Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Selections for the 79th edition, which takes place from May 12 to May 23, 2026.
Titles will screen in the following sections: In Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings.
Films premiering In Competition include new titles from Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, Lukas Dhont, Ira Sachs, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Kore-eda Hirokazu, László Nemes, Pawel Pawlikowski and Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
South Korean film Park Chan-wook will preside over the Jury for feature films in Competition.
The In Competition section opens with the out of competition premiere of La Vénus Électrique by Pierre Salvadori, and Un Certain Regard opens with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma by Jane Schoenbrun.
2026 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
In Competition
Opening Film: La Vénus Électrique by Pierre Salvadori – Out of Competition
Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) by Pedro Almodóvar
Parallel Tales by Asghar Farhadi
A Woman’s Life by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
La Bola Negra by Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
Coward by Lukas Dhont
Das Geträumte Abenteuer by Valeska Grisebach
All of a Sudden by Hamaguchi Ryusuke
The Unknown by Arthur Harari
Another Day by Jeanne Herry
Sheep in the Box by Kore-eda Hirokazu
Hope by Na Hong-jin
Nagi Notes by Fukada Koji
Gentle Monster by Marie Kreutzer
Notre Salut by Emmanuel Marre
Fjord by Cristian Mungiu
The Birthday Party by Léa Mysius
Moulin by László Nemes
Fatherland by Pawel Pawlikowski
The Man I Love by Ira Sachs
El Ser Querido (The Beloved) by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Un Certain Regard
Opening Film: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma by Jane Schoenbrun
Elephants in the Fog by Abinash Bikram Shah | 1st Film
Iron Boy by Louis Clichy
Ben’imana by Marie-clémentine Dusabejambo | 1st Film
Congo Boy by Rafiki Fariala
Club Kid by Jordan Firstman | 1st Film
Uļa by Viesturs Kairišs
La Más Dulce (Strawberries) by Laïla Marrakchi
El Deshielo (The Meltdown) by Manuela Martelli
Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno (Forever Your Maternal Animal) by Valentina Maurel
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep by Rakan Mayasi
I’ll Be Gone in June by Katharina Rivilis | 1st Film
Words of Love by Rudi Rosenberg
Everytime by Sandra Wollner
All the Lovers in the Night by Sode Yukiko
Out of Competition
La Bataille de Gaulle : L’âge de fer by Antonin Baudry
Karma by Guillaume Canet
Diamond by Andy Garcia
L’abandon by Vincent Garenq
L’objet du Délit by Agnès Jaoui
Her Private Hell by Nicolas Winding Refn
Midnight Screenings
Full Phil by Quentin Dupieux
Sanguine by Marion Le Corroller | 1st Film
Roma Elastica by Bertrand Mandico
Jim Queen by Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athané | 1st Film
Gun-che (Colony) by Yeon Sang-ho
Cannes Premiere
La Troisième Nuit by Daniel Auteuil
The Match by Juan Cabral & Santiago Franco
Kokurojo (The Samurai and the Prisoner) by Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Heimsuchung (Visitation) by Volker Schlöndorff
Propeller One-way Night Coach by John Travolta | 1st Film
Special Screenings
Rehearsals for a Revolution by Pegah Ahangarani | 1st Film
Les Matins Merveilleux by Avril Besson | 1st Film
L’affaire Marie-claire by Lauriane Escaffre & Yvo Muller
Avedon by Ron Howard
Les Survivants du Che by Christophe Dimitri Réveille | 1st Film
John Lennon: The Last Interview by Steven Soderbergh
Cantona by David Tryhorn & Ben Nicholas
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