2019 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

The image of the late French filmmaker Agnès Varda, who passed away in March, was selected for the poster of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It is taken from her at work while filming her 1955 debut, "La Pointe Courte" which played at Cannes that year. The seventy-second edition of the fest will begin on May 14th and run through May 25th.

The Opening Night Film will be the latest from American indie director, Jim Jarmusch with "The Dead Don't Die". This dark comedy is about flesh-eating zombies who begin to terrorize a small town. The amazing cast will feature Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Selena Gomez, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, RZA, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits, Danny Glover, Rosie Perez and Carol Kane.



Some of the films in the Official Selection for Competition will be the latest works from acclaimed filmmakers from across the globe which includes Pedro Almódovar ("Pain & Glory"), Bong Joon-ho ("Parasite"), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne ("Young Ahmed"), Xavier Dolan ("Matthias And Maxime"), Arnaud Desplechin ("Oh Mercy"), Ken Loach ("Sorry We Missed You"), Céline Sciamma ("Portrait Of A Lady On Fire"), Ira Sachs ("Frankie"), Terrence Malick ("A Hidden Life") and the late addition of Quentin Tarantino ("Once Upon a Time In Hollywood") .





Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has been selected as president for this year's jury who will decide on the winners of the prestigious prizes. The Oscar-winning Mexican director will have an impressive International line-up on his panel; American actress Elle Fanning; actress and director, Maimouna N’Diaye from Burkina Faso; American director, Kelly Reichardt; Italian filmmaker, Alice Rohrwacher; French author Enki Bilal; French filmmaker, Robin Campillo, Greek director, Yorgos Lanthimos and Polish filmmaker, Paweł Pawlikowski.

Special Screenings at the fest will feature Werner Herzog's latest, "Family Romance LLC" which is about a man hired to impersonate the missing father of a twelve year old girl, "Tommaso" from director, Abel Ferrara and stars Willem Dafoe and the Elton John biopic, "Rocketman" that will make its global debut at Cannes in a special Out of Competition Gala screening on May 16th, two weeks before it's released in the U.S.

And French movie legend, Alain Delon with receive an honorary Palme d’Or in tribute to his career. The now eighty-three year old sex symbol made over eighty feature films and some highlights includes "The Leopard, (which won the Palme d’Or in 1963), "Rocco And His Brothers", "Plein Soleil (Purple Noon)", "L'Eclisse (The Eclipse)", "The Samurai", "The Swimming Pool" and "Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle)".