On 9 April at 11:00 CEST, the organisers of the 79th Cannes Film Festival, President Iris Knobloch and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux, met with the media in a live-streamed event to present the Official Selection of films, which will be judged by the official jury chaired this year by the renowned director Park Chan-wook.
Follow the live presentation of the nominees below.
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All the nominees by section in the Official Selection of the 79th Cannes Film Festival
Opening Film
- LA VÉNUS ÉLECTRIQUE - Pierre Salvadori
Palme d'Or 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 Grisbach
- ALL OF SUDDEN - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
- THE UNKNOWN - Arthur Harari
- ANOTHER DAY - Jeanne Herry
- SHEEP IN THE BOX - Hirokazu Kore-Eda
- HOPE - Hong-jin Na
- NAGI NOTES - Koji Fukada
- GENTLE MONSTER - Marie Kreutzer
- NOTRE SALUT - Emmanuel Marre
- FJORD - Cristian Mungiu
- THE BIRTHDAY PARTY - Léa Mysius
- MOULIN - Laszló Nemes
- FATHERLAND - Pawel 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 - Jane Schoenbrun
- ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG - Abinash Bikram Shah
- IRON BOY - Louis Clichy
- BEN'IMANA - Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo
- CONGO BOY - Rafiki Fariala
- CLUB KID - Jordan Firstman
- UĻA - Viesturs Kairiss
- LA MÁS DULCE (STRAWBERRIES) - Laila Marraakchi
- EL DESHIELO (THE MELTDOWN) - Manuela Martelli
- SIEMPRE SOY TU ANIMAL MATERNO (FOREVER YOUR MATERNAL ANIMAL) - Valentina Maurel
- YESTERDAY THE EYE DIDN'T SLEEP - Rakan Mayasi
- I'LL BE GONE IN JUNE - Katharina Rivilis
- WORDS OF LOVE - Rudi Rosenberg
- EVERYTIME - Sandra Wollner
- ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT - Yukiko Sode
Out of Competition
- LA BATAILLE DE GAULLE : L'ÂGE DE FER - Antonin Baudry
- KARMA - Guillaume Canet
- DIAMOND - Andy Garcia
- L'ABANDON - Vincent Garenq
- L'OBJET DU DÉLIT - Agnes Jaoui
- HER PRIVATE HELL - Nicolas Winding Refn
Midnight Screenings
- FULL PHIL - Quentin Dupieux
- SANGUINE - Marion Le Corroller
- ROMA ELASTICA - Bertrand Mandico
- JIM QUEEN - Marco Nguyen & Nicolas Athané
- GUN-CHE (COLONY) - Sang-ho Yeon
Cannes Premiere
- LA TROISIÈME NUIT - Daniel Auteuil
- THE MATCH - Juan Cabral & Santiago Franco
- KOKUROJO (THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- HEIMSUCHUNG (VISITATION) - Volker Schlöndorff
- PROPELLER ONE-WAY NIGHT COACH - John Travolta
Special Screenings
- REHEARSALS FOR A REVOLUTION - Pegah Ahangarani
- LES MATINS MERVEILLEUX - Avril Besson
- L'AFFAIRE MARIE-CLAIRE - Lauriane Escaffre & Yvo Muller
- AVEDON - Ron Howard
- LES SURVIVANTS DU CHE - Christophe Dimitri Réveille
- JOHN LENNON: THE LAST INTERVIEW - Steven Soderbergh
- CANTONA - David Tryhorn & Ben Nicholas
A 2026 Cannes Film Festival with a strong Spanish flavour
Thierry Frémaux has just concluded his speech with a clear reference to the difficult situation facing the traditional film industry, and specifically Spanish cinema. To paraphrase, he emphasised that this year's Official Selection features a good handful of high-quality Spanish films by various directors and of different sensibilities (Pedro Almodóvar, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Javier Calvo, and Javier Ambrossi). Despite cinema closures and falling attendance, Spanish cinema is 'very much alive'.
"There is a certain movement within Spanish cinema, which is struggling and suffering to find cinemas, to find funding and the budget to stay alive. So Pedro Almodóvar is adding to the Official Selection with his film [Amarga Navidad], which will be presented on 13 May."
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