The Cannes Film Festival unveiled the 2023 lineup for its 76th edition on Thursday morning, and yes, Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon will screen at the festival, albeit out of competition.
Joining Scorsese in the out-of-competition section are James Mangold, who will be bringing his Disney tentpole Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to the Croisette; Sam Levinson, whose HBO series The Idol was welcomed despite the controversy swirling around it; plus new films from Maiwenn (Jeanne du Barry starring Johnny Depp) and Kim Jee-woon (Cobweb starring Song Kang-ho).
Wes Anderson‘s Asteroid City leads the competition titles along with Jonathan Glazer‘s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest and Todd Haynes‘ thriller May December. Those three films will compete for the Palme d’Or along with new films from Ken Loach and Wim Wenders (who has two films at Cannes), plus Kore-eda Hirokazu, Alice Rohrwacher, Catherine Breillat, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Cannes broke its own record by accepting six films from female directors, including Breillat and Rohrwacher, the latter of whom joins fellow Italians Nanni Moretti and Marco Bellocchio in competition. There are also two feature documentaries in competition this year — this after Michael Moore‘s Fahrenheit 9/11 won the Palme d’Or in 2004 from a jury headed by Quentin Tarantino.
Like Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis last year, expect Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Asteroid City to be the hottest tickets at the festival, where the stars will be walking the red carpet. Pedro Almodóvar’s short film Strange Way of Life starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal will also be screening in France next month, as will Steve McQueen‘s documentary Occupied City, about the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II.
“We saw more than 2,000 films. These numbers are extravagant and, at the same time, reflect the health of world cinema and the aspiration to make films everywhere,” Cannes Film Festival Director Thierry Frémaux said at Thursday’s press conference, where he was joined by the festival’s new President, Iris Knobloch. Frémaux also noted that the lineup isn’t locked yet and to expect some additions, which are rumored to include the Emma Stone movie Poor Things from director Yorgos Lanthimos and possibly Ladj Ly’s follow-up to Les Miserables.
Triangle of Sadness filmmaker Ruben Östlund will preside over the competition jury for the Cannes Film Festival, which takes place from May 16-27. The full lineup (for now) can be found below:
COMPETITION
Club Zero, Jessica Hausner
Asteroid City, Wes Anderson
The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer
Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismaki
Les Filles D’Olfa (Four Daughters), Kaouther Ben Hania
Anatomie D’une Chute, Justine Triet
Monster, Kore-eda Hirokazu
Il Sol Dell’Avvenire, Nanni Moretti
La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher
About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
L’Ete Dernier, Catherine Breillat
The Passion of Dodin Bouffant, Tran Anh Hung
Rapito, Marco Bellocchio
May December, Todd Haynes
Firebrand, Karim Ainouz
The Old Oak, Ken Loach
Perfect Days, Wim Wenders
Banel Et Adama, Ramata-Toulaye Sy
Jeunesse, Wang Bing
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Los Delincuentes (The Deliquents), Rodrigo Moreno
How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker
Goodbye Julia, Mohamed Kordofani
Crowra (The Burti Flower), João Salaviza & Renée Nader Messora
Simple Comme Sylvain, Monia Chokri
Kadib Abyad (The Mother of All Lies), Asmae EL Moudir
Los Colonos (The Settlers), Felipe Galvez
Augure (Omen), Baloji Tshiani
The Breaking Ice, Anthony Chen
Rosalie, Stéphanie Di Giusto
The New Boy, Warwick Thornton
If Only I Could Hibernate, Zoljargal Purevdash
Hopeless, Kim Chang-hoon
Terrestrial Verses, Ali Asfari & Alireza Khatami
Rien a Perdre, Delphine Deloget
Les Meutes, Kamal Lazraq
Le Regne Animal, Thomas Cailley
OUT OF COMPETITION
Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese
The Idol, Sam Levinson
Cobweb, Kim Jee-woon
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, James Mangold
Jeanne du Barry, Maiwenn
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Omar la Fraise, Elias Belkeddar
Kennedy, Anurag Kashyap
Acide, Just Philippot
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Retratos Fantasmas (Pictures of Ghosts), Kleber Mendonca Filho
Anselm, Wim Wenders
Occupied City, Steve McQueen
Man in Black, Wang Bing
CANNES PREMIERE
Le Temps D’Aimer, Katell Quillevere
Cerrar Los Ojos, Victor Erice
Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe, Martin Provost
Kubi, Takeshi Kitano
