Thierry Frémaux, the Cannes Film Festival's artistic director, confirmed this fact at a press conference held April 16: there was such a large number of high quality French productions submitted for selection this year that 7 films will be presented in the festival's Competition. This means that 5 French films will be gracing the red carpet this year, without even counting the Special Screenings, the films presented Out-of-Competition, and the program of the Un Certain Regard sidebar. Not to mention all of the French majority and minority co-productions to be showcased at the festival, which show France included in the credits of 27 films in the Official Selection.

Opening film (Out-of-Competition)

• Standing Tall by Emmanuelle Bercot

Official Selection - in Competition

• Dheepan by Jacques Audiard
• The Measure of a Man by Stéphane Brizé
• Marguerite et Julien by Valérie Donzelli
• Mon roi by Maïwenn
• Valley of Love by Guillaume Nicloux
• Tale of Tales by Matteo Garrone (minority co-production)
• The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos (minority co-production)
• My Mother by Nanni Moretti (minority co-production)
• Youth by Paolo Sorrentino (minority co-production)
• Plus fort que les bombes by Joachim Trier (minority co-production)
• Mountains May Depart by Jia Zhang-Ke (minority co-production)

Closing film (out-of-competition)

• Ice and the Sky by Luc Jacquet

Out-of-Competition

• The Little Prince by Mark Osborne

Special Screenings

• Macadam Stories by Samuel Benchetrit
• Amnesia by Barbet Schroeder (co-production)
• Afterthought by Elad Keidan (minority co-production)

Un Certain Regard

• Je suis un soldat by Laurent Larivière
• Disorder by Alice Winocour
• Lamb by Yared Zeleke (majority co-production)
• Masaan by Neeraj Ghaywan (minority co-production)
• Journey to the Shore by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (minority co-production)
• The Other Side by Roberto Minervini (minority co-production)
• Fourth Direction by Gurvinder Singh (minority co-production)
• Comoara (The Treasure) by Corneliu Porumboiu (minority co-production)
• An by Naomi Kawase (minority co-production)
• Cemetery of Splendour by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (minority co-production)