International Cannes Film Festival 2020: These 56 entries have chances this year

From the empty Normandy Theater on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the two festival directors Pierre Lescure (74) and Thierry Frémaux (60) announced the nominees for this year's Cannes International Film Festival. For the first time ever, over 2,000 entries were submitted, 909 came from debutants. 15 of these films made it into the final selection, also more than ever before. Of the 2,067 entries submitted, these 56 artists and their films are still in the running for one of the most coveted film awards in the world, which will be awarded between June 22 and 26.

Industry giants and newbies

The lineup of the 73rd edition of the Cannes International Film Festival is peppered with big names: Wes Anderson (51) appears with "The French Dispatch, Naomi Kawase (51) with" True Mothers ,. Steve McQueen (50) returns with two films after starting his career in Cannes in 2008: Twelve years and an Oscar ("12 Years A Slave") later, he is again with "Lover's Rock" and "Mangrov" for the golden one Palm nominated.

Viggo Mortensen (61) made it into the French selection as a newcomer to directing with his debut work "Falling", which had already premiered at the Sundance Festival in late January. Speaking of French: Compared to previous years, French productions in particular performed strongly this year. 21 titles will make it onto the nominees list in 2020. The Canadian contribution "Nadia, Butterfly" by Pascal Plante (28) is also mostly in French. With Oskar Roehler (61, "Enfant Terrible"), a German has also made it onto the list of nominees.

The complete list of nominees

Wes Anderson – "The French Dispatch" François Ozon – "Summer of 85" Naomi Kawase – "True Mothers" Steve McQueen – "Lover's Rock" Steve McQueen – "Mangrove" Thomas Vinterberg – "Druk (Another Round)" Sang-ho Yeon – "Peninsula" Maïwenn – "ADN" Pete Docter – "Soul" Francis Lee – "Ammonite" Viggo Mortensen – "Falling" Jimmy Keyrouz – "Broken Keys" Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck – "Truffle Hunters" Goro Miyazaki – "Aya and the Witch "Ben Sharrock -" Limbo "Im Sang-soo -" Heaven "Jonathan Nossiter -" Last Words "Lucas Belvaux -" Des Hommes "Danielle Arbid -" Passion Simple "Marie-Castille Mention Schaar -" Good Man "Emmanuel Mouret – "The Things We Say, the Things We Do" Pascual Sisto – "John and the Hole" Ben Sharrock – "Limbo" Nir Bergman – "Here We Are" Farid Bentoumi – "Rouge" Magnus von Horn – "Sweat" Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma – "Teddy" Elie Wajeman – "Un médecin de nuit" Oskar Roehler – "Enfant Terrible" Pascal Plante – "Nadia, Butterfly" Ninja Thyberg – "Pleasure" Charlène Favier – "Slalom" João Paulo Miranda Maria – "Casa de Antiguidades" Samuel Gueismi – "Ibrahim" Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh – "Gagarine" Suzanne Lindon – "16 Printemps" Peter Dourountzis – "Vaurien" Nicolas Maury – "Garçon chiffon" Nora Martirosyan – "Si Le Vent Tombe" Dieudo Hamadi – "On the Way to the Billion" Xavier de Lauzanne – "9 Days at Raqqa" Caroline Vignal – "Cévennes" Bruno Podalydès – "French Tench" Emmanuel Courcol – "Un Triomphe" Laurent Tirard – "Le Discours" Laurent Lafitte – "L'Origine du Monde" Jonas Poher Rasmussen – "Flee" Ann Hui, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, John Woo, Woo-Ping Yuen – "Eight and a Half"