The upcoming Cannes Film Festival, which is being held from May 12 to 23, 2026, is set to open with the French film The Electric Kiss by Pierre Salvadori.
The full competition lineup was also announced on April 9. From previous winners Hirokazu Kore-eda, Asghar Farhadi, and Pedro Almodovar to indie filmmakers like Ira Sachs, the lineup is already shaping to be intriguing. Actor John Travolta is also screening his directorial debut Propeller One-Way, which will honour his late son Jett. The film will later premiere on Apple TV.
No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook is president of the jury, while filmmaker Peter Jackson and veteran actress Barbra Streisand are set to be presented with the honorary Palme d’Or. The highlights of this year’s selection include Ira Sachs’ The Man I Love, a drama about the AIDS crisis set in 1980s New York. It stars Rami Malek, Tom Sturridge, Luther Ford, Rebecca Hall, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Farhadi will premiere his second French film, Parallel Stories. The drama, filmed in Paris, features Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, and Adam Bessa.
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, Ron Howard’s Avedon; Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell; and Steven Soderbergh’s John Lennon: The Last Interview also have big premieres in their respective sections. See the full list of features about to hit the French Riveira next month.
Here is the full list of the official selection below:
Competition
Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev
El Ser Querido, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Man I Love, Ira Sachs
Fatherland, Pawel Pawlikowski
Moulin, Laszlo Nemes
Stories Of The Night, Lea Mysius
Fjord, Cristian Mungiu
Notre Salut, Emmanuel Marre
Gentle Monster, Marie Kreutzer
Nagi Notes, Koji Fukada
Hope, Na Hong-jin
Sheep In The Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda
Garance, Jeanne Herry
The Unknown, Arthur Harari
Sudden, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Dreamed Adventure, Valeska Grisebach
Coward, Lukas Dhont
The Black Ball, Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
Life Of A Woman, Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Parallel Tales, Asghar Farhadi
Bitter Christmas, Pedro Almodovar
Out of competition
Diamond, Andy Garcia
Her Private Hell, Nicolas Winding Refn
L’Abandon, Vincent Garenq
Karma, Guillaume Canet
L’Objet Du Delit, Agnes Jaoui
L’Âge de fer, Antonin Baudry
The Electric Kiss, Pierre Salvadori
Midnight Screenings
Colony, Yeon Sang-ho
Roma Elastica, Bertrand Mandico
Sanguine, Marion Le Coroller
Full Phil, Quentin Dupieux
Jim Queen, Nicolas Athane, Marco Nguyen
Cannes Premiere
Propeller One-Way Night Coach, John Travolta
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Heimsuchung, Volker Schlondorff
The Third Night, Daniel Auteuil
Special Screenings
John Lennon: The Last Interview, Steven Soderbergh
Avedon, Ron Howard
Les Survivants du Che, Christophe Réveille
Les Matins Merveilleux, Avril Besson
Un Certain Regard
Everytime, Sandra Wollner
I Am Always Your Maternal Animal, Valentina Maurel
Everything, Sandra Wollner
I’ll Be Gone in June, Katharina Rivilis
Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep, Rakan Mayasi
Congo Boy, Rafiki Fariala
The Meltdown, Manuela Martelli
Club Kid, Jordan Firstman
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun
La más dulce, Laïla Marrakchi
Le Corset, Louis Clichy