Thierry Frémaux announced the official lineup for the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival this morning. The festival had a lot of expectations this year after the festival served as the launchpad for the world premieres of eventual Oscar Best Picture nominees from the last two years, “Elvis,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Triangle Of Sadness” (Palme d’Or winner), “Anatomy Of A Fall” (Palme d’Or winner), “Killers Of The Flower Moon,” “The Zone Of Interest,” “Anora” (Palme d’Or and Best Picture winner), “Emilia Pérez,” and “The Substance.” As is the case every year, the lineup is highly impressive, filled with world-renowned favorite filmmakers and newcomers from all over the world. We currently know this year’s jury president will be Academy Award-winner Juliette Binoche, but we do not know the other jury members at this time.After covering the festival for the last two years in person, Dan Bayer will join me on the Croisette this year for the first time. Expect more additions in the coming days, as Frémaux mentioned a few times during the announcement that this year’s lineup is not final with this announcement. This year’s Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13th to the 24th.
OPENING NIGHT
“Leave One Day” (dir. Amelie Bonin)
COMPETITION
“Alpha” (dir. Julia Ducournau)
“Case 137” (dir. Dominik Moll)
“Die My Love” (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
“The Eagles Of The Republic” (dir. Tarik Saleh)
“Eddington” (dir. Ari Aster)
“Fuori” (dir. Mario Martone)
“The History Of Sound” (dir. Oliver Hermanus)
“It Was Just An Accident” (dir. Jafar Panahi)
“The Little Sister” (dir. Hafsia Herzi)
“The Mastermind” (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
“Mother And Child” (dir. Saeed Roustaee)
“Nouvelle Vague” (dir. Richard Linklater)
“The Phoenician Scheme” (dir. Wes Anderson)
“Renoir” (dir. Chie Hayakawa)
“Resurrection” (dir. Bi Gan)
“Romeria” (dir. Carla Simon)
“The Secret Agent” (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
“Sentimental Value” (dir. Joachim Trier)
“Sirat” (dir. Oliver Laxe)
“Sound Of Falling” (dir. Mascha Schilinski)
“Two Prosecutors” (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)
“Woman and Child” (dir. Saeed Roustayi)
“Young Mothers” (dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“Aisha Can’t Fly Away” (dir. Morad Mostafa)
“Carvan” (dir. Zuzana Kirchnerová)
“The Chronology Of Water” (dir. Kristen Stewart)
“Eleanor The Great” (dir. Scarlett Johansson)
“The Great Arch” (dir. Stephane Demoustier)
“Heads Or Tails?” (dir. Matteo Zoppis and Alessio Rigo de Righi)
“Homebound” (dir. Neeraj Ghaywan)
“I Only Rest In The Storm” (dir. Pedro Pinho)
“The Last One For The Road” (dir. Francesco Sossai)
“Love Me Tender” (dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet)
“Meteors” (dir. Hubert Charuel)
“My Father’s Shadow” (dir. Akinola Davies Jr)
“The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo” (dir. Diego Céspedes)
“Once Upon A Time In Gaza” (dir. Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser)
“A Pale View Of Hills” (dir. Kei Ishikawa)
“Pillion” (dir. Harry Lighton)
“The Plague” (dir. Charlie Polinger)
“Promised Sky” (dir. Erige Sehiri)
“Un Poeta” (dir. Simón Mesa Soto)
“Urchin” (dir. Harris Dickinson)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“13 Hours, 13 Days” (dir. Martin Bourboulon)
“Colors Of Time” (dir. Cedric Klapisch)
“Highest 2 Lowest” (dir. Spike Lee)
“Leave One Day” (dir. Amélie Bonnin)
“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” (dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
“A Private Life” (dir. Rebecca Zlotowski)
“The Richest Woman In The World” (dir. Thierry Klifa)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Exit 8” (dir. Genki Kawamura)
“Honey Don’t” (dir. Ethan Coen)
“No One Will Know” (dir. Vincent Maël Cardona)
“The Residence” (dir. Yann Gozlan)
“Songs Of The Neon Night” (dir. Juno Mak)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Arco” – (dir. Ugo Bienvenu)
“Bono: Stories Of Surrender” (dir. Andrew Dominik)
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” (dir. Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han)
“A Magnificent Life” (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
“Mama” – (dir. Or Sinai)
“The Man Who Saw The Bear” (dir. Pierre Richard)
“The Six Billion Dollar Man” (dir. Eugene Jarecki)
“Tell Her That I Love Her” (dir. Romane Bohringer)
“The Wonderers ” (dir. Joséphine Japy)
CANNES PREMIERE
“Amrum” (dir. Fatih Akin)
“Connemara” (dir. Alex Lutz)
“The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele” (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
“Love On Trial” (dir. Kōji Fukada)
“The Love That Remains” (dir. Hlynur Pálmason)
“Ma Frère” (dir. Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret)
“Magellan” (dir. Liv Diaz)
“Orwell: 2+2=5” (dir. Raoul Peck)
“Splitsville” (dir. Michael Angelo Covino)
“The Wave” (dir. Sebastián Lelio)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
”Brand New Landscape” (dir. Yuiga Danzuka)
”Dangerous Animals” (dir. Sean Byrne)
”Death Does Not Exist” (dir. Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
“Enzo” (A film by Laurent Cantet, dir. Robin Campillo)
”The Girl in the Snow” (dir. Louise Hémon)
”Girl on Edge” (dir. Jinghao Zhou)
”The Girls We Want” (dir. Prïncia Car)
“Her Will Be Done” (dir. Julia Kowalski)
”Kokhuo” (dir. Lee Sang-il)
”Lucky Lu” (dir. Lloyd Lee Choi)
”Militantropos” (dir. Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi)
”Mirrors No.3″ (dir. Christian Petzold)
”The Party’s Over!” (dir. Anthony Cordier)
“Peak Everything” (dir. Anne Émond)
”The President’s Cake” (Mamlaket al-Qasab) (dir. Hasan Hadi)
“Sorry, Baby” (dir. Eva Victor)
”Untamable” (dir. Thomas Ngijol)
”Wild Foxes” (dir. Valéry Carnoy)
“Yes!” (dir. Nadav Lapid)
CRITICS’ WEEK COMPETITION
“A Useful Ghost” (dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
“Imago” (dir. Déni Oumar Pitsaev)
“Kika” (dir. Alexe Poukine)
“Left-Handed Girl” (dir. Shih-Ching Tsou)
“Nino” (dir. Pauline Loquès)
“Reedland” (dir. Sven Bresser)
“Sleepless City” (dir. Guillermo Galoe)
CRITICS’ WEEK SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Adam’s Interest” (dir. Laura Wandel)
“Baise en ville” (dir. Martin Jauvat)
“Dandelion’s Odyssey” (dir. Momoko Seto)
“Love Letters” (dir. Alice Douard)
ACID
“L’aventura” (dir. Sophie Letourneur)
“The Black Snake” (dir. Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux)
“Drifting Laurent” (dir. Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon)
“Drunken Noodles” (dir. Lucio Castro)
“Entroncamento” (dir. Pedro Cabeleira)
“A Light That Never Goes Out” (dir. Lauri-Matti Parppei)
“Life After Siham” (dir. Namir Abdel Messeeh)
“Obscure Night – Ain’t I a Child?” (dir. Sylvain George)
“Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk” (dir. Sepideh Farsi)
Which films are you looking forward to the most? Anything jump out at you that more mainstream audiences may not immediately recognize? Are you planning to attend the festival this year? Please let us know in the comments section below or on our X account.
