Overview

• The 82nd edition begins a roughly ten‑day run with Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia as the opening film.
• Festival organizers defended the event as a forum for open, sensitive conversation after a letter urged a public condemnation of the Gaza war.
• Olivier Assayas’s El Mago del Kremlin and Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab headline politically sensitive selections, with Jude Law portraying a young Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano playing a Surkov‑inspired figure.
• Netflix anchors major premieres with Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein starring Oscar Isaac, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite led by Idris Elba, and Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly with George Clooney and Adam Sandler.
• Julia Roberts is set to appear for Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt alongside a high‑profile roster including George Clooney, Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett and Jim Jarmusch, while El Correo reports Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler will not attend Julian Schnabel’s In the Hand of Dante.