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Today, the 2026 Cannes Film Festival lineup was revealed, with Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda as well as two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and veteran American indie director Ira Sachs as the main names to debut new works.
The competition lineup features a plethora of auteurs with a distinct international and French flavor. 65% of the competition films were filmed in France, Japan, and Spain. The Competition only has one American film: Ira Sachs.
Sachs will screen The Man I Love, a feature set in 1980s New York. The film has been described as a “musical fantasia of a city under duress.” This morning, Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux said the film deals with the AIDS crisis. Sachs wrote the screenplay with Mauricio Zacharias. Starring are Rami Malek, Tom Sturridge, Luther Ford, Rebecca Hall.
Cannes runs from May 12 to 23.
COMPETITION
Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Beloved, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Man I Love, Ira Sachs
Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski
Moulin, Lazlo Nemes
Histoires de la Nuit, Lea Mysius
Fjiord, Cristian Mungiu
Notre Salut, Emmanuel Marre
Gentle Monster, Marie Kreutzer
Hope, Na Hong-Jin
Nagi Notes, Kôji Fukada
Sheep in the Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Garance, Jeanne Herry
The Unknown, Arthur Harari
Sudden, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Dreamed Adventure, Valeska Grisebach
Coward, Lukas Dhont
La Bola Negra, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi
Parallel Stories, Asghar Farhadi
Bitter Christmas, Pedro Almodóvar
A Woman’s Life, Charline Bourgeois-Taquet
UN CERTAIN REGARD
All the Lovers in the Night by Yukiko Sode
La más dulce, Laïla Marrakchi
Club Kid, Jordan Firstman
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep, Rakan Mayasi
Everytime, Sandra Wollner
Meltdown, Manuela Martelli
I’ll Be Gone in June, Katharina Rivilis
I Am Always Your Maternal Animal, Valentina Maurel
Congo Boy, Rafiki Fariala
Iron Boy, Louis Clichy
Benimana, Marie-Clementine Dusabejambo
Elephants in the Fog, Abinash Bikram Shah
Uļa, Viesturs Kairišs
Words of Love, Rudi Rosenberg
OUT OF COMPETITION
Her Private Hell, Nicolas Winding Refn
Diamond, Andy Garcia
The Electric Kiss, Pierre Salvadori
La Bataille de Gaulle : L’age de fer, Antonin Baudry
Karma, Guillaume Canet
L’Objet Du Delit, Agnes Jaoui
L’abandon, Vincent Garenq
CANNES PREMIERE
Propeller One-Way, John Travolta
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Heimsuchung, Volker Schlondorff
El partido, Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco
When the Night Falls by Daniel Auteuil
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
John Lennon: The Last Interview, Steven Soderbergh
Avedon, Ron Howard
Les Survivants du Che, Christophe Réveille
Les Matins Merveilleux – Avril Besson
Cantona, Ben Nicholas and David Tryhorn
L’affaire Marie-Claire, Yvo Muller, Lauriane Escaffre
Rehearsals for a Revolution, Pegah Ahangarani
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Roma elastica, Bertrand Mandico
Jim Queen, Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen
Full Phil, Quentin Dupieux
Colony, Yeon Sang-ho
Sanguine, Marion Le Coroller