Overview
- The festival announced its Official Selection on Thursday, April 9, listing 21 competition films chosen from 2,541 submissions across 141 countries.
- South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook will preside over the jury, and Pierre Salvadori’s La Vénus électrique will open the festival on May 12.
- The competition leans toward European auteur cinema, with strong French and Spanish representation and five women directors among the entries.
- Major Hollywood premieres are largely missing from the program, and the only American director in competition is Ira Sachs with The Man I Love.
- Peter Jackson and Barbra Streisand will receive honorary Palmes d’or during the festival, which runs May 12–23.