The Old Oak (2023) © Sixteen FilmsThe announcement of this year’s Cannes lineup revealed a packed competition, with new films from Wes Anderson, Jonathan Glazer, Jessica Hausner, Todd Haynes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Catherine Breillat, Aki Kaurismaki, Hirokazu Koreeda, Tran Anh Hung, Alice Rohrwacher and more. In among them is the latest film from Ken Loach, the County Durham-set drama The Old Oak, which is backed by the BFI Film Fund, awarding funds from the National Lottery.
Another BFI backed film, Molly Manning Walker’s directorial debut How to Have Sex, has been announced for the Un Certain Regard section. Also in Un Certain Regard is Felipe Galvez’s first feature, The Settlers (Los colonos), which was supported through the UK Global Screen Fund.
As previously announced, Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and the new Indiana Jones film, James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, will premiere out of competition.
The 76th edition of the festival runs 16 to 27 May. The opening film is the period drama Jeanne du Barry, directed by Maïwenn and starring Johnny Depp.
Competition
About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Anatomie d’une chute, Justine Triet
Asteroid City, Wes Anderson
Banel et Adama, Ramata-Toulaye Sy
La chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
Club Zero, Jessica Hausner
L’Été dernier, Catherine Breillat
Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismaki
Firebrand, Karim Ainouz
Four Daughters, Kaouther Ben Hania
May December, Todd Haynes
Monster, Hiokazu Kore-eda
The Old Oak, Ken Loach
La Passion de Dodin Bouffant, Tran Anh Hung
Rapito, Marco Bellocchio
Il sol dell’avvenire, Nanni Moretti
The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer
Out of competition
Cobweb, Kim Jee-woon
The Idol, Sam Levinson
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, James Mangold
Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese
Midnight screenings
Acide, Just Philippot
Kennedy, Anurag Kashyap
Omar la Fraise, Elias Belkeddar
Cannes Premiere
Bonnar, Pierre et Marthe, Martin Provost
Cerrar los ojos, Victor Erice
Kubi, Takeshi Kitano
Le Temps d’aimer, Katell Quillevere
Special screenings
Anselm, Wim Wenders
Man in Black, Wang Bing
Occupied City, Steve McQueen
Un Certain Regard
The Breaking Ice, Anthony Chen
The Buriti Flower, Joao Salaviza and Renee Nader
The Delinquents, Rodrigo Moreno
Goodbye Julia, Mohammed Kordofani
Hopeless, Kim Chang-hoon
How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker
If Only I Could Hibernate, Zoljargal Purevdash
Les Meutes, Kamal Lazraq
The Mother of All Lies, Asmae El Moodier
The New Boy, Warwick Thornton
Omen, Baloji Thasiani
La Regne animal, Thomas Cailley
Rien à perdre, Delphine Deloget
Rosalie, Stéphanie Di Giusto
The Settlers, Felipe Galvez
Simple comme Sylvain, Monia Chokri
Terrestrial Verses, Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami
