Cannes Film Festival Lineup Includes Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodovar - Hollywood Reporter

Festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux and president Pierre Lescure took to the stage to unveil the films competing for the Palme d'Or.

The Cannes Film Festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup for its 72nd edition, letting the world know which stars and directors will climb the iconic steps of the French town's Palais this year.

Festival director Thierry Fremaux and president Pierre Lescure unveiled the lineup for the world's biggest film event, to be held May 14-May 25, during a press event in Paris. They took to the stage just after 11 a.m. local time, kicking off the traditional lineup press conference at Paris' UGC Cinema on the French capital's Champs Elysees.

Lescure began the ceremony with a tribute to Agnes Varda, noting the festival is paying homage to the late director with this year's poster. He went on to add that the festival is still strong, despite detractors, and that accreditation requests are up this year. He also pointed to last year's winners including Spike Lee's Oscar as how the festival is still a leading voice in the cinema world.

Lescure also said that while the festival does not select a theme, he said this year it seems to be "romantic and political," saying the entries are very political because the artists are interested in these topics. He also connected the festival to the strength of Europe, which will be having elections in May.

Fremaux touted the makeup of the festival's selection committee, which reached fifty-fifty parity this year and the growing inclusion of female directors in the official selection. 

Among the first titles unveiled were Pedro Almodovar's Pain and Glory, The Traitor from Marco Bellocchio and Parasite from Bong Joon-ho.

Fremaux said that Quentin Tarantino's new film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is not ready yet as the director is in post-production, adding that in 35mm the production process is long. But he said it could still make it to Cannes as long as he finishes it in time.

This year, 13 female filmmakers are featured in this year's Official Selection, Fremaux highlighted. And, as he usually does, he said the festival would add some more films in the near future. 

As previously unveiled, opening the film festival with a star studded lineup will be Jim Jarmusch's zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die, starring Bill Murray, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton and Adam Driver, along with some music powerhouses Iggy Pop, Tom Waits and Selena Gomez who also appear in the film.

Five-time Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu will lead the main competition jury for the films that are in the running for the Palme d'Or. Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, whose Capernaum was nominated in the best foreign-language film category at the Academy Awards this year, will head up the Un Certain Regard jury.

Lescure at the start of the press conference paid tribute to the late Agnes Varda, who is featured on this year's festival poster. And he highlighted Spike Lee's best adapted screenplay Oscar win for last year's Cannes competition title BlacKkKlansman.

See the full Cannes lineup announced so far below. (Updating live)

Competition
Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodovar
The Traitor, Marco Bellocchio
Wild Goose Lake, Yinan Diao
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho
Young Ahmed, The Dardenne Brothers
Oh Mercy!, Arnaud Desplechin
Atlantique, Mati Diop
Matthias and Maxime, Xavier Dolan
Little Joe, Jessica Hausner
Sorry We Missed You, Ken Loach
Les Miserables, Ladj Ly
A Hidden Life (previously known as Radegund), Terrence Malik
Nighthawk, Kleber Mendonca Filho, Juliano Dornelles
The Whistlers, Corneliu Porumboiu
Frankie, Ira Sachs
The Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Celine Sciamma
It Must Be Heaven, Elia Suleiman
Sybil, Justine Triet 

Out of Competition
Rocketman, Dexter Fletcher
The Best Years of Life, Claude Lelouch
Maradona, Asif Kapadia
La Belle Epoque, Nicolas Bedos
Too Old to Die Young, Nicolas Winding Refn (TV series screening 2 episodes)

Special Screenings
Share, Pippa Bianco
Family Romance LLC, Werner Herzog
Tommaso, Abel Ferrara
To Be Alive and Know It, Alain Cavalier
For Sama, Waad Al Kateab and Edward Watts

Midnight Screenings
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Lee Won-Tae

Un Certain Regard

Invisible Life, Karim Aïnouz
Beanpole, Kantemir Balagov
The Swallows of Kabul, Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
A Brother’s Love, Monia Chokri
The Climb, Michael Covino
Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont
A Sun That Never Sets, Olivier Laxe
Chambre 212, Christophe Honoré
Port Authority, Danielle Lessovitz
Papicha, Mounia Meddour
Adam, Maryam Touzani
Zhuo Ren Mi Mi, Midi Z
Liberte, Albert Serra
Bull,  Annie Silverstein
Summer of Changsha, Zu Feng
EVGE, Nariman Aliev  

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