Cannes Film Festival 2023 film guide
Here are the official selections for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the following categories: Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere, and Special Screenings.
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- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanScarlett JohanssonTom HanksFollowing a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.In Competition
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsMia WasikowskaKsenia DevriendtLuke BarkerA teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students - a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.In Competition
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsChristian FriedelSandra HüllerJohann KarthausAuschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.In Competition
- DirectorAki KaurismäkiStarsAlma PöystiJussi VatanenJanne HyytiäinenIn modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.In Competition
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.In Competition
- DirectorJustine TrietStarsSandra HüllerSwann ArlaudMilo Machado-GranerA woman is suspected of murder after her husband's death; their half-blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.In Competition
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsSakura AndôEita NagayamaSoya KurokawaA mother demands answers from her son's teacher when her son begins acting strangely.In Competition
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiMargherita BuySilvio OrlandoA movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956.In Competition
- DirectorAlice RohrwacherStarsJosh O'ConnorCarol DuarteVincenzo NemolatoA group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.In Competition
- DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsDeniz CelilogluMerve DizdarMusab EkiciA young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.In Competition
- DirectorCatherine BreillatStarsLéa DruckerSamuel KircherOlivier RabourdinFollows Anne, a brilliant lawyer who lives with her husband Pierre and their daughters. Anne gradually engages in a passionate relationship with Theo, Pierre's son from a previous marriage, putting her career and family life in danger.In Competition
- DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsJuliette BinocheBenoît MagimelEmmanuel SalingerThe story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.In Competition
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsPaolo PierobonFausto Russo AlesiBarbara RonchiA Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.In Competition
- DirectorTodd HaynesStarsNatalie PortmanChris TenzisCharles MeltonTwenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.In Competition
- DirectorKarim AïnouzStarsAlicia VikanderJude LawEddie MarsanFollows Queen Katherine Parr & Henry VIII's marriage.In Competition
- DirectorKen LoachStarsDave TurnerEbla MariClaire RodgersonThe future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees.In Competition
- DirectorRamata-Toulaye SyStarsKhady ManeMamadou DialloBinta Racine SyA young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.In Competition
- DirectorWim WendersStarsKoji YakushoTokio EmotoArisa NakanoHirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.In Competition
- DirectorWang BingZhili is one of the centers of the textile industry and people around rural areas flock there for work. They toil away tirelessly, live in squalid conditions, face prejudice from their families, and have to fight for better pay.In Competition
- DirectorRodrigo MorenoStarsDaniel ElíasEsteban BigliardiMargarita MolfinoBank employee Morán schemes to steal enough money to never work again, then confess and serve prison time while his colleague hides the cash. Soon under investigative pressure, accomplice Román meets a woman who transforms him forever.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMolly Manning WalkerStarsAnna AntoniadesMia McKenna-BruceLara PeakeThree British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday - drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMohamed KordofaniStarsEiman YousifSiran RiakNazar GomaJust before the secession of South Sudan, a married former singer from the north seeks redemption for causing the death of a southern man by hiring his oblivious wife as her maid.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRenée Nader MessoraJoão SalavizaStarsFrancisco Hyjno KrahoIlda Patpro KrahoLuzia Cruwakwyj KrahoThrough her child's eyes, Patpro will go through three periods of the history of her indigenous people, in the heart of the Brazilian forest.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorMonia ChokriStarsMagalie Lépine BlondeauPierre-Yves CardinalFrancis-William RhéaumeSophia's life is turned upside down when she meets Sylvain. She comes from a wealthy family, while Sylvain comes from a family of manual workers. Sophia questions her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAsmae ElMoudirStarsMohamed El MoudirAsmae ElMoudirZahra JeddaouiA Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots, drawing out connections to modern Morocco.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorFelipe Gálvez HaberleStarsSam SpruellMark StanleyAlfredo CastroIn Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate. Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed-race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorBalojiStarsMarc ZingaYves-Marina GnahouaMarcel Otete KabeyaAfter spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAnthony ChenStarsDongyu ZhouHaoran LiuChuxiao QuThe blossoming relationship between three young adults in their twenties.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorStéphanie Di GiustoStarsNadia TereszkiewiczBenoît MagimelBenjamin BiolayThe story of the first bearded lady attraction.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorWarwick ThorntonStarsCate BlanchettAswan ReidDeborah MailmanA nine-year-old Aboriginal Australian orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorZoljargal PurevdashStarsTaivanbat AlexandarBatmandakh BatchuluunTuguldur BatsaikhanA poor but prideful teenage boy Ulzii determines to win a Physics competition for a scholarship, but his illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside and leaves him with his siblings in the middle of the winter.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKim Chang-hoonStarsHong Xa-binSong Joong-kiBibiDangerous people who make risky choices to escape from their hellish realities.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAli AsgariAlireza KhatamiStarsBahram ArkAli AsgariSadaf AsgariOrdinary people navigate societal constraints in a series of vignettes.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorDelphine DelogetStarsVirginie EfiraFélix LefebvreArieh WorthalterBarmaid Sylvie is a single mom living with her two sons, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while being alone in the flat which results in placing him in a foster home. Sylvie is determined to bring her son back home.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorKamal LazraqStarsAyoub ElaidAbdellatif MasstouriMohamed HmimsaA father and son in the suburbs of Casablanca get by on petty crimes for a local mob. When a kidnapping goes wrong, they must find a way to dispose of the body.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorThomas CailleyStarsRomain DurisPaul KircherAdèle ExarchopoulosAn adventure between a father and his son, in a world where some humans have started mutating into other animal species.Un Certain Regard
- CreatorReza FahimSam LevinsonThe WeekndStarsThe WeekndLily-Rose DeppSuzanna SonJocelyn is desperate to reclaim her rightful title as the greatest and sexiest pop diva in America after a nervous breakdown disrupted her most recent tour after Tedros, a notorious nightclub entrepreneur, reignites her passions.Out of Competition
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsHarrison FordPhoebe Waller-BridgeAntonio BanderasArchaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.Out of Competition
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioRobert De NiroLily GladstoneWhen oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.Out of Competition
- DirectorMaïwennStarsStanislas StanicMaïwennJohnny DeppThe life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.Out of Competition
- DirectorJee-woon KimStarsSong Kang-hoLim Soo-jungOh Jung-seDescribed as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.Out of Competition
- DirectorElias BelkeddarStarsReda KatebBenoît MagimelMeriem AmiarOmar, a gangster on the run, tries to lie low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.Midnight Screenings
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsRahul BhatMegha BurmanAamir DalviAn insomniac ex-cop who dwells in different circumstances looking for redemption. The ex-cop, who is presumed dead for a long time, operates secretly for the corrupt system.Midnight Screenings
- DirectorJust PhilippotStarsGuillaume CanetLaetitia DoschPatience MunchenbachIn the middle of a heat wave, an ominous cloud appears and with it, a lethal acid rain. A separated family will have to come together to escape this plague ravaging the world.Midnight Screenings
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsSonia BragaSeverino CavalcantiTony CurtisDowntown Recife's classic movie palaces from the 20th century are mostly gone. That city area is now an archaeological site of sorts that reveals aspects of life in society which have been lost. And that's just part of the story.Special Screenings
- DirectorWim WendersStarsAnselm KieferDaniel KieferAnton WendersAnselm Kiefer is one of the greatest contemporary artists. His past and present diffuse the line between film and painting, thus giving a unique cinematic experience that dives deep into an artist's work and reveals his life path.Special Screenings
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsKing Willem-AlexanderQueen Máxima of the NetherlandsMelanie HyamsThe past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what's to come.Special Screenings
- DirectorWang BingStarsXilin WangWang Xilin, China's most important modern classical composers who was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. Besides having a life of suffering, he is still capable of deep and sincere compassion.Special Screenings
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsEthan HawkePedro PascalPedro CasablancAfter twenty-five years Silva rides a horse across the desert to visit his friend Sheriff Jake. They celebrate the meeting, but the next morning Jake tells him that reason for his trip is not to go down the memory lane of their friendship.Special Screenings
- DirectorPeter SohnStarsLeah LewisMamoudou AthieRonnie Del CarmenFollows Ember and Wade, in a city where fire-, water-, earth- and air-residents live together.Closing Film Out of Competition
- DirectorJean-Stéphane SauvaireStarsSean PennTye SheridanGbenga AkinnagbeOllie Cross is a young paramedic assigned to the NYC night shift with an uncompromising and seasoned partner Gene Rutkovsky. Each 911 call is often dangerous and uncertain, putting their lives on the line every day to help others.In Competition
- DirectorCatherine CorsiniStarsAïssatou Diallo SagnaEsther GohourouSuzy BembaKheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances.In Competition
- DirectorWei ShujunStarsYilong ZhuChloe MaayanHou TianlaiChief police investigates a series of murders in a riverside town in rural China in the 1990s. An arrest is made quickly, clues push the policeman to dive deeper into the hidden behaviour of the localsUn Certain Regard
- DirectorJean-Bernard MarlinStarsOumar MoindjieDalil AbdourahimWallenn El GharbaouiA former gang member who believes his daughter is the only one who save his community from an curse uttered by a rival gang member in his dying breath.Un Certain Regard
- DirectorAlex LutzStarsKarin ViardAlex LutzJérôme PoulyA woman pushes a man. They argue. Later, in the station corridors, the two strangers awkwardly make love in a photo booth. Finally, on the surface, they say goodbye.Un Certain Regard | Closing Film Out of Competition
- DirectorFrédéric TellierStarsBenjamin LavernheEmmanuelle BercotMichel VuillermozThe life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.Out of Competition
- DirectorRobert RodriguezStarsBen AffleckAlice BragaJD PardoA detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.Midnight Screenings
- DirectorTae-gon KimStarsLee Sun-kyunJu Ji-hoonKim Hee-won"Silence" takes place when an accident occurs on a foggy bridge and, as a result, an unknown beast is unleashed.Midnight Screenings
- DirectorTakeshi KitanoStarsTakeaki AbeYoshiyoshi ArakawaTadanobu AsanoLord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.Cannes Premiere
- DirectorMartin ProvostStarsCécile de FranceVincent MacaigneStacy MartinExplores the art and love story of renowned French painters Pierre Bonnard and his wife Marthe.Cannes Premiere
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsManolo SoloJose CoronadoAna TorrentA Spanish actor disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.Cannes Premiere
- DirectorAmat EscalanteStarsVicky AraicoBianca GonzalezLuis Fernando MarroquínEmiliano lives in a small mining town in Mexico. Driven by a deep sense of justice, he seeks those responsible for the disappearance of his activist mother.Cannes Premiere
- DirectorValérie DonzelliStarsVirginie EfiraMelvil PoupaudDominique ReymondFollows Blanche Renard, who meets Greg Lamoureux and believes he is the one. However, she soon finds herself caught up in a toxic relationship with a possessive and dangerous man.Cannes Premiere
- DirectorLisandro AlonsoStarsViggo MortensenChiara MastroianniAlaina CliffordMurphy searches for his daughter after she is kidnapped by the outlaw Randall.Cannes Premiere
- DirectorMona AchacheStarsMarion CotillardMona AchacheMarie BunelDocudrama about French writer and photographer Carole Achache. Through the power of filmmaking and the help of Marion Cotillard, director Mona Achache brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.Special Screenings
- DirectorSahra ManiCapturing the experiences of Afghanistan women's under the Taliban since they took control of KabulSpecial Screenings
- DirectorAnna NovionStarsElla RumpfJean-Pierre DarroussinClotilde CourauA brilliant mathematics student at France's top university the Ecole Normale Supérieure. On the day of her thesis presentation, a mistake shakes up all the certainty in her planned-out life, she decides to quit everything and start afresh.Special Screenings
- DirectorPedro CostaStarsAlice CostaKaryna GomesElizabeth PinardThree young sisters are set apart by the eruption of Fogo. But they sing. One day, we will know why we live and why we suffer.Special Screenings
- DirectorKatell QuillévéréStarsAnaïs DemoustierVincent LacosteMorgan BaileyA hotel waitress Madeleine who is mother to a little boy, meets a rich student François. The relation between them becomes so intense, but over time it's evident that François is trying to escape by entangling Madeleine's destiny with his.Cannes Premiere