All the French films, shorts and features, and all sections combined, receiving their world premieres during the 72nd edition of the Festival de Cannes.
French cinema remains, year after year, a major reference on the world film map, and Cannes maintains its role as a launching pad – whether for international or French cinema – for the year ahead. The festival is also once again the sounding board for French coproductions: nearly 30 majority or minority coproductions have been selected this year, which is very important on a global scale. The world's greatest film festival is hence the ideal place to take stock of France's presence, more vibrant and open than ever.
This year, 7 French or majority-French films are in Competition within the Official Selection, among which the selection's only debut feature (Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story by Mati Diop), and 3 films directed by women (Mati Diop, Céline Sciamma and Justine Triet).
All the French films (of French coproductions) presented in the four Cannes sections
( * = films with French coproduction contributions, awaiting CNC approval)
Official Selection
Competition:
- Atlantics: A Ghost Love Story by Mati Diop
- Mektoub, My Love : Intermezzo by Abdellatif Kechiche
- Les Misérables by Ladj Ly
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma
- Oh Mercy! by Arnaud Desplechin
- Sibyl by Justine Triet
- Frankie by Ira Sachs
- Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Juliano Dornelles (minority)
- Young Ahmed by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne (minority)
- The Whistlers by Corneliu Porumboiu (minority)
- Sorry We Missed You by Ken Loach (minority)
- The Traitor by Marco Bellocchio (minority)
- The Wild Goose Lake by Yinan Diao *
- It Must Be Heaven by Elia Suleiman *
Out of Competition:
- La Belle Epoque by Nicolas Bedos
- The Best Years of a Life by Claude Lelouch
- The Specials, de Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache (Last Screening)
Special Screenings:
Midnight Screenings:
Un Certain Regard:
- Joan of Arc by Bruno Dumont
- Fire Will Come by Oliver Laxe
- The Bears' Famous Invasion by Lorenzo Mattotti
- On a Magical Night by Christophe Honoré
- Liberté by Albert Serra
- The Swallows of Kabul by Zabou Breitman, Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec
- Papicha by Mounia Meddour
- Port Authority by Danielle Lessovitz *
- Adam, by Maryam Touzani *
Short Films - Official Selection:
- The Van by Erenik Beqiri
- And then the Bear by Agnès Patron
- The Distance Between Us and the Sky by Vasilis Kekatos
- The Jump by Nicolas Davenel, Vanessa Dumont
Short Films - Cinéfondation:
Directors' Fortnight
Official Selection
- Deerskin by Quentin Dupieux
- Alice and the Mayor by Nicolas Pariser
- An Easy Girl by Rebecca Zlotowski
- Zombi Child by Bertrand Bonello
- The Bare Necessity by Erwan Le Duc
- Blow It to Bits, de Lech Kowalski
- Particles by Blaise Harrison
- All About Yves by Benoît Forgeard
- Oleg de Juris Kursietis (minority)
- The Orphanage by Shahrbanoo Sadat *
- Sick, Sick, Sick by Alice Furtado *
- Tlamess by Ala Eddine Slim *
- To Live to Sing by Johnny Ma *
- And Then We Danced by Levan Akin *
Short Films
- Two Sisters Who Are Not Sisters by Beatrice Gibson
- The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady by Gabriel Abrantes
- Olla by Ariane Labed
- Ghost Pleasure by Morgan Simon
Critics' Week
Feature Films
- I Lost My Body by Jérémy Clapin
- The Unknown Saint by Alaa Eddine Aljem (minority)
- Our Mothers by César Díaz *
- Abou Leila by Amin Sidi-Boumédiène *
- Land of Ashes by Sofía Quirós Ubeda *
Opening Film
- Litigante by Franco Lolli *
Special Screenings
Short Films
- Journey Through a Body by Camille Degeye
- Lucía en el limbo by Valentina Maurel
- Tuesday from 8 to 6 by Cecilia De Arce
- She Runs by Qiu Yang
