As is known, after various indecisions, forecasts and hopes, this year the Cannes Festival 2020 it will not be done. With the outbreak of the epidemic Covid-19, Cannes and the general delegate of the festival Thierry Fremaux take the hit but don't give up. In fact, a stamp was devised, a mark to be affixed to the shortlist of films which, if there had been the event, would have been in competition. A considerable cunning on the part of Fremaux who in this way does not sell the titles he presides over to competing festivals and reminds the world that “Cannes is Cannes”, so to speak.
So what are the films in competition at the Cannes 2020 festival? Fremaux announced them yesterday evening 3 May 2020 via press conference, strictly in streaming: the first film by Sofia Coppola produced with Apple TV, namely On the rocks; Wes Anderson's opening film The French Dispatch, with a decidedly lavish cast (Benicio del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet and others); the Danish Another Round by Thomas Vinterberg, co-founder with Lars Von Trier of Dogma 95; Comes Morning by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, based in Cannes (Caméra d'or in 1997 with Moe no suzaku); the French Eté 85 by Francois Ozon.
Among the surprises stand out the directorial debut of Viggo Mortensen Falling, the anthology Septet: The Story of Hongkong, and the questionable double nomination by Steve McQueen who competes with two films, Lover's Rock and Mangrove. Many animated films: from the cartoon of Pixar Animation Studios Soul, Aya and the Witch, by Goro Miyazaki, son of the master Hayao Miyazaki.
All the "branded" films of this edition follow:
- The French Dispatch, by Wes Anderson
- Eté 85, by François Ozon
- Asa ga Kuru (True Mothers), by Naomi Kawase
- Lovers Rock and Mangrove, by Steve McQueen (anthological episodes)
- Druk (Another Round), by Thomas Vinterberg
- ADN (DNA), by Maïwenn
- Last Words, by Jonathan Nossiter
- Heaven: To The Land of Happiness, by Im Sang-soo
- El olvido que seremos, by Fernando Trueba
- Peninsula, by Yeon Sang-ho
- In the Dusk (Au crépuscule), by Sharunas Bartas
- Des hommes, by Lucas Belvaux
- The Real Thing, by Koji Fukada
- Passion simple, by Danielle Arbid
- A Good Man, by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
- Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait, by Emmanuel Mouret
- Souad, by Ayten Amin
- Limbo, by Ben Sharrock
- Rouge (Red Soil), by Farid Bentoumi
- Sweat, by Magnus von Horn
- Teddy, by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma
- February (Février), by Kamen Kalev
- Ammonite, by Francis Lee
- Un médecin de nuit, by Elie Wajeman
- Enfant terrible, by Oskar Roehler
- Nadia (Butterfly), by Pascal Plante
- Here We Are, by Nir Bergman
- Septet: The Story of Hongkong, d'Ann Hui, Johnnie To, Tsui Hark, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping, Patrick Tam and Ringo Lam
- Falling, by Viggo Mortensen
- Pleasure, by Ninja Thyberg
- Slalom, by Charlène Favier
