Cannes 2021 Lineup: Wes Anderson, Paul Verhoeven movies to premiere

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

After taking a year off due to the pandemic, The Cannes Film Festival seems on the verge of making a major comeback! This morning, the full list of titles for the upcoming festival (slated for July 6th to 17th on the French Riviera) were announced and, as expected, it was chockful of huge titles, including Wes Anderson's much delayed The French Dispatch (now coming out October 22nd) and Paul Verhoeven's lesbian erotic nun movie Benedetta. Other titles slated to play the fest include Leos Carax's Sparks musical Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, Tom McCarthy's Stillwater starring Matt Damon, Sean Penn's Flag Day, and, perhaps most intriguingly, something called JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass by Oliver Stone.

You can see the whole list of titles below (courtesy of Deadline), but I for one am happy to see Cannes seems to be back with a vengeance. I still hope to attend one year (although due to travel restrictions – this won't be it), and sure enough this seems to be an epic year for the iconic festival. 

CANNES 2021 OFFICIAL SELECTION

COMPETITION
Annette, dir: Leos Carax (opening night film)
Flag Day, dir: Sean Penn
Tout S’est Bien Passé, dir: François Ozon
A Hero, dir: Asghar Farhadi
Tre Piani, dir: Nanni Moretti
Titane, dir: Julia Ducournau
The French Dispatch, dir: Wes Anderson
Red Rocket, dir: Sean Baker
Petrov’s Flu, dir: Kirill Serebrennikov
France, dir: Bruno Dumont
Nitram, dir: Justin Kurzel
Memoria, dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Les Olympiades, dir: Jacques Audiard
Benedetta, dir: Paul Verhoeven
La Fracture, dir: Catherine Corsini
The Restless, dir: Joachim Lafosse
Lingui, dir: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
The Worst Person In The World, dir: Joachim Trier
Bergman Island, dir: Mia Hansen-Love
Drive My Car, dir: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Ahed’s Knee, dir: Nadav Lapid
Casablanca Beats, dir: Nabil Ayouch
Compartment No. 6, dir: Juho Kuosmanen
The Story Of My Wife, dir: Ildiko Enyedi

OUT OF COMPETITION
De Son Vivant, dir: Emmanuelle Bercot
Stillwater, dir: Tom McCarthy
The Velvet Underground, dir: Todd Haynes
Bac Nord, dir: Cédric Jiminez
Aline, dir: Valérie Lemercier
Emergency Declaration, dir: Han Jae-Rim

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Bloody Oranges, dir: Jean-Christophe Meurisse

CANNES PREMIERES
Evolution, dir: Kornel Mundruczo
Cow, dir: Andrea Arnold
Mothering Sunday, dir: Eva Husson
Love Songs For Tough Guys, dir: Samuel Benchetrit
In Front Of Your Face, dir: Hong Sang-soo
Hold Me Tight, dir: Mathieu Amalric
Deception, dir: Arnaud Desplechin
Val, dirs: Ting Poo, Leo Scott
JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass, dir: Oliver Stone
Jane By Charlotte, dir: Charlotte Gainsbourg

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
H6, dir: Yi Yi
Black Notebooks, dir: Shlomi Elkabetz
Mariner Of The Mountains, dir: Karim Ainouz
Babi Yar. Context, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
The Year Of The Everlasting Storm; dirs: Jafar Panahi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

UN CERTAIN REGARD
The Innocents, dir: Eskil Vogt
After Yang, dir: Kogonada
Delo, dir: Alexey German Jr
Bonne Mere, dir: Hafsia Herzi
Noche De Fuego, dir: Tatiana Huezo
Lamb, dir: Vladimar Johansson
Un Monde, dir: Laura Wandel
Freda, dir: Gessica Généus
Moneyboys, dir: CB Yi
Blue Bayou, dir: Justin Chon
Commitment Hasan, dir: Hasan Semih Kaplanoglu
Rehana Maryam Noor, dir: Abdullah Mohammad Saad
Let There Be Morning, dir: Eran Kolirin
Unclenching The Fists, dir: Kira Kovalenko
La Civil, dir: Ana Mihai
Women Do Cry, dirs: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova