The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the full 2026 lineup, revealing an international, auteur-driven official selection with very little Hollywood presence. 

Running 12–23 May, the festival once again brings together major international filmmakers alongside rising voices in global cinema. Notably, around 65% of the Competition titles come from France, Japan and Spain, reflecting the strong European and Asian presence shaping this year’s lineup.

This year’s Competition selection is packed with established auteurs, including Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Cristian Mungiu and Pawel Pawlikowski, debuting new films. American filmmaker Ira Sachs provides the only U.S. title in Competition with The Man I Love, a drama set in 1980s New York starring Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. 

Elsewhere in the programme, there are several notable premieres. Nicolas Winding Refn returns with Her Private Hell, while Steven Soderbergh and Ron Howard present documentaries John Lennon: The Last Interview and Avedon, respectively. 

The festival will open with Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss. Meanwhile, John Travolta will debut his first directed feature, Propeller One-Way, which screens in the Cannes Premiere section. 

Scroll down for the full Cannes Film Festival 2026 lineup and official selection titles announced today. 

COMPETITION 

• Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
• The Beloved (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)
• The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)
• Fatherland (Pawel Pawlikowski)
• Moulin (Laszlo 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 & 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 (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-Clémentine 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’Âge de fer (Antonin Baudry)
• Karma (Guillaume Canet)
• L’Objet du délit (Agnès Jaoui)
• L’abandon (Vincent Garenq) 

CANNES PREMIERE 

• Propeller One-Way (John Travolta)
• Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
• Heimsuchung (Volker Schlöndorff)
• El partido (Juan Cabral & Santiago Franco)
• When the Night Falls (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 & 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 & Marco Nguyen)
• Full Phil (Quentin Dupieux)
• Colony (Yeon Sang-ho)
• Sanguine (Marion Le Coroller) 

With a packed slate of returning auteurs, international cinema, and high-profile premieres, the Cannes Film Festival 2026 line-up once again promises 12 days when the global film conversation begins. 

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 12th to 23rd.

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