The lineup for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been released and it is beyond stacked. The festival will open on the 14th of May with Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act which stars Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon and Louis Garrel. Dupieux’s name may not be instantly recognisable to most, but you’ll absolutely remember his track Flat Beat from the 90s which he released under his musical nom de plume Mr. Oizo.

In the premières section of the festival, Leos Carax (of Holy Motors and Annette fame) will be showing C’est pas moi, a “free-form” film in which Carax revisits the characters from his past films. Alain Guiraudie, director of Stranger by the Lake, will be premiering Miséricorde, starring the legendary Catherine Frot.

Showing out of competition will be the long-awaited follow-up to Fury Road, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. We will also see Kevin Costner returning to the director’s seat for the first time since 2003’s Open Range with Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, the first part of an epic two-part film set in the American West.

Guy Maddin will be premiering Rumours, a dark comedy about a group of world leaders at the G7 summit who find themselves lost in the woods. Actress Ariane Labed will be making her directorial debut with September Says based on Daisy Johnson’s novel Sisters. Director of I Am Not A Witch, Rungano Nyoni will return with On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

Screening in competition are the big guns — David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds stars Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger and is about a man who builds a device to communicate with the dead. Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis will finally premier after Coppola’s attempts to get it made for decades. Yorgos Lanthimos will be bringing his new anthology film Kinds of Kindness and Paul Schrader’s Oh Canada sees Jacob Elordi playing the younger version of Richard Gere.

See you on the Croisette.

Kinds of Kindness, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Premiering at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.

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A fave of Cannes, Paolo Sorrentino is back with Parthenope and Sean Baker also returns with Anora, starring Mikey Madison. Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski will star in the new Andrea Arnold titled Bird.

Saint Laurent Production has three films in the festival, Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, Sorrentino’s Parthenope and Emelia Perez, directed by Jacques Audiard.