Maïwenn, François Ozon, Naomi Kawase Return as the Festival de Cannes Announces its Official Competition Selection for the 73rd Edition

It’s Wednesday 3rd June. And the official line-up for the 73rd Festival de Cannes, has been revealed, live from the UGC Normandie, Paris. As it stands, the 2020 Official Selection will comprise of one whole film list, rather than the usual breakdown into categories (Competition, Un Certain regard, Midnight Screenings et al). This, and many other of the festival’s regular stronghold agendas, results from the social lockdown that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused.

As previously announced, the Marché du Film section will be an online event this year. And we still await the upcoming news on the short film and the Cinéfondation competitions.

It has been revealed that the 2020 Cannes Film Festival selection boasts 56 titles – from a massive 2,067 initial submissions which were screened by the officials and the committee during the winter of 2019 and the spring of 2020. Of those 56 feature films, 15 will be film debuts, 16 will carry female directors and the 21 French films continue the strong home presence.

Here are the films selected in full:

• 9 Jours À Raqqa – Xavier De Lauzanne (France)
• A Good Man – Marie-Castille Mention Schaar (France)
• Ammonite – Francis Lee (UK)
• Another Round – Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
• Aya And The Witch – Goro Miyazaki (Japan)
• Beginning – Déa Kulumbegashvili (Georgia)
• The Big Hit – Emmanuel Courcol (France)
• The Billion Road – Dieudo Hamadi (Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Broken Keys – Jimmy Keyrouz (Lebanon)
• Casa De Antiguidades – João Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
• The Death Of Cinema And My Father Too – Daniel Rosenberg (Isreal)
• DNA – Maïwenn (Algeria, France)
• El Olvido Que Seremos – Fernando Trueba (Spain)
• Enfant Terrible – Oskar Roehler (Germany)
• Falling – Viggo Mortensen (USA)
• February – Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria)
• Flee – Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Denmark)
• The French Dispatch – Wes Anderson (USA)
• Gagarine – Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh (France)
• Heaven: To The Land of Happiness – Im Sang-soo (Korea)
• Here We Are – Nir Bergman (Isreal)
• Home Front – Lucas Belvaux (Belgium)
• Ibrahim – Samuel Guesmi (France)
• In the Dusk – Sharunas Bartas (Lithuania)
• John And The Hole – Pascual Sisto (USA)
• Josep – Aurel (France)
• Last Words – Jonathan Nossiter (USA)
• Les Deux Alfred – Bruno Podalydès (France)
• Limbo – Ben Sharrock (UK)
• Love Affairs – Emmanuel Mouret (France)
• Lovers Rock – Steve McQueen (UK)
• L’origine Du Monde – Laurent Lafitte (France)
• Mangrove – Steve McQueen (UK)
• My Best Part – Nicolas Maury (France)
• My Donkey, My Lover & I – Caroline Vignal (France)
• Médecin De Nuit – Elie Wajeman (France)
• Nadia, Butterfly – Pascal Plante (Canada)
• Passion Simple – Danielle Arbid (Lebanon)
• Peninsula – Yeon Sang-ho (Korea)
• Pleasure – Ninja Thyberg (Sweden)
• The Real Thing – Koji Fukada (Japan)
• Red Soil – Farid Bentoumi (France)
• 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)
• Should The Wind Fall – Nora Martirosyan (Armenia)
• Slalom – Charlène Favier (France)
• Souad – Ayten Amin (Egypt)
• Soul – Pete Docter, Kemp Powers (USA)
• The Speech – Laurent Tirard (France)
• Spring Blossom – Suzanne Lindon (France)
• Striding Into The Wind – Wei Shujun (China)
• Summer Of 85 – François Ozon (France)
• Sweat – Magnus von Horn (Sweden)
• Teddy – Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma (France)
• The Truffle Hunters – Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck (USA)
• True Mothers – Naomi Kawase (Japan)
• Vaurien – Peter Dourountzis (France)