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)
“Dossier 137” (dir. Dominik Moll)
“The Eagles Of The Republic” (dir. Tarik Saleh)
“Eddington” (dir. Ari Aster)
“Fuori” (dir. Mario Martone)
“The History Of Sound” (dir. Oliver Hermanus)
“La Petite Dernière” (dir. Hafsia Herzi)
“The Mastermind” (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
“Nouvelle Vague” (dir. Richard Linklater)
“The Phoenician Scheme” (dir. Wes Anderson)
“Renoir” (dir. Chie Hayakawa)
“Romeria” (dir. Carla Simon)
“The Secret Agent” (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
“Sentimental Value” (dir. Joachim Trier)
“A Simple Accident” (dir. Jafar Panahi)
“Sirat” (dir. Oliver Laxe)
“Sound Of Falling” (dir. Mascha Schilinski)
“Two Prosecutors” (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)
“Young Mothers” (dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore” (dir. Morad Mostafa)
“Eleanor The Great” (dir. Scarlett Johansson)
“L’inconnue de la Grande Arche” (dir. Stephane Demoustier)
“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)
“Urchin” (dir. Harris Dickinson)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“The Coming Of The Future” (dir. Cedric Klapisch)
“Highest 2 Lowest” (dir. Spike Lee)
“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” (dir. Christopher McQuarrie)
“The Richest Woman In The World” (dir. Thierry Klifa)
“Vie Privée” (dir. Rebecca Zlotowski)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Exit 8” (dir. Genki Kawamura)
“Songs Of The Neon Night” (dir. Juno Mak)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Bono: Stories Of Surrender” (dir. Andrew Dominik)
“The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol” (dir. Sylvain Chomet)
“Tell Her That I Love Her” (dir. Claude Miller)
CANNES PREMIERE
“Amrum” (dir. Fatih Akin)
“Connemara” (dir. Alex Lutz)
“The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele” (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)
“Orwell” (dir. Raoul Peck)
“Splitsville” (dir. Michael Angelo Covino)
“The Wave” (dir. Sebastián Lelio)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
“Enzo” (A film by Laurent Cantet, dir. Robin Campillo) (OPENING FILM)
”Amour Apocalypse” (Peak Everything) (dir. Anne Émond)
”Brand New Landscape” (見はらし世代) (dir. Yuiga Danzuka) – first feature film
”Classe Moyenne” (Middle Class) (dir. Anthony Cordier)
”Dangerous Animals” (dir. Sean Byrne)
”La Danse Renards” (The Foxes Round) (dir. Valéry Carnoy) – first feature film
”L’Engloutie” (The Girl in the Snow) (dir. Louise Hémon) – first feature film
”Les Filles Désir” (The Girls We Want) (dir. Prïncia Car) – first feature film
”Girl on Edge” (Hua yang shao nv sha ren shi jian) (dir. Jinghao Zhou) – first feature film
”Indomptables” (dir. Thomas Ngijol)
”Kokhuo” (dir. Lee Sang-il)
”Lucky Lu” (dir. Lloyd Lee Choi) – first feature film
”Militantropos” (dir. Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi)
”Miroirs No. 3″ (Mirrors No.3) (dir. Christian Petzold)
”La Mort N’Existe Pas” (Death Does Not Exist) (dir. Félix Dufour-Laperrière)
”The President’s Cake” (Mamlaket al-Qasab) (dir. Hasan Hadi) – first feature film
“Que Ma Volonté Soit Faite” (dir. Julia Kowalski)
“Sorry, Baby” (dir. Eva Victor) – first feature film (CLOSING FILM)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT SHORT FILMS
“+10K” (dir. Gala Hernández López)
“Before The Sea Forgets” (dir. Ngọc Duy Lê)
“The Body” (dir. Louris van de Geer)
“Bread Will Walk” (Le pain se lève) (dir. Alex Boya)
”Cœur Bleu” (Blue Heart) (dir. Samuel Suffren)
”Karmash” (کرمش) (dir. Aleem Bukhari)
”Loynes” (dir. Dorian Jespers)
”La Mort Du Poisson” (Death of the Fish) (dir. Eva Lusbaronian)
”Nervous Energy” (dir. Eve Liu)
”When The Geese Flew” (dir. Arthur Gay)
CRITICS’ WEEK COMPETITION
“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)
“A Useful Ghost” (dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
CRITICS’ WEEK SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Adam’s Interest” (dir. Laura Wandel) (OPENING FILM)
“Baise en ville” (dir. Martin Jauvat)
“Love Letters” (dir. Alice Douard)
“Dandelion’s Odyssey” (dir. Momoko Seto) (CLOSING FILM)
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.
