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Independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival, showcasing the most unique and visionary new cinema each year since 1969. 58th 13 - 23 May 2026
<p>A film that explores how a woman's movie collection triggers her infidelity. Created for one viewer—the woman whose confessions are revealed through hypnotic second-person narration.</p>
<p>In a coastal village, three stories of masculine pride unfold: in a local band, musicians compete to outshine one another with their virtuosity; a tourist desperately tries to impress his new girlfriend over lunch; and an amateur ping pong player faces a humiliating defeat at the hands of a young girl.</p>
<p>Koki, a gardener in Guatemala City, hides a secret: he is a vampire. By day he lives with his wife, and young son; by night he feeds in the shadows. Together, the parents try to shield the boy from the curse.</p>
<p>Amidst an icy dreamscape, a woman takes refuge in a black metal karaoke bar. Outside, she finds a lone penguin stranded in a tree, cut off from its colony.</p>
<p>Eliza works at a hotel resort, moving through a cycle of roles designed to always keep the guests satisfied. Behind the polished surface of the hotel, she struggles to balance an unseen private life, all while carrying a rare anatomical condition: she is physically unable to smile. In a world obsessed with toxic positivity, Eliza must decide whether to change herself to fit in, or to resist by remaining exactly who she is.</p>
<p>In a world where cows who do not bear calves cannot remain, Eri, a Holstein cow, falls in love with another female.</p>
<p>After the death of their ill-tempered and controlling father, two middle-aged sisters find themselves at a loss. An unexpected visitor sparks the courage in them to begin their lives anew. An animated adaptation of the modernist short story of the same name, written by Katherine Mansfield in 1920.</p>
<p>South of Marrakech, Sellam travels the roads of the Atlas Mountains in pursuit of a mysterious bird.</p>
<p>"Hey — what if I told you I am an alien?" In a small Japanese town, an ordinary boy's quiet betrayal sets in motion something he will spend the rest of his life trying to forget.</p>
<p>Shana navigates the trials and tribulations of everyday life with boundless energy and the support of her group of friends. When her grandmother passes away, she inherits a ring that is supposed to protect her from the evil eye. Shana certainly needs this helping hand. Especially since her toxic partner has been released from prison, and misfortunes are piling up!</p>
<p>“I blame Michel Seydoux, with whom I have worked for forty years, for being responsible for the making and the release of my next film. After pushing me—and even grabbing hold of me, being younger and stronger—he forced me to finish putting into cinematic order my final desires to film. Having, it is said, reached a gentle serenity, may I ask him not to pass on any possible opinions about the film to me? I can already see his smile...” Having, it is said, reached a gentle serenity, may I ask him not to pass on any possible opinions about the film to me? I can already see his smile...”</p>
<p>A decade after his death, one of the most significant and compelling filmmakers of the past century has one last trick up his sleeve: a trove of never-before-seen footage that he believed to be the most important he ever filmed. Genre-defying director William Greaves searches for the divine origins of his own creativity at a cocktail party he masterminded in 1972 for the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance.</p>
<p>At the height of her music career, Maja falls apart and has to step away from her ambitions. Depressed and broke, she moves back home with her mother and works part-time at a local high school. Far from the spotlight, wrapped in everyday kindness, she slowly finds her way back to life.</p>
<p>On the French Riviera, two gangs of kids compete in the perilous game of cliff jumping. Géo, barely five years old, discovers over the course of a summer a world where friendship blends with rivalry, and where the first stirrings of the heart emerge against the dazzling Mediterranean landscape.</p>
<p>Jacques visits his friend Bruno to share some big news: humanity is actually living in a simulation.</p>
<p>Gianina, a young Romanian, works as a housekeeper for a bourgeois family in Bordeaux. In the evenings, she rehearses the role of a maid with an amateur theater troupe in an adaptation of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau. She takes care of Louen, her employers’ son, while her own daughter is growing up away from her, in Romania.</p>
<p>On a remote, wind-lashed island off the Chilean coast, Silvia earns her living harvesting seaweed and shares a quiet life with her partner. When she adopts a stray puppy, Yuri, her days fill with joy and love. But Yuri’s sudden disappearance reawakens a haunting childhood trauma.</p>
<p>On the cusp of turning 30, Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor, five childhood friends from the same estate, are suddenly forced to confront a life where their hopes and dreams haven’t materialised. They are all walking the high wire. But which one will fall?</p>
<p>In northern France, Gabin, the youngest of the Jourdel family, finds himself destined to take over his father's butcher shop. Тorn between family loyalty and a desire to break free, his dreams lie elsewhere: to train a contest cow, to become a dog breeder, and to save his mother’s farm from financial ruin. Spanning a decade, Gabin immerses us in this young boy’s world, following his journey from the age of 8 to 18.</p>
<p>Misael works alone. Armed with his axe, he fells trees in the forest. An unexpected responsibility upends his life, and the rhythm of his days gradually dissolves into a wilderness where human reason no longer holds meaning.</p>
<p>The film follows society woman Clarissa as she prepares to host a party at her home in Lagos, Nigeria, where she will unexpectedly encounter once-intimate friends from her youth. As the group reflects on their shared past over the course of a single night, memories of their intricate relationships, passionate love, hidden desires, and lost aspirations give rise to bittersweet reckoning.</p>
<p>In the back alleys of Seville, Salva, Belén, and their gang of street kids will brave every danger to ward off the threat hanging over Carmen, a free-spirited and flamboyant young woman. The fate of Carmen, a rebellious soul, lies in their hands.</p>
<p>16 years old Pyteh splits his time between the wrestling mat and his family’s struggling Circassian diner in Newark. A single impulsive decision by his hustling father changes the course of his life, shaping a tale of pride, legacy, and masculinity.</p>
<p>In the early days of the Iraq War, a U.S. Marine’s split-second decision during a firefight devastates an Iraqi family. Years later, aided by a New Yorker journalist, he seeks to reconcile with the woman and her family who survived. Atonement is inspired by true events.</p>
<p>After a fortune teller warns him that his elderly mother may die soon, Sakol sets out on a one-day pilgrimage to nine temples as a remedy. Just two weeks before her birthday, he brings his ailing mother, along with his wife, brother, sister, and children, on the trip amid the splendor of Thai architecture.</p>
<p>In a diligent attempt, Thomas seeks to find a final resting place for his only child, but he is surprised that today is not the right day to do so.</p>