Cannes 2020 is not cancelled. It won’t have a a physical presence, no prices will be awarded but the films nominated will be able to use the brand name of Cannes for marketing purposes and will be able to participate at other festivals around the world, like: Toronto, Deauville, San Sebastian, Pusan, Morelia, Angoulême, New York, Rome, Rio, Tokyo, Mumbai, Mar del Plata and Sundance.
The list includes very big names like: Wes Anderson, Francois Ozon, Steve McQueen, Thomas Vinterberg, Maïwenn or Im Sang-Soo.
Last year, Parasite won the Golden Palm before winning the Oscar for Best Picture. Spike Lee was supposed to be the President of the jury this year and was asked to comeback next year.
Cannes 2020 Lineup
Wes Anderson — The French Dispatch
Pete Docter — Soul
Francois Ozon — Summer Of 85
Naomi Kawase — True Mothers
Steve McQueen — Lover’s Rock
Steve McQueen — Mangrove
Thomas Vinterberg — Another Round
Maïwenn – ADN
Viggo Mortensen— Falling
Francis Lee – Ammonite
Magnus von Horn — Sweat
Pascal Plante — Nadia, Butterfly
Jonathan Nossiter — Last Words
Im Sang-Soo — Heaven: To The Land of Happiness
Fernando Trueba — Forgotten We’ll Be
Yeon Sang-Ho — Peninsula
Sharunas Bartas — In the Dusk
Lucas Belvaux — Home Front
Koji Fukada — The Real Thing
Marie Castille Mention-Schaar — A Good Man
Danielle Arbid — Passion Simple
Emmanuel Mouret — Les Choses Qu’on Dit, Les Choses Qu’on Fait
Ayten Amin — Souad
Ben Sharrock — Limbo
Farid Bentoumi — Red Soil
Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma — Teddy
Kamen Kalev — February
Elie Wajeman — Un Medecin du Nuit
Oskar Roehler — Enfant Terrible
Nir Bergman — Here We Are
Ninja Thyberg — Pleasure
Charlène Favier — Slalom
Joao Paulo Miranda Maria — Memory House
Jimmy Keyrouz — Broken Keys
Samir Guesmi — Ibrahim
Déa Kulumbegashvili — Beginning
Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh — Gagarine
Suzanne Lindon — 16 Printemps
Peter Dourountzis — Vaurien
Nicolas Maury — Garcon Chiffon
Nora Martirosyan — Should the Wind Fall
Pascual Sisto —John and the Hole
Wei Shujun — Striding Into The Wind
Dani Rosenberg —The Death of Cinema and My Father Too
Dieudo Hamadi— The Billion Road
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw — The Truffle Hunters
Xavier de Lauzanne —9 Jours a Raqqa
Ann Hui, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping and Patrick Tam — Septet: The Story of Hong Kong
Caroline Vignal — Antoinette Dans Les Cévenènnes
Bruno Podalydès — Les Deux Alfred
Emmanuel Courcol — The Big Hit
Laurent Lafitte — L’Origine du Monde
Laurent Lafitte — Le Discours
Goro Miyazaki — Earwig and the Witch
Jonas Poher Rasmussen — Flee
Aurel — Josep
