French director Leos Carax's long-awaited musical film Annette will serve as the opening film of the festival. The Official Selection is scheduled to be announced June 3, 2021. Americana actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster, will be awarded the Honorary Palme d'Or.
COMPETITION
“Ahed’s Knee” OR “Ha’berech,” Nadav Lapid (Israel)
“Annette,” Leos Carax (France) — OPENING FILM
"Benedetta,” Paul Verihoeven (Netherlands)
“Bergman Island,” Mia Hansen-Løve (France)
“Casablanca Beats,” Nabil Ayouch (Morocco)
“Compartment No. 6” OR “Hytti Nro 6,” Juho Kuosmanen (Finland)
“Drive My Car,” Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (France)
“Everything Went Fine” OR “Tout s’est bien passé,” Francois Ozon (France)
“Flag Day,” Sean Penn (U.S.)
“France,” Bruno Dumont (France)
“The French Dispatch,” Wes Anderson (U.S.)
“A Hero,” Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
“La fracture,” Catherine Corsini (France)
“Lingui,” Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad)
“Memoria,” Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
“Nitram,” Justin Kurzel (Australia)
“Paris, 13th District” OR “Les Olympiades,” Jacques Audiard (France)
“Petrov’s Flu,” Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia)
“Red Rocket,” Sean Baker (U.S.)
“The Restless” OR “Les Intranquilles,” Joachim Lafosse (Belgium)
“The Story of My Wife,” Ildikó Enyedi (Hungary)
“Three Floors” OR “Tre Piani,” Nanni Moretti (Italy)
“Titane,” Julia Ducournau (France)
“The Worst Person in the World,” Joachim Trier (Norway)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
“After Yang,” Kogonada (U.S.)
“Blue Bayou,” Justin Chon (U.S.)
“Bonne Mère,” Hafsia Herzi (France)
“Commitment Hasan,” Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey)
“Freda,” Gessica Généus (Haiti)
“Gaey Wa’r,” Na Jiazuo (China)
"Great Freedom,” Sebastian Meise (Austria)
“House Arrest” OR “Delo,” Alexey German Jr. (Russia)
“The Innocents,” Eskil Vogt (Norway)
“La Civil,” Teodora Ana Mihai (Romania-Belgium)
“Lamb,” Valdimar Jóhansson (Iceland)
“Let There Be Morning,” Eran Kolirin (Israel)
“Moneyboys,“ C.B. Yi (Austria)
“Noche de Fuego,” Tatiana Huezo (Mexico)
“Rehana Maryam Noor,” Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Bangladesh)
“Unclenching the Fists,” Kira Kovalenko (Russia)
“Un Monde,” Laura Wandel (Belgium)
“Women Do Cry,” Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria)
OUT OF COMPETITION
“Aline, the Voice of Love,” Valerie Lemercier (France)
“Bac Nord,” Cédric Jimenez (France)
“Emergency Declaration,” Han Jae-Rim (S. Korea
“Peaceful” OR “De son vivant,” Emmanuelle Bercot (France)
“Stillwater,” Tom McCarthy (U.S.)
"The Velvet Underground,” Todd Haynes (U.S.)
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Bloody Oranges,” Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Babi Yar. Context,” Sergei Loznitsa (Ukraine)
“Black Notebooks,” Shlomi Elkabetz (Israel)
“H6,” Yé Yé (France)
"Mariner of the Mountains” OR “O Marinheiro das Montanhas,” Karim Aïnouz (Brazil)
“The Year of the Everlasting Storm,” Jafar Panahi (Iran), Anthony Chen (Singapore), Malik Vitthal (U.S.), Laura Poitras (U.S.), Dominga Sotomayor (Chile), David Lowery (U.S.) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)
CANNES PREMIERE
“Cow,” Andrea Arnold (U.K.)
“Deception” OR “Tromperie,” Arnaud Desplechin (France)
“Evolution,” Kornél Mundruczo (Hungary)
"Hold Me Tight,” Mathieu Amalric (France)
“In Front of Your Face,” Hong Sang-soo (S. Korea)
"Jane by Charlotte,” Charlotte Gainsbourg (France)
"JFK Revisted: Through the Looking Glass,” Oliver Stone (U.S.)
"Love Songs for Tough Guys,” Samuel Benchetrit (France)
"Mothering Sunday,” Eva Husson (France)
“Val,” Ting Poo and Leo Scott (U.S.)
