20 Films We Hope To See At The 2016 Cannes Film Festival

We're over a month away from the mid-April announcement of the Cannes Film Festival's 2016 lineup, and likely weeks away from the opening film being revealed, but with the Berlin International Film Festival in the rearview and cinematic tumbleweed blowing across this week's releases, we thought we'd begin to speculate about what we might see crop up. And we're very glad we did, because just when we might have been starting to feel a little dog-day-ish, we got to scoot through some of the year's most enticing prospects and in the process fell a little bit back in love with 2016 at the movies. Not all of these films will end up in the lineup, of course —there are always notable exclusions and erratic inclusions, to say nothing of the somewhat arbitrary way the films can be categorized (it really is a scandal that previous Palme d'Or winner Apichatong Weerasethakul's gorgeous "Cemetery of Splendour" was in Un Certain Regard last year, for example).

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