Cannes Film Fes­ti­val announces a bumper com­pe­ti­tion for its delayed 2021 edition

After much uncer­tain­ty and plen­ty of rumours, the line-up for the hot­ly antic­i­pat­ed 2021 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val has been unveiled by head hon­cho Thier­ry Fré­maux. After being forced to can­cel their 2020 edi­tion due to Covid-19, Cannes are back with a bang, bring­ing a bumper crop of reg­u­lars and new­com­ers to the Croisette in July – two months lat­er than the festival’s nor­mal slot.

It was no sur­prise to hear Paul Verhoeven’s Benedet­ta and Wes Anderson’s The French Dis­patch would be mak­ing their bow at the fes­ti­val, hav­ing been delayed from the pre­vi­ous year along­side Leos Carax’s musi­cal Annette, which was announced as the open­ing film in April. Fré­maux con­firmed that they invit­ed all accept­ed films from the 2020 edi­tion to this year’s fes­ti­val, and have formed a new sec­tion called ​‘Cannes Pre­mieres’ in order to free up space in Un Cer­tain Regard for new filmmakers.

The lucky folks who make it to France amid trav­el restric­tions and vac­cine uncer­tain­ly can expect to see new films by Sean Bak­er, Julia Ducor­nau and Apichat­pong Weerasethakul play­ing in com­pe­ti­tion, as well as the long-await­ed Bergman Island from Mia Hansen-Løve. There are also new films from Cannes reg­u­lars François Ozon, Bruno Dumont and Hong Sang-soo.

As if that wasn’t enough, the line-ups for Director’s Fort­night and Critic’s Week will be announced lat­er, and in typ­i­cal Cannes fash­ion, Fré­maux has promised a few sur­prise addi­tions in the weeks to come. Check out the full line-up below and let us know what you’re excit­ed to see @lwlies.

Ha’berech (Le Genou D’ahed / Ahed’s Knee), Nadav Lapid
Haut Et Fort (Casablan­ca Beats), Nabil Ayouch
Hyt­ti Nro 6 (Com­part­ment No.6), Juho Kuos­ma­n­en
Julie (En 12 Chapitres / The Worst Per­son In The World, Joachim Tri­er
La Frac­ture, Cather­ine Corsi­ni
Les Intran­quilles (The Rest­less), Joachim Lafos­se
Les Olympiades (Paris 13^th Dis­trict), Jacques Audi­ard
Lin­gui, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Memo­ria, Apichat­pong Weerasethakul
Nitram, Justin Kurzel
Par Un Demi Clair Matin, Bruno Dumont
Petrov’s Flu, Kir­ill Sere­bren­nikov
Red Rock­et, Sean Bak­er
The French Dis­patch, Wes Ander­son
Titane, Julia Ducour­nau
Tre Piani, Nan­ni Moret­ti
Tout S’est Bien Passé, François Ozon
Dri­ve My Car, Ryusuke Ham­aguchi
Un Héros (A Hero), Asghar Farha­di
Bergman Island, Mia Hansen-Love
Benedet­ta, Paul Ver­ho­even
A Feleségem Története (L’histoire De Ma Femme / The Sto­ry Of My Wife), Ildikó Enye­di
Annette, Leos Carax
Flag Day, Sean Penn

Un Monde, Lau­ra Wan­del
After Yang, Kog­o­na­da
Lamb, Valdimar Jóhanns­son
Bonne Mère, Haf­sia Herzi
Noche De Fuego, Tatiana Hue­zo
Com­mit­ment Hasan, Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu
The Inno­cents, Eskil Vogt
Fre­da, Ges­si­ca Généus
Mon­ey­boys, CB Yi
Blue Bay­ou, Justin Chon
Delo (House Arrest), Alex­ey Ger­man Jr
La Civ­il, Teodo­ra Ana Mihai
Rehana Maryam Noor, Abdul­lah Moham­mad Saad
Et Il Y Eut Un Matin (Let There Be Morn­ing), Eran Kolirin
Unclench­ing The Fists, Kira Kovalenko
Women Do Cry, Mina Mil­e­va And Vesela Kaza­ko­va
Mes frères et moi, Yohan Manca

Cow, Andrea Arnold
Cette Musique Né Joue Pour Per­son­ne (Love Songs for Tough Guys), Samuel Benchetrit
Tromperie (Decep­tion), Arnaud Desplechin
Evo­lu­tion, Kornél Mundruc­zo
Serre-moi Fort (Hold Me Tight), Math­ieu Amal­ric
In Front of Your Face, Hong Sang-soo
Moth­er­ing Sun­day, Eva Hus­son
Vor­tex, Gas­par Noé

Aline (Aline, the Voice of Love), Valérie Lemerci­er
Still­wa­ter, Tom McCarthy
The Vel­vet Under­ground, Todd Haynes
Emer­gency Dec­la­ra­tion, Han Jae-rim
De Son Vivant, Emmanuelle Bercot
Bac Nord, Cédric Jimenez
Where Is Anne Frank?, Ari Folman

Jane Par Char­lotte, Char­lotte Gains­bourg
JFK Revis­it­ed: Through The Look­ing Glass, Oliv­er Stone
O Mar­in­heiro Das Mon­tan­has (Le Marin Des Mon­tagnes / Mariner of the Moun­tains), Karim Aïnouz
Cahiers Noirs (Black Note­books), Shlo­mi Elk­a­betz
H6, Yé Yé)
The Year of the Ever­last­ing Storm, Jafar Panahi, Antho­ny Chen, Malik Vit­thal, Lau­ra Poitras, Domin­ga Sotomay­or, David Low­ery And Apichat­pong Weerasethakul
Babi Yar. Con­texte (Babi Yar. Con­text), Sergei Loznit­sa
Val, Ting Poo and Leo Scott
New Worlds, the cra­dle of a civil­i­sa­tion, Andrew Mus­ca­to
Mi iubi­ta, Mon amour, Noémie Mer­lant
Les Héroïques, Maxime Roy
Are You Lone­some Tonight?, Wei Shipei
F9, Justin Lin

Oranges San­guines (Bloody Oranges), Jean-Christophe Meurisse
Tralala, Arnaud and Jean-Marie Lar­rieu
Supremes, Audrey Estrougo

The Cannes Film Fes­ti­val runs 6 – 17 July.