| 2020 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Location: | Cannes, France |
| Founded: | 1946 |
| Awards: | Palme d'Or |
| Main: | Cannes Film Festival |
| Previous: | 2019 |
| Next: | 2021 |
The 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival was scheduled to take place from 12 to 23 May 2020.[1] On 13 January 2020, Spike Lee was named as the president of the Jury.[2] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, festival management announced on 14 April 2020 that the festival could not be held in its "original form", with alternative means of observing the festival being explored.[3] It was cancelled for the first time since 1968.
Earlier, festival management considered holding the festival in June or July,[4] after not cancelling the event.[5] In mid-March, the festival's main venue, the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière, was converted into a temporary homeless shelter.[6] In May 2020, it was announced that no physical edition of the festival would take place,[7] but a revised Official Selection of films was confirmed on 3 June 2020.[8] [9] [10] Before announcing the list of films from the official selection, Thierry Frémaux the director of the Cannes Film Festival, said in an interview that he was talking with Spike Lee and also was hoping to have him as president of the jury on the 2021 edition. He also confirmed that Lee's film Da 5 Bloods was supposed to be the return of Netflix to the red carpet in the Out of Competition category.[11]
In September, organizers announced that a limited outdoor festival, featuring screenings of four official selection films, the short film competition and the Cinéfondation Selection would take place on the Croisette from 27 to 29 October.[12] The Critics' Week program also launched a free online screening of its short film selections in October.[13]
The Official Selection has been divided in sub-categories, as directors or genres, not as competitors.[14] [15] [16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Another Round | Druk | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | |
| DNA | ADN | Maïwenn | France | |
| Forgotten We'll Be | El olvido que seremos | Fernando Trueba | Colombia | |
| The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | United States | ||
| 헤븐: 행복의 나라로 | Im Sang-soo | South Korea | ||
| Home Front | Des hommes | Lucas Belvaux | France, Belgium | |
| In the Dusk | Sutemose | Šarūnas Bartas | Lithuania, France, Serbia, Czech Republic, Latvia | |
| Last Words | Jonathan Nossiter | France, Italy, United States | ||
| Lovers Rock | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom | ||
| Mangrove | ||||
| Peninsula | 반도 | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea | |
| The Real Thing | 本気のしるし | Japan | ||
| Summer of 85 | Été 85 | François Ozon | France | |
| True Mothers | 朝が来る | Naomi Kawase | Japan | |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ammonite | Francis Lee | United Kingdom, Australia | ||
| Enfant Terrible | Oskar Roehler | Germany | ||
| February | Février | Bulgaria, France | ||
| A Good Man | Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | France, Belgium | ||
| Here We Are | הנה אנחנו | Nir Bergman | Israel, Italy | |
| Limbo | Ben Sharrock | United Kingdom | ||
| Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait | France | ||
| Nadia, Butterfly | Pascal Plante | Canada | ||
| The Night Doctor | Médecin de nuit | Elie Wajeman | France | |
| Red Soil | Rouge | Farid Bentoumi | France, Belgium | |
| Simple Passion | Passion simple | Danielle Arbid | ||
| Souad | سعاد | Ayten Amin | Egypt | |
| Sweat | Magnus von Horn | Sweden, Poland | ||
| Teddy | Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma | France | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning | დასაწყისი | Déa Kulumbegashvili | Georgia | |
| Broken Keys | Jimmy Keyrouz | Lebanon, United States, France, Cyprus | ||
| The Death of Cinema and my Father Too | Dani Rosenberg | Israel | ||
| Falling | Viggo Mortensen | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | ||
| Gagarine | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | France | ||
| Ibrahim | Samir Guesmi | |||
| John and the Hole | Pascual Sisto | United States | ||
| Memory House | Casa de Antiguidades | João Paulo Miranda Maria | Brazil, France | |
| My Best Part | Garçon chiffon | Nicolas Maury | France | |
| Pleasure | Ninja Thyberg | Sweden, Netherlands, France | ||
| Should the Wind Drop (Presented with the ACID parallel section) | Si le vent tombe | Nora Martirosyan | France, Belgium, Armenia | |
| Slalom | Charlène Favier | France | ||
| Spring Blossom | Seize printemps | Suzanne Lindon | ||
| Striding Into the Wind | 野馬分鬃 | Wei Shujun | China | |
| Vaurien | Peter Dourountzis | France | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Days at Raqqa | 9 Jours à Raqqa | Xavier de Lauzanne | France | |
| Downstream to Kinshasa | En route pour le milliard | Dieudo Hamadi | Congo, Belgium, France | |
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | United States, Italy, Greece | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Big Hit | Un triomphe | Emmanuel Courcol | France |
| Dear Mother | L'Origine du monde (First feature film) | Laurent Lafitte | |
| French Tech | Les deux Alfred | Bruno Podalydès | |
| My Donkey, My Lover & I | Antoinette dans les Cévènnes | Caroline Vignal | |
| The Speech | Le Discours | Laurent Tirard |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earwig and the Witch | アーヤと魔女 | Gorō Miyazaki | Japan | |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway | ||
| Josep (First feature film) | Aurel | France | ||
| Soul | Pete Docter | United States | ||
The films selected for the short film competition were announced on 19 June, a few weeks after the rest of the official selections.[17] Despite the cancellation of the overall festival, the short films were announced with an indication that the competition would still proceed in the fall, with the exact dates and jury members to be named at a later date; in September, it was announced that the short films would be screened as part of the special outdoor screening series on the Croisette in October.[12]
At the end of the Croisette screening series, the Short Film Palme d'Or was awarded to Sameh Alaa for the film I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face.[18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin, Benny, Ben | Paul Shkordoff | Canada | ||
| Blue Fear | Filles bleue, peur blanche | Marie Jacotey, Lola Halifa-Legrand | France | |
| Camille, Contactless | Camille sans contact | Paul Nouhet | ||
| David | Zach Woods | United States | ||
| I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face | ستاشر | Sameh Alaa | Egypt, France, Belgium, Qatar | |
| The Lamb of God | O Cordeiro de Deus | David Pinheiro Vicente | Portugal, France | |
| Motorway65 | Evi Kalogiropoulou | Greece | ||
| Mountain Cat | Shiluus | Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir | Mongolia, United Kingdom | |
| Son of Sodom | Theo Montoya | Colombia, Argentina | ||
| Stéphanie | Leonardo Van Dijl | Belgium | ||
| Sudden Light | Sophie Littman | United Kingdom | ||
The Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury composed of Damien Bonnard, Rachid Bouchareb, Claire Burger, Charles Gillibert, Dea Kulumbegashvili and Céline Sallette, has awarded the 2020 Prizes of the Cinéfondation film school competition on 28 October 2020 on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière as part of “Cannes 2020 Special”. The First Prize was awarded to Ashmita Guha Neogi for the film Catdog, the Second Prize was awarded to Yelyzaveta Pysmak for the film My Fat Arse and I and the Joint Third Prize was awarded to Lucia Chicos for Contraindications and Elsa Rosengren for I Want to Return Return Return.[19]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agapé | Márk Beleznai | Hungary | ||
| Carcass | Carcasse | Timothée Maubrey | France | |
| Catdog | Ashmita Guha Neogi | India | ||
| Contraindications | Contraindicatii | Lucia Chicos | Romania | |
| Corte | Afonso Rapazote, Bernardo Rapazote | Portugal | ||
| The Last Ferry From Grass Island | Dou Zeoi Gu Si | Zhang Linhan | Hong Kong, United States | |
| When We Leave | En Avant | Mitchelle Tamariz | France | |
| I Want To Return Return Return | Elsa Rosengren | Germany | ||
| My Fat Arse And I | Ja i moja gruba dupa | Yelyzaveta Pysmak | Poland, Ukraine | |
| Bird's Song | Le chant de l'oiseau | Sarah Imsand | Switzerland | |
| Cinese Wall | Muralla China | Santiago Barzi | Argentina | |
| Neurim | Shaylee Atary | Israel | ||
| Nobody Said I Have to Love You | Nihče ni rekel, da te moram imeti rad | Matjaž Jamnik | Slovenia | |
| Pile | Toby Auberg | United Kingdom | ||
| Twenty | Seonginsik | Kim Min-Ju | South Korea | |
| Taipei Suicide Story | KEFF | Taiwan | ||
| Tamou | Tzor Edery, Tom Prezman | Israel | ||
The full line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 17 July 2020.[20]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restorations | ||||
| In the Mood for Love (2000) | 花樣年華 | Hong Kong | ||
| Friendship’s Death (1987) | United Kingdom | |||
| The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967) | La Permission | France | ||
| July Rain (1966) | Июльский дождь | Soviet Union | ||
| Quand les femmes ont pris la colère (1977) | France | |||
| Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978) | Préparez vos mouchoirs | |||
| Hester Street (1973) | United States | |||
| Who’s Singing Over There? (1980) | Ko to tamo peva | Yugoslavia | ||
| Black Silk (1961) | แพรดำ | Thailand | ||
| New Year Sacrifice (1956) | 祝福 | Hu Sang | China | |
| Upthrown Stone (1968) | Feldobott kő | Hungary | ||
| Neige (1981) | France | |||
| The Wasps Are Here (1978) | බඹරු ඇවිත් | Sri Lanka | ||
| This is My Country (1984) | Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim | Philippines | ||
| La Poupée (1962) | France | |||
| The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) | Sanatorium pod klepsydrą | Poland | ||
| America as Seen by a Frenchman (1959) | L'Amérique insolite | France | ||
| The Ninth Circle (1960) | Deveti krug | Yugoslavia | ||
| Muhammad Ali the Greatest (1974) | France | |||
| Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation celebrate its 30th birthday | ||||
| Accattone (1961) | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy | ||
| The Chess Game of the Wind (1976) | شطرنج باد / Shatranje bad | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Iran | |
| Federico 100 | ||||
| La strada (1956) | Federico Fellini | Italy | ||
| Variety Lights (1950) | Luci del varietà | Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini | ||
| Fellini of the Spirits | Anselma dell’Olio | Italy, Belgium | ||
| À Bout de souffle and L’Avventura turn 60 | ||||
| Breathless (1960) | À bout de souffle | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |
| The Adventure (1960) | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | |
| Documentaries 2020 | ||||
| Wim Wenders, Desperado | , Andreas Frege | Germany | ||
| Alida Valli: In Her Own Words | Mimmo Verdesca | Italy | ||
| Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty | Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté | François Aymé, Yves Jeuland | France | |
| Be Water | Bao Nguyen | United States | ||
| Belushi | R.J. Cutler | |||
| Antena da raça | Paloma Rocha, Luís Abramo | Brazil | ||
The following films have received a special and official label, delivered by the Critics' Week:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Features | ||||
| After Love | United Kingdom, France | |||
| Gold for Dogs | De l'or pour les chiens | Anna Cazenave Cambet | France | |
| The Swarm | La Nuée | Just Philippot | ||
| Skies of Lebanon | Sous le ciel d'Alice | Chloé Mazlo | ||
| Beasts | La Terre des hommes | Naël Marandin | ||
| Short Films | ||||
| August 22, This Year | Graham Foy | Canada | ||
| Dustin | Naïla Guiguet | France | ||
| Foreigner | Forastera | Lucía Aleñar Iglesias | Spain | |
| Good Thanks, You? | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom | ||
| Humongous! | とてつもなく大きな | Aya Kazawoe | Japan | |
| Maalbeek | Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis | France | ||
| Marlon Brando | Vincent Tilanus | Netherlands | ||
| Menarche | Menarca | Lillah Halla | Brazil | |
| Towards Evening | Axşama doğru | Teymur Hajiyev | Azerbaijan | |
| White Goldfish | Jan Roossens, Raf Roossens | Belgium | ||
A full Directors' Fortnight selection could not be announced due to it being incomplete when the festival was cancelled. However, two titles were announced in July 2020 so that they could utilize the Director's Fortnight label.[21]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kajillionaire | Miranda July | United States | ||
| We Are Who We Are | Luca Guadagnino | United States, Italy | ||
The following films have received a special and official label, delivered by the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema).
The ACID Trip #4 program, which should have been dedicated to young Chilean cinema, has been postponed to the next edition, in 2021.