Cannes announces 2019 lineup

The annual prestigious cinema event of Cannes has announced Thursday its full competitive and special screening lineups for its 72nd edition.

Among the 47 titles announced, 13 women directors are represented through 12 films.  

Read on for the competition and special screening lineup for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, which will run from May 14-25, 2019 in Cannes, France.

Opening Night Film

‘The Dead Don’t Die’ by Jim Jarmusch

Competition

‘Pain & Glory’ by Pedro Almodovar

‘Parasite’ by Bong Joon-ho

‘The Wild Goose Lake’ by Diao Yinan

‘The Traitor’ by Marco Bellocchio

‘Young Ahmed’ by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

‘Matthias and Maxime’ by Xavier Dolan

‘Oh Mercy’by Arnaud Desplechin

‘A Hidden Life’by Terrence Malick

‘Sorry We Missed You’ by Ken Loach

‘Little Joe’by Jessica Hausner

‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ by Céline Sciamma

‘Atlantique’ by Mati Diop

‘Sibyl’ by Justine Triet

‘It Must Be Heaven’ by Elia Suleiman

‘Frankie’ by Ira Sachs

‘Bacurau’ by Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles

‘The Whistlers’ by Corneliu Porumboiu

‘Les Misérables’ by Ladj Ly

Out of Competition

‘Les Plus Belles Années D’Une Vie’by Claude Lelouch

‘Rocketman’ by Dexter Fletcher

‘Too Old to Die Young – North of Hollywood, West of Hell (two episodes)’ by Nicolas Winding Refn

‘Diego Maradona’ by Asif Kapadia

‘La Belle Epoque’by Nicolas Bedos

Midnight Screenings

‘The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil’ by Lee Won-Tae

Special Screenings

‘Tommaso’ by Abel Ferrara

‘Share’ by Pippa Bianco

‘For Sama’ by Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts

‘Etre Vivant Et Le Savoir’ by Alain Cavalier

‘Family Romance LLC’ by Werner Herzog

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