Overview
- Cannes organizers, who presented the slate Thursday in Paris, named 21 Competition titles and said a few more selections will follow.
- The festival opens May 12 with Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss, runs through May 23, and will host John Travolta’s directorial debut in the Cannes Premiere section.
- Park Chan-wook will lead the main jury, and Peter Jackson and Barbra Streisand will receive Honorary Palme d’Or awards.
- The program leans arthouse and international, featuring films by Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Cristian Mungiu, and Paweł Pawlikowski, while major Hollywood studio premieres are scarce.
- Programmers said 2,541 features from 141 countries were submitted, and five films by women made the Competition lineup.