Overview
- The Cannes Film Festival, which unveiled its 2026 competition lineup Thursday, confirmed 21 titles from major directors including Pedro Almodóvar, Asghar Farhadi and Hirokazu Kore-eda.
- German director Valeska Grisebach enters the Palme d’Or race with Das geträumte Abenteuer, set in the border region linking Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.
- German-language profiles figure prominently through Pawel Pawlikowski’s Vaterland starring Sandra Hüller and August Diehl, alongside Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer’s Gentle Monster.
- Only one American filmmaker, Ira Sachs, is in the competition with The Man I Love, a New York story set in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis.
- The festival runs May 12–23 on the French Riviera, with non-competition draws such as John Travolta’s directing debut set for a world premiere.