Dafter the announcement the month of two Palmes d’Or for lifetime achievement to Barbra Streisand and Peter Jacksonthis morning she was in Paris The Cannes Film Festival line-up has finally been announced 2026 which will be held from May 12th to 23rd. The opening film will be La Vénus Électrique by Pierre Salvadoria romantic comedy set in 1928 Paris starring Pio Marmai and Anaïs Demoustier.
Already announced in the line-up also John Travolta’s directorial debut with One-Way Propeller based on his 1997 novel of the same name. The president of the jury will be the Korean director Park Chan-wook. No Italian film is present in the official selectiondespite the increasingly insistent rumors in the last hours of the presence of the new film by Nanni Moretti It will happen tonight.
Among the other titles announced in Competition, the film by Ira Sachs stands out The Man I Love with Rami Malek and Rebecca Hall, The Beloved by Rodrigo Sorogoyen e Fjord by Cristian Mungiu with Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. The new film by Nicolas Winding Refn is out of competition Her Private Hell with Charles Melton, Sophie Thatcher, Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu and Diego Calva. Documentaries on John Lennon and Richard Avedon are also awaited directed by Steven Soderbergh and Ron Howard respectively.
Cannes Film Festival 2026: the programme, films and guests
Films in Competition
Minotaur – Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Beloved – Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Man I Love – Ira Sachs
Fatherland – Paweł Pawlikowski
Story of the night – Léa Mysius
Moulin – Laszlo Nemes
Fjord – Cristian Mungiu
Our regards – Emmanuel Marre
Sandra Hüller in a scene from the film “Fatherland” by Paweł Pawlikowski. (Photo by Agata Grzybowska)
Gentle Monster – Marie Kreutzer
Nagi Notes – Koji Fukada
Hope – Na Hong-Jin
Sheep In the Box – Hirokazu Kore-eda
Guarantees – Jeanne Herry
The Unknown – Arthur Harrari
Sudden – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Dreamed Adventure – Valeska Grisebach
Coward – Lukas Dhont
Parallel Tales – Asghar Farhadi
The black bola – Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo
A Woman’s Life – Charline Bourgeois-Taquet
Amarga Navidad – Pedro Almodovar
Isabelle Huppert and director Asghar Farhadi on the set of “Parallel Tales”
Film Out of Competition
Her Private Hell – Nicolas Winding Refn
Diamond –Andy Garcia
Karma – Guillaume Canet
Objet du deli – Agnes Jaoui
De Gaulle – Antonin Baudry
A certain regard
The sweetest – 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
Special screenings
John Lennon: The Last Interview – Steven Soderbergh
Avedon – Ron Howard
Les Survivants du Che – Christophe Réveille
Les Matins Merveilleux – Avril Besson
Cannes Premiere
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
One-Way Propeller –John Travolta
A scene from John Travolta’s film “Propeller One-Way”.
Midnight Screenings
Elastic Rome – Bertrand Mandico
Full Phil – Quentin Dupieux
Colony – Yeon Sang-ho
Jim Queen – Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen
Bloody – Marion Le Coroller
Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart in “Full Phil” by Quentin Dupieux
The star guests on the red carpet of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival
Many stars are expected on the Croisette this year that will accompany their respective films. Starting with very rich cast of the film in Competition Hope by Na Hong-Jin which includes Zo In-sung, Taylor Russell, Michael Fassbender, Hwang Jung-min, Hoyeon and Alicia Vikander. Still in competition, Parallel Tales by Asghar Farhadi will bring to the red carpet Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent CasselPierre Niney and Adam Bessa.
Expected too Woody Harrelson and Kristen Stewart to present the film Full Phil by Quentin Dupieux in the Midnight Screenings section. Cara Delevingne will instead be present with Club Kid by Jordan Firstman in the Un certain regard section together with Gillian Anderson, protagonist of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Of Jane Schoenbrun.
