CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2020 OFFICIAL SELECTION

 So, we all know that the 73^rd Annual Festival de Cannes is cancelled this year. However, there is still an Official Selection line up.

The list was announced by Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémaux on Wednesday 3rd June and broadcast live from UGC Normandie in Paris. The 56 selected films will boast Cannes 2020 branding and have the support of organisation when they are either screened at other film festivals or, released in cinemas.

Here is the Official Selection for the 2020 edition of the Cannes International Film Festival: 

DIRECTORS SELECTED BEFORE AT CANNES

THE FRENCH DISPATCH	Wes Anderson	USA	1H 43M
ÉTÉ 85	François Ozon	France	1H 40M
ASA GA KURU (True Mothers)	Naomi Kawase	Japan	2H 20M
LOVERS ROCK	Steve McQueen	United Kingdom	1H 08M
MANGROVE	Steve McQueen	United Kingdom	2H 04M
DRUK (Another Round)	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark	1H 55M
ADN (DNA)	Maïwenn	France / Algeria	1H 30M
LAST WORDS	Jonathan Nossiter	USA	2H 06M
HEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS	IM Sang-Soo	South Korea	1H 40M
EL OLVIDO QUE SEREMOS (Forgotten we’ll be)	Fernando Trueba	Spain	2H 16M
PENINSULA	YEON Sang-Ho	South Korea	1H 54M
IN THE DUSK (Au crépuscule)	Sharunas BARTAS	Lituania	2H 06M
DES HOMMES (Home Front)	Lucas BELVAUX	Belgium	1H 40M
THE REAL THING	Kôji Fukada	Japan	3H 48M

 

 

NEWCOMERS

PASSION SIMPLE	Danielle Arbid	Lebanon	1H 36M
A GOOD MAN	Marie Castille Mention-Schaar	France	1H 47M
LES CHOSES QU’ON DIT, LES CHOSES QU’ON FAIT	Emmanuel Mouret	France	2H
SOUAD	Ayten Amin	Egypt	1H 30M
LIMBO	Ben Sharrock	United Kingdom	1H 53M
ROUGE (Red Soil)	Farid Bentoumi	France	1H 26M
SWEAT	Magnus Von Horn	Poland	1H 40M
TEDDY	Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma	France	1H 28M
FEBRUARY (Février)	Kamen Kalev	Bulgaria	2H 05M
AMMONITE	Francis Lee	United Kingdom	2H
UN MÉDECIN DE NUIT	Elie Wajeman	France	1H 40M
ENFANT TERRIBLE	Oskar Roehler	Germany	2H 14M
NADIA, BUTTERFLY	Pascal Plante	Canada	1H 46M
HERE WE ARE	Nir Bergman	Israel	1H 34M

 

AN OMNIBUS FILM

SEPTET: THE STORY OF HONG KONG

Ann Hui, Johnnie TO, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping et Patrick Tam

Hong Kong

1H 53M

 

 

THE FIRST FEATURES

FALLING	Viggo Mortensen	USA	1H 52M
PLEASURE	Ninja Thyberg	Sweden	1H 45M
SLALOM	Charlène Favier	France	1H 32M
CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES (Memory House)	Joao Paulo Miranda Maria	Brazil	1H 27M
BROKEN KEYS (Fausse note)	Jimmy Keyrouz	Lebanon	1H 30M
IBRAHIM	Samir Guesmi	France	1H 20M
BEGINNING (Au commencement)	Dea Kulumbegashvili	Georgia	2H
GAGARINE	Fanny Liatard et Jérémy Trouilh	France	1H 35M
16 PRINTEMPS	Suzanne Lindon	France	1H 13M
VAURIEN	Peter Dourountzis	France	1H 35M
GARÇON CHIFFON	Nicolas Maury	France	1H 48M
SI LE VENT TOMBE (Should the Wind Fall)	Nora Martirosyan	Armenia	1H 40M
JOHN AND THE HOLE	Pascual Sisto	Spain	1H 38M
STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Courir au gré du vent)	WEI Shujun	China	2H 36M
THE DEATH OF CINEMA AND MY FATHER TOO (La Mort du cinéma et de mon père aussi)	Dani Rosenberg	Israel	1H 40M

 

 DOCUMENTARY

EN ROUTE POUR LE MILLIARD (Downstream to Kinshasa)	Dieudo Hamadi	Democratic Republic of Congo	1H 30M
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS	Michael Dweck et Gregory Kershaw	USA	1H 24M
9 JOURS A RAQQA	Xavier de Lauzanne	France	1H 30M

 

COMEDY

ANTOINETTE DANS LES CÉVENNES	Caroline Vignal	France	1H 35M
LES DEUX ALFRED	Bruno Podalydès	France	1H 30M
UN TRIOMPHE (The big hit)	Emmanuel Courcol	France	1H 40M
L’ORIGINE DU MONDE	Laurent Lafitte	France	–
LE DISCOURS	Laurent Tirard	France	1H 27M

 

 ANIMATION

AYA TO MAJO (Earwig and the Witch)	Gorô Miyazaki	Japan	1H 22M
FLEE	Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Denmark	1H 30M
JOSEP	Aurel	France	–
SOUL	Pete Docter	USA	1H 30M