The event itself was cancelled due to coronavirus, but the Cannes Film Festival is still celebrating the world of film, yesterday announcing the line-up of films that would have made the cut this year.
The list recognised the films that would have either competed for the Palme d’Or or played at the event, which had been due to take place on May 12-23.
Steve McQueen, Wes Anderson and Kate Winslet are among the names recognised in the list announced by Cannes general delegate Thierry Frémaux. Anderson’s love letter to journalism The French Dispatch, McQueen’s two films Lovers Rock and Mangrove which focus on the racism suffered by the UK’s West Indian immigrant communities in the 60s and 70s, and Ammonite starring Winslet and Saoirse Ronan all feature.
There are 16 films directed by women represented in the list, a small increase of two from last year. There are also places for two high profile animations – Studio Ghibli’s Aya and the Witch and Pixar’s Soul
See the full list of films below.
- The French Dispatch (dir: Wes Anderson)
- Summer of ’85 (dir: François Ozon)
- True Mothers (Naomi Kawase)
- Mangrove and Lovers Rock (dir: Steve McQueen)
- Druk (dir: Thomas Vinterberg)
- DNA (dir: Maïwenn)
- Last Words (dir: Jonathan Nossiter)
- Heaven (dir: Im Sang-soo)
- El Olvido que Seremos (dir: Fernando Trueba)
- Peninsula (dir: Sang-ho Yeon)
- In the Dusk (dir: Sharunas Bartas)
- Des Hommes (dir: Lucas Belvaux)
- The Real Thing (dir: Koji Fukada)
- Passion Simple (dir: Danielle Arbid)
- Good Man (dir: Marie-Castille Mention Schaar)
- The Things We Say, The Things We Do (dir: Emmanuel Mouret)
- Souad (dir: Ayten Amin)
- Limbo (dir: Ben Sharrock)
- Rouge (dir: Farid Bentoumi)
- Sweat (dir: Magnus von Horn)
- Teddy (dir: Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma)
- February (dir: Kamen Kalev)
- Ammonite (dir: Francis Lee)
- Un Médecin de Nuit (Elie Wajeman)
- Enfant Terrible (dir: Oskar Roehler)
- Nadia, Butterfly (dir: Pascal Plante)
- Here We Are (dir: Nir Bergman)
- Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (dirs: Ann Hui, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark, John Woo, Woo-Ping Yuen)
- Falling (dir: Viggo Mortensen)
- Pleasure (dir: Ninja Thyberg)
- Slalom (dir: Charlène Favier)
- Memory House (dir: João Paulo Miranda Maria)
- Broken Keys (dir: Jimmy Keyrouz)
- Ibrahim (dir: Samuel Gueismi)
- Beginning (dir: Déa Kulumbegashvili)
- Gagarine (dirs: Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh)
- 16 Printemps (dir: Suzanne Lindon)
- Vaurien (Peter Dourountzis)
- Garçon Chiffon (dir: Nicolas Maury)
- Si Le Vent Tombe (dir: Nora Martirosyan)
- John and the Hole (dir: Pascual Sisto)
- Striding into the Wind (dir: Wei Shujun)
- La Mort du Cinema et de Mon Père Aussi (dir: Daniel Rosenberg)
- The Billion Road (dir: Dieudo Hamadi)
- The Truffle Hunters (dir: Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw)
- 9 Days at Raqqa (dir: Xavier de Lauzanne)
- Antoinette dans les Cévennes (dir: Caroline Vignal)
- Les Deux Alfred (dir: Bruno Podalydès)
- Un Triomphe (dir: Emmanuel Courcol)
- Le Discours (dir: Laurent Tirard)
- L’Origine du Monde (dir: Laurent Lafitte)
- Aya and the Witch (dir: Goro Miyazaki)
- Flee (dir: Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
- Josep (dir: Aurel)
- Soul (dir: Pete Docter)
This year marks the first time Cannes has been postponed since the first event took place back in 1946. Despite early plans to reschedule the event for later in the year, the festival will no longer be taking place.
