
20 MEDIA-funded films join Cannes 2019
The 72nd Cannes Film Festival takes places from 14 to 25 May with 20 Creative Europe-backed films screening as part of the official selection. They are:
In Competition
- Pain and Glory/Dolor y gloria by Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
- Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach (UK)
- Little Joe by Jessica Hausner (UK/Austria/Germany)
- The Whistlers/La Gomera by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania/France/Germany)
- The Traitor/Il Traditore by Marco Bellochio (Italy)
- La Jeune Ahmed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Belgium)
Un certain Regard
- The Swallows of Kabul/Les Hirondelles de Kaboul by Zabou Breitman, Eléa Gobé Mévellec (France)
- Port Authority by Danielle Lessovitz (France/USA)
- La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia by Lorenzo Mattotti (Italy, France)
Out of competition
- Diego Maradona by Asif Kapadia (UK)
Semaine de la Critique
- Cendre Noire/Ceniza Negra by Sofía Quirós Ubeda (Costa Rica/Argentina/Chile/France)
- A White, White Day/Hvítur, Hvítur Dagur by Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden)
- Vivarium by Lorcan Finnegan (Ireland/Belgium/Denmark)
Semaine de la Critique (Short films)
- Lucía en el limbo by Valentina Maurel (Belgium/France/Costa Rica)
Special Screenings
- Litigante by Franco Lolli (Columbia/France)
Quinzaine des réalisateurs
- To Live To Sing/Huo Zhe Change Zhe by Johnny Ma (China/France)
- The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat (Denmark/Afghanistan/France)
- Tlamess by Ala Eddine Slim (Tunisia/France)
Cannes Classics
- Forman vs. Forman by Helena Trestikova and Jakub Hejna (Czech Republic/France)
- The Passion of Anna Magnani/La Passione di Anna Magnani by Enrico Cerasuolo (Italy/France
Find out more on the official Cannes website.
30 Apr 2019