SELECTION OF CANNES 2019 FESTIVAL

The ceremony will be chaired by the Mexican Alejandro for and will open with the screening of "The Dead Do not Die" by Jim Jarmusch.

For the moment, the direction does not yet really know on which work the Festival will end. Maybe on the movie Sibyl by Justine Triet who will be released at the cinema at the end of the festival.

After the Weinstein Affair and the #MeToo movement, the organizers were keen to put women, actresses, producers and directors in the spotlight.

French director Claire Denis will chair the Jury for Short Films and Cinefondation, which rewards 3 out of 17 films made by film school students, while Lebanese director Nadine Labaki will chair the Jury "Un certain Look.

And a special place will be given to the films of the great inventive director Agnès Varda, who died this year.

Many early feature-length films of "genre" will compete with characters such as "unemployed, cops, mafia, parasites, painters and women painters," said Thierry Frémaux. The selection continues the refreshing last year.

There are of course festival regulars (Jarmusch, Almodovar, Desplechin, Dolan) and also those who will compete for a second, or even a third, palm (Dardenne, Loach, Malick). But there are especially the newcomers with eight directors for the first time selected in competition (Justine Triet, Mati Diop, Ira Sachs, Diao Yi'nan, Jessica Hausner, Ladj Ly, Corneliu Porumboiu, Céline Sciamma) including two first films ( The Misérables and Atlantiques).

A panel of the most delightful films.

Here are the lists of the selection of the 72nd Festival de Cannes, which will be completed in the next days:

Opening film: Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Do not Die

Films in competitions:

Pain and glory of Pedro Almodovar

The Traitor, by Marco Bellocchio

Wild Goose Lake, by Diao Yinan

Parasite, from Bong Joon Ho

The young Ahmed, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Roubaix, a light!, By Arnaud Desplechin (with Roschdy Zem, Léa Seydoux)

Atlantic, by Mati Diop

Matthias and Maxime, Xavier Dolan

Little Joe by Austrian Jessica Hausner

Sorry, we missed you, by Ken Loach

Les Misérables, by Ladj Ly

A hidden life, from Terrence Malick

Bacurau, from the Brazilian Klébert Mendoça Filoh and Juliano Dornelles

Whistlers, Romanian Corneliu Porumboiu

Ira Sachs Franckie (with Isabelle Huppert)

Portrait of the girl on fire, Céline Sciamma

It must be heaven, Elia Suleiman

Sibyl, Justine Triet (with Virginie Efira, Adele Exarchopoulos)

"Out of Competition" Movies:

The best years of a life, Claude Lelouch (with Monica Bellucci, Jean-Louis Trintignant)

Rocketman, by Dexter Fletcher

Too old to die young, by Nicolas Winding Refn

Diego Maradona, of Asif Kapadia

The Belle Epoque, by Nicolas Bedos

"Midnight sessions" movie:

The gangster, the cop, the devil, by Lee Won-Tae

Movies "Special Sessions":

Being alive and knowing, Alain Cavalier

Tommaso, of Abel Ferrara (with Willem Dafoe)

Share, by Pippa Bianco

For Sama, documentary on Syria by Waad El Kateab and Edward Watts

Family Romance, by Werner Herzog

That Sea Ley, of Juan Solanas

"Some look" selection:

Invisible Life, by Karim Ainouz

Dylda, from the Russian Kantemir Balagov

Swallows of Kabul, animated film by Zabou Breitman and Elea Gobé Mévellec

The wife of my brother, by Monia Chokri

The climb, by Michael Covino

Jeanne, by Bruno Dumont

Will come fire, from the gallic Olivier Laxe

Room 212, by Christophe Honoré (with Benjamin Biolay, Camille Cottin, Chiara Mastroianni)

Port Authority, by Danielle Lessovitz

Papicha, from the Algerian Mounia Meddour

Adam, from Morocco's Maryam Touzani

Zhuo Ren Mi Mi, from Taiwanese Midi Z

Freedom of Albert Serra

Annie Silverstein's Bull

Summer of Changsha, by Zu Feng

EVGE, from the Ukrainian Nariman Aliev

Closing film or Palme d'Or ?