Cannes Film Festival Delegate General Thierry Frémaux is about to unveil the lineup for this year’s edition at a press conference in Paris.
Frémaux is joined at the presser by Cannes President Iris Knobloch. The event is taking place at a new venue, UGC Montparnasse, following the closure of UGC Normandy on the Champs-Élysées, where the announcement was traditionally made. You can watch the press conference live here and follow our list of titles set for the Croisette below, which will be updated live.
Earlier this week, the fest confirmed Tom Cruise and Paramount‘s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will debut on the Croisette. The movie will play Out of Competition on May 14 with Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie, and cast treading the carpet—the trailer for the movie launched on Monday.
Titles for which speculation is running high include Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Maryam Touzani’s Calle Malaga, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée, Haifaa Al Mansour’s Unidentified, Fatih Akin’s Amrum, Lazlo Nemes’ Orphan, and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent.
Other films we’d be surprised not to see somewhere in the Cannes lineup — i.e., not all in Competition, but spread across the whole program — are Jim Jarmusch’s Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, the Dardenne brothers’ Young Mothers, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Kirill Serebrennikov’s The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele.
Robert De Niro will receive the festival’s honorary Palme d’Or at the opening night ceremony. French actress Juliette Binoche will serve as the President of the Jury, succeeding last year’s jury head, Greta Gerwig.
This year’s festival runs May 13 — 24.
COMPETITION
UN CERTAIN REGARD
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego Céspedes
My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr
Urchin, Harris Dickinson
Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson
Once Upon A Time In Gaza, Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser
Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Morad Mostafa
OUT OF COMPETITION
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie
Vie Privée, Rebecca Zlotowski
The Richest Woman in the World, Thierry Klifa
The Coming of the Future, Cedric Klapisch
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
CANNES PREMIERE
Amrum, Fatih Akin
Splitsville, Mike Corvino
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell, Raoul Peck
The Wave, Sebestian Lelio
Connemara, Alex Lutz
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Stories of Surrender, Bono
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Sylvain Chomet
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