Any fans of Train to Busan in the house? Yeon Sang-ho, who previously directed the propulsive zombie movie and its sequel Peninsula, is going back to familiar (but welcome) stomping grounds with his new movie The Colony, announcd as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s 2026 lineup. The movie sounds very Resident Evil-y: “A biotech conference descends into chaos when a rapidly mutating virus transforms the infected, forcing authorities to seal off the facility with survivors trapped inside.” Colony isn’t in competition at Cannes, instead playing in the midnight section. But it’s in competition… in our hearts.
Running May 12-23, this year’s festival is opening with the previously announced The Electric Kiss from filmmaker Pierre Salvadori and promising tons of new premieres from international auteurs. Other high-profile selections include John Travolta’s directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas, Ira Sachs musical The Man I Love, and Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales. Filmmaker Peter Jackson and renaissance woman Barbra Streisand will be receiving honorary Palme d’Ors. Here’s the full lineup.
Competition
Minotaur – Andrey Zvyagintsev
The Beloved – Rodrigo Sorogoyen
The Man I Love – Ira Sachs
Fatherland – Paweł Pawlikowski
Moulin – László Nemes
Histoires de la Nuit – Léa Mysius
Fjord – Cristian Mungiu
Notre Salut – Emmanuel Marre
Gentle Monster – Marie Kreutzer
Nagi Notes – Koji Fukada
Hope – Na Hong-Jin
Sheep in the Box – Hirokazu Kore-eda
Garance – Jeanne Herry
The Unknown – Arthur Harari
All of a Sudden – Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Dreamed Adventure – Valeska Grisebach
Coward – Lukas Dhont
La Bola Negra (The Black Ball) – Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo
A Woman’s Life – Charline Bourgeois-Taquet
Parallel Tales – Asghar Farhadi
Bitter Christmas – Pedro Almodóvar
Un Certain Regard
La Más Dulce – Laïla Marrakchi
Club Kid – Jordan Firstman
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Jane Schoenbrun
Everytime – Sandra Wollner
I’ll Be Gone in June – Katharina Rivilis
Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep – Rakan Mayasi
The Meltdown – Manuela Martelli
Elephants in the Fog – Abinash Bikram Shah
Iron Boy – Louis Clichy
Ben’imana – Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo
Congo Boy – Rafiki Fariala
Ula – Viesturs Kairišs
Forever Your Eternal Animal – Valentina Maurel
Words of Love – Rudi Rosenberg
All the Lovers in the Night – Sode Yukiko
Out of Competition
Her Private Hell – Nicolas Winding Refn
Diamond – Andy Garcia
Objet du Deli – Agnes Jaoui
De Gaulle: L’Age de Fer – Antonin Baudry
L’abandon – Vincent Garenq
Karma – Guillame Canet
Cannes Premiere
Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Propeller One-Way Night Coach – John Travolta
The Third Night – Daniel Auteil
The Match – Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco
Visitation – Volker Schlondorff
Special Screenings
John Lennon: The Last Interview – Steven Soderbergh
Avedon – Ron Howard
Les Survivants du Che – Christophe Réveille
Les Matins Merveilleux – Avril Besson
Cantona – David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas
Rehearsals for a Revolution – Pegah Ahangarani
L’affaire Marie-Claire – Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller
Midnight Screenings
Roma Elastica – Betrand Mandico
Full Phil – Quentin Dupieux
Colony – Yeon Sang-ho
Jim Queen – Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen
Sanguine – Marion Le Coroller
Opening Film
The Electric Kiss – Pierre Salvadori (previously announced, out of competition)
