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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