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Cannes festival 2019: full list of films

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All the films screening at the 72nd edition of France’s celebrated film festival

Cannes official selection

Competition
Atlantique (dir: Mati Diop)
Bacarau (dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
The Dead Don’t Die (dir: Jim Jarmusch) – opening film
Frankie (dir: Ira Sachs)
La Gomera (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu)
A Hidden Life (dir: Terrence Malick)
It Must Be Heaven (dir: Elia Suleiman)
Les Misérables (dir: Ladj Ly)
Little Joe (dir: Jessica Hausner)
Matthias and Maxime (dir: Xavier Dolan)
Mektoub My Love: Intermezzo (dir: Abdellatif Kechiche)
Oh Mercy! (dir: Arnaud Desplechin)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (dir: Quentin Tarantino)
Parasite (dir: Bong Joon-ho)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (dir: Céline Sciamma)
Sibyl (dir: Justine Triet)
Sorry We Missed You (dir: Ken Loach)
Pain and Glory (dir: Pedro Almodóvar)
The Traitor (dir: Marco Bellocchio)
The Wild Goose Lake (dir: Diao Yinan)
The Young Ahmed (dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

Un Certain Regard
Adam (dir: Maryam Touzani)
The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily (dir: Lorenzo Mattotti)
A Brother’s Love (dir: Monia Chokri)
Bull (dir: Annie Silverstein)
The Climb (dir: Michael Covino)
Dylda (dir: Kantemir Balagov)
Evge (dir: Nariman Aliev)
Invisible Life (dir: Karim Aïnouz)
Jeanne (dir: Bruno Dumont)
Liberté (dir: Albert Serra)
Odnazhdy v Trubchevske (dir: Larisa Sadilova)
Papicha (dir: Mounia Meddour)
Port Authority (dir: Danielle Lessovitz)
Room 212 (dir: Christophe Honoré)
Summer of Changsha (dir: Zu Feng)
A Sun That Never Sets (dir: Olivier Laxe)
The Swallows of Kabul (dir: Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec)
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi (dir: Midi Z)

Out of competition
La Belle Époque (dir: Nicolas Bedos)
The Best Years of a Life (dir: Claude Lelouch)
Diego Maradona (dir: Asif Kapadia)
Rocketman (dir: Dexter Fletcher)
Too Old to Die Young – North of Hollywood, West of Hell (TV series – dir: Nicolas Winding Refn)

Midnight screenings
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (dir: Lee Won-Tae)
Lux Aeterna (dir: Gaspar Noé)

Special screenings
5B (dir: Dan Krauss)
Chicuarotes (dir: Gael García Bernal)
La Cordillera de los Sueños (dir: Patricio Guzmán)
Family Romance, LLC (dir: Werner Herzog)
For Sama (dir: Waad Al Kateab, Edward Watts)
Ice on Fire (dir: Leila Conners)
Que Sea Ley (dir: Juan Solanas)
Share (dir: Pippa Bianco)
To Be Alive and Know It (dir: Alain Cavalier)
Tommaso (dir: Abel Ferrara)

Final screening
The Specials (dir: Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache)

Critics Week

Competition
Abou Leila (dir: Amin Sidi-Boumédiène)
Land of Ashes (dir: Sofía Quirós Ubeda)
A White, White Day (dir: Hlynur Pálmason)
I Lost My Body (dir: Jérémy Clapin)
Our Mothers (dir: César Díaz)
The Unknown Saint, (dir: Alaa Eddine Aljem)
Vivarium (dir: Lorcan Finnegan)

Opening film
Litigante (dir: Franco Lolli)

Closing film
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (dir: Xiaogang Gu)

Special screenings
Heroes Don’t Die (dir: Aude Léa Rapin
Tu Mérites un Amour (dir: Hafsia Herzi)

Directors’ Fortnight

Alice and the Mayor (dir: Nicolas Pariser)
And Then We Danced (dir: Levan Akin)
Blow it to Bits (dir: Lech Kowalski)
Deerskin (dir: Quentin Dupieux) – opening film
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (dir: Jukka-Pekka Valkepaa)
First Love (dir: Takashi Miike)
An Easy Girl (dir: Rebecca Zlotowski)
For the Money (dir: Alejo Moguillansky)
Ghost Tropic (dir: Bas Devos)
Give Me Liberty (dir: Kirill Mikhanovsky)
The Halt (dir: Lav Diaz)
The Lighthouse (dir: Robert Eggers)
Lillian (dir: Andreas Horwath)
Oleg (dir: Juris Kursietis)
The Orphanage (dir: Shahrbanoo Sadat)
Les Particules (dir: Blaise Harrison)
Perdrix (dir: Erwan Le Duc)
Sick Sick Sick (dir: Alice Furtado)
Song Without a Name (dir: Melina Leon)
Tlamess, (dir: Ala Eddine Slim)
To Live to Sing, (dir: Johnny Ma)
Wounds, (dir: Babak Anvari)
Yves, (dir: Benoit Forgeard) – closing film
Zombi Child (dir: Bertrand Bonello)

Special screenings
Red 11 (dir: Robert Rodriguez)
The Staggering Girl (dir: Luca Guadagnino)

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