Schedule of Events
Please note that timings are subject to change and should be reconfirmed on the day of each event.Tuesday, 12th May
Paris, 1928. A young painter in vogue, Antoine Balestro, has been unable to paint since his wife died, to the despair of his gallery owner, Armand. One drunken evening, Antoine tries to contact his wife through a psychic, but is actually speaking with Suzanne, a humble carnival worker who has sneaked in to steal food.
Suzanne proves to be a gifted fraudster and, soon aided by Armand, stages fake séances. Little by little, Antoine regains his inspiration, but the situation grows increasingly complicated as Suzanne falls in love with the man she is manipulating.
Directed by : Pierre Salvadori
Year of production: 2026
Country: France
Duration: 122 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:00 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:30 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:30 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
7:00 pm Opening Ceremony
Grand Théâtre Lumière
8:00 pm La Vénus Électrique, by Pierre Salvadori
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 2h02m
Festival shuttles will depart for the Opening Ceremony Gala at the conclusion of the screening
10:00 pm Opening Ceremony Gala
Palm Beach
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes following the celebration
Gabrielle, 55, gives herself to her work, body and soul. As a surgeon and head of the hospital department, she is constantly on the move, stretched thin by the weight of responsibility. There is little time left for her private life: a loving husband and a mother who depends on her care. Yet this is the life she wanted, the life she chose.
When a novelist comes to observe her at work for a book, her balance begins to shift. How far is she willing to go to shake what she has built?
Directed by : Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Year of production: 2026
Country: France
Duration: 98 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:00 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:30 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:30 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
6:30 pm La Vie d'une Femme (A Woman's Life), by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 1h38m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
8:30 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also deep fracture within his own family.
Directed by : Paweł Pawlikowski
Year of production: 2026
Country: TBC
Duration: 82 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
4:30 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:00 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:00 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
6:00 pm Fatherland, by Paweł Pawlikowski
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 1h22m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
8:00 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
In a village of northern Spain, Jeanne tries to rebuild her life with Daniel, who knows nothing about her troubled past. One day, Mateo, Jeanne’s six-year-old godson, mysteriously disappears… In order to escape the police, who instantly suspect her, Jeanne flees to France and hides out in the community where she grew up, led by Marc. Refusing to believe that the woman he loves is guilty, Daniel will do everything in his power to find her before the police do.
Directed by : Guillaume Canet
Year of production: 2026
Country: France
Duration: 149 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:00 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:30 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:30 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
6:30 pm Karma, by Guillaume Canet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 2h29m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
9:30 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
The acclaimed film director Esteban Martínez is a legend both for his films and for his past marked by violence and excess. For his new project, he offers his daughter Emilia a role under the pretext of helping her with her stalled acting career. Living together on set will foster a closeness they haven’t shared for years, but it will also reopen old wounds that never healed.
Directed by : Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Year of production: 2026
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
4:45 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:15 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:15 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
6:15 pm El Ser Querido (The Beloved), by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 2h15m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
9:00 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
Garance is a gifted young actress whose raw magnetism and vibrant spirit have yet to earn her the recognition she craves. Living paycheck to paycheck in a small Paris apartment, she feels increasingly suffocated by fleeting relationships, rising anxiety and the grip of an alcohol addiction quietly tightening around her life. But amid the chaos, her devotion to her sick younger sister and a tender, blossoming romance with Pauline, offer Garance a fragile lifeline. As these bonds deepen, she finds the strength to confront the darkness she has long avoided – setting her on a difficult but transformative journey to self-renewal.
Directed by : Jeanne Herry
Year of production: 2026
Country: France
Duration: 120 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:00 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:30 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:30 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
6:30 pm Garance, by Jeanne Herry
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 2h00m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
9:15 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
The Gheorghius, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, resettle in a village set in a distant fjord where they become close to their neighbours, the Halbergs. Their children bond despite their different education.
When adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with some bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education that the Gheorghiu children get from their parents might have anything to do with it.
Directed by : Cristian Mungiu
Year of production: 2026
Country: Romania
Duration: 146 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:15 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
6:00 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 6:00 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
7:00 pm Fjord, by Cristian Mungiu
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 2h26m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
10:00 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
Raúl is a cult filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he draws inspiration from it to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a filmmaker in the midst of writing a script, whose journey begins to mirror his own.
The two filmmakers become two sides of the same character, in a game of mirrors where the raw honesty of autofiction reveals as much as it destroys. But how far can one go to tell a story?
Directed by : Pedro Almodóvar
Year of production: 2026
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:30 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
6:00 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 6:00 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
7:00 pm Amarga Navidad, by Pedro Almodóvar
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 1h52m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
9:15 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom. Without an army, without backing, without hope. But with one irrational conviction – France, his France, has not laid down arms. Taking the ultimate gamble, he seeks to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over, nor lost. Reality, however, is unyielding and seems determined to prove him wrong. Yet, little by little, resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers rise up in England, France and Africa to join the cause. Their faith, audacity and thirst for freedom defy what history seemed to have written in advance.
Directed by : Antonin Baudry
Year of production: 2026
Country: France
Duration: 160 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:15 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:45 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:45 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
6:45 pm La Bataille de Gaulle: L'Âge de Fer, by Antonin Baudry
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 2h40m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
10:00 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
‘La bola negra’ tells the interconnected stories of three men in three different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritance, and one of Federico García Lorca´s last, unfinished works.
Directed by : Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
Year of production: 2026
Country: Spain
Duration: 155 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
4:30 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
5:00 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 5:00 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
6:00 pm La Bola Negra, by Javier Calvo & Javier Ambrossi
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 2h35m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
9:00 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
Thomas, Nora and their teenage daughter Ida live on remote marshland. Social contact is limited, as they only have one neighbour, Cristina, an Italian painter. As the two households plan a surprise birthday party for Nora, strange disturbances begin to occur and unease rolls over the marsh.
Directed by: Lea Mysius
Year of production: 2026
Country: France
Duration: 114 minutes
Grace Kelly Suite, Carlton Hotel
5:30 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
6:00 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 6:00 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
7:00 pm Histoires de la Nuit (The Birthday Party), by Léa Mysius
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: 1h54m
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
9:30 pm Dinner
Carlton Hotel
Grace Kelly Suite (Room 760), Carlton Hotel
6:45 pm Transportation departs from Carlton
Main Lobby, Carlton Hotel
7:15 pm Red Carpet
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Please note you must arrive to the red carpet no later than 7:15 pm or entry may be restricted by the Festival.
8:15 pm Cérémonie de Clôture / Closing Ceremony
Grand Théâtre Lumière
9:35 pm Film Screening for the Winner of the Palme d’Or
Grand Théâtre Lumière
Duration: TBD
Transportation will return to Carlton Cannes at the conclusion of the screening
~11:30 pm Dinner
The Chef’s Table at the Carlton Hotel