| 2023 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Jeanne du Barry |
| Closing: | Elemental |
| Location: | Cannes, France |
| Founded: | 1946 |
| Awards: | Palme d'Or |
| Number: | 21 (In Competition) |
| Date: | 16–27 May 2023 |
| Main: | Cannes Film Festival |
| Previous: | 2022 |
| Next: | 2024 |
| Artistic Director: | Thierry Frémaux |
The 76th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 16 to 27 May 2023.[1] Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund served as jury president. With the French film Anatomy of a Fall winning the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, Justine Triet became the third female director to achieve the prize, after Jane Campion in 1993, and Julia Ducournau in 2021.[2]
The official poster for the festival featuring actress Catherine Deneuve was created by Lionel Avignon and Stefan de Vivies of the design studio Hartland Villa from a photo taken by Jack Garofalo during the shooting of La Chamade (1968). The poster was chosen to pay tribute to Deneuve for her contributions to film.[3]
During the festival, two Honorary Palme d'Or were awarded: the first one during the opening ceremony for Michael Douglas, and the second one was awarded on short notice for Harrison Ford before the world premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.[4]
The festival opened with Jeanne du Barry directed by Maïwenn[5] [6] and closed with Pixar's feature film Elemental directed by Peter Sohn.[7] [8]
The following films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or:[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| About Dry Grasses | Kuru Otlar Üstüne | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey, France, Germany | |
| Anatomy of a Fall (QP) | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet | France | |
| Asphalt City | Black Flies | Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire | United States | |
| Asteroid City | Wes Anderson | |||
| Banel & Adama | Banel et Adama | Ramata-Toulaye Sy | Senegal, Mali, France | |
| A Brighter Tomorrow | Il sol dell'avvenire | Nanni Moretti | Italy, France | |
| La chimera | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, France, Switzerland | ||
| Club Zero | Jessica Hausner | Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Qatar | ||
| Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany | |
| Firebrand | Karim Aïnouz | United Kingdom | ||
| Four Daughters (ŒdO) | بنات ألفة | Kaouther Ben Hania | Tunisia, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia | |
| Homecoming (QP) | Le Retour | Catherine Corsini | France | |
| Kidnapped | Rapito | Marco Bellocchio | Italy, France, Germany | |
| Last Summer | L'été dernier | Catherine Breillat | France | |
| May December | Todd Haynes | United States | ||
| Monster (QP) | 怪物 | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan | |
| The Old Oak | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium | ||
| Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | Japan, Germany | ||
| The Taste of Things | La Passion de Dodin Bouffant | Tran Anh Hung | France | |
| Youth (Spring) (ŒdO) | 青春 | Wang Bing | China, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands | |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | United Kingdom, United States, Poland | ||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
(ŒdO) indicates film eligible for the L'Œil d'or as documentary.[18]
(QP) indicates film in competition for the Queer Palm.[19]
The following films were selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All to Play For (CdO) | Rien à perdre | Delphine Deloget | France, Belgium | |
| The Animal Kingdom (opening film) | Le Règne animal | Thomas Cailley | ||
| The Breaking Ice | 燃冬 | Anthony Chen | China, Singapore | |
| The Buriti Flower | Crowrã | João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora | Brazil, Portugal | |
| The Delinquents | Los Delincuentes | Rodrigo Moreno | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg | |
| Goodbye Julia (CdO) | وداعا جوليا | Mohamed Kordofani | Sudan, Egypt, Germany, France, Sweden, Saudi Arabia | |
| Hopeless (CdO) | 화란 | Kim Chang-hoon | South Korea | |
| Hounds (CdO) | Les Meutes | Kamal Lazraq | Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | |
| How to Have Sex (CdO) (QP) | Molly Manning Walker | United Kingdom | ||
| If Only I Could Hibernate (CdO) | Zoljargal Purevdash | Mongolia, France, Switzerland, Qatar | ||
| The Mother of All Lies (ŒdO) | كذب أبيض | Asmae El Moudir | Morocco, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia | |
| The Nature of Love (QP) | Simple comme Sylvain | Monia Chokri | Canada, France | |
| The New Boy | Warwick Thornton | Australia | ||
| Omen (CdO) | Augure | Baloji Tshiani | Belgium, Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| Only the River Flows | 河边的错误 | Wei Shujun | China | |
| Rosalie (QP) | Stéphanie Di Giusto | France, Belgium | ||
| Salem | Jean-Bernard Marlin | France | ||
| The Settlers (CdO) | Los colonos | Felipe Gálvez | Chile, Argentina, France, Denmark, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Sweden, Germany | |
| Terrestrial Verses | آیههای زمینی | Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami | Iran | |
| Out of Competition[20] | ||||
| Strangers by Night (closing film) | Une Nuit | Alex Lutz | France, Belgium | |
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
(ŒdO) indicates film eligible for the L'Œil d'or as documentary.
(QP) indicates film in competition for the Queer Palm.
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbé Pierre – A Century of Devotion | L'Abbé Pierre – Une Vie de Combats | Frédéric Tellier | France | |
| Cobweb | 거미집 | Kim Jee-woon | South Korea | |
| Elemental (closing film) | Peter Sohn | United States | ||
| Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny | James Mangold | |||
| Jeanne du Barry (opening film) | Maïwenn | France, Belgium, United Kingdom | ||
| Killers of the Flower Moon | Martin Scorsese | United States | ||
| Series | ||||
| The Idol (episodes 1 and 2) (QP) | Sam Levinson | United States | ||
| Midnight screenings | ||||
| Acid | Acide | Just Philippot | France | |
| Hypnotic | Robert Rodriguez | United States | ||
| Kennedy | Anurag Kashyap | India | ||
| The King of Algiers | Omar La Fraise | Elias Belkeddar | France | |
| Project Silence | 탈출: PROJECT SILENCE | Kim Tae-gon | South Korea | |
The following films were selected to be screened in the Cannes Premiere section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Along Came Love (QP) | Le Temps d'aimer | Katell Quillévéré | France, Belgium | |
| Bonnard, Pierre and Marthe | Bonnard, Pierre et Marthe | Martin Provost | France | |
| Close Your Eyes | Cerrar los ojos | Víctor Erice | Spain, Argentina | |
| Eureka | Lisandro Alonso | France, Germany, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina | ||
| Just the Two of Us | L'Amour et Les Forêts | Valérie Donzelli | France | |
| Kubi (QP) | 首 | Takeshi Kitano | Japan | |
| Lost in the Night | Perdidos en la noche | Amat Escalante | Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark | |
The following films were selected to be screened in the Special Screenings section:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anselm (ŒdO) | Wim Wenders | Germany | ||
| Bread and Roses (ŒdO) | Sahra Mani | Afghanistan, United States | ||
| The Daughters of Fire | As Filhas do Fogo | Pedro Costa | Portugal | |
| Little Girl Blue (ŒdO) | Mona Achache | France, Belgium | ||
| Man in Black (ŒdO) | Wang Bing | China, France, United States, United Kingdom | ||
| Marguerite's Theorem | Le Théorème de Marguerite | Anna Novion | France, Switzerland | |
| Occupied City (ŒdO) | Steve McQueen | United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands | ||
| Pictures of Ghosts (ŒdO) | Retratos Fantasmas | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil | |
| Robot Dreams | Pablo Berger | Spain, France | ||
| Strange Way of Life (QP) | Extraña Forma de Vida | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
(QP) indicates film in competition for the Queer Palm.
Out of 4,288 entries, the following films were selected to compete for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 (QP) | Flóra Anna Buda | France, Hungary | ||
| As It Was | Anastasia Solonevych, Damian Kocur | Poland, Ukraine | ||
| Aunque es de Noche | Guillermo García López | Spain, France | ||
| Basri & Salma in a Never-ending Comedy | Basri & Salma Dalam Komedi Yang Terus Berputar | Khozy Rizal | Indonesia, United States | |
| Intrusion | Fár | Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter | Iceland | |
| La Perra | Carla Melo Gampert | Colombia, France | ||
| None of That | Nada de Todo Esto | Patricio Martínez, Francisco Canton | Argentina, Spain, United States | |
| Peeping Mom | Le Sexe de Ma Mère | Francis Canitrot | France | |
| Poof | Margaret Miller | United States | ||
| Tits | Eivind Landsvik | Norway | ||
| Wild Summon | Karni Arieli, Saul Freed | United Kingdom | ||
The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The Cannes Film Festival allocates a €15,000 grant for the winner of the First Prize, €11,250 for the winner of the Second Prize and €7,500 for the winner of the Third Prize. The following 16 entries (14 live-action and 2 animated films) were selected out of 2,000 submissions:[21]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | School | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bright Sunny Day | Yupeng He | Columbia University, United States | ||
| The Call of the Brook | Al Toraa | Jad Chahine | High Cinema Institute, Egypt | |
| Crack of Dawn | Trenc d'Alba | Anna Llargués | ESCAC, Spain | |
| Eighth Day | Osmý Den | Petr Pylypčuk | FAMU, Czech Republic | |
| Electra | Daria Kashcheeva | |||
| Ground | Solos | Pedro Vargas | FAAP, Brazil | |
| Hole | 구멍 | Hwang Hyein | Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea | |
| Imogene | Katie Blair | Columbia University, United States | ||
| Inside the Skin (QP) | Daroone Poust | Shafagh Abosaba, Maryam Mahdiye | Karnameh Film School, Iran | |
| Killing Boris Johnson | Musa Alderson-Clarke | NFTS, United Kingdom | ||
| The Lee Families | 이씨 가문의 형제들 | Seo Jeong-mi | Korea National University of Arts, South Korea | |
| Moon | Ayyur | Zineb Wakrim | ÉSAV Marrakech, Morocco | |
| Nehemich | Yudhajit Basu | FTII, India | ||
| Norwegian Offspring | Marlene Emilie Lyngstad | Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark | ||
| Primitive Times | Uhrmenschen | Yu Hao | Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Germany | |
| The Voice of Others | La Voix des Autres | Fatima Kaci | La Fémis, France | |
The following films were selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section:[22]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restored prints | ||||
| L'Amour fou (1969) | Jacques Rivette | France | ||
| Caligula – The Ultimate Cut (1979) | Tinto Brass | United States, Italy | ||
| Ces Messieurs de la santé (1934) | Pierre Colombier | France | ||
| The Chosen One (1990) | Ishanou | Aribam Syam Sharma | India | |
| Danger Ahead (1960) | Classe tous risques | Claude Sautet | France, Italy | |
| Hello, That's Me! (1966) | Բարև, ես եմ | Frunze Dovlatyan | Soviet Union | |
| It (1966) | Es | Ulrich Schamoni | West Germany | |
| The Lady from Constantinople (1969) | Sziget a szárazföldön | Judit Elek | Hungary | |
| Love, Women and Flowers (1984) | Amor, mujeres y flores | Marta Rodríguez | Colombia | |
| Man on Pink Corner (1962) | Hombre de la esquina rosada | René Mugica | Argentina | |
| Mississippi Blues (1983) | Bertrand Tavernier, Robert Parrish | France | ||
| The Munekata Sisters (1950) | 宗方姉妹 | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan | |
| The Railroad Man (1956) | Il ferroviere | Pietro Germi | Italy | |
| Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947) | 長屋紳士録 | Yasujirō Ozu | Japan | |
| Le Rendez-vous des quais (1955) | Paul Carpita | France | ||
| Return to Reason (1923) | Le Retour à la Raison | Man Ray | ||
| Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960) | El Esqueleto de la señora Morales | Rogelio A. González | Mexico | |
| The Village (1953) | Sie fanden eine Heimat | Leopold Lindtberg | Switzerland | |
| The Film Foundation Restoration | ||||
| Spellbound (1945) | Alfred Hitchcock | United States | ||
| Tribute to Jean-Luc Godard[23] | ||||
| Godard by Godard (ŒdO) | Godard par Godard | Florence Platarets | France | |
| Contempt (1963) | Le Mépris | Jean-Luc Godard | ||
| Film Annonce du Film qui n’existera Jamais: “Drôles de Guerres” | France, Switzerland | |||
| Tribute | ||||
| The Family (ŒdO) | La Saga Rassam-Berri, le cinéma dans les veines | Michel Denisot, Florent Maillet | France | |
| Liv Ullmann – A Road Less Travelled (ŒdO) | Dheeraj Akolkar | Norway | ||
| Documentaries about Cinema | ||||
| 100 Years of Warner Bros. (4 episodes) | Leslie Iwerks | United States | ||
| Anita (ŒdO) | Svetlana Zill, Alexis Bloom | |||
| Michael Douglas, The Prodigal Son | Michael Douglas, le fils prodige | Amine Mestari | France | |
| Nelson Pereira dos Santos – A Life of Cinema (ŒdO) | Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Vida de Cinema | Aida Marques, Ivelise Ferreira | Brazil | |
| Room 999 (ŒdO) | Chambre 999 | Lubna Playoust | France | |
| Viva Varda | (ŒdO) | Pierre-Henri Gibert | ||
The following films were selected to be screened in the "Cinéma de la Plage" section:[24]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen (1983) | Carlos Saura | Spain | ||
| Flo | Géraldine Danon | France | ||
| One Deadly Summer (1983) | L'Été meurtrier | Jean Becker | ||
| Mars Express | Jérémie Périn | |||
| Sarafina! (1992) | Darrell Roodt | United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, France | ||
| Thelma & Louise (1991) | Ridley Scott | United States | ||
| Underground (1995) | Подземље | Emir Kusturica | Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary | |
| Restored Prints | ||||
| Alberto Express (1990) | Arthur Joffé | France | ||
| Badlands (1973) | Terrence Malick | United States | ||
| C'est la vie! (2017) | Le Sens de la fête | Éric Tolédano, Olivier Nakache | France | |
| Summer on a Gentle Slope (1987) | L'été en pente douce | Gérard Krawczyk | ||
| The Way of the Dragon (1972) | 猛龍過江 | Bruce Lee | Hong Kong | |
The following films were selected to be screened in main competition of the Critics' Week (Semaine de la critique):[25] [26] [27]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| Il Pleut Dans La Maison | Paloma Sermon-Daï | Belgium, France | |
| Inshallah a Boy | Amjad Al Rasheed | Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France | |
| Lost Country | Vladimir Perišić | France, Serbia, Luxembourg, Croatia | |
| Power Alley (QP) | Levante | Lillah Halla | Brazil, France, Uruguay |
| The Rapture | Le Ravissement | Iris Kaltenbäck | France |
| Sleep | 잠 | Jason Yu | South Korea |
| Tiger Stripes | Amanda Nell Eu | Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar | |
| Short Films Competition | |||
| Arkhé | Armando Navarro | Mexico | |
| Boléro (QP) | Nans Laborde-Jourdàa | France | |
| Contadores | Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe | Spain | |
| Crocodile | Krokodyl | Dawid Bodzak | Poland |
| I Promise You Paradise | Morad Mostafa | Egypt, France, Qatar | |
| The Purple Season | La Saison Pourpre | Clémence Bouchereau | France |
| The Real Truth about the Fight | Prava istina priče o šori | Andrea Slaviček | Croatia, Spain |
| Shimmering Bodies | Corpos Cintilantes | Inês Teixeira | Portugal |
| Via Dolorosa | Rachel Gutgarts | France | |
| Walking With Her into the Night | Hui Shu | China | |
| Special Screenings | |||
| Àma Gloria (opening film) | Marie Amachoukeli | France | |
| The (Exp)erience of Love | Le Syndrome des amour passés | Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni | Belgium, France |
| Midnight Skin | Manolis Mavris | Greece, France | |
| No Love Lost (closing film) | La Fille de son père | Erwan Le Duc | France |
| Pleure pas Gabriel | Mathilde Chavanne | ||
| Stranger (QP) | Jehnny Beth & Iris Chassaigne | ||
| Vincent Must Die | Vincent doit mourir | Stéphan Castang | |
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
(QP) indicates film in competition for the Queer Palm.
The following films were selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes) section:[28] [29] [30] [31] [32]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||
| Agra | Kanu Behl | India | ||
| Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry | Elene Naveriani | Switzerland, Germany, Georgia | ||
| The Book of Solutions | Le Livre des solutions | Michel Gondry | France | |
| Creatura | Elena Martín Gimeno | Spain | ||
| Déserts | Faouzi Bensaïdi | Morocco, France, Germany, Belgium | ||
| The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed | Joanna Arnow | United States | ||
| The Goldman Case | Le Procès Goldman | Cédric Kahn | France | |
| Grace | Blazh | Ilya Povolotsky | Russia | |
| In Flames | Zarrar Kahn | Canada, Pakistan | ||
| In Our Day | 우리의 하루 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | |
| Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell | Bên trong vỏ kén vàng | Pham Thien An | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Spain | |
| Légua | Filipa Reis, João Miller Guerra | Portugal, France, Italy | ||
| Mambar Pierrette | Rosine Mbakam | Cameroon | ||
| The Other Laurens | L'autre Laurens | Claude Schmitz | France | |
| A Prince (QP) | Un prince | Pierre Creton | ||
| Riddle of Fire | Weston Razooli | United States | ||
| She Is Conann (QP) | Conann | Bertrand Mandico | Belgium, France, Luxembourg | |
| A Song Sung Blue (QP) | 小白船 | Geng Zihan | China | |
| The Sweet East | Sean Price Williams | United States | ||
| Short Films | ||||
| A Storm Inside | Dans la tête un orage | Clément Pérot | France | |
| The Birthday Party | L'anniversaire D'Enrico | Francesco Sossai | Germany, France, Italy | |
| The House is on Fire, Might as Well Get Warm | La Maison Brûle, Autant se Réchauffer | Mouloud Aït Liotna | France | |
| I Saw the Face of the Devil (QP) | J'ai vu le visage du diable | Julia Kowalski | ||
| Lemon Tree | Rachel Walden | United States | ||
| Margarethe 89 | Lucas Malbrun | France | ||
| Mast-del (QP) | Maryam Tafakory | Iran | ||
| Oyu | Atsushi Hirai | France, Japan | ||
| The Red Sea Makes me Wanna Cry | Faris Alrjoob | Germany | ||
| Talking to the River | Yue Pan | United Kingdom, China | ||
| Special Screening | ||||
| Abraham's Valley (1993) | Vale Abraão | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France, Switzerland | |
| Quentin Tarantino's Surprise Special Screening | ||||
| Rolling Thunder (1977) | John Flynn | United States | ||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
(QP) indicates film in competition for the Queer Palm.
The following films were selected to be screened in the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) section:[33]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caiti Blues | Justine Harbonnier | France, Canada | ||
| Chicken for Linda! | Linda veut du poulet! | Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach | France, Italy | |
| Dreaming in Between | Ryûtarô Ninomiya | Japan | ||
| In the Rearview | Skąd dokąd | Maciek Hamela | Poland, France, Ukraine | |
| Laissez-moi | Maxime Rappaz | Switzerland, France, Belgium | ||
| Machtat | Sonia Ben Slama | Tunisia, Lebanon, France, Qatar | ||
| Nome | Sana Na N’hada | Guinea-Bissau, France, Portugal, Angola | ||
| On the Edge | Nicolas Peduzzi | France | ||
| The Sea and its Waves | La Mer et ses vagues | Liana & Renaud | France, Lebanon | |
The following awards were presented for films shown In Competition:[34]
1.Previously titled "The Pot-au-feu".