The Directors’ Fortnight and official Cannes line-ups have been unveiled and so far three Scandi shorts and two Swedish feature length copros have been selected.

Yesterday Cannes’ The Directors’ Fortnight announced its 2017 line up consisting of 19 feature films and 11 shorts, including five French feature films, five US films and three Italian films.

Among those is A Ciamba by rising Italian writer/director Jonas Carpignano,a feature length spin off of his short film of the same name that won a Discovery Award at the Critics Week 2015. A Ciamba tells of a Romani community living in Italy. The Italian film was co-produced by Sweden’s Filmgate and Film i Väst.

The Director’s Fortnight’s Swedish short pick The Burden (Min börda) is directed Niki Lindroth von Bahr who won a Startsladden in Göteborg for the animated short. Burden is produced by Malade AB.

Sweden is also competing for a Short Film Palme d’or with Push It by Julia Thelin (Grand Slam Flmproduktion), dealing with the pressure to win. Push It competes against eight other international short films including Ceiling by Finnish director Teppo Airaksinen produced by Tack Films, and the Danish/UK/Greek short A Drowning Man by Mahdi Fleifel, featuring life in a refugee camp. The film is produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen of Final Cut for Real, in co-production with Nakba Filmworks (UK) and Homemade Films (Greece).

Finally the minority Swedish co-production Beauty and the Dogs (Aala kaf ifrit) by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hanias will screen at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard. Chimney and Film i Väst are co-producers of the drama featuring a young Tunisian woman fighting for her honour and the corrupted police.

The full Cannes official selection is yet to be finalised, and the Critics’ Week will announce its line up later today Friday 21.

The 70th Cannes Film Festival runs May 17-28, 2017.