Two titles from Dublin-based Element Pictures have been included in the Official Selection for Cannes 2025.
The annual film festival, which takes place this year from 13 to 24 May, is the most prestigious film festival in the world, with a highly competitive selection process.
The Element Pictures productions selected this year are Pillion and My Father's Shadow.
Pillion stars Alexander Skarsgård and is based on the novel by Adam Mars-Jones. A logline for the film reads: "A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive."
It is an Element Pictures production financed by BBC Film and the British Film Institute (BFI).
The second movie, My Father's Shadow, was directed by Akinola Davies Jr and was shot on location in Lagos, Nigeria.
It is a semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis.
The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey home.
It is an Element Pictures production in association with Crybaby and Fatherland Productions.
The co-CEOs of Element Pictures, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, said they are "beyond thrilled" to be returning to Cannes this year.
Element Pictures has enjoyed success at Cannes over the years. An unprecedented three Element Pictures titles were invited to Official Selection last year: director Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds of Kindness, Ariane Labed's September Says, and On Becoming a Guinea Fowl from director Rungano Nyoni.
Nyoni won Best Director for her film in the Un Certain Regard section, while Jesse Plemons won Best Actor for his role in Kinds of Kindness, which was part of the main competition.
Two Element Pictures-produced Yorgos Lanthimos films, The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Lobster, won Best Screenplay in 2016 and the Jury Prize in 2015, respectively.
The Element Pictures co-produced film The Wind That Shakes the Barley won the top prize, the Palme d'Or, at Cannes in 2006.
Director Andrew Dominik's documentary about U2 frontman Bono, titled Bono: Stories of Surrender, will also premiere at a special screening at Cannes 2025.
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