There will be 27 documentaries competing for the Cannes L’Oeil d’Or in 2021. The festival will also recognise #Frederick Wiseman# with the Carrosse d’Or and #Marco Bellocchio# with a Palme d’honneur. The jury will reward the creator of the prize-winning documentary on 17 July as part of #Cannes Docs# – Marché du Film Doc Day.
2021 L’Oeil d’Or selections
- The Velvet Underground (dir. Todd Haynes) – USA
- Cow (dir. Andrea Arnold) – UK
- Jane par Charlotte (dir. Charlotte Gainsbourg) – France
- Jfk Revisited: Through The Looking Glass (dir. Oliver Stone) – USA
- Marx può aspettare (Marx can wait) (dir. Marco Bellocchio) – Italy
- Val (dir. Ting Poo, Leo Scott) – USA
- Babi Yar, Context (sir. Sergei Loznitsa) – Ukraine
- Machbarot Shchorot (dir. Shlomi Elkabetz) – Israel
- H6 (dir. Ye Ye) – France
- Mariner of the mountains (dir. Karim Anouz) – Brazi, France, Germany
- The Year Of The Everlasting Storm (dir. various) – USA, Singapour, Iran, Chili, Thailand
- New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization (dir. Andrew Muscato) – USA, Greece
- The Story of Film: A New Generation (dir. Mark Cousins) – UK
- Animal (dir. Cyril Dyon) – France
- Bigger Than Us (dir. Flore Vasseur) – France
- I Am So Sorry (dir. Zhao Liang) – France, China
- Invisible Demons (dir. Rahul Jain) – India, Finland, Germany
- Above Water (dir. Maissa Maiga) – France, Belgium
- The Velvet Queen (dir. Marie Amiguet) – France
- Buñuel: un cineasta surrealista (dir. Javier Espada) – Spain
- Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone By (dir. Andre Bonzel) – France
- All About Yves Montand (dir. Yves Jeuland) – France
- Satoshi Kon, l’illusionniste (dir. Pascal-Alex Vincent) – Japan, France
- The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (dir. Mark Cousins) – UK
- A Night of Knowing Nothing (dir. Payal Kapadia) – Indiav
- Returning to Reims (Fragments) (dir. Jean-Gabriel Periot) – France
- Futura (dir. Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwaher) – Italy
- Ghost Song (dir. Nicolas Peduzzi) – Italy
- Soy Libre (dir. Laura Portier) – France
- Vedette (dir. Claudine Bories, Patrice Chanard) – France
