The Cannes Film Festival was canceled this year, but the 2020 Official Selection will still be honored via a three-day event.
The Palais des Festivals will host a “Special Cannes” event, which will run from October 27-29, and will feature four films from this year’s Official Selection and in-competition short films and the Cinéfondation’s school films.
The event will be open to the public and a jury will award the Palme d’Or for short films and the Cinéfondation prizes.
“The collection of four films from the Official Selection, the short film competition, the film school competition, and the dinners and meetings epitomize the happiness we’ll all feel to be together in Cannes in October,” said festival director Thierry Frémaux. “The films of the Official Selection are currently playing to cinemagoers in France, in Europe and throughout the world. It’s a great sign to see them making a stopover in Cannes, before we turn our attention to the 2021 season.”
The mini-festival, which is organized with the Cannes City Council, will include Un triomphe (The Big Hit!) by Emmanuel Courcol, Bruno Podalydès’ Les Deux Alfred (The French Tech), Asa Ga Kuru (True Mothers) by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, and Beginning, the debut by Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili.
Cannes has also confirmed the dates of next year’s festival as May 11-22.
