New movies by Polish filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski, Japanese writer-director Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Spain’s Pedro Almodovar will premiere on the 79th Cannes Movie Pageant subsequent month.

Organizers for the South of France competition, which runs Might 12-23, laid out a lineup heavy on big-name worldwide auteurs at a information convention Thursday in Paris.

Cannes’ most sought-after slots are in its competitors lineup. This 12 months, 21 movies will vie for the Palme d’Or. That features “Fatherland,” a Chilly Warfare drama starring Sandra Hüller by Pawlikowski (“Ida,” “Chilly Warfare” ); “Sudden,” the French language debut for Hamaguchi ( “Drive My Automotive” ); and Almodovar’s “Bitter Christmas.”

Cannes is thus far mild on Hollywood releases and American filmmakers. One exception in competitors is Ira Sachs’ “The Man I Love,” a New York story starring Rami Malek set through the Eighties AIDS disaster. Within the Un Sure Regard sidebar, Jane Schoenbrun will unveil their follow-up to 2014’s “I Noticed the TV Glow”: “Teenage Intercourse and Dying at Camp Miasma,” concerning the making of a slasher film. It stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson.

Numerous former Palme winners are within the combine. That features Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set “Fjord,” starring the not too long ago Oscar-nominated Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan. Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks and a pair of Days” received the Palme in 2007.

Additionally returning is Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose 2018 drama “Shoplifters” received the Palme. He’ll debut the sci-fi “Sheep within the Field,” a couple of grieving couple within the close to future who convey house a humanoid boy as their son.

The specialty distributor Neon has already boarded “Fjord,” “Sheep within the Field” and “Sudden,” giving it an opportunity to increase its historic document of six Palme winners in a row. Final 12 months, the Neon launch “It Was Simply an Accident,” by Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, received the Palme.

Neon can be behind an out of competitors choice in “Her Non-public Hell” by Nicolas Winding Refn, the “Drive” filmmaker. A thriller starring Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton, it is Refn’s first function movie since 2016’s “The Neon Demon.”

The Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev can be again within the Cannes competitors lineup with “Minotaur.” Zvyagintsev’s final two movies, “Loveless” and “Leviathan,” each debuted at Cannes and went on to land Oscar nominations.

Different competitors entries embody movies by Asghar Farhadi (“Parallel Tales”), Lukas Dhont (“Coward”) and Lazlo Nemes (“Moulin”).

Thierry Fremaux, Cannes’ inventive director, introduced the choices in a information convention alongside competition president Iris Knobloch. Fremaux stated that 2,541 function movies have been submitted for inclusion.

Cannes is coming off a 2025 competition that produced various Oscar contenders, together with two best-picture nominees in Joachim Tier’s “Sentimental Worth” and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent.” This 12 months’s Cannes seems nicely positioned to proceed the competition’s stature as the worldwide launching pad of most of the 12 months’s finest worldwide movies, a few of that are certain to point out up at subsequent 12 months’s Oscars.

However Hollywood studios look like a no-show. Fremaux has stated to not count on pink carpet premieres like “Prime Gun: Maverick” or “Mission: Inconceivable — The Ultimate Reckoning” — each of which made splashy premieres lately. This 12 months, Cannes introduced forward of the Paris information convention that John Travolta’s directorial debut “Propeller One-Approach Evening Coach” will debut within the Cannes Premiere part.

Two distinguished American administrators will debut documentaries in particular screenings: Steven Soderbergh with “John Lennon: The Final Interview” and Ron Howard with “Avedon,” concerning the photographer Richard Avedon.

Opening the competition, out of competitors, is the Twenties French movie “The Electrical Kiss.” Cannes requires its opening film to launch the identical week in French cinemas. And entry to its prestigious competitors lineup requires theatrical distribution, a stipulation that — given France’s legal guidelines guarding theatrical home windows — has excluded Netflix films and different streaming titles since 2017.

This 12 months, the Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook will preside over the nine-member jury that may resolve the Palme. And a pair of honorary Palmes will probably be handed out, to Barbra Streisand and to Peter Jackson.