Cannes International Film Festival 2020

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The 73rd Cannes International Film Festival was originally scheduled to take place from May 12-23, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the event in its usual form was ultimately canceled. The film market for filmmakers and companies should take place online. There will also be an official selection and the films will be shown at other festivals later in the year such as Toronto , Deauville , Angoulême, San Sebastian , New York , and Busan .

Pierre Lescure is president of the film festival for the seventh time , while Thierry Frémaux is responsible for the artistic direction as general manager.

Official selection

Spike Lee (2011)

Due to the cancellation of the festival, there was no competition in 2020 and therefore no competition jury was required. Originally, Spike Lee was intended to be the jury president, making him the first African-American artist to hold this position at one of the major film festivals. The film director, screenwriter, film editor and producer presented his feature film debut Nola Darling at the festival in 1986 , where he also won an award. He received further invitations with Do the Right Thing ( competition 1989 ), Jungle Fever ( participation 1991 ), Summer of Sam ( participation 1999 ) and the episode film Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet ( participation 2002 ). The great success came at the 2018 festival with the invitation from BlacKkKlansman , who competed in the competition for the Golden Palm and received the second most important award with the Grand Jury Prize . Lee is considered the founder and icon of New Black Cinema as well as the discoverer and promoter of other black directors and actors, including the later Hollywood stars Halle Berry and Denzel Washington .

With the 2020 edition canceled, Spike Lee is slated to head the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021 . In June 2020, the management of the film festival announced an official selection of 56 films. Since the festival was canceled, they were not shown in the course of it, but are allowed to use the “Cannes 2020 Official Selection” seal for their films.

The faithful

The newcomers

Episode film

First works

Documentaries

Comedies

Animation films

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Ryan Lattanzio: Cannes Will Announce Official Selection in June, but There'll Be No Physical Edition This Year. Cannes director Thierry Frémaux instead wants to take the films out into the world, across partnering film festivals and at cinemas in the fall. In: IndieWire. May 10, 2020, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Spike Lee, President of the Jury at the 73rd Festival de Cannes . In: festival-cannes.com, January 14, 2020 (accessed January 14, 2020).
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  6. ^ The films of the Official Selection 2020. In: Cannes International Film Festival. June 3, 2020, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  7. ^ The Official Selection 2020. In: Cannes International Film Festival. June 2, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020 .