Cannes 2026 is fully committed to auteur cinema, with Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almodóvar, Paweł Pawlikowski, Ira Sachs, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Laszlo Nemes, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi all bringing new films to competition. Sachs is the only American director in the main competition with "The Man I Love," a musical fantasy about the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York starring Rami Malek. Notable is the large number of French-language films in competition, including Farhadi's "Parallel Tales" and Nemes' "Moulin," while five female directors have been selected. The festival opens on May 12 with Pierre Salvadori's "The Electric Kiss" and will be chaired by Park Chan-wook.

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