What's French at Cannes Film Festival 2019
We have one measly week before the most prestigious film festival of the year. See below for all the important French world premieres you need to be aware of. Welcome to the 72nd edition of the Festival de Cannes.
French cinema remains, year after year, a major reference on the world film map, and Cannes maintains its role as a launching pad – whether for international or French cinema – for the year ahead. The festival is also once again the sounding board for French coproductions: nearly 30 majority or minority coproductions have been selected this year, which is very important on a global scale. The world's greatest film festival is hence the ideal place to take stock of France's presence, more vibrant and open than ever.
This year, 7 French or majority-French films are in Competition within the Official Selection, among which the selection's only debut feature (Atlantics by Mati Diop), and 3 films directed by women (Mati Diop, Céline Sciamma and Justine Triet).
Here are below the French films (or French coproductions) which are part of the official selection, of Un Certain Regard, and of the Directors' Fortnight:
Competition:
- Atlantics by Mati Diop
- Mektoub, My Love : Intermezzo by Abdellatif Kechiche
- Les Misérables by Ladj Ly
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma
- Roubaix, a Light by Arnaud Desplechin
- Sibyl by Justine Triet
- Frankie by Ira Sachs
- The Wild Goose Lake by Yinan Diao
- It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman
Un Certain Regard:
- Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont
- Fire Will Come by Oliver Laxe
- The Bears' Famous Invasion by Lorenzo Mattotti
- On a Magical Night by Christophe Honoré
- Liberté by Albert Serra
- The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman, Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec
- Papicha by Mounia Meddour
- Port Authority by Danielle Lessovitz
- Adam, by Maryam Touzani
Directors' Fortnight
- Deerskin by Quentin Dupieux
- Alice and the Mayor by Nicolas Pariser
- An Easy Girl by Rebecca Zlotowski
- Zombi Child by Bertrand Bonello
- The Bare Necessity by Erwan Le Duc
- Blow It to Bits, de Lech Kowalski
- Particles by Blaise Harrison
- All About Yves by Benoît Forgeard
- The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat
- Sick, Sick, Sick by Alice Furtado
- Tlamess by Ala Eddine Slim
- To Live to Sing by Johnny Ma
- And Then We Danced by Levan Akin
For more information on the Cannes 2019 selection, click here.
