The Festival de Cannes’ Iris Knobloch and Thierry Frémaux have unveiled the fest’s 79th Official Selection, opening with Pierre Salvadori’s La Vénus électrique as the festival’s Opening Film Out of Competition.
The Official Selection brings together a striking mix of auteurs and bold new work, with films from Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Lukas Dhont, Ira Sachs, and Andrey Zvyagintsev. Un Certain Regard continues that momentum with its own singular mix of discoveries and expected conversation-starters, led by Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Together, the selections point to a Cannes edition shaped by global reach, auteur pedigree, and a strong appetite for work with a clear point of view.
This year’s lineup spans a wide international field, bringing together established auteurs and distinctive new voices in a slate that feels both ambitious and curated with real intent.
Opening Film
- La Vénus électrique — Pierre Salvadori (Out of Competition)
Competition
- Amarga Navidad — Pedro Almodóvar
- Parallel Tales — Asghar Farhadi
- A Woman’s Life — Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
- La Bola Negra — Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
- Coward — Lukas Dhont
- Das geträumte Abenteuer — Valeska Grisebach
- All of Sudden — Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- The Unknown — Arthur Harari
- Another Day — Jeanne Herry
- Sheep in the Box — Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Hope — Na Hong-jin
- Nagi Notes — Koji Fukada
- Gentle Monster — Marie Kreutzer
- Notre Salut — Emmanuel Marre
- Fjord — Cristian Mungiu
- The Birthday Party — Léa Mysius
- Moulin — László Nemes
- Fatherland — Paweł Pawlikowski
- The Man I Love — Ira Sachs
- El Ser Querido (The Beloved) — Rodrigo Sorogoyen
- Minotaur — Andrey Zvyagintsev
Un Certain Regard
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma — Opening Film
- Elephants in the Fog — Jane Schoenbrun
- Iron Boy — Abinash Bikram Shah
- Ben’Imana — Louis Clichy
- Congo Boy Club — Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo
- Kid UĻa — Jordan Firstman
- La Más Dulce (Strawberries) — Viesturs Kairišs
- El Deshielo (The Meltdown) — Laïla Marrakchi
- Siempre Soy Tu Animal Materno (Forever Your Maternal Animal) — Manuela Martelli
- Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep — Valentina Maurel
- I’ll Be Gone in June — Rakan Mayasi
- Words of Love Everytime — Katharina Rivilis
- All the Lovers in the Night — Rudi Rosenberg
- Sode — Yukiko Sode
Video Courtesy of Festival de Cannes | Featured Photo: Mathilde Petit/FDC
