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Cannes Film Festival · 2026

Cannes Film Festival 2026

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21 films · 10 reviews

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All Of A Sudden (Soudain)

Review preview for All Of A Sudden

Hamaguchi’s most pointed provocation is not that the nursing home becomes excessive in its care, but that ordinary neglect has trained us to see basic tenderness as excess.

Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.

(Country: Japan, France, Belgium, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi; Writer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna; Stars: Virginie Efira, Tao Okamoto, Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Kodai Kurosaki, Jean-Louis Garçon, Marie Bunel, Jean-Charles Clichet, Margot Maricot, Lazare Gousseau, Jérôme Chappatte, Evelyne Istria, Elisabeth Tamaris, Aurélia Petit, Heidi Becker-Babel)

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Another Day (Garance)

A young actress finds herself in a spiral.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Jeanne Herry; Writer: Jeanne Herry; Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Sara Giraudeau)

World premiere

The Beloved (El ser querido)

A director and his estranged daughter, a struggling actress, make a movie together, forcing them to confront their troubled past

(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Writer: Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña; Stars: Javier Bardem, Victoria Luengo, Raúl Arévalo, Marina Foïs, Mourad Ouani, Raúl Prieto, Melina Matthews, Núria Prims, Pablo Gómez-Pando, Malena Villa, Laura Birn, Chos, Pepa Gracia, Raquel Ferri, Conchi Albiñana Espejo)

World premiere

Bitter Christmas

Melodrama featuring parallel stories asks what right a filmmaker has to plunder reality of those close to them for their work.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2026; Director: Pedro Almodóvar; Writer: Pedro Almodóvar; Stars: Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, Quim Gutiérrez, Rossy de Palma, Carmen Machi, Antonio Araque, Diogo Belizario, Nourdin Batán, Laura Ledesma, Tusti de las Heras, Gloria Muñoz)

International premiere

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.

(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2026; Director: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Writer: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo; Stars: Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, Glenn Close, Lorenzo Zurzolo)

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Coward

Soldiers try to keep their hope alive on the frontline in the First World War.

(Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands; Year: 2026; Director: Lukas Dhont; Writer: Lukas Dhont, Angelo Tijssens; Stars: Valentin Campagne, Emmanuel Macchia, Jonas Wertz)

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The Dreamed Adventure

n the border region between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, a woman agrees to a deal to help an old acquaintance with dangerous consequences.

(Country: Germany, France, Austria, Bulgaria; Director: Valeska Grisebach; Stars: Syuleyman Alilov Letifo, Yana Radeva, Velko Frandev)

World premiere

Fatherland

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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.

(Country: Poland, Germany, Italy, France; Year: 2026; Director: Pawel Pawlikowski; Writer: Pawel Pawlikowski; Stars: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Anna Madeley, Devid Striesow, David Menkin, Joachim Meyerhoff, Enno Trebs, Theo Trebs, Waldemar Kobus, Daniel Wagner, Fritzi Haberlandt, Milan Peschel, Joanna Kulig, Christophe Falconnet)

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Fjord

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Mungiu’s eye moves between the juggernaut and the barely visible.

Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.

(Country: Romania, France, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden; Year: 2026; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu; Stars: Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Giulia Nahmany, Ingvild Lien, Turid Vatne, Alin Panc, Emilie Hetland, Sofie Vartdal)

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Histoire De La Nuit

Thriller focused on 40th birthday party preparations that don't go to plan.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Léa Mysius; Writer: Léa Mysius, based on the novel The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier; Stars: Hafsia Herzi, Bastien Bouillon, Monica Bellucci, Benoît Magimel)

World premiere

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

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2026; Director: Na Hong-jin; Writer: Na Hong-jin; Stars: Jung-min Hwang, In-sung Zo, Hoyeon)

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The Man I Love

Musical fantasy set against the backdrop of New York's AIDs epidemic in the 1980s.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias; Stars: Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall)

World premiere

A Man Of His Time (Notre Salut)

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.

(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2026; Director: Emmanuel Marre; Writer: Emmanuel Marre; Stars: Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke, Mathieu Perotto)

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Minotaur

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Zvyagintsev handles this material with his familiar control: psychological realism, cold visual restraint and an aversion to overt flourish.

Edin Custo · 3 out of 5
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.

(Country: France, Germany, Latvia; Year: 2026; Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev; Writer: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Simon Lyashenko; Stars: Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva, Varvara Shmykova)

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Moulin

The story of resistance fighter Jean Moulin, who unifed the main networks of the French Resistance in the Second World War.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: László Nemes; Writer: Olivier Demangel; Stars: Gilles Lellouche, Lars Eidinger, Christian Harting, Hortense de Gromard, Félix Lefebvre, Marcin Czarnik, Pierre Nisse, Cser Kinga)

World premiere

Nagi Notes

Yoriko, an artist living in rural Nagi, is haunted by a former love affair she cannot bear to mourn. When Yuri, a recently separated architect, travels from Tokyo to visit her friend and former sister-in-law, both women find themselves at a crossroad, each searching for ways to let go of the past and define their identities.

(Country: Japan, Singapore, France; Year: 2026; Director: Koji Fukada; Writer: Koji Fukada; Stars: Takako Matsu, Kenichi Matsuyama, Shizuka Ishibashi, Kawaguchi Waku, Kiyora Fujiwara, Sawako Fujima, Ron Mizuma, Shin Seo-gye)

World premiere

Paper Tiger

Review preview for Paper Tiger

The issue is that if you strip out the elevated craft and A-list performances, what is left is the sort of bread-and-butter plot arc Cagney & Lacey used to rely on back in the day.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme.

(Country: US, Italy, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Adam Driver, Miles Teller, Scarlett Johansson, Joel Marsh Garland, Raphael Corkhill, Meredith Holzman, Cindy Katz, Patrick Murney, Jeff Adler, Rosslyn Luke, Dimiter D Marinov, Yelena Solovey, Yavor Vesselinov)

Full review See: James Gray, Miles Teller and Adam Driver in conversation on Paper Tiger

World premiere

Parallel Tales

A young man falls madly in love with an older woman, leading to dangerous obsession. A loose remake of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog VI.

(Country: France, Belgium, Italy, US; Year: 2026; Director: Asghar Farhadi; Writer: Asghar Farhadi, Massoumeh Lahidji; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, Catherine Deneuve, Adam Bessa, India Hair)

World premiere

Sheep In The Box

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Suffers from an underdeveloped subplot and over-indulged length.

Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
A couple take a humanoid robot into their home as a replacement for their dead son.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Haruka Ayase, Daigo Yamamoto, Kuwaki Rimu, Nana Seino, Kanichiro Sato, Hinata Hiiragi, Akihiro Kakuta, Kayo Noro, Mari Hoshino, Ayumu Nakajima, Kimiko Yo, Min Tanaka)

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The Unknown (L'inconnue)

Fantasy based on a graphic novel that sees a photographer wake up in the body of a stranger.

(Country: France, Italy; Year: 2026; Director: Arthur Harari; Writer: Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro, Lucas Harari, Justine Triet; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Niels Schneider, Victoire du Bois, Lilith Grasmug, Valérie Dréville, Shanti Masud, Alexandre Pallu)

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A Woman's Life

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Director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet weaves an intricate life for Gabrielle without making it feel like a melodrama

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet; Writer: Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet; Stars: Léa Drucker, Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto, Marie-Christine Barrault)

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