Films by Almodovar, Pawlikowski and Hamaguchi lead an auteur-heavy Cannes Film Festival lineup - AP News

Films by Almodovar, Pawlikowski and Hamaguchi lead an auteur-heavy Cannes Film Festival lineup  AP News

Farhadi, Almódovar, Zvyagintsev to vie for Cannes Palme d'Or

Twenty-one directors will be in contention for the top prize at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. There will also be a surprising amount of football in the program, with documentaries about Eric Cantona and the England-Argentina 1986 World Cup game featuring Maradona's notorious handball.

Cannes looks beyond Hollywood as US film-makers mostly fail to make the grade

The 79th edition of the influential festival boasts an auteur-heavy lineup – with one, very big, country conspicuous by its almost total absence Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes as auteur heavyweights dominate festival lineup Has Europe fallen out of love with the US? Has Cannes fallen out of love with Hollywood? Will the festival, like Nato, become a non-American institution? Either way, the annual announcement of the Cannes selection has revealed a list that skews away ...

By Peter Bradshaw

Almodóvar, Travolta and Bardem lead 2026 Cannes lineup

Film critic Ben Croll joins Eve Jackson to break down this year’s Cannes lineup - from the biggest names to the films already generating buzz, and what it all says about the state of global cinema.

By Eve JACKSON

LISTEN: Cannes Film Festival Slate Showcases Euro Auteurs; Patricia Glaser Defends Casey Wasserman and More From Variety’s Power of Law

On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Brent Lang and Elsa Keslassy analyze this year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup, which puts the accent on European auteur filmmakers. And top Hollywood litigator Patricia Glaser talks tough about social media, the Southern California economy, and she offers a full-throated defense of the embattled Casey Wasserman, in […]

By Cynthia Littleton

Lukas Dhont’s ‘Coward’ First Look Shows Soldiers in Battle Ahead of Cannes Competition

The Belgian director’s period drama and his third to launch on the Croisette follows a soldier grappling with cowardice and heroism in the trenches of the First World War.

By Etan Vlessing

Cannes: Losange Films Unveils Teaser For Chilean Director Manuela Martelli’s Un Certain Regard Film

EXCLUSIVE: Chilean director Manuela Martelli will make her Cannes Official Selection debut this May as with her second feature Meltdown premiering in Un Certain Regard, and Deadline can reveal a first teaser. Set in Chile in 1992, during a a time of transition after Pinochet’s 17-year dictatorship, the drama follows nine-year-old Inès who befriends teenage […]

By Melanie Goodfellow

From football to Streisand, here’s what's to come at Cannes 2026

The competition selection for this year's Cannes Film Festival was announced on Thursday, with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, Spain's Pedro Almodovar and Russia's Andrey Zvyagintsev among the 21 directors vying for the coveted Palme d'Or.

By Ollia Horton with RFI

Na Hong-jin's sci-fi film 'Hope' heads to Cannes main competition

Director Na Hong-jin's new film, "Hope," will compete for the top honor at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The sci-fi film was named one of the 21 titles invited to the competition section of the 79th edition of the festival, organizers said Thursday, marking the first Korean film in four years to vie for the Palme d'Or. The last Korean entry in the same category was Park Chan-wook's "Decision to Leave" in 2022. The selection means every feature work by the Na has now been invited to Cannes, s

By The Korea Herald

Italy out of Cannes like World Cup? No big deal, films will return says Frémaux

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 9 - Asked about the fact that no Italian director is competing for the Golden palm at this year's Cannes Film Festival and its coincidence with Italy's failure to get to the World Cup for the third straight time, general delegate Thierry Fremaux said it was no big deal and he was sure that Italian films would return to the world's top movie fest. "Italy is a great country of cinema, and there will be some small additions... But let's say that perhaps we haven't seen films t...

By ANSA

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film selected for Cannes main competition, Variety reports

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film, “Minotaur,” has been selected for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 12–23, 2026, the entertainment trade outlet Variety reports.

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s latest film selected in Cannes festival competition

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