The 79th annual Cannes Film Festival will take place from 12 to 23 May 2026. South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook will serve as jury president for the main competition. French actress Eye Haïdara will serve as host for the opening and closing ceremonies.
During the festival, two Honorary Palme d'Ors will be awarded: to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, and to American actress, singer and filmmaker Barbra Streisand.
The festival will open with the French period-comedy film The Electric Kiss by Pierre Salvadori.
The official selection line-up is expected to be released on 9 April 2026.
Expected world (or international) premieres in the Main Competition or in sidebar sections include:
James Gray's Paper Tiger, Michael Cera's Love Is Not the Answer, Joel Coen's Jack of Spades and Terrence Malick's The Way of the Wind.
Cristian Mungiu's Fjord, Pedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas, Nanni Moretti's It Will Happen Tonight, Nicolas Winding Refn's Her Private Hell, Valeska Grisebach's The Dreamed Adventure, Werner Herzog's Bucking Fastard, Kantemir Balagov's Butterfly Jam, Lukas Dhont's Coward, Andrey Zvyagintsev's Minotaur, Paweà  Pawlikowski's Fatherland, Albert Serra's Out of This World, Rodrigo Sorogoyen's The Beloved, Hlynur Pálmason's On Land and Sea, Felix van Groeningen's Let Love In, Sergei Loznitsa's Imperium, Marie Kreutzer's Gentle Monster, May el-ToukhyâÂÂs Woman, Unknown, Amanda Kernell's Brace Your Heart, Levan KoguashviliâÂÂs Giuria, Kirill SerebrennikovâÂÂs Après, Tamara KotevskaâÂÂs Man Vs Flock, Clio BarnardâÂÂs I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning and Corneliu Porumboiu's The Costume.
Asghar Farhadi's Parallel Tales, Arthur Harari's The Unknown, Judith Godrèche's A GirlâÂÂs Story, Bruno DumontâÂÂs Red Rocks, Nicole Garcia's Milo, Stéphane Demoustier's La Chaleur, Léa Mysius' The Birthday Party, Quentin Dupieux's Full Phil, Alexandre Arcady's The Last Concert, Stéphane Brizé's A Good Little Soldier, Daniel Auteuil's When The Night Falls, Yann Gonzalez' IâÂÂll Forget Your Name, Cédric Kahn's A Place To Heal, Fellipe BarbosaâÂÂs Leila Et La Nuit, Martin Provost's Love Lessons, Radu Jude's The Diary of a Chambermaid, Antonin Baudry's De Gaulle (part one), Ladj Ly's Dumas: Black Devil, Fred Cavayé's Les Misérables, László Nemes' Moulin and Bertrand Mandico's Roma elastica.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Sheep in the Box and Look Back, Na Hong-jin's Hope, Takashi Miike's ', July Jung's Dora, Yeon Sang-ho's Colony and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's '.
Carlos Reygadas' Wake of Umbra, Gael GarcÃÂa Bernal's Hombre al agua, Dominga Sotomayor's La Perra and Lisandro Alonso's La Libertad Doble.
Maha Haj's Orient Adagio, Kaouther Ben Hania's Mimesis, Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawwaf's Gaza Year Zero, Mohamed Diab's Lion and Laïla Marrakchi's Strawberries.
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: