2019 Cannes Film Festival - 72nd Cannes Film Festival begins May 14 - 25,2019

The official poster for the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival pays tribute to late director Agnes Varda, which shows her filming an action shot for her first feature film "La Pointe Courte" released in 1955.

American film directorm Jarmusch's ensemble Zombie Comedy Film '' The Dead Don't Die'' served as the opening film of the festival.

 The top 10 must-see films

1)Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

 

Dir Quentin TarantinoTarantino’s new black comedy-drama stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as a fading TV star and his veteran stunt double in late 1960s Hollywood, as Los Angeles is traumatised by the Manson Family Murders

2)Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Dir Céline SciammaNoémie Merlant stars as a young painter who has been commissioned to create a portrait of a young woman (Adèle Haenel) without her knowledge – a project of artistic surveillance and reportage.

3)Little Joe

Dir Jessica HausnerEmily Beecham and Ben Whishaw star in Hausner’s eerie futurist parable about a plant breeder who develops a flower nicknamed Little Joe that can induce happiness in those who nurture it

4)Sorry We Missed You

Dir Ken Loach
The director’s last film,I,Daniel Blake,won him a second Palme d’Or and electrified the UK debate on austerity. Now he returns with longtime screenwriter Paul Laverty with a tale of a hard-pressed delivery driver.

5)The Swallows of Kabul

Dirs Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobé MévellecBased on the Novel by Yasmina Khadra, this animation is about Taliban-dominated Kabul in the late 90s – and the young love that struggles to survive there.

6)The Dead Don’t Die

Dir Jim JarmuschThe Cannes regular offers the festival a bit of unwholesome confectionery with this opening gala: a zombie comedy-nightmare starring Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and Adam Driver, and with an appearance by Iggy Pop.

7)An Easy Girl

Dir Rebecca ZlotowskiZlotowski directed the cult classic Grand Central a romance set in a nuclear power station. Now she is at Cannes with a love story set on the French Riviera.

8)Frankie

Dir Ira SachsIt wouldn’t be le festival without Isabelle Huppert and she stars in Ira Sachs’s film about a family on holiday in Portugal. The cast includes Brendan Gleeson, Marisa Tomei and Greg Kinnear.

9)Sick, Sick, Sick

Dir Alice FurtadoA much-anticipated debut from rising star Alice Furtado, a young Brazilian director who has created a complex and painful high-school love affair, starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

10)Diego Maradona

Dir Asif KapadiaThe hand of God descends with this documentary from Asif Kapadia about the troubled football genius. Emir Kusturica has already done a film about him; Kapadia’s portrait promises a treasure trove of new material.

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 screeningsHeroes 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)