Maybe you get another idea from the title of the article. No, Cannes is not taking place this year. You will not be able to see the charming red carpet show either. Because of the coronavirus situation, the organizers did not push to attempt some kinds of arrangements. Although, they did not cancel the event yet. Meanwhile, the official selection of films was announced.
The list of selected films was announced at the UGC Normandy Theater in Paris, France on Wednesday (June 3). General Delegate Thierry Fremo and President Pierre Lescour were present at the event. The press conference was broadcast live on Cannes’ YouTube channel and official Facebook page.
During the release at the cinema hall or while participating in various festivals, the posters of the selected films will be adorned with the respectable logo of the Cannes festival. And thus, getting a place in the official selection of Cannes opened the doors of festivals in many countries of the world for these films.
The official selection of Cannes is usually kept in several sections. These are Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Special Screenings, and Midnight Screenings. . But this time, as there is no exhibition in Cannes, the organizers have arranged the selected pictures in different subjects.
Cannes Official Selection for 2020 is listed below, courtesy of the festival’s official website.
THE FAITHFUL
THE FRENCH DISPATCH by Wes Anderson (USA) – 1h43
SUMMER 85 by François Ozon (France) – 1h40
ASA GA KURU (True Mothers) by Naomi Kawase (Japan) – 2h20
LOVERS ROCK by Steve McQueen (England) – 1h08
MANGROVE by Steve McQueen (England) – 2h04
DRUK (Another Round) by Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark) – 1h55
Maïwenn’s DNA (DNA) (Algeria / France) – 1h30
LAST WORDS by Jonathan Nossiter (USA) – 2h06
HEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS by IM Sang-Soo (Korea) – 1h40
EL OLVIDO QUE SEREMOS (Forgotten we’ll be) by Fernando Trueba (Spain) – 2h16
PENINSULA by YEON Sang-Ho (Korea) – 1h54
IN THE DUSK (At dusk) by Sharunas BARTAS (Lithuania) – 2h06
DES HOMMES (Home Front) by Lucas BELVAUX (Belgium) – 1h40
THE REAL THING by Kôji Fukada (Japan) – 3h48
NEW VENUES
PASSION SIMPLE by Danielle Arbid – (Lebanon) – 1h36
A GOOD MAN by Marie Castille Mention-Schaar (France) – 1h47
THE THINGS YOU SAY, THE THINGS YOU DO by Emmanuel Mouret (France) – 2h
SOUAD by Ayten Amin (Egypt) 1h30
LIMBO by Ben Sharrock (England) – 1h53
ROUGE (Red Soil) by Farid Bentoumi (France) – 1h26
SWEAT by Magnus Von Horn (Sweden) – 1h40
TEDDY by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma (France) – 1h28
FEBRUARY (February) by Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria) – 2h05
AMMONITE by Francis Lee (England) – 2h
A NIGHT DOCTOR by Elie Wajeman (France) – 1h40
ENFANT TERRIBLE by Oskar Roehler (Germany) – 2h14
NADIA, BUTTERFLY by Pascal Plante (Canada) – 1h46
HERE WE ARE by Nir Bergman (Israel) – 1h34
A SKETCHES FILM
SEPTET: THE STORY OF HONG KONG by Ann Hui, Johnnie TO, Tsui Hark, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping and Patrick Tam (Hong Kong) – 1h53
THE FIRST MOVIES
FALLING by Viggo Mortensen (USA) – 1h52
PLEASURE by Ninja Thyberg (Sweden) – 1h45
SLALOM by Charlène Favier (France) – 1h32
CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES (Memory House) by Joao Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil) – 1h27
BROKEN KEYS (False note) by Jimmy Keyrouz (Lebanon) – 1h30
IBRAHIM by Samir Guesmi (France) – 1h20
BEGINNING (In the beginning) by Déa Kulumbegashvili (Georgia) – 2h10
GAGARINE by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (France) – 1h35
16 SPRING by Suzanne Lindon (France) – 1h13
VAURIEN by Peter Dourountzis (France) – 1h35
GARÇON CHIFFON by Nicolas Maury (France) – 1h48
SI LE VENT TOMBE ( Should the Wind Fall ) by Nora Martirosyan (Armenia) – 1h40
JOHN AND THE HOLE by Pascual Sisto (USA) – 1h38
INTO THE WIND ( Running with the Wind ) Shujun WEI (China) – 2:36
THE DEATH OF CINEMA AND MY FATHER TOO ( The film Death and my father too ) Dani Rosenberg (Israel) – 1:40
3 DOCUMENTARIES
ON THE ROUTE FOR THE BILLION ( The Billion Road ) by Dieudo Hamadi (Democratic Republic of the Congo) – 1h30
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (USA) – 1h24
9 DAYS AT RAQQA by Xavier de Lauzanne (France) – 1h30
5 COMEDIES
ANTOINETTE IN THE CÉVÈNNES by Caroline Vignal (France) – 1h35
LES DEUX ALFRED by Bruno Podalydès (France) – 1h30
UN TRIOMPHE ( The big hit ) by Emmanuel Courcol (France) – 1h40
THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD by Laurent Lafitte ( France) – 1st film
THE SPEECH by Laurent Tirard (France) – 1h27
4 ANIMATED MOVIES
AYA TO MAJO (Earwig and the Witch) by Gorô Miyazaki (Japan) – 1h22
FLEE by Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Denmark) – 1h30
JOSEP by Aurel (France) – 1h20 – 1st film
SOUL by Pete Docter (USA) – 1h30
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