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The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2019.[3] Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu served as jury president.[4][5] The Palme d'Or went to the South Korean film Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho; Bong became the first Korean director to win the award.[6]
Opening film | The Dead Don't Die |
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Closing film | The Specials |
Location | Cannes, France |
Founded | 1946 |
Awards | Palme d'Or: Parasite |
Hosted by | Édouard Baer[2] |
No. of films | 21 (In Competition) 18 (Un Certain Regard) 11 (Short films) |
Festival date | 14–25 May 2019 |
Website | festival-cannes |
American film director Jim Jarmusch's ensemble zombie comedy film The Dead Don't Die served as the opening film of the festival.[7] The festival honoured French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who died in March 2019, featuring her on the official poster of the festival.[8] The photograph used was taken during the filming of her debut film La Pointe Courte (1955), which later screened at the Cannes Film Festival.[1]
The following films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or:[19][20]
The following films were selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section:[19]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Adam (QP) | Maryam Touzani | Morocco | |
Beanpole (QP) | Дылда | Kantemir Balagov | Russia |
The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily | La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia | Lorenzo Mattotti | France, Italy |
A Brother's Love (CdO) | La Femme de mon frère | Monia Chokri | Canada |
Bull (CdO) | Annie Silverstein | United States | |
The Climb (CdO) | Michael Covino | ||
Fire Will Come | O que Arde | Oliver Laxe | Spain, France, Luxembourg |
Liberté (QP) | Liberté | Albert Serra | Spain |
Homeward (CdO) | Evge | Nariman Aliev | Ukraine |
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão | A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil |
Joan of Arc | Jeanne | Bruno Dumont | France |
Nina Wu | 灼人秘密 | Midi Z | Taiwan |
On a Magical Night | Chambre 212 | Christophe Honoré | France |
Once in Trubchevsk | Однажды в Трубчевске | Larissa Sadilova | Russia |
Papicha | Mounia Meddour | France | |
Port Authority (CdO) (QP) | Danielle Lessovitz | United States | |
Summer of Changsha (CdO) | 六欲天 | Zu Feng | China |
The Swallows of Kabul | Les Hirondelles de Kaboul | Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobé Mévellec | France |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[19][21]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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La Belle Époque | Nicolas Bedos | France | |
The Best Years of a Life | Les plus belles années d'une vie | Claude Lelouch | |
Diego Maradona (ŒdO) | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom | |
Rocketman (QP) | Dexter Fletcher | United States | |
The Specials (closing film) | Hors normes | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | France |
Too Old to Die Young (episodes 4 and 5) | Nicolas Winding Refn | United States | |
Midnight Screenings | |||
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil | 악인전 | Lee Won-tae | South Korea |
Lux Æterna | Gaspar Noé | France | |
The following films were selected be shown in the special screenings section:[19]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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5B (ŒdO) | Dan Krauss | United States | |
Chicuarotes | Gael García Bernal | Mexico | |
The Cordillera of Dreams | La Cordillera de los sueños (ŒdO) | Patricio Guzmán | France, Chile |
Family Romance, LLC | Werner Herzog | Germany | |
For Sama (ŒdO) | Waad Al Kateab, Edward Watts | United Kingdom | |
Ice on Fire (ŒdO) | Leila Conners | United States | |
Que sea ley (ŒdO) | Juan Solanas | Argentina | |
Share (CdO) | Pippa Bianco | United States | |
Living and Knowing You Are Alive | Être vivant et le savoir | Alain Cavalier | France |
Tommaso | Abel Ferrara | Italy |
Out of 4,240 entries, the following films were selected to compete for the Short Film Palme d'Or.[22]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Van | Erenik Beqiri | Albania, France | |
Anna | Dekel Berenson | Ukraine, Israel, United Kingdom | |
The Jump (ŒdO) | Vanessa Dumont and Nicolas Davenel | France | |
The Distance Between Us and the Sky (QP) | Vasilis Kekatos | Greece, France | |
All Inclusive | Teemu Nikki | Finland | |
Who Talks | Ingen lyssnar | Elin Övergaard | Sweden |
And Then the Bear | Agnès Patron | France | |
Butterflies | Parparim | Yona Rozenkier | Israel |
Monster God | Monstruo Dios | Agustina San Martín | Argentina |
White Echo | Chloë Sevigny | United States | |
The Nap | La Siesta | Federico Luis Tachella | Argentina |
The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following 17 entries (14 live-action and 3 animated films) were selected out of 2,000 submissions. Six of the films selected represent schools participating in Cinéfondation for the first time.[22]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | School |
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Ambience | Wisam Al Jafari | Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, Palestine | |
Mano a mano | Louise Courvoisier | CinéFabrique, France | |
One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand | Sto dvacet osm tisíc | Ondřej Erban | FAMU, Czech Republic |
Jeremiah (QP) | Kenya Gillespie | University of Texas at Austin, United States | |
Pura vida | Martin Gonda | FTF VŠMU – Film and Television Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts, Slovakia | |
Adam | Shoki Lin | NTU, Singapore | |
Rift | Netek | Yarden Lipshitz Louz | Sapir College, Israel |
Solar Plexus | David McShane | NFTS, United Kingdom | |
Rosso: A True Lie About a Fisherman | Rosso: La Vera storia falsa del pescatore Clemente | Antonio Messana | La Fémis, France |
As Up to Now | Ahogy eddig | Katalin Moldovai | Budapest Metropolitan University (METU), Hungary |
Favourites | Favoriten | Martin Monk | Filmakademie Wien, Austria |
Roadkill | Leszek Mozga | UAL, United Kingdom | |
The Little Soul | Duszyczka | Barbara Rupik | PWSFTviT, Poland |
Hiêu | Richard Van | CalArts, United States | |
Bamboe | Flo Van Deuren | RITCS, Belgium | |
Complex Subject (QP) | Slozhnopodchinennoe | Olesya Yakovleva | St Petersburg State University of Film and Television, Russia |
Alien | 령희 | Yeon Jegwang | Korea National University of Arts, South Korea |
The full line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 26 April 2019.[23]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Restorations | |||
125, rue Montmartre (1959) | Gilles Grangier | France | |
Diary of a Nurse (1957) | 护士日记 | Tao Jin | China |
The Doors (1991) | Oliver Stone | United States | |
Easy Rider (1969) | Dennis Hopper | ||
The Golden Age (1930) | L'Âge d'or | Luis Buñuel | France |
The Horse Thief (1986) | 盗马贼 | Tian Zhuangzhuang | China |
La Cité de la peur (1994) | Alain Berbérian | France | |
Loves of a Blonde (1965) | Lásky jedné plavovlásky | Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia |
Miracle in Milan (1951) | Miracolo a Milano | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
Moulin Rouge (1952) | John Huston | United Kingdom | |
Nazarín (1958) | Luis Buñuel | Mexico | |
Plogoff, des pierres contre des fusils (1980) | Nicole Le Garrec | France | |
Seven Beauties (1975) | Pasqualino Settebellezze | Lina Wertmüller | Italy |
The Shining (1980) | Stanley Kubrick | United States, United Kingdom | |
Kanał (1957) | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | |
Toni (1934) | Jean Renoir | France | |
Twenty Years of African Cinema (1983) | Caméra d’Afrique | Férid Boughedir | Tunisia, France |
The White Caravan (1964) | თეთრი ქარავანი / Белый караван | Tamaz Meliava, Eldar Shengelaya | |
The White Snake Enchantress (1958) | 白蛇伝 | Taiji Yabushita | Japan |
The Witness (1969) | A tanú | Péter Bacsó | Hungary |
The Woman Who Dared (1943) | Le Ciel est à vous | Jean Grémillon | France |
The Young and the Damned (1950) | Los Olvidados | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
Documentaries about Cinema | |||
Cinecittà - I mestieri del cinema Bernardo Bertolucci | Mario Sesti | Italy | |
Forman vs. Forman | Helena Třeštíková, Jakub Hejna | Czech Republic, France | |
La Passione di Anna Magnani | Enrico Cerasuolo | Italy, France | |
Les Silences de Johnny | Pierre-William Glenn | France | |
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound | Midge Costin | United States |
The Cinéma de la Plage is a part of the Official Selection of the festival. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public.[24]
Evening | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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Wednesday 15 | The 400 Blows (1959) | Les 400 Coups | François Truffaut | France |
Thursday 16 | La Cité de la peur (1994) | Alain Berbérian | ||
Saturday 18 | Any Number Can Win (1962) | Mélodie en sous-sol | Henri Verneuil | France, Italy |
Sunday 19 | The Doors (1991) | Oliver Stone | United States | |
Monday 20 | Hauts les filles (2019) | François Armanet | France | |
Tuesday 21 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) | 臥虎藏龍 | Ang Lee | Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, United States |
Wednesday 22 | Easy Rider (1969) | Dennis Hopper | United States | |
Thursday 23 | Boyz n the Hood (1991) | John Singleton | ||
Friday 24 | The Patriots (1994) | Les Patriotes | Éric Rochant | France |
The following films were selected to be screened in the Critics' Week section:[25]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In Competition | |||
Abou Leila | Amin Sidi-Boumédiène | Algeria, France, Qatar | |
A White, White Day | Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland, Denmark, Sweden |
I Lost My Body | J'ai perdu mon corps | Jérémy Clapin | France |
Land of Ashes | Ceniza Negra | Sofía Quirós Ubeda | Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile, France |
Our Mothers | Nuestras Madres | César Díaz | Guatemala, Belgium, France |
The Unknown Saint | Le Miracle du Saint Inconnu | Alaa Eddine Aljem | Morocco, France, Qatar |
Vivarium | Lorcan Finnegan | Ireland, Belgium, Denmark | |
Short Films | |||
Community Gardens | Kolektyvinai Sodai | Vytautas Katkus | Lithuania |
Ikki illa meint | Andrias Høgenni | Denmark, Faroe Islands | |
Journey Through a Body (QP) | Camille Degeye | France | |
The Last Trip to the Seaside | Ultimul drum spre mare | Adi Voicu | Romania |
Lucía en el limbo | Valentina Maurel | Belgium, France, Costa Rica | |
The Manila Lover (QP) | Johanna Pyykkö | Norway, Philippines | |
Party Day | Día de Festa | Sofia Bost | Portugal |
She Runs (QP) | Qiu Yang | China, France | |
The Trap | Fakh | Nada Riyadh | Egypt, Germany |
Tuesday From 8 to 6 | Mardi de 8 à 18 | Cecilia de Arce | France |
Special Screenings | |||
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (closing film) | 春江水暖 | Gu Xiaogang | China |
Heroes Don't Die | Les héros ne meurent jamais | Aude Léa Rapin | France, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Litigante (opening film) | Franco Lolli | Colombia, France | |
You Deserve a Lover (QP) | Tu mérites un amour | Hafsia Herzi | France |
Special Screenings - Short Films | |||
Demonic | Pia Borg | Australia | |
Naptha | Moin Hussain | United Kingdom | |
Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You | Brandon Cronenberg | Canada | |
Invisible Hero | Invisível Herói | Cristèle Alves Meira | Portugal, France |
Tenzo | Katsuya Tomita | Japan | |
Invitation Films from Morelia International Film Festival | |||
Satán | Carlos Tapia González | Switzerland | |
San Miguel | Cris Gris | Mexico | |
The Girl with Two Heads | La chica con dos cabezas | Betzabé García | |
The Thin Air | El aire Delgado | Pablo Giles |
The following films were selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section:[26][27]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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In Competition | |||
Alice and the Mayor | Alice et le Maire | Nicolas Pariser | France |
An Easy Girl | Une fille facile | Rebecca Zlotowski | France |
And Then We Danced (QP) | Levan Akin | Sweden, Georgia | |
The Bare Necessity (CdO) | Perdrix | Erwan Le Duc | France |
Blow It to Bits | On va tout péter | Lech Kowalski | |
Deerskin (opening film) | Le Daim | Quentin Dupieux | |
Dogs Don't Wear Pants | Koirat eivät käytä housuja | J-P Valkeapää | Finland, Latvia |
First Love | Hatsukoi | Takashi Miike | Japan, United Kingdom |
For the Money | Por el dinero | Alejo Moguillansky | Argentina |
Ghost Tropic | Bas Devos | Belgium | |
Give Me Liberty | Kirill Mikhanovsky | United States | |
The Halt | Ang Hupa | Lav Diaz | Philippines, China |
The Lighthouse | Robert Eggers | Canada, United States | |
Particles (CdO) | Les Particules | Blaise Harrison | Switzerland, France |
Lillian | Andreas Horvath | Austria | |
Oleg | Juris Kursietis | Latvia, Belgium, Lithuania, France | |
The Orphanage | Parwareshgah | Shahrbanoo Sadat | Denmark, Afghanistan, France |
Sick, Sick, Sick (CdO) | Sem seu sangue | Alice Furtado | Brazil, Netherlands, France |
Song Without a Name (CdO) | Canción sin nombre | Melina León | Peru, Switzerland |
Tlamess (QP) | Ala Eddine Slim | Tunisia, France | |
To Live to Sing | 活着唱着 | Johnny Ma | China, France |
Wounds | Babak Anvari | United States | |
Yves (closing film) | Benoît Forgeard | France | |
Zombi Child (QP) | Bertrand Bonello | ||
Special Screnings | |||
Red 11 | Robert Rodriguez | United States | |
The Staggering Girl | Luca Guadagnino | Italy | |
Short and Medium-length Films | |||
Ghost Pleasure | Plaisir fantôme | Morgan Simon | France |
Grand Bouquet (QP) | Nao Yoshigai | Japan | |
Je te tiens | Sergio Caballero | Spain | |
The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady | Les Extraordinaires Mésaventures de la jeune fille de pierre | Gabriel Abrantes | France, Portugal |
Movements | Jeong Da-hee | South Korea | |
Olla | Ariane Labed | France, United Kingdom | |
Piece of Meat | Jerrold Chong and Huang Junxiang | Singapore | |
Stay Awake, Be Ready | Hãy Tỉnh Thức và Sẵn Sàng | An Pham Thien | Vietnam, South Korea, United States |
That Which Is to Come Is Just a Promise | Flatform | Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand | |
Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters | Deux sœurs qui ne sont pas sœurs | Beatrice Gibson | United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, France |
Exhibition | |||
Go Where You Look! (Aloft, Chalkroom and To the Moon) | Laurie Anderson, Hsin-Chien Huang |
The following films were selected to be screened in the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) section:[28][29]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Feature Films | |||
As Happy As Possible | Rêve de jeunesse | Alain Raoust | France, Portugal |
Blind Spot | L'Angle mort | Pierre Trividic, Patrick-Mario Bernard | France |
Des Hommes (ŒdO) | Alice Odiot, Jean-Robert Viallet | ||
Indianara (ŒdO)(QP) | Aude Chevalier-Beaumel, Marcelo Barbosa | Brazil | |
Kongo (ŒdO) | Hadrien La Vapeur, Corto Vaclav | France | |
Mickey and the Bear | Annabelle Attanasio | United States | |
Solo (ŒdO) | Artemio Benki | France, Czech Republic, Argentina, Austria | |
Take Me Somewhere Nice | Ena Sendijarević | Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
Vif-argent | Stéphane Batut | France | |
ACID Trip #3 - Argentina | |||
Brief Story from the Green Planet | Breve historia del planeta verde | Santiago Loza | Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain |
Las Vegas | Juan Villegas | Argentina | |
Sangre blanca | Barbara Sarasola-Day |
The following awards were presented for films shown In Competition:[30]
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