With carefree Catherine Deneuve in the picture from the shooting of the film “Shamada” (1968) by Alain Cavalier, he “greets” us through his poster Cannes Film Festival For 76th year. The red carpet has already been laid out on the French Riviera to welcome the cream of the seventh art, who will walk there until May 27th.

The chairman of the festival committee this year will be Ruben Ostlund, Swedish director who released it last year golden palm with caustic Triangle of Sorrow. In the always packed program of the Cannes Film Festival this year, we will see from rising names to veterans of American cinema. In fact, after last year’s special tribute to Tom Cruise at the screening of Top Gun: Maverick, this year Cannes is getting ready to throw a round of applause for their joint offering at Harrison Ford And Michael Douglas, as both actors will receive honorary Palme d’Or.

Filmmakers like him “Indiana Jones” but the director Ken Loach will close, now others will open (Senegalese director Ramata Tulaye-Sea preparing to present his debut “Banel and Adama”) and, of course, those who are in Cannes these days will be the first to see some of the films that will excite the world of cinema in the coming months.

We mentally walk the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival, choosing ten plus one long-awaited premiere of it.

“Jeanne du Barry” (Maiwenn)

The film that opens the festival may be out of competition, but it will see Johnny Depp play his first major role since his much-discussed legal battle with ex-wife Amber Heard last year. The French historical drama Maiwenn tells the story of Madame de Barry, the mistress of King Louis XI.

“Asteroid City” (Wes Anderson)

After stylizing all of Earth’s incredible adventures, the American director is now gearing up to do it… with aliens as well. The year is 1955, and a school conference in the film’s eponymous city will apparently receive intruders from outer space who will eventually lead him into quarantine (out). Rather than fill the rest of the article with names, we leave you in the trailer to see Anderson’s always brilliant cast (which may be even bigger than ever this time around).

“Old Oak” (Ken Loach)

A great career has come to an end these days at Cannes as The Old Oak, which will be screened in competition, will be, according to Ken Loach, his last film. A British director who has never ceased to be realistic about the working class, travels for the needs of his new film to a town in the north of England, in which a former miner and current owner of the pub “Old Oak” is at the helm. only a meeting place for the locals, but also a place that will try to take in some of the refugees coming from Syria.

“Monster” (Hirokazu Kore Eda)

With the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters in 2018, the Japanese director is once again in contention for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. This time, he will tell with his camera the story of a mother who begins to notice her son’s strange behavior and soon discovers that it comes from one of his teachers.

“Zone of Interest” (Jonathan Glazer)

In 2013, everyone drank water on behalf of Jonathan Glaser for the creepy “Under The Skin”. Exactly ten years later and without a single film in between, a British director claims the Palme d’Or with Zone of Interest. The film was filmed in Auschwitz and in it we will see the story of a Nazi who falls in love with the wife of the head of a concentration camp. Starring Christian Friedel (from the television series Babylon Berlin) and Sandra Hüler, who we really liked in Toni Erdmann.

“May December” (Todd Haynes)

An old acquaintance of the festival returns to Cannes. After working together on Safe, Far From Heaven and Moonlight, Todd Haynes is reunited with Julianne Moore, with Natalie Portman next to her. The second is played by an actress who tries to embody the first and thus plunge into the past of the heroine.

Flower Moon Killers (Martin Scorsese)

It has been 47 years since Scorsese lifted the Palme d’Or for Taxi Driver and 37 years since he was on the Croisette with After Midnight. Although out of competition, the director returns to Cannes with one of the most anticipated films of the year. Four years after the epic scale of The Irishman, the New Yorker teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio for the seventh time and Robert De Niro for the eleventh time (!) to return to the 1920s and Oklahoma. Where the oil fields began to enrich the area, as the Indian tribes were destroyed and the FBI was born. In addition, The Flower Moon Killers will be Scorsese’s second-longest film at 3 hours and 26 minutes, just three minutes short of The Irishman.

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold)

Another “last performance” the French Riviera will host this year is the well-deserved Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. The fifth and final film in the franchise will also be the first film not directed by Steven Spielberg. Fifteen years after the last adventure of beloved big-screen archaeologist Harrison Ford, names like Mands Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Antonio Banderas will be around.

“Strange way of life” (Pedro Almodovar)

We now move on to a short section for which Pedro Almodóvar prepared his own “answer” to Brokeback Mountain, as he himself stated (and with it his second English-language film). The Spanish director traveled to the desert of Almeria, where Sergio Leone once made history with The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, to film a short western about the reunion of two cowboys played by Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal. We are looking forward.

“Idol” (Sean Levinson)

And one TV entry on the list is an upcoming HBO series from the creator of Euphoria, which will premiere in front of the public at Cannes. Reza Fahim is also the creator of the series, as is Abel Tesfaye, who most of you know as The Weeknd. The pop star will also star in the series alongside Lily-Rose Depp, who plays a star who wants to be “America’s sexiest pop star.”

“Elemental” (Peter Shawn)

This year’s festival will conclude with a new Pixar film from Peter Shawn, who has had a hand in one way or another with some of the animation studio’s most iconic films. In The Elemental, which is also a Disney production, we will see the four elements – fire, water, earth and air – anthropomorphically coexisting in the same city.