Mexican director . ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU is the President of the Jury of the 72nd Festival de Cannes.

The official ceremony opening presented by French actrice Charlotte Gainsbourg and Spanish actor Javier Bardem started off with the screening of Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die. Edouard Baer, master of ceremonies at the 72nd Festival de Cannes highlighted that Cinema is not Netflix and Cannes is not any ceremony… The Seventh art and Cannes won’t die either.


This year’s film selection in competition:

- Pedro ALMODÓVAR > '' DOLOR Y GLORIA'' (PAIN AND GLORY)
- Marco BELLOCCHIO >'' IL TRADITORE'' (THE TRAITOR)
- BONG Joon Ho > ''GISAENGCHUNG'' (PARASITE)
- Jean-Pierre DARDENNE, Luc DARDENNE > ''YOUNG AHMED''
- Arnaud DESPLECHIN > ''OH MERCY!''
- DIAO Yinan > ''NAN FANG CHE ZHAN DE JU HUI''
- Mati DIO > ''ATLANTICS''
- Xavier DOLAN > ''MATTHIAS AND MAXIME''
- Jessica HAUSNER > 'LITTLE JOE''
- Abdellatif KECHICHE > ''MEKTOUB, MY LOVE : INTERMEZZO''
- Ken LOACH >''SORRY WE MISSED YOU''
- Ladj LY > ''LES MISÉRABLES''
- Terrence MALICK > ''A HIDDEN LIFE''
- Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO, Juliano DORNELLES > ''BACURAU''
- Corneliu PORUMBOIU > ''LA GOMERA'' (THE WHISTLERS)
- Ira SACHS > ''FRANKIE''
- Céline SCIAMMA > ''PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE''
- Elia SULEIMAN > ''IT MUST BE HEAVEN''
- Quentin TARANTINO > ''ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD''
- Justine TRIET > ''SIBYL''

After moving hearts and minds at the last Festival de Cannes with her Academy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated Capernaum, which won the Jury Prize in Cannes, Lebanese director NADINE LABAKI will be taking over from actor BENICIO DEL TORO as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury.


This year’s film selected for UN CERTAIN REGARD

Opening film > Monia CHOKRI > ’’A BROTHER'S LOVE’’ - 1st film - 1h57
- Karim AÏNOUZ > ‘’A VIDA INVISÍVEL DE EURÍDICE GUSMÃO’’ - 2h19
- Nariman ALIEV > EVGE (HOMEWARD) - 1st film -
- Kantemir BALAGOV > BEANPOLE
- Zabou BREITMAN, Eléa GOBBÉ-MÉVELLEC > THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL - animation
- Michael Angelo COVINO > THE CLIMB - 1st film
- Bruno DUMONT > JOAN OF ARC
- Christophe HONORÉ > CHAMBRE 212
- Oliver LAXE > O QUE ARDE (FIRE WILL COME)
- Danielle LESSOVITZ > PORT AUTHORITY - 1st film -
- Lorenzo MATTOTTI > LA FAMOSA INVASIONE DEGLI ORSI IN SICILIA - 1st film - animation
- Mounia MEDDOUR > ‘’PAPICHA’’ - 1st film
- Midi Z > ‘’NINA WU’’
- Larissa SADILOVA > ’’ODNAZHDY V TRUBCHEVSKE’’ (ONCE IN TRUBCHEVSK)
- Albert SERRA > ‘’LIBERTÉ’’
- Annie SILVERSTEIN > ‘’BULL’’- 1st film
- Maryam TOUZANI > ’’ADAM’’- 1st film
- ZU Feng > ‘’LIU YU TIAN”’ (SUMMER OF CHANGSHA) - 1st film