CANNES 2020

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)