Cannes Festival reveals Official Selection 2020

The selection committee of the Cannes Film Festival yesterday revealed their Official Selection for this years’ festival, which was cancelled early in April this year.

Of the 2,067 feature films sent in, the Official Selection comprises of 56 chosen works to be accompanied by the Festival for their release in cinemas. The list included directors old and new, from across each continent.

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“Cinema is more alive than ever”

As there is no traditional programming of the festival, the committee decided to release the films in one single list, rather than the usual categories: Competition, Un Certain regard, Out of competition, Midnight Screenings, and Special Screenings.

“Even though movie theatres have been shut for three months – for the first time since the invention of film screening by the Lumière Brothers on December 28, 1895 – this Selection reflects that cinema is more alive than ever,” read a press release from the Festival.

“This selection was built with the prospect of seeing the Cannes Film Festival assume more than ever its primary mission: to promote films, artists and professionals by showing their work, to be the bridge between the screen and the public.”

The films chosen reflected the organisers’ commitment “Collectif 50/50”, in providing statistical information on the presence of female directors in its entries.

The Cannes 2020 Official Selection

THE FAITHFUL

THE FRENCH DISPATCH by Wes Anderson
ÉTÉ 85 by François Ozon
ASA GA KURU (True Mothers) by Naomi Kawase
LOVERS ROCK by Steve McQueen
MANGROVE by Steve McQueen
DRUK (Another Round) by Thomas Vinterberg
ADN (DNA) by Maïwenn
LAST WORDS by Jonathan Nossiter
HEAVEN: TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS by IM Sang-Soo
EL OLVIDO QUE SEREMOS (Forgotten we’ll be) by Fernando Trueba
PENINSULA by YEON Sang-Ho
IN THE DUSK (Au crépuscule) by Sharunas BARTAS
DES HOMMES (Home Front) by Lucas BELVAUX
THE REAL THING by Kôji Fukada

THE NEWCOMERS

PASSION SIMPLE by Danielle Arbid
A GOOD MAN by Marie Castille Mention-Schaar
LES CHOSES QU’ON DIT, LES CHOSES QU’ON FAIT by Emmanuel Mouret
SOUAD by Ayten Amin
LIMBO by Ben Sharrock
ROUGE (Red Soil) by Farid Bentoumi
SWEAT by Magnus Von Horn
TEDDY by Ludovic et Zoran Boukherma
FEBRUARY (Février) by Kamen Kalev
AMMONITE by Francis Lee
UN MÉDECIN DE NUIT by Elie Wajeman
ENFANT TERRIBLE by Oskar Roehler
NADIA, BUTTERFLY by Pascal Plante
HERE WE ARE by Nir Bergman

AN OMNIBUS FILM

SEPTET: THE STORY OF HONG KONG by Ann Hui, Johnnie TO, Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping et Patrick Tam

THE FIRST FEATURES

FALLING by Viggo Mortensen
PLEASURE by Ninja Thyberg
SLALOM by Charlène Favier
CASA DE ANTIGUIDADES (Memory House) by Joao Paulo Miranda Maria
BROKEN KEYS (Fausse note) by Jimmy Keyrouz
IBRAHIM by Samir Guesmi
BEGINNING (Au commencement) by Déa Kulumbegashvili
GAGARINE by Fanny Liatard et Jérémy Trouilh
16 PRINTEMPS by Suzanne Lindon
VAURIEN by Peter Dourountzis
GARÇON CHIFFON by Nicolas Maury
SI LE VENT TOMBE (Should the Wind Fall) by Nora Martirosyan
JOHN AND THE HOLE by Pascual Sisto
STRIDING INTO THE WIND (Courir au gré du vent) by WEI Shujun
THE DEATH OF CINEMA AND MY FATHER TOO (La Mort du cinéma et de mon père aussi) by Dani Rosenberg