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Cannes Film Festival 2026: The Complete Program

08 May 2026
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The countdown has begun: Cannes 2026 is just around the corner! Hosting this 79th edition, taking place from May 12 to 23, will be Park Chan-wook, twenty-two years after his legendary triumph with Oldboy. Don't miss a single title: discover the Official Selection, Out of Competition, and all the sidebar sections here.

Competition

  • Minotaur – Andrey Zvyagintsev

  • Paper Tiger - James Gray

  • El ser querido – Rodrigo Sorogoyen

  • The Man I Love – Ira Sachs

  • 1949 – Paweł Pawlikowski

  • Moulin – László Nemes

  • Histoire de la nuit – Léa Mysius

  • Fjord – Cristian Mungiu

  • Notre salut – Emmanuel Marre

  • Gentle Monster – Marie Kreutzer

  • Nagi Notes – Koji Fukada

  • Hope – Na Hong-jin

  • Sheep in the Box – Hirokazu Kore’eda

  • Garance – Jeanne Herry

  • L’Inconnue – Arthur Harari

  • All of a Sudden – Ryusuke Hamaguchi

  • The Dreamed Adventure – Valeska Grisebach

  • Coward – Lukas Dhont

  • La bola negra – Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi

  • A Woman’s Life – Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet

  • Parallel Tales – Asghar Farhadi

  • Amarga Navidad – Pedro Almodóvar

Out of Competition

  • La Vénus Électrique – Pierre Salvadori (opening film)

  • Her Private Hell – Nicolas Winding Refn

  • L’Abandon – Vincent Garenq

  • Diamond – Andy Garcia

  • Karma – Guillaume Canet

  • L’Objet du Délit – Agnès Jaoui

  • De Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer – Antonin Baudry

Un Certain Regard

  • Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Jane Schoenbrun (opening film)

  • Everytime – Sandra Wollner

  • I’ll Be Gone in June – Katharina Rivilis

  • Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep – Rakan Mayasi

  • Quelques Mots d’Amour – Rudi Rosenberg

  • Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno – Valentina Maurel

  • El Deshielo (The Meltdown) – Manuela Martelli

  • La Más Dulce – Laïla Marrakchi

  • Club Kid – Jordan Firstman

  • Congo Boy – Rafiki Fariala

  • Benimana – Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo

  • Le Corset – Louis Clichy

  • Elephants in the Fog – Abinash Bikram Shah

  • The Man from Goodbye – Sion Sono

  • All the Lovers in the Night - Yukiko Sode

  • Ula - Viesturs Kairiss

  • Victorian Psycho - Zachary Wigon

  • Mémoire de Fille (A Girl's Story) - Judith Godrèche

  • Titanic Ocean - Konstantina Kotzamani

  • Ulysse - Laetitia Masson - closing film

Special Screenings

  • John Lennon The Last Interview – Steven Soderbergh

  • Les Matins Merveilleux – Avril Besson

  • Richard Avedon – Ron Howard

  • Les Survivants du Che – Christophe Réveille

  • L’Affaire Marie-Claire - Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller

  • Vensa (Spring) - Rostislav Kirpicenko

  • Ceniza en la Boca (Ashes) - Diego Luna

  • Tangles - Leah Nelson

  • Le Triangle d'Or - Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz

  • Groundswell - Joshua & Rebecca Tickell

Cannes Première

  • Propeller One-Way Night Coach – John Travolta

  • La Voix de Klara – Volker Schlöndorff

  • Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner – Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  • The Game – Juan Cabal, Santiago Franco

  • La Troisième Nuit – Daniel Auteuil

  • The End of It - Maria Martinez Bayona

  • Marie Madeleine (Mary Magdalene) - Gessica Généus

  • Aquì - Tiago Guedes

  • Mariage au Gout d'Orange - Christophe Honoré

  • Si Tu Penses Bien - Géraldine Nakache

The Sidebar Sections

  • Butterfly Jam – Kantemir Balagov (Opening Film)

  • Once Upon a Time in Harlem – William Greaves, David Greaves

  • The Diary of a Chambermaid – Radu Jude

  • Dora – July Jung

  • Gabin – Maxence Voiseux

  • Clarissa – Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri

  • Too Many Beasts – Sarah Arnold

  • Low Expectations – Eivind Landsvik

  • Double Freedom – Lisandro Alonso

  • We Are Aliens – Kohei Kadowaki

  • Thanks for Coming – Alain Cavalier

  • I See Buildings Fall like Lightning – Clio Barnard

  • Atonement – Reed Van Dyk

  • Shana – Lila Pinell

  • Death Has No Master – Jorge Thielen Armand

  • Viva Carmen – Sébastien Laudenbach

  • 9 Temples to Heaven – Sompot Chidgasornpongse

  • La Perra – Dominga Sotomayor

  • Le Vertige – Quentin Dupieux (Closing Film)

Short Films

  • The Joyless Economy – Marjorie Conrad

  • Oh Boys – Antonio Donato

  • Madrugada – Sebastian Lojo

  • Eri – Yano Honami

  • Pithead – Wannes Vanspawuen, Pol De Plecker

  • Daughters of the Late Colonel – Elizabeth Hobbs

  • Nothing Happens After Your Absence – Ibrahim Omar

  • Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection) – Alexandra Matheou

  • À la Recherche de l’Oiseau Gris aux Rayures Vertes – Said Hamich Benlarbi

Don't get caught unprepared: click here to explore the profiles of all the films at the Festival and start compiling your wish list.

See you at the end of the festival for a complete recap of the winners!

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