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Cannes Film Festival · 2026

Cannes Film Festival 2026

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9 films · 1 review

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Blaise

Review preview for Blaise

Planchon shows plenty of skill as he layers on the absurdity until several of the plotlines begin to coalesce.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
The Sauvage family just wants to be loved. Carole is trying to improve her poor reputation among her employees, while Jacques is trying to do the same with his friends. As for their son Blaise, politely, he's about to embark on a revolutionary, violent, and completely impromptu crusade for a girl.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Dimitri Planchon, Jean-Paul Guigue; Writer: Dimitri Planchon, Clémence Lebatteux)

Full review See: Interview with Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue about Blaise

Born Under A Bad Star (Mauvaise Étoile)

Scorching heat in a suburban neighborhood in the South of France. It's the end-of-year party at the local sports club. Birds are falling from their nests, wildfires are raging, and Kiki remainsunder the spell of her Bad Star.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Yann Berlier, Lola Cambourieu)

Dans La Gueule de L'Ogre

Director's note: I can't quite grasp the adventurouslife of my brother Siavash, so far from my own. While I have just become French and he is about to become American, far from our native Iran, we are searching for common ground.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Masha Karampour)

Detention (La Détention)

Open a door. Handle a crisis. Write an incident report. At France’s prison officer academy, hundreds of men and women learn to become prison guards. Their words begin to mirror the institution. Their movements sharpen. What once felt uncertain becomes routine. Doubt slowly fades from their faces.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Guillaume Massart)

Living Twice, Dying Thrice

Three miners who survived the collapse of a mine decide to hide their deaths so that their families can claim compensation. Their clandestine life gradually leads to new crises: family tensions, a desire to start anew, and a search for identity that brings them all the way to Tehran. Meanwhile, Iranian authorities await proof of death…

(Country: Iran; Year: 2026; Director: Karim Lakzadeh; Writer: Karim Lakzadeh)

Promised Spaces

Sleepless from the heat, Sokun leaves his crowded construction dormitory and joins a community of fellow workers living in one of many unfinished high-rises. One such tower offers a long-awaited luxury home for its first tenant, Seda, who soon feels trapped in the vast gated complex.

(Country: Serbia, France, Cambodia, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Ivan Marković; Writer: Ivan Marković; Stars: Vollak Kong, Chea Loch, Vita Vong, Lyer Von, Theara Or, Kanitha Tith)

Rewind Barcelona (Barça Zou)

On their eighteenth summer, Emile, Paul, Hascoet and Leo head to Barcelona, the mecca of skateboarding, for their first vacation together. Ten years later, they catch up and recall those days.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Paul Nouhet)

A Secret Heart (Cœur Secret)

Director's note: Over the last four years, Lilou left her secret life behind, becoming a 64-year-old woman who enjoys DIY, gardening, cycling and looking after her grandchildren. As I accompanied her through her transformation, I filmed a family healing its wounds and reinventing a place for everyone. This is my family, Lilou is my father.

(Year: 2026; Director: Tom Fontenille)

Summer Drift (Virages)

It's summer in Geneva. Johanna works on the assembly line of a luxury watch factory and she's not going on vacation. As she considers getting rid of her old VW Beetle, she decides instead to bring it back to life and confront the world of mechanics that once rejected her.

(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2026; Director: Céline Carridroit & Aline Suter)