'The Dead Don't Die' Chosen to Open Cannes 2019

The line-up for this year’s Cannes Film Festival has been announced, with Jim Jarmusch‘s zombie-comedy The Dead Don’t Die chosen to open the festival. As well as opening the festival on May 14, The Dead Don’t Die has also been entered into competition for the Palme D’Or prize alongside new films from directors including Pedro Almodovar, Xavier Dolan and Terrence Malick.

Alongside the competition movies, other categories at Cannes include “Un Certain Regard,” “Out of Competition” and “Special Screenings.” Notable mentions in these categories include two episodes from Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Too Old to Die Young and Rocketman, the Elton John biopic helmed by Dexter Fletcher.

Cannes has also announced that Alejandro G. Iñárritu will lead this year’s competition jury. Iñárritu is the director behind Birdman and The Revenant, and won the best director prize at Cannes back in 2016.

Cannes 2019 will begin on May 14 and run until May 25. Take a look at every film that will be shown below.

In other entertainment news, refresh your memory of the new Child’s Play trailer.

Opening Night Film
The Dead Don’t Die, Jim Jarmusch (also in Competition)

Competition
Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodovar
The Traitor, Marco Bellocchio
The Wild Goose Lake, Diao Yinan
Parasite, Bong Joon-ho
Young Ahmed, Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
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, Terrence Malick
Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles
The Whistlers, Corneliu Porumboiu
Frankie, Ira Sachs
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma
It Must Be Heaven, Elia Suleiman
Sibyl, Justine Triet

Un Certain Regard
Invisible Life, Karim Aïnouz
Beanpole, Kantemir Balagov
The Swallows of Kabul, Zabou Breitman & Eléa Gobé Mévellec
A Brother’s Life, Monia Chokri
The Climb, Michael Covino
Joan of Arc, Bruno Dumont
A Sun That Never Sets, Olivier Laxe
Room 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

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

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

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