2019 Cannes Film Festival
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- DirectorBong Joon HoStarsSong Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongGreed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.Palme d'Or
- DirectorMati DiopStarsMame Bineta SaneAmadou MbowTraoreIn a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.Grand Prix
Special Mention Vulcan Award - DirectorJuliano DornellesKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsBárbara ColenThomas AquinoSilvero PereiraAfter the death of her grandmother, Teresa comes home to her matriarchal village in a near-future Brazil to find a succession of sinister events that mobilizes all of its residents.Jury Prize
- DirectorLadj LyStarsDamien BonnardAlexis ManentiDjebril ZongaA cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.Jury Prize
Vulcan Award - DirectorJean-Pierre DardenneLuc DardenneStarsIdir Ben AddiOlivier BonnaudMyriem AkheddiouA Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.Best Director
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsEmily BeechamBen WhishawKerry FoxAlice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she takes one home as a gift for her teenage son and names it after him but soon starts fearing it.Best Actress for Emily Beecham
Grand Jury Prize Canine cast - DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsAntonio BanderasAsier EtxeandiaLeonardo SbaragliaA film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.Best Actor for Antonio Banderas
Cannes Soundtrack Award - DirectorCéline SciammaStarsNoémie MerlantAdèle HaenelLuàna BajramiOn an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.Best Screenplay
Queer Palm Award
Special Mention Vulcan Award - DirectorElia SuleimanStarsElia SuleimanTarik KoptyKareem GhneimFilmmaker Elia Suleiman travels to different cities and finds unexpected parallels to his homeland of Palestine.Special Mention Elia Suleiman
FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film In Competition - DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsJulia StocklerCarol DuarteFlávia GusmãoIn 1950s Rio de Janeiro, two sisters live restricted lives with their conservative parents. After they are separated and forced to live apart, they take control of their destinies, while never giving up hope of finding one another.Un Certain Regard Award
- DirectorÓliver LaxeStarsAmador AriasBenedicta SánchezInazio AbraoAmador returns home to his aging mother after serving a sentence for arson. He tries to adapt to daily farm life and coping with the villagers' memories of his past actions.Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
- DirectorKantemir BalagovStarsViktoria MiroshnichenkoVasilisa PerelyginaAndrey Bykov1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.Un Certain Regard Award for Best Director
FIPRESCI Prize Un Certain Regard - DirectorChristophe HonoréStarsChiara MastroianniBenjamin BiolayVincent LacosteAfter 20 years of marriage, Maria decides to leave. She moves to the room 212 of the hotel opposite her marital home. From there, Maria can scrutinize her apartment, her husband, her wedding. She wonders if she has made the right decision.Un Certain Regard Jury Award for Best Performance: Chiara Mastroianni
- DirectorAlbert SerraStarsHelmut BergerMarc SusiniIliana ZabethMadame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsLise Leplat PrudhommeAnnick LavievilleJustine HerbezIn the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) leads the army of the King of France. When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy. Refusing to accept the accusations, the graceful Joan of Arc will stay true to her mission.Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize
- DirectorMonia ChokriStarsAnne-Élisabeth BosséPatrick HivonEvelyne BrochuSophia, an unemployed academic, is forced to change the way she thinks and lives her life when Karim, her beloved brother, falls in love.Coup de Cœur Award
- DirectorMichael Angelo CovinoStarsKyle MarvinMichael Angelo CovinoGayle RankinA look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years.Coup de Cœur Award
- DirectorWisam Al JafariStarsSalah Abu NimaMohammad Al KhmourJameel HilmiTwo young Palestinians try to record a demo for a Music Competition inside a noisy crowded refugee camp, while failing recording because of the chaos of the place, they discover an authentic way allow them to meet the deadline creatively.Cinéfondation 3 Prize
- DirectorBarbara RupikA dead body became stuck by a river bank. Its decaying insides still hide a human soul - a miniature of the deceased. Rotting organs part and a tiny creature gets out. Standing on the river bank, it says goodbye to the corpse and sets off on a journey through the post-mortem land.Cinéfondation 3 Prize
- DirectorRobert EggersStarsRobert PattinsonWillem DafoeValeriia KaramanTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.FIPRESCI Prize Parallel section
- DirectorTerrence MalickStarsAugust DiehlValerie PachnerMaria SimonThe Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
François Chalais Prize - DirectorJérémy ClapinStarsHakim FarisVictoire Du BoisPatrick d'AssumçaoA story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.Nespresso Grand Prize
- DirectorHlynur PálmasonStarsIngvar SigurdssonÍda Mekkín HlynsdóttirHilmir Snær GuðnasonAn off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
- DirectorLorcan FinneganStarsImogen PootsDanielle RyanMolly McCannA young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses.Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
- DirectorCesar DiazStarsArmando EspitiaEmma DibAurelia CaalErnesto is a young anthropologist in Guatemala. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a "guerrillero" who went missing during the war.SACD Award
- DirectorNicolas PariserStarsFabrice LuchiniAnaïs DemoustierNora HamzawiThe mayor of Lyon is in existential crisis. After 30 years in politics, he feels totally empty and devoid of ideas. As a fix for this problem, his aides bring a brilliant young philosopher, into his inner circle.Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film
- DirectorRebecca ZlotowskiStarsMina FaridZahia DeharBenoît MagimelNaima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her.SACD Award for Best French-language Film
- DirectorWaad Al-KateabEdward WattsStarsWaad Al-KateabSama Al-KhateabHamza Al-KhateabFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.L'Œil d'or:
- DirectorPatricio GuzmánStarsJorge BaraditVicente GajardoFrancisco GazitúaPatricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the government. However, he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture and a place on the map.L'Œil d'or
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsLeonardo DiCaprioBrad PittMargot RobbieA faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.Palm Dog Award