With the calendar flipping to May, we are getting close to the 2026 edition of Cannes. On Monday, festival organizers unveiled the star-studded, Oscar-caliber jury assembling on the Croisette.
Keep reading for everything you need to know about the 79th Festival de Cannes.
When is the Cannes Film Festival?
The festival will run May 12–23, 2026.
Who is serving on the jury?
Expect the Palme d’Or to get a little freaky this year. That’s because Park Chan-wook, the South Korean master director of films like Oldboy and No Other Choice, will head the jury this year. Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Chloé Zhao, Diego Céspedes, Isaach De Bankolé, and Paul Laverty will sit on the panel.
Who is receiving honorary awards?
So far two honors have been announced.
First, it was revealed that Peter Jackson, the director behind the new legendary Lord of the Rings trilogy will receive an Honorary Palme d’Or during the festival’s opening on May 12.
Then the festival will be bookended with another Honorary Palme, this one to the iconic singer and filmmaker Barbra Streisand.
“It is with a sense of pride and deep humility, that I’m honored to join the company of past Honorary Palme d’or recipients whose work has long inspired me,” Streisand said in a statement. “In these challenging times, movies have the ability to open our hearts and minds to stories that reflect our shared humanity, and to perspectives that remind us of both our fragility and our resilience. Cinema transcends borders and politics, and affirms the power of imagination to shape a more compassionate world.”
What is playing there?
The initial lineup was announced on April 9, with additional films added on the April 16. Here’s a look at everything playing this year:
Competition
Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Beloved, Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Man I Love, Ira Sachs
Fatherland, Paweł Pawlikowski
Moulin, László Nemes
The Birthday Party, Léa Mysius
Fjord, Cristian Mungiu
Notre Salut, Emmanuel Marre
Gentle Monster, Marie Kreutzer
Nagi Notes, Hiroshi Fukada
Hope, Na Hong-jin
Sheep in the Box, Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Unknown, Arthur Harari
All of a Sudden, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Dreamed Adventure, Valeska Grisebach
Another Day, Jeanne Herry
Coward, Lukas Dhont
The Black Ball, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo
A Woman’s Life, Charline Bourgeois-Taquet
Parallel Tales, Asghar Farhadi
Bitter Christmas, Pedro Almodóvar
Paper Tiger, James Gray
Un Certain Regard
All the Lovers in the Night, Yukiko Sode
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun
Everytime, Sandra Wollner
Club Kid, Jordan Firstman
I’ll Be Gone in June, Katharina Rivilis
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep, Rakan Mayasi
The Meltdown, Manuela Martelli
Elephants in the Fog, Abinash Bikram Shah
Iron Boy, Louis Clichy
Ben’imana, Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo
Congo Boy, Rafiki Fariala
Uļa, Viesturs Kairišs
Strawberries, Laïla Marrakchi
Forever Your Maternal Animal, Valentina Maurel
Words of Love, Rudi Rosenberg
A Girl’s Story, Judith Godrèche
Titanic Ocean, Konstantina Kotzamani
Victorian Psycho, Zachary Wigon
Ulysse (closing film), Laetitia Masson
Special Screenings
John Lennon: The Last Interview, Steven Soderbergh
Avedon, Ron Howard
Les Survivants du Che, Christophe Réveille
Les Matins Merveilleux, Avril Besson
Rehearsals for a Revolution, Pegah Ahangarani
L’affaire Marie-Claire, Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller
Cantona, David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas
Cannes Premiere
Visitation, Volker Schlöndorff
Propeller One-Way Night Coach, John Travolta
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Third Night, Daniel Auteuil
The Match, Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco
Aqui, Tiago Guedes
The End of It, Maria Martinez Bayona
Mary Magdalene, Gessica Généus
Orange-Flavoured Wedding, Christophe Honoré
Si Tu Penses Bien, Géraldine Nakache
Midnight Screenings
Sanguine, Marion Le Coroller
Jim Queen, Marco Nguyen and Nicolas Athane
Colony, Yeon Sang-ho
Roma Elastica, Bertrand Mandico
Ashes, Diego Luna
Groundswell, Joshua and Rebecca Tickell
Le Triangle d’Or, Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz
Spring, Rostislav Kirpičenko
Tangles, Leah Nelson
Family Screening
Lucy Lost, Olivier Clert
This article was first published on March 11 and updated on May 4.
