Cannes Film Festival 2026

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Iron Boy Iron Boy
Iron Boy and I’ll Be Gone In June
All The Lovers In The Night (Country: Japan; Year: 2026; Director: Yukiko Sode; Writer: Yukiko Sode; Stars: Yukino Kishii, Tadanobu Asano)
A proofreader's life begins to change after a chance encounter.
Ben’imana (Country: Rwanda; Year: 2026; Director: Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo; Writer: Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo)
A female survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide finds her sability rocked when her teenage daughter becomes pregnant.
Club Kid (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Jordan Firstman; Writer: Jordan Firstman; Stars: Jordan Firstman, Cara Delevingne, Diego Calva, Reggie Absolom, Eldar Isgandarov)
A washed-up party promoter is forced to take in the young son he didn't know he had.
Congo Boy (Year: 2026; Director: Rafiki Fariala)
Tale of a teenage refugee, whose musical dreams face challenges in the Central African Republic.
Elephants In The Fog (Country: Nepal, Germany, Brazil, France, Norway; Director: Abinash Bikram Shah; Writer: Abinash Bikram Shah)
In a small Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants, Pirati is the matriarch of a community of transgender women. But when one of her "daughters" disappears, she must choose between love and responsibility to her community.
Everytime (Year: 2026; Director: Sandra Wollner; Writer: Sandra Wollner; Stars: Birgit Minichmayr, Tristán López, Lotte Keiling, Carla Hüttermann)
A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together.
A Girl’s Story (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Judith Godrèche; Writer: Judith Godrèche; Stars: Esther Archambault, Maïwène Barthélémy, Tess Barthélémy, Sephora Pondi, Valérie Dréville, Victor Bonnel, Louise Labèque, Anja Verderosa, Mamadou Sidibé, Lancelot Courcieras, Manon Valentin, Thibault Bonenfant, François-Xavier Raffier, Ariane Labed, Léa Léviant)
During a book signing in Normandy, Annie Ernaux, 70, revisits her memories of the summer of 1958, when she was 17.
I’ll Be Gone In June (Country: Germany, Switzerland, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Katharina Rivilis; Writer: Katharina Rivilis; Stars: Naomi Cosma, Bianca Dumais, Elijah De Billie, Mia Ayon, Marco Silva, Logan Sage)
It’s 2001, and 16-year-old Franny from Germany dreams of experiencing America as an exchange student. She had imagined the glamour of New York, but instead finds herself in a sleepy desert town in New Mexico in the haunting days after 9/11.
Iron Boy (Le Corset) (Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2026; Director: Louis Clichy; Writer: Louis Clichy, Franck Salomé; Stars: Alexandre Astier, Dimitri Colas, Gary Clichy, Brune Moulin, Rod Paradot, Aurélie Vassort, Jean-Pascal Zadi)
When a young boy is forced to wear an iron corset for health reasons, he has to reinvent his life on his family farm, discovering friendship and a new passion for music. Animation
The Meltdown (Country: Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Spain, France, US; Year: 2026; Director: Manuela Martelli; Writer: Manuela Martelli; Stars: Saskia Rosendahl, Jakub Gierszał, Paulina Urrutia, Mauricio Pesutic, Roberto Farías, Maia Domagala, Maya O’Rourke)
A young woman in early 90s Chile befriends a skier staying at her grandparents resort. But then the European goes missing...
Strawberries (Year: 2026; Director: Laïla Marrakchi; Writer: Laïla Marrakchi, Delphine Agut; Stars: Nisrin Erradi, Itsaso Arana, Fran Cantos, Paco Mora, Olga Navalón, Nando Pérez, Marina Redondo)
Tale about a seasonal worker from Morocco who goes to work in a strawberry greenhouse in Andalucia but her dream of providing for her family clashes with the reality of abuse and inhumane living conditions.
Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma (Country: UK, US; Year: 2026; Director: Jane Schoenbrun; Writer: Jane Schoenbrun; Stars: Hannah Einbinder, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Fix, Arthur Conti, Eva Victor, Zach Cherry, Sarah Sherman, Patrick Fischler, Dylan Baker, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Kevin McDonald, Quintessa Swindell, Jack Haven, Jess McLeod, Louise Weard)
When the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed to a new director, she visits the original movie's star only to fall into a blood-soaked world of desire and delirium.
Opening film
Ulya (Uļa) (Country: Latvia, Estonia, Poland; Director: Viesturs Kairišs; Writer: Viesturs Kairišs, Karlis Arnolds Avots, Livia Ulman, Andris Feldmanis; Stars: Karlis Arnolds Avots, Chulpan Khamatova, Aleksas Kazanavičius, Artūrs Krūzkops, Kaspars Dumburs, Alise Dzene)
Drama based on the life of Latvian basketball star Uljana Semjonova.
Ulysse (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Laetitia Masson; Writer: Laetitia Masson; Stars: Élodie Bouchez, Stanislas Merhar, Romane Bohringer, Sebastien Judea, Thomas Badinot)
Alice, a sociology researcher, and Volodymyr, a pianist, are going to have a child! They will call him Ulysses. Except that Ulysses is different.
Victorian Psycho (Country: US, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Zachary Wigon; Writer: Virginia Feito; Stars: Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, Amy De Bhrún, Katherine Moran, Dagmar Döring, Jacobi Jupe, Kate Brady)
Trouble brews at a gothic manor after they hire a governess.
Words Of Love (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Rudi Rosenberg)
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Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep (Country: Belgium, Lebanon, Palestinian Territory; Year: 2026; Director: Rakan Mayasi; Writer: Rakan Mayasi, Wahid Ajmi; Stars: Jawaher Mawlah, Reem Mawlah, Yasser Mawlah)
When someone sets fire to a car, a spark of trouble spreads through a tightly woven community.
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