Discover the official lineup for the 79th Cannes Film Festival, set on the Croisette from May 12 to 23, 2026.
The Cannes Film Festival 2026 is back for a 79th edition, running from May 12–23, 2026! This Thursday, April 9 brought the highly anticipated press conference unveiling the first films in and out of competition. Thierry Frémaux and Iris Knobloch announced the lineup of films selected for this new edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
Following an opening on the importance of diversity (notably female representation) in the film industry, on the freedom of human-created cinema (not AI-generated), and then defending the in-theater experience, the two organizers announced they had received more than 2,541 feature films from 141 countries around the world. They thus unveiled 95% of the official selection, with the rest to be revealed next week.
With the opening film The Electric Venus by Pierre Salvadori, the official selection in competition for the Palme d'Or 2026 includes 21 feature films, of which 5 are directed by women filmmakers. Without further ado, we reveal the official Cannes Film Festival 2026 selection!
- Minotaur by Andrei Zviaguintsev
- The Beloved by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- The Man I Love by Ira Sachs
- 1949 by Pawel Pawlikowski
- Moulin by László Nemes
- Tales of the Night by Léa Mysius
- Fjord by Cristian Mungiu
- Our Salvation by Emmanuel Marre
- Gentle Monster by Marie Kreutzer
- Nagi Notes by Koji Fukada
- Hope by Na Hong-jin
- Sheep in the Box by Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Garance by Jeanne Herry
- The Unknown Woman by Arthur Harari
- Suddenly by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- The Dreamed Adventure by Valeska Grisebach
- Coward by Lukas Dhont
- The Black Ball by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo
- The Life of a Woman by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
- Parallel Stories by Asghar Farhadi
- Autofiction by Pedro Almodóvar
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma by Jane Schoenbrun (Opening film)
- De toutes les nuits, les amants by Yukiko Sode
- Everytime by Sandra Wollner
- Quelques mots d’amour by Rudi Rosenberg
- I’ll Be Gone in June by Katharina Rivilis (First feature)
- Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep by Rakan Mayasi
- Siempre soy tu animal materno by Valentina Maurel
- El deshielo by Manuela Martelli
- La más dulce by Laïla Marrakchi
- Ula by Viesturs Kairišs
- Club Kid by Jordan Firstman (First feature)
- Congo Boy by Rafiki Fariala
- Benimana by Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo (First feature)
- Le Corset by Louis Clichy
- Les Éléphants dans la brume by Abinash Bikram Shah (First feature)
The Cannes Première selection
- Propeller One-Way Night Coach by John Travolta (his debut)
- Klara's Woods by Volker Schlöndorff
- Arioka's Chateau by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- The Match by Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco
- The Third Night by Daniel Auteuil
Off-Competition films
- Her Private Hell by Nicolas Winding Refn
- The Abandonment by Vincent Garenq
- Diamond by Andy Garcia
- Karma by Guillaume Canet
- The Object of the Crime by Agnès Jaoui
- The Battle of Gaulle: The Iron Age by Antonin Baudry
Les Séances de Minuit
- Colony by Sang-ho Yeon
- Roma Elastica by Bertrand Mandico
- Sanguine by Marion Le Corroller (debut feature)
- Full Phil by Quentin Dupieux
- Jim Queen by Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athané (debut feature)
Special Sessions
- John Lennon: The Last Interview by Steven Soderbergh
- The Wonderful Mornings by Avril Besson (feature debut)
- Avedon by Ron Howard
- Rare Soul for a Revolution by Pegah Ahangarani (feature debut)
- The Survivors of Che by Christophe Dimitri Réveille (feature debut)
- The Marie-Claire Case by Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller
- Cantona by David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas
The opening film
- The Electric Venus by Pierre Salvadori (out of competition)
The jury charged with deciding the films in competition is chaired by Park Chan-wook, who will in particular have the mission of handing the Palme d'or to one of the films in competition, on May 23.
