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Cannes Film Festival

12 May – 30 March 2026

The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 12 to 23. Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson are to receive honorary Palmes d'Or at the 79th edition. Park Chan-Wook will head the jury. The line-up will be announced on April 9. The festival will open with The Electric Kiss. We are currently inputting the line-up so please check back.

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Latest reviews

  • La Bola Negra
    Review preview for La Bola Negra

    La Bola Negra was an unfinished work in a life cut short but the film named (variously) for it is extension and tribute and triumph.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
  • Flesh And Fuel
    Review preview for Flesh And Fuel

    The unassuming love story serves a second purpose, employing a personal lens to explore the European Union’s troubling status quo.

    Lukasz Al-Darawsheh · 4 out of 5
    Étienne is a lorry driver. Fastened to the road, his love life is reduced to fleeting, nameless encounters in parking lots. When he meets Bartosz, a Polish lorry driver, his loneliness is turned upside down.
  • Hope
    Review preview for Hope

    Hope's scale and scope and delightful detail make it a banquet, if not an all-you-can-eat buffet.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A thriller set near Korea's heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone. When a tiger is reported to have been sighted, the community is thrown into chaos
  • Goodbye Cruel World
    Review preview for Goodbye Cruel World

    Goodbye Cruel World shifts the narrative away from the bleakness one might expect, showing that it’s possible to make a film about a difficult and sensitive subject with tenderness, humour and sprinkles of hope.

    Carla Pantilie · 4 out of 5
    Otto Vidal, 14, disappears after writing a farewell letter to his classmates. While everyone believes he is dead, Léna, a girl from his high school, spots him one night roaming the streets of the city.
  • Low Expectations
    Review preview for Low Expectations

    The plot begins where screenwriting manuals would suggest a cut, in the aimless downtime of everyday life.

    Lehel Fazakas · 3.5 out of 5
    A successful young artist's career derails, forcing her back to her hometown. While teaching high school to make ends meet, she navigates depression and rediscovers herself in unexpected ways.
  • Fatherland
    Review preview for Fatherland

    The way Zischler and Hüller play their relationship is so wonderfully real and subtle and appropriately opaque for all us non-Mann family members, that it at times brought tears to my eyes.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Drama focusing on Thomas Mann's post-war life, as he and his daughter embark on a road-trip across Germany.
  • A Man Of His Time
    Review preview for A Man Of His Time

    There exists no safe ground when you are part of a regime that uses fear and threats as casual tools.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    Historical drama set against a backdrop of Vichy France as a man strives to help France's renewal.
  • Death Has No Master
    Review preview for Death Has No Master

    That sense of human frailty – in mind as well as body – which haunts much of European colonial literature is strongly in evidence here.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    In Venezuela, the heiress of a colonial cacao plantation and its entrenched guardians enter a duel for the land, where the only harvest left is violence.
  • Victorian Psycho
    Review preview for Victorian Psycho

    Wigon’s film is arch as a proscenium from the start

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
  • La Gradiva
    Review preview for La Gradiva

    Pompeii becomes a place where fantasy is tested against historical violence, and where looking too closely can break the story one came to preserve.

    Edin Custo · 4 out of 5
    A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.

A–Z of Cannes Film Festival 2026 reviews

Features

  • The aftermath
    Jorge Thielen Armand on returning to Venezuela to make Death Has No Master
  • Age and urgency
    Daniel Talbott and Andrew Klaus-Vineyard on Welcome To Tool Shed
  • Driven by love and capitalism
    Director Pierre Le Gall on the themes of Flesh and Fuel
  • Driving for authenticity
    Julian Swiezewski on trucking, gay romance and the power of normality in Flesh And Fuel
  • Untold history
    Christophe Réveille on his documentary Che Guevara: The Last Companions
  • In totality
    Reuben Hamlyn on the intersections of ordinary life with horrific acts, and Sunday's Children
  • Siren school
    Konstantina Kotzamani on professional mermaids and Titanic Ocean
  • Same movie, different mode
    James Gray, Miles Teller and Adam Driver discuss making Paper Tiger
  • Spectators
    Marie Kreutzer, Léa Seydoux, Laurence Rupp and Catherine Deneuve on Gentle Monster
  • Conflicted characters
    Alexis Manenti on Too Many Beasts and Flesh And Fuel
  • Love, not reason
    Pawel Pawlikowski, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl and Hanns Zischler discuss Fatherland
  • The accidental revolutionary
    Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue discuss artistic evolution and Blaise

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