and Jay-Z.

The power pop couple made reference to the film, in the form of the bull horn handlebars of his hero's motorcycle, in the 2014 edition poster. Tour "On The Run II" .

The daughter of musician Wasis Diop, born in France, 36 years old, has already made a documentary on the innovative story of his uncle about a couple who is trying to ride a bike France.

His film, Atlantics also speaks of a group that decides to leave Senegal for a better life in Europe.

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