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The lineup for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival was announced this morning. This year’s festival – which runs May 14-26 – opens with Jim Jarmusch’s star-studded zombie-comedy The Dead Don’t Die, starring Adam Driver, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton. New films from Pedro Almodóvar and Terrence Malick will also play In Competition, as will Parasite, the latest from Snowpiercer and Okja director Bong Joon Ho.
Meanwhile, the festival will also feature out-of-competition screenings of the Elton John biopic Rocketman, starring Taron Egerton and Richard Madden, and Sundance standout Share, from writer-director Pippa Bianco.
Also of note: this year’s festival ties the Cannes record for the number the number of female-directed movies in the main Competition section. They are Mati Diop’s Atlantique, Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe, Celine Schiamma’s Portrait of a Young Lady on Fire, and Sibyl from Justine Triet. Nine more female directors feature in other parts of the programming.
This first announcement did have one notable absence: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Festival general delegate Thierry Frémaux explained to press after the lineup was announced that Tarantino’s ninth studio film is not ready yet, but the festival has hope it will be completed by the final lineup announcement. Check out the full selection of films below.
Atlantique – Mati Diop
Bacarau – Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
The Dead Don’t Die – Jim Jarmusch
Frankie – Ira Sachs
A Hidden Life – Terrence Malick
It Must Be Heaven – Elia Suleiman
Les Misérables – Ladj Ly
Little Joe – Jessica Hausner
Matthias and Maxime – Xavier Dolan
Oh Mercy! – Arnaud Desplechin
Parasite – OR Gisaengchung – Bong Joon Ho
Portrait of the Young Girl on Fire – Céline Sciamma
Sibyl – Justine Triet
Sorry We Missed You – Ken Loach
Pain and Glory – Pedro Almodóvar
The Traitor – Marco Bellocchio
The Whistlers – Corneliu Porumboiu
The Wild Goose Lake – OR Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui – Diao Yinan
The Young Ahmed – Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Adam – Maryam Touzani
Beanpole – OR Dylda – Kantemir Balagov
A Brother’s Love – Monia Chokri
Bull – Annie Silverstein
The Climb – Michael Covino
Evge – Nariman Aliev
Freedom – Albert Serra
Invisible Life – Karim Aïnouz
Joan of Arc – Bruno Dumont
Chambre 212 – Christophe Honoré
Papicha – Mounia Meddour
Port Authority – Danielle Lessovitz
Summer of Changsha – Zu Feng
The Swallows of Kabul – Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
A Sun That Never Sets – Olivir Laxe
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi – Midi Z
The Best Years of a Life – Claude Lelouch
Diego Maradona – Asif Kapadia
La Belle Époque – Nicolas Bedos
Rocketman – Dexter Fletcher
Too Old to Die Young – North of Hollywood, West of Hell – Nicolas Winding Refn
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil – Lee Won-Tae
(Photo by Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Josh Johnson)
Family Romance, LLC. – Werner Herzog
For Sama – Waad Al Kateab, Edward Watts
Que Sea Ley – Juan Solanas
Share – Pippa Bianco
To Be Alive and Know It – OR Être vivant et le savior – Alain Cavalier
Tommaso – Abel Ferrara
The Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-26. For more information, check out the Festival de Cannes website.
