Although the Cannes Film Festival was unable to be rescheduled and had to be cancelled this year due to the ongoing battle with the coronavirus pandemic, the French fest's artistic director, Thierry Frémaux decided to reveal the fifty-six films that had been selected as Official Selections for what would have been the 73rd edition. This move is seen as a "badge of honor" for each of these movies and to help give them a boost in their promotion. Cannes had only been cancelled one previous time in 1939. This was the actual year the International film festival was supposed to begin but the start of WWII postponed the event until 1946, a year after the war ended. And in 1968, Cannes was not completed after a group of directors withdrew their films and interrupted the screenings in solidarity with students and labor on strike throughout France.
Some of the chosen movies will play at other film festivals later this year (if they are able to go ahead) and a small number of films that were expected to screen at Cannes this year will wait to debut at next year's festival. It had been previously announced that director, Spike Lee was set to head the jury (which he will preside over next year) and his latest feature with Netflix, "Da 5 Bloods" would have played Out of Competition.
Here is the list of official selections from what would have been the 73rd Cannes Film Festival:
"The French Dispatch" by Wes Anderson (USA)
"ÉTÉ 85 (Summer '85)" by François Ozon (France)
"Asa Ga Kuru (True Mothers)" by Naomi Kawase (Japan)
"Lovers Rock" by Steve McQueen (United Kingdom)
"Mangrove" by Steve McQueen (United Kingdom)
"Druk (Another Round)" by Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
"ADN (DNA)" by Maïwenn (Algeria/France)
"Last Words" by Jonathan Nossiter (USA)
"Heaven: To The Land of Happiness" by Im Sang-Soo (South Korea)
"El Olvido Que Seremos (Forgotten We’ll Be)" by Fernando Trueba (Spain)
"Peninsula" by Yeon Sang-Ho (South Korea)
"Au crépuscule (In The Dusk)" by Sharunas Bartas (Lituania)
"Des Hommes (Home Front)" by Lucas Belvaux (Belgium)
"The Real Thing" by Kôji Fukada (Japan)
THE NEWCOMERS:
"Passion Simple" by Danielle Arbid (Lebanon)
"A Good Man" by Marie Castille Mention-Schaar (France)
"Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait" by Emmanuel Mouret (France)
"Squad" by Ayten Amin (Egypt)
"Limbo" by Ben Sharrock (United Kingdom)
"Rouge (Red Soil)" by Farid Bentoumi (France)
"Sweat" by Magnus Von Horn (Sweden)
"Teddy" by Ludovic et Zoran Boukherma (France)
"Février (February)" by Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria)
"Ammonite" by Francis Lee (United Kingdom)
"Un Médecin de Nuit" by Elie Wajeman (France)
"Enfant Terrible" by Oskar Roehler (Germany)
"Nadia, Butterfly" by Pascal Plante (Canada)
"Here We Are" by Nir Bergman (Israel)
FIRST FEATURES
"Falling" by Viggo Mortensen (USA)
"Pleasure" by Ninja Thyberg (Sweden)
"Slalom" by Charlène Favier (France)
"Casa De Antiguidades (Memory House)" by Joao Paulo Miranda Maria (Brazil)
"Fausse note (Broken Keys)" by Jimmy Keyrouz (Lebanon)
"Ibrahim" by Samir Guesmi (France)
"Au commencement (Beginning)" by Déa Kulumbegashvili (Georgia)
"Gagarine" by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (France)
"16 Printemps" by Suzanne Lindon (France)
"Vaurien" by Peter Dourountzis (France)
"Garcon Chiffon" by Nicolas Maury (France)
"Si Le Vent Tombe (Should the Wind Fall)" by Nora Martirosyan (Armenia)
"John and The Hole" by Pascual Sisto (USA)
"Courir au gré du vent (Striding Into The Wind)" by Wei Shujun (China)
"La Mort du cinéma et de mon père aussi (The Death of Cinema And My Father Too)" by Dani Rosenberg (Israel)
THREE DOCUMENTARY FILMS:
"En Route Pour Le Milliard (The Billion Road)" by Dieudo Hamadi (Democratic Republic of Congo)
"The Truffle Hunters" by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (USA)
"9 Jours à Raqqa" by Xavier de Lauzanne (France)
FIVE COMEDY FILMS:
"Antoinette Dans Les Cévennes" by Caroline Vignal (France)
"Les Deux Alfred" by Bruno Podalydès (France)
"Un Triomphe (The Big Hit)" by Emmanuel Courcol (France)
"L’origine du monde" by Laurent Lafitte (France)
"Le discours" by Laurent Tirard (France)
FOUR ANIMATED FILMS:
"Aya To Majo (Earwig and the Witch)" by Gorô Miyazaki (Japan)
"Flee" by Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Denmark)
"Josep" by Aurel (France)
"Soul" by Pete Docter (USA)
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