The Cannes Film Festival added 5 films to the lineup to complete the Official Selection for the upcoming 2013 festival. The 5 films are ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE by Jim Jarmusch (pictured above) was added to Competition; LE DERNIER DES INJUSTES by Claude Lanzmann was added to Out of Competition; and MY SWEET PEPPERLAND by Hiner Saleem, TORE TANZT by Katrin Gebbe and WAKOLDA by Lucia Puenzo was added to Un Certain Regard.
Only Lovers Left Alive (pictured above), which was added to Competition, is a romance drama vampire film starring Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Anton Yelchin.
The Last Of The Unjust (Le Dernier Des Injustes) by Claude Lanzmann – director of the Holocaust documentary Shoah – is another Holocaust documentary, this time based on the concentration camp, Theresienstadt, where more than 150,000 Jews were held before being sent to death camps. It focuses on Benjamin Murmelstein, last president of Theresienstadt’s Jewish Council, and his relationship with the notorious German Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival will run May 15th to May 26th, 2013.