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)
“Another Day” (dir. Jeanne Herry)
“The Beloved” (dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
“The Birthday Party” (dir. Lea Mysius)
“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)
“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)
“Paper Tiger” (dir. James Gray)
“Parallel Tales” (dir. Asghar Farhadi)
“Sheep in the Box” (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
“The Unknown” (dir. Arthur Harari)
“A Woman’s Life” (dir. Charline Bourgeois-Taquet)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“All the Lovers in the Night” (dir. Yukiko Sode)
“Ben’imana” (dir. Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo)
“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)
“Iron Boy” (dir. Louis Clichy)
“The Meltdown” (dir. Manuela Martelli)
“Strawberries” (dir. Laïla Marrakchi)
“Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” (dir. Jane Schoenbrun)
“Uļa” (dir. Viesturs Kairišs)
“Words of Love” (dir. Rudi Rosenberg)
“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 délit” (dir. Agnès 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)
“Cantona” (dir. David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas)
“John Lennon: The Last Interview” (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
“Les Matins Merveilleux” (dir. Avril Besson)
“Les Survivants du Che” (dir. Christophe Réveille)
“The Marie-Claire Affair” (dir. Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller)
“Rehearsals for a Revolution” (dir. Pegah Ahangarani)
CANNES PREMIERE
“Heimsuchung” (dir. Volker Schlondorff)
“Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner” (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
“The Match” (dir. Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco)
“Propeller One-Way Night Coach” (dir. John Travolta)
“The Third Night” (dir. Daniel Auteuil)
DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT
“9 Temples To Heaven” (dir. Sompot Chidgasornpongse)
“Atonement (L’Apaisement)” (dir. Reed Van Dyk)
“Butterfly Jam” (dir. Kantemir Balagov) – Opening Night Film
“Carmen, L’Oiseau Rebelle (Viva Carmen)” (dir. Sébastien Laudenbach)
“Clarissa” (dir. Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri)
“Death Has No Master (La Muerte No Tiene Dueño)” (dir. Jorge Thielen Armand)
“The Diary Of A Chambermaid (Le Journal D’une Femme De Chambre)” (dir. Radu Jude)
“Dora” (dir. July Jung)
“Double Freedom (La Libertad Doble)” (dir. Lisandro Alonso)
“Gabin” (dir. Maxence Voiseux)
“I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning” (dir. Clio Barnard)
“La Perra” (dir. Dominga Sotomayor)
“Le Vertige” (dir. Quentin Dupieux) – Closing Night Film
“Low Expectations (Lave Forventninger)” (dir. Eivind Landsvik)
“Thanks For Coming (Merci D’être Venu)” (dir. Alain Cavalier)
“Once Upon A Time In Harlem” (dir. William Greaves and David Greaves)
“Shana” (dir. Lila Pinell)
“Too Many Beasts (L’Espèce Explosive)” (dir. Sarah Arnold)
“We Are Aliens” (dir. Kohei Kadowaki)
CRITICS’ WEEK
“Adieu monde cruel” (dir. Félix de Givry)
“Dua” (dir. Blerta Basholli)
“Flesh and Fuel” (dir. Pierre Le Gall)
“A Girl Unknown” (dir. Zou Jing)
“In Waves” (dir. Phuong Mai Nguyen)
“La Gradiva” (dir. Marine Atlan)
“Six Months in the Pink Building” (dir. Bruno Santamaria Razo)
“The Station” (dir. Sara Ishaq)
“Stonewall” (dir. Julien Gaspar-Oliveri)
“Tin Castle” (dir. Alexander Murphy)
“Viva” (dir. Aina Clotet)
ACID
“A Secret Heart” (dir. Tom Fontenille)
“Born Under A Bad Star” (dir. Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier)
“Blaise” (dir. Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue)
“Detention” (dir. Guillaume Massart)
“Dans La Gueule De L’Ogre” (dir. Mahsa Karampour)
“Living Twice, Dying Thrice” (dir. Karim Lakzadeh)
“Promised Spaces” (dir. Ivan Marković)
“Rewind Barcelona” (dir. Paul Nouhet)
“Summer Drift” (dir. Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter)
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.
