Cannes Film Festival 2019: Official Selection Film Lineup – A HIDDEN LIFE, TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG, PARASITE, & More

Cannes Film Festival 2019 Official Selection Lineup

Parasite, A Hidden Life, and Too Old To Die Young, and the rest of the official selection film lineup (Competition, Out-of-competition, Un Certain Regard, Midnight, and Special screenings) for the 2019 Cannes Film Festival have been announced. The 72nd Annual Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes), ”founded in 1946, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France…The President of the Jury is American actor Robert De Niro.”

Some of the films that are if note in the Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard, Special, and Midnight sections include: Joon-ho Bong’s Parasite, Terrence Malick‘s A Hidden Life, and Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Too Old To Die Young.

Cannes Film Festival 2019 Official Selection Lineup

COMPETITION
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar)
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho)
Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne)
Oh Mercy! (Arnaud Desplechin)
Atlantics (Mati Diop)
Matthias and Maxime (Xavier Dolan)
Little Joe (Jessica Hausner)
The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch)
Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach)
Les misérables (Ladj Ly)
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)
Nighthawk (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles)
The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Frankie (Ira Sachs)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma)
It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)
Sibyl (Justine Triet)

OUT OF COMPETITION
Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher)
The Best Years of a Life (Claude Lelouch)
Too Old To Die Young (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Diego Maradona (Asif Kapadia)
La Belle Époque (Nicolas Bedos)

UN CERTAIN REGARD
Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz)
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
The Swallows of Kabul (Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec)
A Brother’s Love (Monia Chokri)
The Climb (Michael Covino)
Jeanne (Bruno Dumont)
A Sun That Never Sets (Olivier Laxe)
Room 212 (Christophe Honoré)
Port Authority (Danielle Lessovitz)
Papicha (Mounia Meddour)
Adam (Maryam Touzani)
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi (Midi Z)
Liberté (Albert Serra)
Bull (Annie Silverstein)
Summer of Changsha (Zu Feng)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Tommaso (Abel Ferrara)
Share (Pippa Bianco)
For Sama (Waad Al Kateab & Edward Watts)
Etre vivant et le savoir (Alain Cavalier)
Family Romance, L.L.C (Werner Herzog)
Que Sea Ley (Juan Solanas)

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil (Lee Won-Tae)

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