Thierry Frémaux announced the official lineup for the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival this morning. The festival has a lot of expectations this year after the festival has served as the launchpad for the world premieres of many eventual Oscar Best Picture nominees from the last couple of 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,” “The Substance,” “Sentimental Value,” and “The Secret Agent.” As is the case every year, the lineup is highly impressive and exciting, filled with critically acclaimed filmmakers and newcomers from all over the world. We currently know this year’s jury president will be world-renowned South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, but we do not yet know the other jury members. After covering the festival in person for the last three years, this will be the first year I’ll be joined by two members of NBP: Cody Dericks and Nadia Dalimonte. Expect more additions in the coming days, as Frémaux mentioned at the beginning of the announcement that this year’s lineup is not final and represents only about 95% of the lineup. This year’s Cannes Film Festival runs from May 12th to the 23rd.
COMPETITION
“All Of A Sudden” (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
“The Beloved” (dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
“Bitter Christmas” (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)
“The Black Ball” (dir. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi)
“Coward” (dir. Lukas Dhont)
“The Dreamed Adventure” (dir. Valeska Grisebac)
“Fatherland” (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski)
“Fjord” (dir Cristian Mungiu)
“Garance” (dir. Jeanne Herry)
“Gentle Monster” (dir. Marie Kreutzer)
“Hope” (dir. Na Hong-Jin)
“The Man I Love” (dir. Ira Sachs)
“Minotaur” (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)
“Moulin” (dir. Laszlo Nemes)
“Nagi Notes” (dir. Kôji Fukada)
“Notre Salut” (dir. Emmanuel Marre)
“Parallel Stories” (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
“Sheep in the Box” (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
“Stories Of The Night” (dir. Lea Mysius)
“The Unknown” (dir. Arthur Harari)
“A Woman’s Life” (dir. Charline Bourgeois-Taquet)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“Club Kid” (dir. Jordan Firstman)
“Congo Boy” (dir. Rafiki Fariala)
“Elephants in the Fog” (dir. Abinash Bikram Shah)
“Everytime” (dir. Sandra Wollner)
“I Am Always Your Maternal Animal” (dir. Valentina Maurel)
“I’ll Be Gone in June” (dir. Katharina Rivilis)
“Le Corset” (dir. Louis Clichy)
“The Meltdown” (dir. Manuela Martelli)
“Strawberries” (dir. Laïla Marrakchi)
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” (dir. Jane Schoenbrun)
“Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep” (dir. Rakan Mayasi)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“De Gaulle: L’Age de Fer” (dir. Antonin Baudry)
“Diamond” (dir. Andy Garcia)
“The Electric Kiss” (dir. Pierre Salvadori)
“Her Private Hell” (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
“Karma” (dir. Guillaume Canet)
“L’Abandon” (dir. Vincent Garenq)
“L’Objet Du Delit” (dir. Agnes Jaoui)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Colony” (dir. Yeon Sang-ho)
“Full Phil” (dir. Quentin Dupieux)
“Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer” (dir. Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen)
“Roma Elastica” (dir. Bertrand Mandico)
“Sanguine” (dir. Marion Le Coroller)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Avedon” (dir. Ron Howard)
“John Lennon: The Last Interview” (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
“Les Matins Merveilleux” (dir. Avril Besson)
“Les Survivants du Che” (dir. Christophe Réveille)
CANNES PREMIERE
“Heimsuchung” (dir. Volker Schlondorff)
“Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner” (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
“Propeller One-Way Night Coach” (dir. John Travolta)
“The Third Night” (dir. Daniel Auteuil)
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.
