IndieWire reached out to the directors of photography whose feature films are premiering at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival to find out which cameras and lenses they used and, more importantly, why these were the right tools to create the look and visual language of these highly anticipated films.Page 1: Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)Page 2: Out of Competition, Premieres, and Special ScreeningsPage 3: Un Certain Regard, Critics’ Week, and AcidPage 4: Directors’ Fortnight and Marché du Film(Films are in alphabetical order by title.)Competition (Palme d’Or Contenders)“Boy from Heaven”Dir: Tarik Saleh, DoP: Pierre AimFormat: 4K ArrirawCamera: Arri LfLens: Scorpio 40mmAim: “Boy from Heaven” is the third film I made with Tarik after “The Nile Hilton Incident” and “The Contractor.” To shoot Tarik’s latest film, we only used one lens: the 40mm scope Scorpio.
The general idea of
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