While last year’s Cannes film festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, last year’s films will premiere two of last year’s festival selections at this year’s festival. Tom Medina, the new drama from Algerian director Tony Gatlif (Exiles) and Patrick Imbert’s animated feature The Summit of the Gods will premiere at this year’s festival as confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter.
The festival has selected both films to be part of this year’s Cannes on the Beach program, the free-access, open-air cinema screenings held every night on the Macé beach facing the Majestic Hotel. Along with these two films, Steve McQueen will also present an open-air screening of Lovers Rock.
F9, which will have an out-of-competition red carpet screening in Cannes this year, will also get a beach slot for the public on Monday, July 12. Other highlights of the 2021 Cannes on the Beach program include Oliver Stone’s director’s cut of his 1991 political thriller JFK and David Byrne’s American Utopia.
The 2021 Cannes International Film Festival runs July 6-17
