2020 Cannes Film Festival


The 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival was scheduled to take place from 12 to 23 May 2020. On 13 January 2020, Spike Lee was named as the president of the Jury. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, festival management announced on 14 April 2020 that the festival could not be held in its "original form", with alternative means of observing the festival being explored.
Earlier, festival management considered holding the festival in June or July, after not cancelling the event. In mid-March, the festival's main venue, the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière, was converted into a temporary homeless shelter. In May 2020, it was announced that no physical edition of the festival would take place, but a revised Official Selection of films was confirmed on 3 June 2020. Before announcing the list of films from the official selection, Thierry Frémaux the director of the Cannes Film Festival, said in an interview that he was talking with Spike Lee and also was hoping to have him as President of the Jury on the 2021 edition. He also confirmed that Lee's film Da 5 Bloods was supposed to be the return of Netflix to the red carpet in the Out of Competition category.

Official selection

The Official Selection has been divided in sub-categories, as directors or genres, not as competitors.

The Faithful (or at least selected once before)

The Newcomers

Omnibus Film

The First Features

Documentary Films

Comedy Films

Animated Films

Cannes Classics

The full line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 17 July 2020.

Restorations

Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation celebrate its 30th birthday

Federico 100

À Bout de souffle and L’Avventura turn 60

Documentaries 2020

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films have received a special and official label, delivered by the International Critics' Week.

Features

Short films

Directors' Fortnight

The Director's Fortnight decided not to organize any selection, nor label.

ACID

The following films have received a special and official label, delivered by the ACID.
The ACID Trip #4 program, which should have been dedicated to young Chilean cinema, has been postponed to the next edition, in 2021.