Denis Villeneuve. He will be present again at the Cannes Film Festival seven years later with his new film "Sicario".
The Canadian filmmaker attended the French competition for the first time with his short film «NextFloor«In 2008, for which he won the Canal + Award to the best short.
For the first time Denis Villeneuve will be present in the official section of the feature film competition competing for the Palm of Gold, although he has extensive experience in the festival circuit after having been awarded for his previous work in competitions such as the Berlinale, the Toronto Festival, the Valladolid Seminci or the Warsaw Festival.
«Sicario»Is the new work by this Quebec-born director that takes him back to Cannnes, a film that tells the story of a young police officer from Tucson, Arizona, who travels across the border accompanied by two mercenaries, with the intention of capturing the leader of a drug cartel.
They star in this new thriller from the director Emily Blunt, recently seen in "Into the Woods" and "Edge of Tomorrow," the Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro and the nominee Josh Brolin, both seen very recently in "Inherent Vice" and Jon Bernthal, which we saw last year in "Fury."