Cannes Film Festival Updates

Good afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here bringing you the latest from Cannes lineup week plus plenty more. Read on. And sign up here. Cannes Unveils 2026 Selection But Keeps Biz Guessing Mystery Missing Competition Film: In one of the most important days of the year for the international film biz,

EXCLUSIVE: Mk2 Films has boarded sales on Rwandan filmmaker Marie-Clémentine Dusabejambo’s post-genocide drama Ben’Imana ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Un Certain Regard in May. The film makes history as the first feature by a Rwandan director to be selected for Cannes Official Selection. Set

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Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks, a billed as a Romeo and Juliet-style love story set on the French Riviera, has joined the 2026 lineup of Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.   The picture will play as a special screening with Dumont also giving a masterclass during the 58th edition of the parallel section, runnin

EXCLUSIVE: James Franco reveals that he has a role in a “big studio movie,” the first blockbuster, he tells Deadline, he’s appeared in for close to a decade. Franco says that the film’s already shot but “it won’t be ready for this summer, but my guess is it will be end of this year

EXCLUSIVE: United Talent Agency (UTA) has signed celebrated Belgian and French actress Virginie Efira for representation. Efira will be at the Cannes Film Festival this week with leading roles in two films premiering in Competition: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Soudain (All of A Sudden) and Asghar Farhadi’s