Poslije nekoliko sedmica i donošenja niza bolnih odluka, rukovodstvo Cannes Film Festivala je donijelo odluku da se ovogodišnje izdanje CFF-a izmjesti iz Cannesa te da zaživi u sklopu drugih festivala u drugoj polovici godine.
Ipak, iako se festival neće održati u svom matičnom gradu, 73. CFF će istrajati u svojoj zadaći isticanja i slavljenja filmske kulture pod oznakom Cannes 2020, a organizatori festivala sa Thieryjem Fremauxom na čelu su objavili i službeni takmičarski program za Cannes 2020.
Među istaknutim naslovima u takmičarskom programu Cannes 2020 nalaze se:
The French Dispatch – Wes Anderson
Soul – Pete Docter
Summer of 85 – Francois Ozon
True Mothers – Naomi Kawase
Lover's Rock – Steve McQueen
Mangrove – Steve McQueen
ADN – Maiwenn
Falling – Viggo Mortensen
Ammonite – Francis Lee
Ostatak popisa slijedi sa:
Sweat (Magnus von Horn), Naida, Butterfly (Pascal Plante), Last Words – (Jonathan Nossiter), Heaven: To The Land of Happiness (Im Sang-Soo), Forgotten We'll Be (Fernando Trueba), Peninsula (Yeon Sang-Ho), In the Dusk (Sharunas Bartas), Home Front (Lucas Belvaux), The Real Thing (Koji Fukada), A Good Man (Marie Castille Mention-Schaar), Passion Simple (Danielle Arbid), Les Choses Qu'on Dit, Les Choses Qu'on Fait (Emmanuel Mouret), Souad (Ayten Amin), Limbo (Ben Sharrock), Red Soil (Farid Bentoumi), Teddy (Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma), February (Kamen Kalev), Un Medecin du Nuit - Elie Wajeman Enfant Terrible (Oskar Roehler), Here We Are (Nir Bergman), Pleasure (Ninja Thyberg), Memory House (Jao Paulo Miranda Maria), Broken Keys (Jimmy Keyrouz), Ibrahim (Samir Guesmi), Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili), Gagarine (Fanny Liattard, Jeremy Trouilh), 16 Printemps (Suzane Lindon), Vaurien (Peter Dourountzis), Garcson Chiffon (Nicolas Maury), Should the Wind Fail (Nora Martirosyan), John and the Hole (Pascual Sisto), Striding Into the Wind (Wei Shujun), The Death of Cinema and My Father Too (Dani Rosenberg), The Billion Road (Dieudo Hamadi), The Truffle Hunters (Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw) ,9 Jours a Raqqa (Xavier De Lauzanne), Septet: The Story of Hong Kong (Johnnie To, Ann Ui, Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo-Ping, Patrick Tam), Antioinette Dans Les Cevenennes (Caroline Vignal), Les Duex Alfred (Bruno Podalydes), The Big Hit (Emmanuel Courcol), L'Origine du Monde (Laurent Lafitte), Le Discours (Laurent Lafitte), Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen), te Aurel (Josep).
