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The 51st edition of the Cannes Film Festival will run from May 14 to 25. We're continuing to add information to this page as more films are announced and details revealed, so watch this space.
View Films by Strand:
- Cannes Classics
- Competition
- Critics' Week
- Directors' Fortnight
- Midnight Screenings
- Out of Competition
- Short Film Competition & Cinéfondation
- Special Screenings
- Un Certain Regard
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Cannes Latest Reviews

When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.

A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination?

After Rémi's infidelity, Lila, who loved him more than anything, has a hard time dealing with their break-up. One day, he announces that he will travel alone to Bolivia to soul-search and try to understand his mistakes. There, he lets her know that their love story is not over.

A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.

A tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

A young woman's struggles with love, war and motherhood over the span of five years in Syria.

A gang boss survives an attack by a serial killer and works with a detective to try and track him down.

On an isolated island in Bretagne at the end of the 18th century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.

A migrant to Belgium loses his job and finds himself in trouble thanks to his non-citizen status.

Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home.
Cannes Film Festival Features
Cannes Film Festival News

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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