The 72nd Cannes Film Festival, which takes place this year from 14th-25th May, has just made its first lineup announcement.
In a touching tribute, the festival have put Agnès Varda on their official poster; the legendary French filmmaker passed away last month aged 90. The Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu will be this year’s main competition jury president, following on from Cate Blanchett in 2018. Nadine Labaki will preside over the Un Certain Regard category, and Claire Denis will be president of the short films jury. The Dead Don’t Die, a zombie comedy starring Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Selena Gomez and Chloë Sevigny, is set to open the festival.
Known for glitzy red carpets and, recently, its eschewing of any Netflix releases, the Cannes Film Festival is a prestigious event that takes place in the South of France each May. Last year, Hirokazu Kore-eda won the prestigious Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, while Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman won the Grand Prix.
Here is the current list of films that will be premiering on La Croisette next month:
Competition
The Dead Don’t Die by Jim Jarmusch
Pain and Glory by Pedro Almodóvar
The Traitor by Marco Bellocchio
The Wild Goose Lake by Diao Yinan
Parasite by Bong Joon Ho
Young Ahmed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Oh Mercy! by Arnaud Desplechin
Atlantique by Mati Diop
Matthias and Maxime by Xavier Dolan
Little Joe by Jessica Hausner
Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach
Les Misérables by Ladj Ly
A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick
Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu
Frankie by Ira Sachs
Portrait of a Young Lady On Fire by Céline Sciamma
It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman
Sibyl by Justine Triet
Out of Competition
The Best Years of a Life by Claude Lelouch
Rocketman by Dexter Fletcher
Too Old To Die Young – North of Hollywood, West of Hell by Nicolas Winding Refn
Diego Maradona by Asif Kapadia
La Belle Époque by Nicolas Bedos
Midnight Screenings
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil by Lee Won-Tae
Special Screenings
Share by Pippa Bianco
For Sama by Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts
Family Romance, LLC. by Werner Herzog
Tommaso by Abel Ferrara
To Be Alive and Know It by Alain Cavalier
Un Certain Regard
Invisible Life by Karim Aïnouz
Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov
The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
A Brother’s Love by Monia Chokri
The Climb by Michael Covino
Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont
A sun that never sets by Olivier Laxe
Room 212 by Christophe Honoré
Port Authority by Danielle Lessovitz
Papicha by Mounia Meddour
Adam by Maryam Touzani
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi by Midi Z
Liberté by Albert Serra
Bull by Annie Silverstein
Summer of Changsha by Zu Feng
Evge by Nariman Aliev
Words by Steph Green