Cannes 2020 - Official Selections Revealed
Festival President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux revealed the line-up at a press conference in Paris, held without journalists this year. The 56 films include 15 first features, a higher percentage of female-directed titles, and a strong French presence. The 73rd festival was scheduled to run May 12-23 but was canceled in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Official Selection 2020
- The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson (USA)
- Summer of 85, François Ozon (France)
- Mangrove, Steve McQueen (UK)
- Lovers Rock, Steve McQueen (UK)
- True Mothers, Naomi Kawase (Japan)
- Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
- Last Words, Jonathan Nossiter (USA)
- DNA, Maïwenn (Algeria, France)
- Heaven: To the Land of Happiness, Im Sang-soo (Korea)
- Peninsula, Yeon Sang-ho (Korea)
- El Olvido Que Seremos, Fernando Trueba (Spain)
- In the Dusk, Sharunas Bartas (Lithuania)
- Home Front, Lucas Belvaux (Belgium)
- The Real Thing, Koji Fukada (Japan)
- Souad, Ayten Amin (Egypt)
- Passion Simple, Danielle Arbid (Lebanon)
- A Good Man, Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (France)
- Love Affairs, Emmanuel Mouret (France)
- John and the Hole, Pascual Sisto (USA)
- Limbo, Ben Sharrock (UK)
- Here We Are, Nir Bergman (Isreal)
- Red Soil, Farid Bentoumi (France)
- Sweat, Magnus von Horn (Sweden)
- Teddy, Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma (France)
- February, Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria)
- Ammonite, Francis Lee (UK)
- Médecin de Nuit, Elie Wajeman (France)
- Enfant Terrible, Oskar Roehler (Germany)
- Nadia, Butterfly, Pascal Plante (Canada)
- Septet: The Story of Hong Kong, Ann Hui, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, John Woo, Woo-Ping Yuen (Hong Kong)
- Falling, Viggo Mortensen (USA)
- Pleasure, Ninja Thyberg (Sweden)
- Slalom, Charlène Favier (France)
- Casa de Antiguidades, João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
- Broken Keys, Jimmy Keyrouz (Lebanon)
- Ibrahim, Samuel Guesmi (France)
- Beginning, Déa Kulumbegashvili (Georgia)
- The Death of Cinema and My Father Too, Daniel Rosenberg (Isreal)
- Gagarine - Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh (France)
- Spring Blossom, Suzanne Lindon (France)
- Vaurien, Peter Dourountzis (France)
- My Best Part, Nicolas Maury (France)
- Should the Wind Fall, Nora Martirosyan (Armenia)
- Striding Into the Wind, Wei Shujun (China)
- Downstream to Kinshasa, Dieudo Hamadi (Democratic Republic of Congo)
- The Truffle Hunters, Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck (USA)
- 9 Jours a Raqqa, Xavier De Lauzanne (France)
- My Donkey, My Lover & I, Caroline Vignal (France)
- Les Deux Alfred, Bruno Podalydès (France)
- The Big Hit, Emmanuel Courcol (France)
- The Speech, Laurent Tirard (France)
- L’origine du Monde, Laurent Lafitte (France)
- Aya and the Witch, Goro Miyazaki (Japan)
- Flee, Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Denmark)
- Josep, Aurel (France)
- Soul, Pete Docter, Kemp Powers (USA)
