Distribution Watch: Cannes 2026

Last updated: August 26, 2026

Titles in bold will have at least one North American distributor, which I’ll include with a source linked to the distributor’s name. As always, I’m only one person doing this, so any info on new acquisitions is always helpful in case I missed something.

• All of a Sudden (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi) [NEON for US; Elevation Pictures for Canada

• Another Day (dir. Jeanne Herry)

• The Beloved (dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen) [Kino Lorber]

• The Birthday Party (dir. Léa Mysius)

• Bitter Christmas (dir. Pedro Almodóvar) [Sony Pictures Classics for US; Mongrel Media for Canada]

• La Bola Negra (dirs. Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo) [Netflix]

• Coward (dir. Lukas Dhont) [MUBI]

• The Dreamed Adventure (dir. Valeska Grisebach) [Janus Films]

• Fatherland (dir. Paweł Pawlikowski) [MUBI]

• Fjord (dir. Cristian Mungiu) [NEON for US; Elevation Pictures for Canada]

• Gentle Monster (dir. Marie Kreutzer) [Netflix]

• Hope (dir. Na Hong-jin) [NEON for US; Elevation Pictures for Canada]

• A Man of His Time (dir. Emmanuel Marre) [1-2 Special]

• The Man I Love (dir. Ira Sachs)

• Minotaur (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev) [MUBI]

• Moulin (dir. László Nemes)

• Nagi Notes (dir. Koji Fukada) [Greenwich Entertainment]

• Paper Tiger (dir. James Gray) [NEON]

• Parallel Tales (dir. Asghar Farhadi) [Mongrel Media for Canada; no US distribution]

• Sheep in the Box (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda) [NEON for US; Elevation Pictures for Canada]

• The Unknown (dir. Arthur Harari) [NEON for US; Elevation Pictures for Canada]

• A Woman’s Life (dir. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet)

• A Girls’ Story (dir. Judith Godrèche) [Kino Lorber/Zeitgeist Films]

• All the Lovers in the Night (dir. Yukiko Sode)

• Ben’Imana (dir. Clémentine Dusabejambo)

• Club Kid (dir. Jordan Firstman) [A24]

• Congo Boy (dir. Rafiki Fariala)

• Elephants in the Fog (dir. Abinash Bikram Shah)

• Everytime (dir. Sandra Wollner) [Films We Like for Canada; 1-2 Special for US]

• Forever Your Maternal Animal (dir. Valentina Maurel)

• I’ll Be Gone in June (dir. Katharina Rivilis) [KimStim]

• Iron Boy (dir. Louis Clichy) [Sony Pictures Classics]

• The Meltdown (dir. Manuela Martelli) [Kino Lorber]

• Strawberries (dir. Laïla Marrakchi)

• Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (dir. Jane Schoenbrun) [MUBI]

• Titanic Ocean (dir. Konstantina Kotzamani)

• Ulya (dir. Viestur Kairish)

• Ulysse (dir. Laetitia Masson)

• Victorian Psycho (dir. Zachary Wigon) [Bleecker Street for US; VVS Films for Canada]

• Words of Love (dir. Rudi Rosenberg)

• Yesterday The Eye Didn’t Sleep (dir. Rakan Mayasi)

• De Gaulle: Tilting Iron (dir. Antonin Baudry) [Immina Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• Diamond (dir. Andy Garcia) [Mongrel Media for Canada; Sony Pictures Classics for US]

• Her Private Hell (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) [NEON for US; Elevation Pictures for Canada]

• Karma (dir. Guillaume Canet)

• L’Abandon (dir. Vincent Garenq)

• L’Objet du délit (dir. Agnes Jaoui)

• The Electric Kiss (dir. Pierre Salvadori)

• Colony (dir. Yeon Sang-ho) [Well Go USA]

• Full Phil (dir. Quentin Dupieux)

• Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer (dirs. Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen) [Photon Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• Roma Elastica (dir. Bertrand Mandico)

• Sanguine (dir. Marion Le Coroller)

• Aquí (dir. Tiago Guedes)

• Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) [Janus Films]

• Marie Madeleine (Gessica Généus) [Maison 4:3 for Canada; no US distribution]

• Orange-Flavoured Wedding (dir. Christophe Honoré)

• Propeller One-Way Night Coach (dir. John Travolta) [Apple TV]

• The End of It (dir. Maria Martinez Bayona)

• The Match (dirs. Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco)

• Think Good (dir. Géraldine Nakache) [Cohen Media Group]

• When the Night Falls (dir. Daniel Auteuil)

• Visitation (dir. Volker Schlöndorff)

• Ashes (dir. Diego Luna) [Watermelon Pictures]

• Avedon (dir. Ron Howard)

• Cantona (dirs. David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas)

• Groundswell (dirs. Josh Tickell & Rebecca Tickell)

• John Lennon: The Last Interview (dir. Steven Soderbergh)

• L’Affaire Marie-Claire (dirs. Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller)

• Le Triangle d’Or (dir. Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz)

• Les Matins Merveilleux (dir. Avril Besson)

• Les Survivants du Che (dir. Christophe Réveille)

• Rehearsals for a Revolution (dir. Pegah Ahangarani) [Sony Pictures Classics]

• Tangles (dir. Leah Nelson)

• Vesna (dir. Rostislav Kirpicenko)

• A Life, A Manifesto (dir. Jean-Gabriel Périot)

• Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern (dir. Mike Mendez)

• Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean (dir. Barnaby Thompson)

• My Coluche (dirs. Michel Denisot, Camille Bruere & Julie Lazare)

• Nostalgia for the Future (dir. Brecht Debackere)

• The Golden Age (dir. Bérenger Thouin)

• The Story of Documentary Film (The 1970s) [Kino Lorber]

• Vittorio de Sica - La Vie in scene (dir. Francesco Zippel)

• 9 Temples To Heaven (dir. Sompot Chidgasornpongse)

• Atonement (dir. Reed Van Dyk) [Kino Lorber]

• Butterfly Jam (dir. Kantemir Balagov)

• Clarissa (dirs. Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri) [NEON]

• Death Has No Master (dir. Jorge Thielen Armand)

• The Diary of a Chambermaid (dir. Radu Jude) [Film Movement for US; Ritual Films for Canada]

• Dora (dir. July Jung)

• Double Freedom (dir. Lisandro Alonso) [Films We Like for Canada; no US distribution]

• Gabin (dir. Maxence Voiseux)

• I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning (dir. Clio Barnard)

• Low Expectations (dir. Eivind Landsvik)

• Once Upon a Time in Harlem (dirs. William Greaves and David Greaves) [NEON]

• La Perra (dir. Dominga Sotomayor)

• Red Rocks (dir. Bruno Dumont)

• Shana (dir. Lila Pinell)

• Thanks for Coming (dir. Alain Cavalier)

• Too Many Beasts (dir. Sarah Arnold)

• Vertiginous (dir. Quentin Dupieux)

• Viva Carmen (dir. Sebastian Laundenbach)

• We Are Aliens (dir. Kohei Kadowaki)

• A Girl Unknown (dir. Zou Jing) [Greenwich Entertainment for US; Ritual Films for Canada]

• Adieu monde cruel (dir. Félix de Givry)

• Alive (dir. Aina Clotet)

• Dua (dir. Blerta Basholli)

• In Waves (dir. Phuong Mai Nguyen) [Netflix]

• La Gradiva (dir. Marine Atlan) [Films We Like for Canada; 1-2 Special for US]

• Made of Flesh and Fuel (dir. Pierre Le Gall) [Strand Releasing]

• Six Months in the Pink Building (dir. Bruno Santamaría Razo) [Strand Releasing]

• Stonewall (dir. Julien Gaspar-Oliveri)

• The Station (dir. Sara Ishaq)

• Tin Castle (dir. Alexander Murphy)

• A Secret Heart (dir. Tom Fontenille)

• Blaise (dirs. Dimitri Planchon and Jean-Paul Guigue)

• Under A Bad Star (dirs. Lola Cambourieu and Yann Berlier)

• Into the Jaws of the Ogre (dir. Mahsa Karampour)

• Detention (dir. Guillaume Massart)

• Living Twice, Dying Thrice (dir. Karim Lakzadeh)

• Promised Space (dir. Ivan Marković)

• Rewind Barcelona (dir. Paul Nouhet)

• Summer Drift (dirs. Céline Carridroit and Aline Suter)