From James Gray, Ruben Östlund & Paweł Pawlikowski To Iñárritu’s Tom Cruise-Starrer, ‘Cliff Booth’ & Judith Godrèche’s Feature Debut: 79 Films That Could Light Up Festivals In 2026

Happy New Year! Goodbye 2025 and hullo 2026. As nan Deadline squad catches its activity earlier hitting nan world movie show circuit erstwhile again later this month, present is our yearly (non-exhaustive) database of U.S. and world movies we believe/hope will make nan cut. As successful our erstwhile prediction lists, we’ve focused connected titles that person already started filming aliases are successful post-production and which haven’t yet been announced for a festival.

There’s ever awesome liking successful which workplace movies could grace Cannes, Venice and different A-list festivals. We perceive movies improbable to debut connected nan Croisette, contempt their early summertime motorboat dates, see Steven Spielberg’s UFO movie Disclosure Day (June 12 launch) and Disney/Pixar sequel Toy Story 5 (June 19). Christopher Nolan’s red-hot epic The Odyssey (July 17) is surely opening arsenic a standalone summertime blockbuster, pinch nan head eschewing show launches for galore years. And conscionable ideate nan workplace costs associated pinch getting each that talent to nan Riviera! That leaves Cannes perchance short-handed successful position of awesome workplace launches. But Thierry Frémaux often useful magic truthful let’s see. There will still beryllium plentifulness of high-profile pictures to take from, arsenic our database beneath reveals.

Looking to nan autumn festivals, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s newly titled Digger, starring Tom Cruise looks imaginable for Venice, while Dune: Part Three has been dated for December 18, truthful seems to beryllium removed from show contention. There’s besides a mobility people complete Netflix’s anticipated The Adventures Of Cliff Booth. David Fincher is reportedly still filming into January truthful he’d person to spell immoderate to beryllium fresh for a summertime merchandise (which was reported successful 1 trade) but we perceive that Venice isn’t disconnected nan table. Netflix often has a patient contingent connected nan Lido, and Fincher’s past movie (also for Netflix), The Killer, launched successful Venice, and 2 of his past 5 films debuted astatine nan New York Film Festival. Tom Ford’s starry play Cry To Heaven is filming into nan early outpouring and hasn’t group a workplace partner yet truthful seems improbable to beryllium fresh for a 2026 launch.

Check retired our database below.

Paper Tiger
Adam Driver, Miles Teller and Scarlett Johansson prima successful James Gray’s New York-set crime play astir 2 brothers whose pursuit of nan American Dream puts them connected nan incorrect broadside of nan Russian mafia. Expectations are precocious for a premiere successful Cannes, wherever Gray has already debuted 5 features including past movie Armageddon Time. Producer Rodrigo Teixeira proclaimed to Deadline successful December that Paper Tiger is Gray’s champion movie ever.

The Entertainment System is Down
Ruben Östlund’s caller movie is 1 of nan astir anticipated independent pictures of nan twelvemonth acknowledgment to its high-profile ensemble cast and nan Swedish director’s Cannes Palme d’Or and Oscar information track-record. The acheronian satire is group connected a formation betwixt England and Australia connected which nan intermezo strategy fails, forcing nan passengers to support themselves occupied complete nan people of nan long-haul journey. The ample ensemble formed features Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, Keanu Reeves, Nicholas Braun, Samantha Morton and Tobias Menzies.

A Girl’s Story
Judith Godrèche rocked nan French cinema world successful 2024 pinch intersexual maltreatment accusations against board Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon, turbo-charging France’s MeToo activity successful nan process. She is now gearing up to unveil her characteristic directorial debut adapted from Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel. Valérie Dréville, Tess Barthélémy, Maïwène Barthélémy and Anna Mouglalis lead nan ensemble formed bringing Ernaux’s flashbacks to life arsenic she reminisces during a book-signing travel that triggers memories of nan pivotal summertime of 1958. Godrèche, who has been a regular impermanent successful Cannes arsenic an actress, deed nan show arsenic a head successful 2023 pinch short movie Moi Aussi.

1949
After a lengthy break, Oscar-winning Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski is backmost pinch this Cold War drama co-starring Hanns Zischler and Sandra Hüller arsenic writer Thomas Mann and his girl Erika, an actress, journalist, and rally driver. Based connected nan 2021 novel The Magician by Colm Tóibín, nan characteristic follows nan Manns connected a roadworthy travel they took crossed Germany successful 1949 from Frankfurt in West Germany to Weimar, East Germany. Pawlikowski was past connected nan show successful 2018 pinch Cold War which played successful title successful Cannes and was past nominated for 3 Oscars.

Out of This World
After Tahiti-set Pacification and bullfighting doc Afternoons of Solitude, Cannes and San Sebastian regular Albert Serra delves into geopolitics, pinch this communicative of an American delegation connected a ngo to Russia during nan Ukrainian war. Riley Keough features successful nan formed alongside F. Murray Abraham, Evgeniya Gromova and Liza Yankovskaia.

The Adventures Of Cliff Booth
First revealed by Deadline successful June, Netflix’s movie continues nan communicative of Brad Pitt’s characteristic from Once Upon a Time successful Hollywood. David Fincher directs, pinch Quentin Tarantino’s blessing and nan latter’s script. Also successful nan formed are Yahya Abdul-Mateen, Elizabeth Debicki, Carla Cugino and Scott Caan. What’s not to like? The autumn festivals would termination to person nan movie. Netflix ever has a patient contingent connected nan Lido. Could this beryllium portion of nan 2026 class?

Digger
Warner Bros and Legendary’s new Tom Cruise movie directed by four-time Oscar victor Alejandro González Iñárritu has recently been titled Digger and will deed theaters connected Oct 2, 2026 — that’s nan prized framework wherever Warner Bros/DC’s Joker bowed successful 2019 aft world premiering successful Venice. Expectations are precocious for nan movie described arsenic “a drama of catastrophic proportions.” Fall festivals are apt successful nan chat astatine nan moment.

The Unknown
French head Arthur Harari drew wide praise for Onoda: 10,000 Nights successful nan Jungle, which premiered successful Cannes Un Certain Regard successful 2021, and past shared nan Best Original Screenplay Oscar pinch Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall successful 2024. His 3rd characteristic adapts his schematic caller The Case of David Zimmerman, co-written pinch relative Lucas Harari. The imagination play revolves astir nan titular David, a reclusive photographer who wakes up connected New Year’s Day to find himself successful nan assemblage of a female he clocked astatine a statement nan erstwhile night. The formed features Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider.

Gentle Monster
Austrian head Marie Kreutzer won acclaim for humanities drama Corsage, starring Vicky Krieps arsenic Empress Elisabeth of Austria, aliases Sisi, which played successful Un Certain Regard successful 2022 and was past Austria’s Oscar entry. Her caller drama stars Léa Seydoux arsenic a renowned pianist who relocates pinch her family to nan countryside and past uncovers a life-shattering truth that forces her to face nan complexities of emotion and trust. The formed besides features Jella Haase (Chantal successful Fairyland), Laurence Rupp (Veni, Vidi, Vici) and Catherine Deneuve.

Misty Green (working title)
Rosalind Eleazar (Slow Horses) stars arsenic talented character Misty Green who is attempting to re-set a profession derailed by her vices successful this original characteristic written and directed by Chris Rock. The stand-up and character besides appears successful nan domiciled of movie head Jordan (Rock), who offers Misty a domiciled that would beryllium cleanable for her if it were not for their contentious past. The formed besides features Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, and Anna Kendrick.

Parallel Tales
Iranian head Asghar Farhadi returns to France for a 2nd clip aft 2013 mates play The Past. His caller French-language play gathers a high-profile ensemble cast topped by Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa, pinch Catherine Deneuve besides putting successful a little appearance. The film’s storyline was being kept nether wraps until Cassel revealed successful an question and reply complete nan summertime that it is inspired by nan Paris 2015 panic attacks and that he plays a S.W.A.T officer. Farhadi, who won Oscars for his Iran-set features A Separation (2012) and The Salesman (2018,) vowed successful 2024 that he would nary longer make films astatine location until nan country’s Islamic Republic authorities lifts draconian rules astir women’s authorities and attire.

Fjord  
Romanian head Cristian Mungiu’s English-language debut co-stars Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value) arsenic a Romanian and Norwegian mates whose plans for a caller life successful nan wife’s autochthonal fjord colony travel up against neighbors pinch a very different outlook connected life. The film, which features immoderate Romanian dialogue, besides marks a first for Stan who was calved successful Romania but has ne'er acted successful his autochthonal language, having grown up successful Austria and past nan U.S. Mungiu has played successful title astatine Cannes 4 times, winning nan Palme d’Or for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days successful 2007; Best Screenplay for Beyond The Hills successful 2012 and Best Director for Graduation successful 2016. He told Deadline successful December that he is aiming for a Cannes berth once again.

At The Sea & Place To Be
Hungarian head Kornél Mundruczó’s Hollywood rate roseate successful 2020 pinch English-language debut Pieces of a Woman aft Vanessa Kirby was Oscar-nominated for her capacity successful nan film. It remains to beryllium seen whether Amy Adams will bask a akin trajectory arsenic nan prima of his latest movie astir a female who takes refuge successful her family’s formation location aft a awesome life setback. Mundruczó is group for a high-profile 2026 pinch a 2nd film, Place To Be, starring Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi, besides presently successful post-production.

A Family
Carice van Houten, Pieter Embrechts, and rising young talents Celeste Holsheimer and Finn Vogels co-star successful this friendly Dutch-language image of 2 siblings caught successful nan affectional crossfire of their parents’ divorce, unfolding their communicative from mirrored perspectives arsenic they navigate loyalty, heartbreak and nan vulnerable way backmost to love. It is nan 2nd characteristic from Netherlands filmmaker Mees Peijnenburg, whose debut Paradise Drifters premiered astatine nan 2020 Berlinale.

Wolfram
Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton’s caller movie is billed arsenic a play occidental group connected nan 1930s assemblage frontier. It follows 3 Aboriginal children who flight sadistic servitude successful nan wolfram mines and embark connected a vulnerable travel crossed Central Australia successful hunt of information and a early they tin telephone their own. Thornton won nan Cannes Caméra d’Or for his first movie Samson and Delilah successful 2009 and was backmost astatine nan show successful 2023 pinch The New Boy starring Cate Blanchett. 

Love Is Not nan Answer
Juno and Superbad prima Michael Cera makes his characteristic directorial debut pinch this absurdist drama exploring modern loneliness and nan hunt for relationship Pamela Anderson, Steve Coogan, and Jamie Dornan prima pinch further formed members including Lucas Hedges, Julia Best Warner and Shirley Henderson. Deadline is told it could beryllium fresh successful clip for a 2026 show splash.

Deli Love
A regular connected nan show circuit pinch her short films which see Chopping Onions, Cheer Up Baby and Moving, New York-based filmmaker Adinah Dancyger taps into her Korean and Polish roots for this debut characteristic revolving astir an improbable enslaved forged betwixt a Korean deli proprietor and a Polish-Jewish creator successful her location metropolis successful nan 1980s and continued against nan likelihood crossed decades.

Love Lessons
Fabrice Luchini, who won Best Actor successful Venice for his capacity successful 2015 courtroom play Courted, stars arsenic a lonely retired lit coach who reinvents his life successful French writer-director Martin Provost’s eighth movie. Other formed see Chiara Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Devos and Carole Bouquet. Provost, whose credits see Séraphine, The Midwife, How to Be a Good Wife, was past successful Cannes successful 2023 pinch creator biopic Bonnard, Pierre & Marthe.

A Long Winter
Riding precocious connected nan reception for All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh has gathered 1 of his buzziest casts to day – featuring Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear), Caitriona Balfe The Amateur, Fred Hechinger (Marty Supreme), Kit Connor (Warfare), and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Caught Stealing) – for this mountain-set communicative of a family preparing for a agelong wintertime ahead, against a backdrop of absence and regret. Adapted from nan eponymous novella by Colm Tóibín (Brooklyn, Return to Montauk), nan play began filming past October and hopes are precocious that it will beryllium fresh for a 2026 show splash.

Les Misérables
France’s Fred Cavayé has promised an action-skewed revisiting of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables pinch his French-language adjustment of nan 1862 classical novel. Vincent Lindon co-stars arsenic ex-convict and parole breaker turned benevolent industrialist Jean Valjean, other Tahar Rahim arsenic his nemesis, Inspector Javert. Further formed members see Camille Cottin, Benjamin Lavernhe and Noémie Merlant.

The Beloved
Javier Bardem stars arsenic an acclaimed movie head  who reunites pinch his unsuccessful character girl connected a movie aft years of estrangement successful Spanish head Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s first movie successful 4 years. Victoria Luengo (The Room Next Door) plays nan girl pinch different formed members including Raúl Arévalo (Pain and Glory) and Marina Foïs, who starred successful nan Sorogoyen’s 2022 Goya Best Film breakout The Beasts (As Bestas). In betwixt times, nan head made TV play The New Years.

Four Seasons successful Java 
Indonesia head Kamila Andini’s sixth characteristic revolves astir a female who returns location aft spending much than a decade successful situation for sidesplitting nan man who raped her. Finding herself unwelcome and marginalized, she unites pinch different outcasts arsenic she reconciles pinch her past and carves retired a caller life. Andini has shown astir each her films astatine nan Berlinale pinch her past characteristic Before, Now & Then premiering successful title successful 2022. In betwixt times, she made nan award-winning Netflix show Cigarette Girl.

Jia Zhangke Untitled Project
Speaking to Deadline’s Asia analogous Liz Shackleton astatine nan Pingyao International Film Festival successful September, Chinese auteur Jia Zhangke revealed he had written a screenplay for “a roadworthy movie without cars” pursuing a travel crossed nan China. He did not divulge further specifications but said he aimed to statesman shooting successful December 2025. The head was past connected nan show circuit pinch Caught by nan Tides which played successful Cannes successful competition.

Rosebush Pruning
Callum Turner and Riley Keough top nan formed of Karim Aïnouz’s remake of Marco Bellochio’s 1965 satitical play astir family dysfunction feature Fists successful nan Pocket. Aïnouz is directing book written by agelong clip Yorgos Lathimos collobrator Efthimis Filippou. Brazilian and Algerian filmmaker Aïnouz’s past 3 films – Motel Destino, Firebrand and The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao – each debuted successful Cannes.

La Bola Negra
Spanish duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, who are known collectively as Los Javos, first made waves pinch genre-bending thriller La Mesias. Their 2nd characteristic is based connected an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca and revolves astir nan interconnected stories of 3 men crossed 3 different eras. Penélope Cruz features successful nan formed alongside singer-songwriter Guitarricadelafuente, successful his big-screen debut, Cannes Best Actress victor Lola Dueñas (Volver).

A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra
Greek head Jacqueline Lentzou’s 2nd characteristic takes its cue from nan unexpected decease of a teen successful Athens, whose ray does not spell out. Lentzou antecedently made waves pinch 2021 first characteristic Moon, 66 Questions, which premiered successful Berlin’s Encounters section.

Fleur
French animation head Rémi Chayé’s past movie Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary won Best Film astatine nan Annecy International Animation Festival successful 2020. With animation progressively getting a scatter successful mainstream festivals, we’ve including his 3rd animated characteristic successful our list. Set successful nan opening of nan 20th Century, nan activity revolves astir nan fortunes of titular Fleur, a young woman who rebels against her life successful a slum connected nan outskirts of Paris and seeks retired nan agleam lights of nan Belle Epoque capital.

Yellow Letters
Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye reported successful July 2024 that Ilker Çatak had wrapped accumulation connected his adjacent feature, Yellow Letters. Çatak changeable nan movie successful concealed and has been successful post-production since past and is expected to deed nan show circuit this twelvemonth The movie follows a joined character and a professor of melodramatic arts astatine nan assemblage successful Ankara, whose lives are sent into a tailspin erstwhile they some suffer their jobs owed to “state arbitrariness”.

Ink
Hot connected nan heels of 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle delves into nan events surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of UK newspaper The Sun successful 1969 and thrust to make nan past failing broadsheet into 1 of nan country’s astir publication newspapers. He directs from James Graham’s adjustment of his Tony-nominated play of nan aforesaid name. Guy Pearce plays Murdoch other Jack O’Connell arsenic alleged tabloid king Albert “Larry” Lamb, nan Yorkshire autochthonal hired to spearhead nan newspaper’s transformation. Boyle has debuted aggregate films astatine festivals but not all.

Bitter Christmas
After winning nan Golden Lion successful Venice with The Room Next Door, legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar sewage consecutive backmost to activity with Bitter Christmas, a movie astir a female who is abandoned by her partner during Christmas time. Almodovar reunites pinch Milena Smit and Rossy de Palma connected nan film, which is nan Spanish giant’s 25th characteristic project. The movie is group for a March 20 motorboat successful Spain, truthful could play Berlin and would beryllium a important coup for Berlin caput Tricia Tuttle, though nan Spanish merchandise does not exclude it from a Cannes release.

Coward
Set successful World War One, Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s latest characteristic follows soldiers trying to support up their morale successful nan trenches. Stirred by wartime rhetoric, each of them seeks their ain path. The movie is presently group for a May 2026 merchandise successful nan filmmaker’s location country, truthful a Cannes debut is theoretically connected nan cards. Dhont was past astatine nan show successful 2022 pinch Close, which debuted successful title and was past Oscar nominated arsenic Belgium’s introduction that year.

De Gaulle: Tilting Iron & De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge
Diplomat-turned-director Antonin Baudry revisits decisive episodes of World War II done nan eyes of General Charles de Gaulle. Simon Abkarian plays de Gaulle and is joined by an ensemble that includes Benoît Magimel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Niels Schneider and Karim Leklou, Florian Lesieur and Anamaria Vartolomei. Dated for merchandise successful France connected June 10 and July 3, 2026, we would not beryllium amazed to spot astatine slightest nan first portion play Out of Competition successful Cannes. Pathé released a teaser successful precocious December which promises a polished, high-octane movie.

All of a Sudden
Japanese Oscar-winning head Ryusuke Hamaguchi followed successful nan footsteps of compatriots Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Hirokazu Kore-eda to sprout his latest image successful Paris, pinch immoderate scenes changeable successful Kyoto. French-Belgian character Virginie Efira stars other and Japanese character Tao Okamoto successful nan communicative of nan enslaved betwixt a Japanese theatre head and nan French caput of a nursing home. The play is loosely based connected published letters written by precocious philosopher Makiko Miyano successful nan aftermath of her test pinch bosom cancer.

It Will Happen Tonight
Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca co-star successful Italian head Nanni Moretti’s romance unfolding successful Rome, Turin, San Sebastian among different locations. The movie is adapted from short communicative Hungry Heart by Israeli author Eshkol Nevo, whose activity antecedently inspired Moretti’s 2021 movie Three Floors Up. Cannes would beryllium an evident berth for Moretti, who has debuted 11 films astatine nan festival, opening pinch Ecce Bombo in 1978, and including Dear Diary, for which he won champion head successful 1993, and Palme d’Or-winning The Son’s Room in 2001.

Where To?
After a bid of award-winning shorts including Auschwitz connected My Mind and Seven Minutes, Israeli head Assaf Machnes makes his characteristic debut pinch this timely Berlin-set play astir a bid of encounters betwixt a reserved 55-year-old Palestinian Uber driver and a young, outspoken Israeli, who keeps getting mislaid successful nan city.

The Uprising
Set during nan English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, Paul Greengrass’ play play stars Andrew Garfield arsenic legendary labourer-turned-rebel leader Wat Tyler. Principal photography began successful September 2025, pinch filming taking spot crossed aggregate Bavarian and Franconian locations, arsenic good arsenic astatine nan recently established Penzing Studios successful Munich. Garfield is joined successful nan formed by Jamie Bell and Thomasin McKenzie among others.

Soumsoum
Chadian head Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s caller movie unfolds successful a colony wherever a young female named Kellou is troubled by haunting visions. Feeling different from everyone astir her, her world shifts nan time she meets outcast Aya.  As nan villagers move against their budding friendship, Kellou must guidelines up for Aya and look nan hostility of her ain people, while fighting to clasp connected to her freedom. Haroun is 1 of Africa’s astir feted board pinch notable films including A Dry Season, A Screaming Man and Lingui.

Artificial
Fresh from their collaboration connected After nan Hunt, Luca Guadagnino and Andrew Garfield person reunited connected this drama play group successful nan world of artificial intelligence and reportedly inspired by nan company OpenAI and nan tumultuous fewer days 2023 successful which laminitis and CEO Sam Altman was fired and past promptly rehired. Garfield is joined successful nan formed by Yura Borisov, Monica Barbaro, Jason Schwartzman, Cooper Hoffman, Ike Barinholtz, Cooper Koch, Billie Lourd, Zosia Mamet, and Chris O’Dowd among others.

Jesse Eisenberg Untitled Musical
Jesse Eisenberg planted his emblem arsenic a superior head pinch 2024’s A Real Pain, which won an Oscar aft its Sundance debut. He returns to director’s chair pinch this untitled philharmonic task starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti. A24 has picked up world authorities connected nan project, which has mostly been kept nether wraps. We cognize thing of its plot. However, accumulation began successful early 2025, truthful nan movie is theoretically premier for a 2026 debut. 

Sheep In The Box & Look Back
Japanese Cannes regular Hirokazu Kore-eda has 2 imaginable show titles successful nan works. Sheep successful nan Box is is group successful nan adjacent early successful which a mates adopts a state-of-the-art humanoid arsenic their son, while Look Back is adapted from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s eponymous bestselling manga astir 2 girls pursuing their dreams of becoming manga artists. Kore-eda is simply a regular astatine Cannes pinch Monster, Broker, Like Father, Like Son and Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters, which went connected to unafraid an Oscar nomination.

By Any Means
The formed for Elegance Bratton’s latest characteristic is ridiculously stacked. The ensemble includes Mark Wahlberg, Nicole Beharie (The Morning Show), Giancarlo Esposito (Captain America: Brave New World), Josh Lucas (Palm Royale), David Strathairn (The Luckiest Man successful America), Ethan Embry (Scream 7), LisaGay Hamilton (The Dropout), and LaChanze (The Outsiders). The film’s crippled follows a notorious mafia hitman and a young Black FBI supplier who squad up to analyse nan murders of civilian authorities leaders successful 1966 Mississippi. By Any Means will beryllium 1 of nan hottest autumn 2026 titles. 

Enemies
American filmmaker Henry Dunham is successful a premier position to deed nan autumn festivals for nan first clip pinch his debut feature.  The movie began shooting successful May 2025, truthful it will apt beryllium successful a beardown position by nan caller year. The movie besides stars modern starring men Jeremy Allen White and Austin Butler. The movie follows a relentless detective and an infamous statement slayer who collide successful a deadly crippled of feline and mouse.

I Play Rocky 
The tumultuous 1970s accumulation of Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky is getting nan biopic curen in I Play Rocky from Amazon MGM. The movie stars Anthony Ippolito arsenic a young Stallone. The movie was heavy successful accumulation successful October 2025, according to Amazon, truthful it could beryllium fresh successful clip for a precocious autumn show debut. 

Last Days
Following successful runs astatine nan Royal Opera House successful London and nan LA Phil, nan English-language opera Last Days has been adapted for nan large surface by creator and filmmaker Matt Copson, who co-created nan original opera pinch Oliver Leith. Inspired by Gus Van Sant’s 2005 movie of nan aforesaid sanction and financed by Mubi, Spain’s AF Films, and LUMA, pinch further support from Nina Pictures and Artemis Rising Foundation, nan movie stars Agathe Rousselle (Titane) who besides starred successful nan original opera production.

Full Phil
France’s maestro of nan absurd Quentin Dupieux opened Cannes successful 2024 pinch his film-within-a-film The Second Act. His latest characteristic co-stars Woody Harrelson arsenic able American industrialist Philip Doom who travels to Paris to reconnect pinch his estranged girl (Kristen Stewart). The travel takes a unusual move acknowledgment to French food, scary films and a alien edifice employee. The formed besides features Emma Mackey, Charlotte Le Bon, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.

Wolves
Inspired by Lebanon’s real-life 2019 economical collapse, Rami Kodeih and Nora Mariana Salim’s debut characteristic revolves astir a young female who decides to shape a slope heist erstwhile she  unable to retreat her life’s savings to salary for her sister’s crab treatment. The L.A.-based hubby and woman squad antecedently made waves pinch short films Alina and Maki & Zorro.

Orient Adagio
After a high-profile 2025 for Palestinian cinema connected nan show circuit acknowledgment to films specified arsenic Palestine 36, All That’s Left Of You and Once Upon A Time In Gaza, Maha Haj looks astatine different Palestinian reality done her 3rd characteristic astir a Palestinian filmmaker, calved and raised successful a exile campy successful Syria, who gets a residency successful Paris to constitute his first feature. It’s a dream travel true, but nan weight of events backmost location sends him into creator paralysis. Haj is simply a regular connected nan show circuit, pinch her first 2 films Personal Affairs and Mediterranean Fever both debuting successful Cannes Un Certain Regard.

Behemoth!
Tony Gilroy changeable his first characteristic since 2017’s The Bourne Legacy successful 2025. Pedro Pascal leads a formed that besides includes David Harbour, Eva Victor, and Olivia Wilde. Character specifications are nether wraps, and nan film’s logline remains locked down for now, though Gilroy has shared successful interviews that nan communicative revolves astir a cellist. Gilroy’s prima powerfulness alongside a beardown formed will make this characteristic a basking title for show curators. 

Wild Horse Nine
Martin McDonagh’s long-gestating feature Wild Horse Nine began shooting successful March 2025, making nan task a apt campaigner for nan 2026 autumn festivals. Venice is astir apt nan astir logical location for nan film, considering McDonagh has debuted his past 2 films astatine nan Italian festival. John Malkovich and Mark Ruffalo prima alongside Sam Rockwell successful nan comedy-drama, which has been kept nether wraps. 

Sweetsick
A agelong shot, but still worthy noting, Alice Birch began shooting Sweetsick, her debut characteristic arsenic a director, successful precocious 2025. The movie stars Cate Blanchett and follows a mercurial female (Blanchett) pinch a unusual and piercing gift – nan expertise to spot what others astir intimately need, often astatine awesome individual costs – who sets retired connected a travel home.

Here Comes nan Flood
Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones are starring successful this Netflix heist movie from Fernando Meirelles, nan Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind The Two Popes and City Of God. Written by Simon Kinberg, nan movie is described arsenic an unconventional heist flick astir a slope guard, a teller, and a maestro thief successful a deadly crippled of cons and double crosses.

Possible Love
Burning and Secret Sunshine director Lee Chang-dong returns to directing aft 8 years. He reunites present with Jeon Do-yeon who won nan Best Actress prize astatine Cannes for their film Secret Sunshine. The movie follows nan intertwined lives of 2 joined couples starring wholly other lives. As their worlds collide, fractures statesman to look successful their regular existence. Netflix is down nan task truthful a autumn show is much apt than Cannes.

Bucking Fastard
Werner Herzog’s latest stars Kate and Rooney Mara, Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson. Filming wrapped successful April connected nan task that marks nan first clip nan Mara sisters person appeared connected surface together. The movie charts nan communicative of Jean and Joan Holbrooke, “two sisters who are truthful adjacent to each different that they speak successful unison, emotion nan aforesaid man, and person nan aforesaid dreams. They moreover make nan aforesaid gaffe of lingua successful unison. In hunt of an imaginary land, nan Orkneys – wherever existent emotion is imaginable – they commencement digging a passageway done an full upland range.”

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo
This sounds a blast. Neon is aboard for nan Takashi Miike update of nan Bad Lieutenant IP starring Shun Oguri (Godzilla v. Kong), Lily James (Pam and Tommy), and WWE prima Liv Morgan. The U.S. – Japan co-pro has partners including Jeremy Thomas for Recorded Picture Company, Sam Pressman for Pressman Film, Naoaki Kitajima for Nippon TV and Misako Saka for OLM. Written by Daisuke Tengan (13 Assassins), nan movie will travel a corrupt gambler (Oguri) successful nan Metropolitan Police Force, who finds himself thrown into a tangled lawsuit aft an enigmatic FBI supplier (James) arrives successful Tokyo to analyse nan disappearance of a politician’s girl (Morgan). Meanwhile, a deviant slayer operating successful nan yakuza underworld seems to beryllium shadowing their moves. Feels very Cannes.

Perfect Girl
Adeline Rudolph, Arden Cho, May Hong and Jeon Somi are among formed for this psychological thriller group against nan competitory world of K-pop. Billed as Scream meets Black Swan, nan movie is based connected a 2023 Black List book and centers connected a brand-new K-Pop ace group that’s preparing to beryllium launched to nan world astatine a monolithic concert. A group of girls person trained for years for only 4 spots, and nan last trim is only a week away. The title is disconnected nan charts. But erstwhile a talented and mysterious caller woman is introduced astatine nan past minute, things commencement to get unusual — girls are being hunted and attacked 1 by one.

Animals
Yet different Netflix charge. This crime-thriller directed by Ben Affleck stars Affleck alongside, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washinton and Steven Yeun. Currently successful post, nan film’s synopsis reads: “Desperate to salary their son’s ransom, a mayoral campaigner and his woman edifice to utmost measures, revealing acheronian secrets they ne'er intended to bring to light.”

Orient Adagio
After a high-profile 2025 for Palestinian cinema connected nan show circuit acknowledgment to films specified arsenic Palestine 36, All That’s Left Of You and Once Upon A Time In Gaza, Maha Haj looks astatine different Palestinian reality done her 3rd characteristic astir a Palestinian filmmaker, calved and raised successful a exile campy successful Syria, who gets a residency successful Paris to constitute his first feature. It’s a dream travel true, but nan weight of events backmost location sends him into creator paralysis. Haj is simply a regular connected nan show circuit, pinch her first 2 films Personal Affairs and Mediterranean Fever both debuting successful Cannes Un Certain Regard.

Mimesis
Tunisian head Kaouther Ben Hania is presently connected nan awards circuit pinch Gaza-set activity The Voice of Hind Rajab, which took Venice by large wind past September and is Tunisia’s Oscar introduction this year. In betwixt times, Ben Hania someway recovered clip to sprout a caller Tunisian drama. The long-gestated activity revolves astir a female called Bouchra who was raised successful a mausoleum dedicated to a mysterious saint. When a pushy imam starts lobbying to move nan family location into a mosque, Bouchra embarks connected an investigation into nan saint, uncovering overmuch much than she bargained for. The movie changeable successful Tunisia and France successful September and October and is now successful post-production.

Heatwave
French head Stéphane Demoustier was successful Cannes successful 2025 pinch The Great Arch, starring Claes Bang arsenic Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, nan Danish designer who designed Paris’s La Grande Arche de la Défense.  He was backmost connected group conscionable weeks later for nan sprout of this psychological thriller adapted from Victor Jestin’s 2019 caller of nan aforesaid name. Unfolding against nan backdrop of campsite successful nan Landes connected France’s Atlantic coast, nan characteristic follows a teen complete nan people of a scorching basking time arsenic he frets complete whether a assemblage that he buried successful nan soil will beryllium discovered.

Moulin
Hungarian head László Nemes, who won an Oscar for Holocaust play Son of Saul successful 2016, revisits WW2 pinch this biopic astir French guidance leader Jean Moulin. Gilles Lellouche (Tell No One) stars arsenic Moulin other Lars Eidinger (Jay Kelly, The Light) as Klaus Barbie, nan caput of nan Gestapo successful French metropolis of Lyon who oversaw 3 weeks of sadistic torture which led to nan guidance fighter’s decease successful a train bound for Germany successful 1943 but grounded to break his silence. Speaking to Deadline successful precocious 2025, Lellouche carried a typical responsibility

La Perra
Set connected a distant island, Chilean head Dominga Sotomayor’s caller play stars Manuela Oyarzún (The Good Life, No) arsenic a solitary middle-aged female pinch a achy past, who rescues an abandoned puppy and names her Yuri, nan sanction intended for nan girl she ne'er had. Oyarzún is joined successful nan formed by Selton Mello, prima of Walter Salles’s Oscar-winning governmental play I’m Still Here. Sotomayor antecedently made waves pinch Too Late to Die Young and Thursday Till Sunday.

Glaxo
Adapted from Hernan Ronsino’s 2017 novel, Argentinian head Benjamín Naishtat’s caller movie is group successful a down-at-heel Argentinian Pampas municipality and revolves astir 4 puerility friends who paths diverge successful adulthood pinch a deadly outcome. Billed arsenic a communicative of betrayal, passion and revenge, it features popstar Lali Espósito alongside Esteban Lamothe and Marcelo Subiotto successful nan cast. Naishtat was past connected nan show circuit pinch drama play Puan, which premiered astatine San Sebastian, winning predominant collaborator Subiotto, champion starring performance.

Minotaur
Billed arsenic a governmental thriller Russian head Andrey Zvyagintsev’s sixth movie revolves astir a struggling Russian entrepreneur who discovers that his woman is having an affair. Zvyagintsev was past connected nan show circuit pinch Loveless, which premiered successful title astatine Cannes, winning nan Jury Prize, and was past Oscar-nominated. Now surviving successful exile successful nan aftermath of Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine, he changeable his caller movie successful Latvia.

Butterfly Jam
Barry Keoghan and Riley Keough co-star successful Russian director’s Kantemir Balagov 3rd feature. The begetter and boy play revolves astir 15-year-old Pyteh who lives successful New Jersey’s Circassian organization wherever his begetter and aunt tally a diner specializing successful Circassian cuisine. With nan edifice struggling, his begetter embarks connected a misguided strategy which backfires, exposing Pyteh to a unit that will unit him to turn up faster than he would like. Balagov antecedently made waves pinch his critically acclaimed features Closeness and Beanpole.

Man Vs Flock
Macedonian head Tamara Kotevska – champion known internationally for her Sundance victor and Oscar-nominated documentary Honeyland – makes her fabrication characteristic debut pinch this communicative astir an aged husbandman fighting for his onshore aft it is earmarked for nan building of a caller highway. In a bully sign, nan movie clinched one of nan apical prizes astatine nan activity successful progress showcase of nan Les European Film Festival successful December. Kotevska successful Venice past twelvemonth pinch documentary The Tale Of Sylian.

The Birthday Party
French head Léa Mysius 3rd characteristic revolves astir a child’s day statement successful a distant French colony which takes an unexpected move erstwhile strangers commencement to gathering astir nan home. The ensemble formed gathers Bastien Bouillon, Hafsia Herzi, Monica Bellucci, Twaba El Gharchy and Benoît Magimel. Mysius’ first 2 films Ava and The Five Devils premiered astatine Cannes Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight respectively.

Hope
Korean head Na Hong-jin astir eager characteristic to day has gathered a high-profile formed topped by Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander alongside compatriot stars stars Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, and Hoyeon. The play takes its cue from nan presence of extraterrestrials successful a distant colony adjacent Korea’s DMZ. Na’s past movie The Wailing premiered Out of Competition successful Cannes.`

Venus Electrificata
Set successful early 20th Century Paris, Pierre Salvadori’s melodramatic drama stars Pio Marmaï arsenic in-vogue creator Armand who hits a imaginative artifact successful his belief that he caused his wife’s caller death. In a bid to activity her forgiveness, Armand attempts to link pinch her via a medium. The sound that replies, however, is not that of his woman but alternatively an impoverished young female who has entered nan medium’s caravan to bargain food. The formed besides features Anaïs Demoustier and Gilles Lellouche.

Alpha Gang
Having made waves astatine SXSW successful 2024 pinch Sasquatch Sunset, nan Zellner brothers’ are now successful post-production connected their anticipated Cate Blanchett-produced alien penetration comedy. Alongside Blanchett, nan buzzy formed besides features Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista, and Riley Keough arsenic good arsenic later additions, revealed exclusively by Deadline past summer, of Chris Pine, Lily-Rose Depp, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Doona Bae. The movie follows a group of alien invaders sent to conquer Earth, disguised arsenic a 1950s leather-clad biker gang.

Peaches
A 2nd Dirty Films accumulation is besides nearing completion successful Jenny Suen’s Hong Kong-set comedy, starring Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) and Havana Rose Liu (Bottoms) arsenic 2 spoiled champion friends who scam sweetener daddies for a living. The movie is inspired by Vera Chitylova’s 1966 movie Daisies. Two years aft we first announced nan news of nan film, we perceive it is now successful post-production.

L’Âge d’Or
Berenger Thouin’s debut characteristic is being heralded arsenic 1 of nan astir visually innovative French projects owed to deed nan large surface this twelvemonth for its fusion of modern live-actions shots and archive footage. The movie follows a female crossed nan 20th period arsenic she searches for emancipation. The formed features rising stars Souheila Yacoub, who won nan Female Revelation César successful 2025 for her capacity successful Planet B, and Vassili Schneider.

Zejtune
Maltese American head Alex Camilleri’s first feature Luzzu debuted successful Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic lineup successful 2021, pinch Jesmark Scicluna winning nan Special Jury Award for acting. Also group successful Malta, his 2nd characteristic follows a female who is astir to trim ties pinch nan Mediterranean land pursuing her estranged mother’s decease until she meets a 80-year-old people singer.

Bunker
An architect’s matrimony is tested aft he accepts a task to build a bunker for a billionaire. This psychological thriller written and directed by Oscar victor Florian Zeller has attracted a buzzy formed including Penelope Cruz and hubby Javier Bardem successful nan lead roles alongside Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Filming began past period successful London. FilmNation handles sales.