Cannes Film Festival 2021 line up announced

The hiatus is over, and Cannes will be returning all guns blazing this July. Thierry Frémaux revealed a gargantuan roster of Cannes alumni and some new faces in the main competition.

In recent weeks Cannes announced that Leos Carax’s Annette would be opening the festival and Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch joining the competition for the Palme d’Or. All three films were scheduled to feature last year and are a few of the most anticipated to feature on the Croisette this year. They will be joined by the likes of Jacques Audiard, Mia Hansen-Løve, Sean Baker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Julia Ducornau.

This list below is beyond mouthwatering cinema.

In Competition

Opening Film
Annette, Leos Carax (France)

The Story of My Wife, Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary)
Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven (Netherlands)
Bergman Island, Mia-Hansen-Love (France)
Drive My Car, Rysuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
Ha’Berech (Ahed’s Knee), Nadav Lapid (Israel)
Casablanca Beats, Nabil Ayouch (Morocco)
Compartment No 6, Juho Kuosmanen (Finland)
The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier (Norway)
La Fracture, Catherine Corsini (France)
The Restless, Joachim Lafosse (Belgium)
Paris 13th District, Jacques Audiard (France)
Lingui, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad)
Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
Nitram, Justin Kurzel (Australia)
France, Bruno Dumont (France)
Petrov’s Flu, Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
Red Rocket, Sean Baker (US)
Flag Day, Sean Penn (US)
The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson (US)
Titane, Julia Ducournau (France)
Tre Piani, Nanni Moretti (Italy)
Tour S’Est Bien Passe, François Ozon (France)
A Hero, Asghar Farhadi (Iran)Advertisement

Un Certain Regard
Moneyboys, CB Yi (Austria)
Blue Bayou, Justin Chon (US)
Freda, Gessica Geneus (Haiti)
Delo (House Arrest), Alexey German Jr (Russia)
Bonne Mere, Hafsia Herzi (France)
Noche de Fuego, Tatiana Huezo (Mexico)
Lamb, Valdimar Johansson (Iceland)
Commitment Hasan, Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey)
After Yang, Kogonada (US)
Let There Be Morning, Eran Kolirin (Israel)
Unclenching the Fists, Kira Kovalenko (Russia)
Women Do Cry, Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria)
Rehana Maryam Noor, Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Bangladesh)
Great Freedom, Sebastian Meise (Austria)
La Civil, Teodora Ana Mihai (Romania/Belgium)
Gaey Wa’r, Na Jiazuo (China)
The Innocents, Eskil Vogt (Norway)
Un Monde, Laura Wandel (Belgium)

The Cannes Film Festival will be held between July 6-17th 2021