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.