Festival de Cannes Official Line-up Announced – Almodóvar, Dardenne, Loach, Dolan, Malick in Competition

So as expected, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will not be shown at 72nd Cannes Film Festival, as the film is still stuck in the editing suite. And with the no Netflix films fiasco continuing, that narrows down the potential selection this coming Thursday for the Cannes Film Festival Official Competition lineup. Greta Gerwig (Little Women), Ari Aster (Midsommar) and James Gray (Ad Astra) will not be making it to the French Riviera also this year.

Among the eagerly anticipated filmmakers that are absent from the Official Selection are, unfortunately, Kelly Reichardt (First Cow), Cristi Puiu (Malmkrog), Roy Andersson (About Endlessness), Leos Carax (Annette), Mia Hansen-Løve (Bergman Island), Atom Egoyan (Guest of Honour), Alice Winocour (Proxima), Hirokazu Kore-eda (The Truth). I mean, I could go on all day. But even without these bright shiny stars of the filmmaking world, there is still plenty to have your mouth watering like a ravenous dog taunted with a 4 foot ham.

In Competition

Pedro ALMODÓVAR – – – DOLOR Y GLORIA / PAIN AND GLORY

Marco BELLOCCHIO – – – IL TRADITORE / THE TRAITOR

BONG Joon Ho – – – GISAENGCHUNG / PARASITE

Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Luc DARDENNE – – – LE JEUNE AHMED / YOUNG AHMED

Arnaud DESPLECHIN – – – ROUBAIX, UNE LUMIÈRE / OH MERCY!

DIAO Yinan – – – NAN FANG CHE ZHAN DE JU HU / THE WILD GOOSE LAKE

Mati DIOP – – – ATLANTIQUE

Xavier DOLAN – – – MATTHIAS ET MAXIME / MATTHIAS AND MAXIME

Jessica HAUSNER – – – LITTLE JOE

Jim JARMUSCH – – – THE DEAD DON’T DIE

Ken LOACH – – – SORRY WE MISSED YOU

Ladj LY – – – LES MISÉRABLES

Terrence MALICK – – – A HIDDEN LIFE

Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO, Juliano DORNELLES – – – BACURAU

Corneliu PORUMBOIU – – – THE WHISTLERS

Ira SACHS – – – FRANKIE

Céline SCIAMMA – – – PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU

Elia SULEIMAN – – – IT MUST BE HEAVEN

Justine TRIET – – – SIBYL

Un Certain Regard

Karim AÏNOUZ, VIDA INVISIVEL – – – INVISIBLE LIFE
Nariman ALIEV – – – EVGE
Kantemir BALAGOV – – – DYLDA / BEANPOLE
Zabou BREITMAN, Eléa GOBÉ MÉVELLEC – – – THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL
Monia CHOKRI – – – A BROTHER’S LOVE
Michael COVINO – – – THE CLIMB
Bruno DUMONT – – – JOAN OF ARC
Christophe HONORÉ – – – CHAMBRE 212
Oliver LAXE – – – O QUE ARDE / A SUN THAT NEVER SETS
Danielle LESSOVITZ – – – PORT AUTHORITY
Mounia MEDDOUR – – – PAPICHA
Midi Z – – – ZHUO REN MI MI
Albert SERRA – – – LIBERTÉ
Annie SILVERSTEIN – – – BULL
Maryam TOUZANI – – – ADAM
ZU Feng – – – LIU YU TIAN / SUMMER OF CHANGSHA

Out of Competition

Nicolas BEDOS – – – LA BELLE ÉPOQUE
Dexter FLETCHER – – – ROCKETMAN
Asif KAPADIA – – – DIEGO MARADONA
Claude LELOUCH – – – THE BEST YEARS OF A LIFE
Nicolas WINDING REFN – – – TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG – NORTH OF HOLLYWOOD, WEST OF HELL

Midnight Screenings

LEE Won-Tae – – – THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL

Special Screenings

Waad Al KATEAB, Edward WATTS – – – FOR SAMA
Pippa BIANCO – – – SHARE
Alain CAVALIER – – – ÊTRE VIVANT ET LE SAVOIR
Abel FERRARA – – – TOMMASO
Werner HERZOG – – – FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC.
Juan SOLANAS – – – QUE SEA LEY

You can watch he full announcement here if you so wish: