The annual tradition of Cannes head honcho Thierry Frémaux sitting at a little table at the front of a Parisian cinema and reading out his print out of titles with some soft rambling between each drop has happened for the 2026 edition of the festival. We’ve of course been combing through all the prediction articles to get a sense of what might make the cut, and to be honest, aside from a couple of last-minute surprises, Frémaux stuck to the script, with new works by Paweł Pawlikowski, Pedro Almodóvar, Ira Sachs and Nicolas Winding Refn all announced. (Though Refn, shockingly, will not be presenting his lipsmacking return to feature filmmaking, Her Private Hell, in competition!). Here’s our at-a-glance list of all the titles announced so far, transcribed from the announcement, with the promise of more to come in the next few weeks. Do take a peek and let us know what you’re excited for.
Opening Film
The Electric Kiss by Pierre Salvadori
Un Certain Regard
Elephants In The Fog by Abinash Bikram Shah
Iron Boy by Louis Clichy
Ben’imana by Marie-clémentine Dusabejambo
Congo Boy by Rafiki Fariala
Club Kid by Jordan Firstman
Uļa by Viesturs Kairišs
La Más Dulce by Laïla Marrakchi (Strawberries)
El Deshielo by Manuela Martelli (The Meltdown)
Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno by Valentina Maurel (Forever Your Maternal Animal)
Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep by Rakan Mayasi
I’ll Be Gone In June by Katharina Rivilis
Words Of Love by Rudi Rosenberg
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma by Jane Schoenbrun (Opening Film)
Everytime by Sandra Wollner
All The Lovers In The Night by Sode Yukiko
Special Screenings
Les Matins Merveilleux by Avril Besson
Avedon by Ron Howard
Rehearsal for a Revolution by Biga al Ahani
The Survivors of Che by Christophe Réveille
John Lennon: The Last Interview by Steven Soderbergh
Cantona by David Treehorn
Cannes Première
Propeller One-Way Night Coach by John Travolta
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Match by Sabiano Franco
The Third Night by Daniel Auteuil
Heimsuchung by Volker Schlöndorff
Midnight Screenings
Colony by Yeon Sang-ho
Roma elastica by Bertrand Mondico
Sanguine by Marion Le Corroller
Full Phil by Quentin Dupieux
Jim Queen by Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen
Out of Competition
Her Private Hell by Nicolas Winding Refn
L’Abandon by Vincent Garenq
Diamond by Andy Garcia
Karma by Guillaume Canet
L’Objet Du Delit by Agnes Jaoui
De Gaulle: Tilting Iron by Antonin Baudry
Competition
Minotaur by Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Beloved by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Man I Love by Ira Sachs
1949 by Paweł Pawlikowski
Moulin by Lazlo Nemes
The Birthday Party by Léa Mysius
Fjord by Cristian Mungiu
Notre Salut by Emmanuel Marre
Gentle Monster by Marie Kreuzer
Nagi Notes by Koji Fukada
Hope by Na Hong-Jin
Sheep in the Box by Hirokazu Koreda
Garance by Jeanne Herry
The Unknown by Arthur Harari
All of a Sudden by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Dreamed Adventure by Valeska Griesbach
Coward by Lukas Dhont
The Black Ball by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi
A Woman’s Life by Charline Bourgeois-Taquet
Parallel Stories by Asghar Farhardi
Bitter Christmas by Pedro Almodóvar
The Cannes Film Festival 2026 runs from May 12 until May 23.
