2020 Cannes Film Festival
Edition of film festival
2020 Cannes Film Festival Special poster of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival featuring date of limited screenings in late October 2020
[ 1] Location Cannes , FranceFounded 1946 Awards Palme d'Or Website festival-cannes .com /en
Actor Stellan Skarsgård and the director of the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Frémaux (in the background) at the prémiere of Last Words during the Cinema Ritrovato Festival in August 2020. The film was scheduled to be presented at Cannes before the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival was scheduled to take place from 12 to 23 May 2020.[ 2] On 13 January 2020, Spike Lee was named as the president of the Jury.[ 3] 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.[ 4] It was cancelled for the first time since 1968.
Earlier, festival management considered holding the festival in June or July,[ 5] after not cancelling the event.[ 6] In mid-March, the festival's main venue, the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière , was converted into a temporary homeless shelter.[ 7] In May 2020, it was announced that no physical edition of the festival would take place,[ 8] but a revised Official Selection of films was confirmed on 3 June 2020.[ 9] [ 10] [ 11] 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.[ 12]
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.[ 13] The Critics' Week program also launched a free online screening of its short film selections in October.[ 14]
Official sections
The Official Selection has been divided in sub-categories, as directors or genres, not as competitors.[ 15] [ 16] [ 17]
The Faithful (or at least selected once before)
The Newcomers
Omnibus Film
The First Features
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
Documentary Films
Comedy Films
Animated Films
Short Films Competition
The films selected for the short film competition were announced on 19 June, a few weeks after the rest of the official selections.[ 18] 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.[ 13]
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 .[ 19]
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
Cinéfondation Selection
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 .[ 20]
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
Cannes Classics
The full line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 17 July 2020.[ 21]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Restorations
In the Mood for Love (2000)
花樣年華
Wong Kar-Wai
Hong Kong
Friendship’s Death (1987)
Peter Wollen
United Kingdom
The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1967)
La Permission
Melvin Van Peebles
France
July Rain (1966)
Июльский дождь
Marlen Khutsiev
Soviet Union
Quand les femmes ont pris la colère (1977)
Soizick Chappedelaine, René Vautier
France
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
Préparez vos mouchoirs
Bertrand Blier
Hester Street (1973)
Joan Micklin Silver
United States
Who’s Singing Over There? (1980)
Ko to tamo peva
Slobodan Šijan
Yugoslavia
Black Silk (1961)
แพรดำ
R.D. Pestonji
Thailand
New Year Sacrifice (1956)
祝福
Hu Sang
China
Upthrown Stone (1968)
Feldobott kő
Sándor Sára
Hungary
Neige (1981)
Juliet Berto , Jean-Henri Roger
France
The Wasps Are Here (1978)
බඹරු ඇවිත්
Dharmasena Pathiraja
Sri Lanka
This is My Country (1984)
Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim
Lino Brocka
Philippines
La Poupée (1962)
Jacques Baratier
France
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Sanatorium pod klepsydrą
Wojciech Has
Poland
America as Seen by a Frenchman (1959)
L'Amérique insolite
François Reichenbach
France
The Ninth Circle (1960)
Deveti krug
France Štiglic
Yugoslavia
Muhammad Ali the Greatest (1974)
William Klein
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
Eric Friedler [de ] , 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
Independent sections
Critics' Week
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
Aleem Khan
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
Directors' Fortnight
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.[ 22]
ACID
The following films have received a special and official label, delivered by the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema).
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production country
Coalesce
Les affluents
Jessé Miceli
Cambodia, France
Tightrope Walkers
Funambules
Ilan Klipper
France
The Seeds We Sow
Les Graines que l'on sème
Nathan Nicholovitch
Il Mio Corpo
Michele Pennetta
Switzerland, Italy
The Last Hillbilly
Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Thomas Jenkoe
France, Qatar
Far From You I Grew
Loin de vous j'ai grandi
Marie Dumora
France
Should the Wind Drop (Presented with Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection)
Si le vent tombe
Nora Martirosyan
France, Belgium, Armenia
Last Days of Spring
La Última Primavera
Isabel Lamberti
Netherlands, Spain
Walden
Bojena Horackova
France, Lithuania
The ACID Trip #4 program, which should have been dedicated to young Chilean cinema, has been postponed to the next edition, in 2021.
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