UPDATE: The Official Selection lineup for the 76th Cannes Film Festival has been revealed, with 19 movies in Competition (see full lists below). Returning to the fray this year are such previous Palme d’Or winners as Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nanni Moretti, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders and Hirokazu Kore-eda. Wenders also has a movie in Special Screenings while Kore-eda, with the Japanese drama Monster, is back-to-back in the mix after 2022’s Korean-language Broker.
Other familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Todd Haynes with May December starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore; Wes Anderson with the mega-ensemble Asteroid City; Jonathan Glazer and The Zone of Interest; and Aki Kaurismaki with Fallen Leaves.
Across the rest of the Official Selection, Steve McQueen’s Occupied City notably has a Special Screenings berth while Takeshi Kitano is in Cannes Premiere with Kubi. Anurag Kashyap nabbed a Midnight Screenings slot with Kennedy and HBO’s The Idol from Sam Levinson is playing in the Out of Competition strand.
As is Cannes General Delegate Thierry Frémaux’s wont, there are still more titles to be added in the coming weeks.
Scroll down for the full list announced today, and we’ll be back later with a closer look and analysis.
PREVIOUS: While a handful of big-ticket Cannes Film Festival titles have already been revealed, the bulk of the Official Selection for the 76th edition will be unveiled today. General Delegate Thierry Frémaux is announcing the lineup for the May 16-27 event from Paris’ UGC Normandie cinema this morning and we are updating the list live below; you can also watch the livestream here.
Frémaux will be joined by Iris Knobloch, the former WarnerMedia France and Germany boss who has succeeded Pierre Lescure as Cannes Film Festival President.
Confirmed ahead of today’s rundown of the films in Official Selection, Indiana Jones is making a return to the red carpet with Harrison Ford due in town for the world premiere of Disney/Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny directed by James Mangold.
Martin Scorsese’s latest, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, has a berth — whether it’s in competition should be revealed today. Paramount will release the Apple Original Films drama theatrically in France on October 18.
We’ve also reported that Wes Anderson’s star-packed Asteroid City from Focus will be heading into the Palais while the festival this week announced that Pedro Almodóvar’s short, Strange Way of Life, starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, will world premiere on the Riviera.
And, in what’s sure to be a draw on opening night, Johnny Depp’s so-called “comeback” movie, Jeanne Du Barry, will raise the curtain on the fest on May 16.
Among other movies tipped to launch on the Croisette are Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera and Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s long-anticipated return to feature filmmaking. Further speculation has circled around Todd Haynes’ May December, Nanni Moretti’s Il Sol Dell’Avvenire, Michel Franco’s Memory, Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero, Abderrahmane Sissako’s Perfumed Hill, Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, Robin Campillo’s Red Island and Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer. There’s also chatter about a debut for HBO series The Idol starring Lily-Rose Depp and The Weeknd.
We’ll know more in just a little while; see below for the list of films as they are revealed today:
CANNES 2023 OFFICIAL SELECTION
COMPETITION
Club Zero, dir: Jessica Hausner
The Zone of Interest, dir: Jonathan Glazer
Fallen Leaves, dir: Aki Kaurismaki
Four Daughters, dir: Kaouther Ben Hania
Asteroid City, dir: Wes Anderson
Anatomie d’Une Chute, dir: Justine Triet
Monster, dir: Hiokazu Kore-eda
Il Sol dell’Avvenire, dir: Nanni Moretti
La Chimera, dir: Alice Rohrwacher
L’Eté Dernier, dir: Catherine Breillat
La Passion De Dodin Bouffant, dir: Tran Anh Hung
About Dry Grasses, dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
May December, dir: Todd Haynes
Rapito, dir: Marco Bellocchio
Firebrand, dir: Karim Ainouz
The Old Oak, dir: Ken Loach
*Banel et Adama, dir: Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Perfect Days, dir: Wim Wenders
Jeunesse, dir: Wang Bing
OUT OF COMPETITION
Killers of the Flower Moon, dir: Martin Scorsese
Jeanne du Barry, dir: Maïwenn
The Idol, dir: Sam Levinson
Cobweb, dir: Kim Jee-woon
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, dir: James Mangold
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Omar La Fraise, dir: Elias Belkeddar
Acide, dir: Just Philippot
Kennedy, dir: Anurag Kashyap
CANNES PREMIERE
Le Temps d’Aimer, dir: Katell Quillevere
Kubi, dir: Takeshi Kitano
Cerrar los Ojos, dir: Victor Erice
Bonnar, Pierre et Marthe, dir: Martin Provost
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Anselm, dir: Wim Wenders
Occupied City, dir: Steve McQueen
Man in Black, dir: Wang Bing
UN CERTAIN REGARD
*How to Have Sex, dir: Molly Manning Walker
The Delinquents, dir: Rodrigo Moreno
Simple Comme Sylvain, dir: Monia Chokri
The Settlers, dir: Felipe Galvez
The Mother of All Lies, dir: Asmae El Moodier
The Buriti Flower, dirs: Joao Salaviza & Renee Nader
*Goodbye Julia, dir: Mohammed Kordofani
*Omen, dir: Baloji Thasiani
The Breaking Ice, dir: Anthony Chen
Rosalie, dir: Stéphanie Di Giusto
The New Boy, dir: Warwick Thornton
*If Only I Could Hibernate, dir: Zoljargal Purevdash
*Hopeless, dir: Kim Chang-hoon
*Rien à Perdre, dir: Delphine Deloget
*Les Meutes, dir: Kamal Lazraq
Terrestrial Verses, dirs: Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami
La Regne Animal, dir: Thomas Cailley
*Denotes first film eligible for the Camera d’Or