In the Official Selection, in Competition, three female directors and one male director will be carrying the banner for France: Claire Denis (whose film Stars at Noon is a minority Franco-American production), Arnaud Desplechin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi (who returns to the Competition nine years after her film The Summer House), and Léonor Serraille (who is presenting her second feature after Montparnasse Bienvenüe) and will discover the other titles vying for the coveted awards. Around a dozen French coproductions (including one majority-French production by Albert Serra) complete this very sizeable French presence in the Competition.

Out of Competition, eagerly-awaited directors make their comeback on the Croisette this year: Michel Hazanavicius, Louis Garrel, Nicolas Bedos, and Cédric Jimenez. Meanwhile, Cannes Premieres will give audiences the chance the discover the latest offerings from Serge Bozon, Emmanuel Mouret, Dominik Moll, and Rachid Bouchareb, not to mention the HBO series by Olivier Assayas, Irma Vep, with a return to the character from the film of the same title.

A string of French debut films will be showcased in the Un Certain Regard section (Rodeo, The Worst Ones), as well as the new opus by Mathieu Vadepied, Father & Soldier, which will be screened as opening film.

The animation Little Nicholas will be presented in a Special Screening, as will a number of French documentaries, including Salam, with its screening dedicated to Diam's, and which she co-directed with Houda Benyamina and Anne Cissé.

For the Directors' Fortnight, the French selection is abundant this year, with the vast majority of titles Solely French productions or majority-French coproductions. We can note the presence of a large number of highly anticipated female directors—both in France and in the international arena—such as Mia Hansen-Løve, Alice Winocour, and Léa Mysius, as well as the male directors Thomas Salvador, Philippe Faucon, Nicolas Pariser, in addition to debut films by Charlotte Le Bon (a Franco-Canadian coproduction majority-produced by France) and by the writer Annie Ernaux.

It is also a coproduction majority-produced by France that will open the Director's Fortnight: Scarlet, by the Italian filmmaker Pietro Marcello.

Critics' Week will give movie-goers the opportunity to discover the debut film by Simon Rieth (Summer Scars), and, out of competition, the new film by Clément Cogitore, as well as the first feature by Céline Devaux, who moves away from animation to embrace real images in her film Everybody Loves Jeanne.

True to its commitment to cinema off the beaten track, the ACID - Cannes section will present five French films, including the latest film by Damien Manivel.

And finally, we can point out the presence in the Cannes Classics section, in addition to the presentation of a restored print of The Mother and the Whore, a selection of four French documentaries about artists from the world of cinema: Gérard Philipe, le dernier hiver du Cid by Patrick Jeudy, Patrick Dewaere mon héros by Alexandre Moix, Romy, femme libre by Lucie Caries, and Jane Campion, la femme cinéma by Julie Bertuccelli.

All the French films at Cannes 2022

Official Selection - Competition

• Forever Young by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
• Brother and Sister by Arnaud Desplechin
• Mother and Son by Léonor Serraille
• Pacifiction by Albert Serra (majority coproduction)
• Stars at Noon by Claire Denis (minority coproduction)
• Boy From Heaven by Tarik Saleh (minority coproduction)
• Close by Lukas Dhont (minority coproduction)
• The Eight Mountains by Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch (minority coproduction)
• Holy Spider by Ali Abbasi (minority coproduction)
• Tori et Lokita by Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne (minority coproduction)
• Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Ostlund (minority coproduction)
• Nostalgia by Mario Martone (coproduction shares not provided)
• R.M.N. by Cristian Mungiu (coproduction shares not provided)
• Tchaikovsky's Wife by Kirill Serebrennikov (coproduction shares not provided)

Official Selection - Out of Competition

• Final Cut by Michel Hazanavicius (opening film)
• The Innocent by Louis Garrel
• Mascarade by Nicolas Bedos
• Novembre by Cédric Jimenez

Official Selection - Special Screenings

• Salam by Houda Benyamina, Anne Cissé, Mélanie 'Diam's' Giorgiades
• Little Nicholas by Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre
• Mon pays imaginaire by Patricio Guzmán
• Feminist Riposte by Marie Perennès, Simon Depardon
• Remains of the Wind by Tiago Guedes (minority coproduction)
• Mariupolis 2, by Mantas Kvedaravicius & Hanna Bilobrova (coproduction shares not provided)

Official Selection - Un Certain Regard

• Father & Soldier by Mathieu Vadepied (opening film)

• Rodeo by Lola Quivoron
• The Worst Ones by Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
• More than Ever by Emily Atef (majority coproduction)
• All the People I’ll Never Be by Davy Chou (majority coproduction)
• Corsage by Marie Kreutzer (minority coproduction)
• Godland by Hlynur Palmason (minority coproduction)
• Harka by Lotfy Nathan (minority coproduction)
• Burning Days by Emin Alper (minority coproduction)
• Metronom by Alexandru Belc (minority coproduction)
• The Blue Caftan by Maryam Touzani (coproduction shares not provided)
• Plan 75 by Chie Hayakawa (coproduction shares not provided)
• Mediterranean Fever, by Maha Haj (coproduction shares not provided)

Official Selection - Midnight Screening

• Rebel by Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah (minority coproduction)
• Smoking Causes Coughing by Quentin Dupieux (minority coproduction)

Official Selection - Cannes Premieres

• Diary of a fleeting affair by Emmanuel Mouret
• Don Juan by Serge Bozon
• The Night of the 12th by Dominik Moll
• Our Brothers by Rachid Bouchareb
• Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas (series)
• Dodo by Panos Koutras (minority coproduction)
• As Bestas by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (minority coproduction)

Official Selection - Short Films

• Fire at the Lake by Pierre Menahem

Official Selection - Cinema de la Plage

• SOS : Save Our School by Carine May & Hakim Zouhani
• Christophe... Definitely by Ange Leccia & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Directors' Fortnight

• Scarlet by Pietro Marcello (opening film)
• The Mountain by Thomas Salvador
• The Green Perfume by Nicolas Pariser
• The Super-8 Years by Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux
• The Five Devils by Léa Mysius
• Paris Memories by Alice Winocour
• One Fine Morning by Mia Hansen-Løve
• A Male de Fabian Hernandez
• De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor (majority coproduction)
• Falcon Lake by Charlotte Le Bon (majority coproduction)
• The Dam by Ali Cherri (majority coproduction)
• Harkis by Philippe Faucon (majority coproduction)
• Pamfir by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (majority coproduction)
• The Water by Elena López Riera (majority coproduction)
• Continental Drift (to the South) by Lionel Baier (minority coproduction)
• Ashkal by Youssef Chebbi (coproduction shares not provided)
• Fogo-Fatuo by João Pedro Rodrigues (coproduction shares not provided)
• Under the Fig Trees by Erige Sehiri (coproduction shares not provided)

Directors' Fortnight - Short Films

• Burial of Life as a Young Girl by Maïté Sonnet
• Maria Schneider, 1983 by Elisabeth Subrin

Critics' Week - Competition

• Summer Scars by Simon Rieth
• Alma Viva by Cristèle Alves Meira (majority coproduction)
• Love According to Dalva by Emmanuelle Nicot (minority coproduction)
• La Jauría de Andrés Ramírez Pulido (coproduction shares not provided)

Critics' Week - Special Screenings

• Sons of Ramses by Clément Cogitore
• Everybody Loves Jeanne by Céline Devaux (minority coproduction)

Critics' Week - Short Films (Official Selection)

• Les Créatures qui fondent au soleil by Diego Céspedes
• Ice Merchants by João Gonzalez
• Manta Ray by Anton Bialas
• Swan in the Centerby Iris Chassaigne

Critics' Week - Short Films (Special Screenings)

• Amo by Emmanuel Gras
• Scale by Joseph Pierce

ACID Cannes

• Grand Paris by Martin Jauvat
• Atlantic Bar by Fanny Molins
• Magdala by Damien Manivel
• The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou by Lucas Delangle
• Polaris by Ainara Vera (majority coproduction)
• Yamabuki by Juichiro Yamasaki (coproduction shares not provided)
• How to Save a Dead Friend by Marusya Syroechkovskaya (coproduction shares not provided)
• The Hill by Denis Gheerbrant, Lina Tsrimova (coproduction shares not provided)