The 75th Cannes Film Festival has officially kicked off in the south of France. This is the first proper in-person festival (at capacity) since 2019 and the Croisette is already buzzing ahead of nearly two weeks’ celebrating everything film.
Competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or this year are the likes of Kelly Reichardt, David Cronenberg, James Gray, Ruben Ostlund, Claire Denis, and more, while high profile movie stars including Tom Cruise are expected to descend on the famous Palais des Festivals (pictured above).
The festival opens this evening with a screening of Michel Hazanavicius’ new film, Coupez! (Final Cut), itself a remake of the 2017 zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead.
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis film is also set to premiere out of competition later in the festival, while there will be also celebrations on the beach celebrating anniversaries of films like This Is Spinal Tap and The Godfather.
The full line-up for the festival, which runs from 17th-28th May, is as follows:
Special Screenings
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble In Mind, Ethan Coen
- The Natural History Of Destruction, Sergei Loznitsa
- All That Breathes, Shaunak Sen
Competition
- Holy Spider, Ali Abbasi
- Les Amandiers, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
- Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg
- The Stars at Noon, Claire Denis
- Frere et Soeur, Arnaud Desplechin
- Tori and Lokita, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
- Close, Lukas Dhont
- Armageddon Time, James Gray
- Broker, Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Nostalgia, Mario Martone
- R.M.N., Cristian Mungiu
- Triangle of Sadness, Ruben Ostlund
- Decisions to Leave, Park Chan-Wook
- Showing Up, Kelly Reichardt
- Leila’s Brothers, Saeed Roustayi
- Boy from Heaven, Tarik Saleh
- Tchaikovsky’s Wife, Kirill Serebrennikov
- Hi-Han (Eo), Jerzy Skolimowski
Un Certain Regard
- The Silent Twins, Agnieszka Smocynska
- The Stranger, Thomas M Wright
- Joyland, Saim Sadiq (first film)
- Rodeo, Lola Quivoron (first film)
- Godland, Hlynur Pálmason
- Butterfly Vision, Maksim Nakonechnyi (first film)
- Corsage, Marie Kreutzer
- Beast, Riley Keough and Gina Gammell (first film)
- Plan 75, Hayakawa Chie (first film)
- Domingo And The Midst, Ariel Escalante Meza
- Sick Of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli
- All The People I’ll Never Be, Davy Chou
- Metronom, Alexandru Belc (first film)
- Burning Days, Emin Alper
- Les Pires, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (first film)
Out Of Competition
- Coupez!, Michel Hazanavicius (Opening film)
- Masquerade, Nicolas Bedos
- Three Thousand Years Of Longing, George Miller
- Novembre, Cédric Jimenez
- Elvis, Baz Luhrmann
- Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski
Midnight Screening
- Hunt, Lee Jung-Jae
- Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen
- Fumer Fait Tousser, Quentin Dupieux
Cannes Premiere
- Irma Vep, Olivier Assayas
- Dodo, Panos H. Koutras
- Nightfall, Marco Bellocchio
- Nos Frangins, Rachid Bouchareb
