Cannes Film Festival 2023 film guide
by IMDb-Editors | created - 1 month ago | updated - 3 weeks ago | PublicHere 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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1. Asteroid City (2023)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright
Votes: 507
In Competition
2. Club Zero (2023)
110 min | Drama, Thriller
A teacher takes a job at an elite school and forms a strong bond with five students - a relationship that eventually takes a dangerous turn.
Director: Jessica Hausner | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Sam Hoare, Elsa Zylberstein
Votes: 148
In Competition
3. The Zone of Interest (2023)
105 min | Drama, History, War
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Director: Jonathan Glazer | Stars: Sandra HĂ¼ller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck
Votes: 214
In Competition
4. Fallen Leaves (2023)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
Two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first love of their lives.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Alma Pöysti, Alina Tomnikov, Jussi Vatanen, Sakari Kuosmanen
Votes: 118
In Competition
5. Four Daughters (2023)
107 min | Documentary
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben ... See full summary »
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania | Stars: Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui, Olfa Hamrouni, Nour Karoui
Votes: 73
In Competition
6. Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
150 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.
Director: Justine Triet | Stars: Sandra HĂ¼ller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Votes: 188
In Competition
7. Monster (2023)
126 min | Drama, Thriller
A mother demands answers from teacher when her son begins acting strangely.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi
Votes: 215
In Competition
8. A Brighter Tomorrow (2023)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A 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.
Director: Nanni Moretti | Stars: Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando, Barbora Bobulova
Votes: 836
In Competition
9. La Chimera (2023)
130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A group of archaeologists and the black market of historical artifacts.
Director: Alice Rohrwacher | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Josh O'Connor, Alba Rohrwacher, Carol Duarte
Votes: 66
In Competition
10. About Dry Grasses (2023)
197 min | Drama
A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After a long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. However, his colleague Nuray helps him to regain perspective.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bagci
Votes: 298
In Competition
11. Last Summer (2023)
104 min | Drama, Thriller
Follows 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.
Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: LĂ©a Drucker, Olivier Rabourdin, Clotilde Courau, Samuel Kircher
Votes: 50
In Competition
12. The Pot au Feu (2023)
145 min | Drama, History, Romance
It tells the story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years.
Director: Anh Hung Tran | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Pierre Gagnaire, Benoît Magimel, Jean-Marc Roulot
Votes: 65
In Competition
13. Kidnapped (2023)
125 min | Drama, History
A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Barbara Ronchi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Votes: 347
In Competition
14. May December (2023)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Jocelyn Shelfo, Charles Melton
Votes: 232
In Competition
15. Firebrand (2023)
120 min | Drama, History, Horror
Follows Queen Catherine Parr and Henry VIII's marriage.
Director: Karim AĂ¯nouz | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Eddie Marsan, Sam Riley
Votes: 134
In Competition
16. The Old Oak (2023)
113 min | Drama
The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the 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 the Syrian refugees.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Trevor Fox, Debbie Honeywood, Ebla Mari, Dave Turner
Votes: 51
In Competition
17. Banel & Adama (2023)
87 min | Drama
A young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.
Director: Ramata-Toulaye Sy | Stars: Khady Mane, Mamadou Diallo, Binta Racine Sy, Moussa Sow
Votes: 52
In Competition
18. Perfect Days (2023)
123 min | Drama
A janitor in Japan drives between jobs listening to rock music.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Yumi AsĂ´, Tokio Emoto, Sayuri Ishikawa, Tomokazu Miura
Votes: 110
In Competition
19. Youth (Spring) (2023)
212 min | Documentary
Liming is a worker district close to Shanghai - the richest city in China. Every year, many young people leave their villages and move there. They are between 17 and 20, all from rural ... See full summary »
Director: Wang Bing
Votes: 48
In Competition
20. The Delinquents (2023)
180 min | Comedy, Drama
MorĂ¡n and RomĂ¡n are looking for freedom and adventure. One commits a robbery, discovering an alternative to his boring life, while the other hides money that doesn't belong to him. Their destiny as new criminals will bring them together.
Director: Rodrigo Moreno | Stars: Daniel ElĂas, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, GermĂ¡n De Silva
Votes: 23
Un Certain Regard
21. How to Have Sex (2023)
98 min | Drama
Three 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.
Director: Molly Manning Walker | Stars: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Shaun Thomas, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis
Votes: 85
Un Certain Regard
22. Goodbye Julia (2023)
120 min | Drama
Just 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.
Director: Mohamed Kordofani | Stars: Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, Nazar Goma, Ger Duany
Votes: 27
Un Certain Regard
23. The Buriti Flower (2023)
123 min | Drama
Patpro, recounting the history, struggle for land took place in 1940. KrahĂ´ never stop inventing new forms of resistance , guided by their ancestral rites, and their fight to preserve their freedom.
Directors: RenĂ©e Nader Messora, JoĂ£o Salaviza | Stars: Francisco Hyjno Kraho, Ilda Patpro Kraho, Luzia Cruwakwyj Kraho, Solane Tehtikwyj Kraho
Votes: 17
Un Certain Regard
24. The Nature of Love (2023)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sophia'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 abandoned herself to her great romantic impulses.
Director: Monia Chokri | Stars: Magalie Lépine Blondeau, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Francis-William Rhéaume, Monia Chokri
Votes: 28
Un Certain Regard
25. The Mother of All Lies (2023)
96 min | Documentary
A 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.
Director: Asmae ElMoudir | Star: Asmae ElMoudir
Votes: 24
Un Certain Regard
26. The Settlers (2023)
97 min | Crime, Drama, History
A mixed-race Chilean, rides south on an expedition led by MacLenan, a former Boer War English captain and Bill, an American mercenary, to fence off land granted to Spanish landowner José Menéndez.
Director: Felipe GĂ¡lvez Haberle | Stars: Sam Spruell, Alfredo Castro, Mariano LlinĂ¡s, Luis MachĂn
Votes: 32
Un Certain Regard
27. Omen (2023)
90 min | Drama
After spending years in Belgium, a young Congolese man returns to his birthplace of Kinshasa to confront the intricacies of his family and culture.
Director: Baloji | Stars: Lucie Debay, Eliane Umuhire, Marc Zinga, Yves-Marina Gnahoua
Votes: 19
Un Certain Regard
28. The Breaking Ice (2023)
97 min | Drama
The blossoming relationship between three young adults in their twenties.
Director: Anthony Chen | Stars: Haoran Liu, Chuxiao Qu, Dongyu Zhou
Votes: 65
Un Certain Regard
29. Rosalie (2023)
115 min | Drama, History
The store of the first bearded lady attraction.
Director: Stéphanie Di Giusto | Stars: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay, Guillaume Gouix
Votes: 29
Un Certain Regard
30. The New Boy (2023)
116 min | Drama, History
Depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.
Director: Warwick Thornton | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Mezi Atwood, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair
Votes: 41
Un Certain Regard
31. If Only I Could Hibernate (2023)
96 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Zoljargal Purevdash | Stars: Tuguldur Batsaikhan, Nominjiguur Tsend, Battsooj Uurtsaikh
Votes: 23
Un Certain Regard
32. Hopeless (2023)
133 min | Crime, Drama
Dangerous people who make risky choices to escape from their hellish realities.
Director: Kim Chang-hoon | Stars: Park Bo-kyung, Xa-Bin Hong, Kim Hyung-Seo, Jeong Jaekwang
Votes: 76
Un Certain Regard
33. Terrestrial Verses (2023)
77 min | Drama
Ordinary people navigate societal constraints in a series of vignettes.
Directors: Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami | Stars: Sadaf Asgari, Ardeshir Kazemi, Gohar Kheirandish, Farzin Mohades
Votes: 39
Un Certain Regard
34. All to Play For (2023)
112 min | Drama
Sylvie lives with her two children, Sofiane and Jean-Jacques. One night, Sofiane is injured while alone in the flat which placed her in a foster home. Helped by a lawyer Sylvie is determined to win the administrative and legal battle.
Director: Delphine Deloget | Stars: Virginie Efira, FĂ©lix Lefebvre, India Hair, Mathieu Demy
Votes: 22
Un Certain Regard
35. Hounds (2023)
94 min | Drama
A 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.
Director: Kamal Lazraq | Stars: Abdelatif El Mansouri, Ayoub Elaid
Votes: 21
Un Certain Regard
36. The Animal Kingdom (2023)
130 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
An adventure between a father and his son, in a world where some humans have started mutating into other animal species.
Director: Thomas Cailley | Stars: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris, Paul Kircher, Tom Mercier
Votes: 38
Un Certain Regard
37. The Idol (2023– )
TV-MA | Drama
After a nervous breakdown derailed Jocelyn's last tour, she's determined to claim her rightful status as the greatest and sexiest pop star in America. Her passions are reignited by Tedros, ... See full summary »
Stars: Lily-Rose Depp, The Weeknd, Suzanna Son, Troye Sivan
Votes: 4,298
Out of Competition
38. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook
Out of Competition
39. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
R | 206 min | Crime, Drama, History
Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 858
Out of Competition
40. Jeanne du Barry (2023)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of Jeanne BĂ©cu 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.
Director: MaĂ¯wenn | Stars: MaĂ¯wenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 1,627
Out of Competition
41. Cobweb (2023)
135 min | Comedy, Drama
Described as an experimental and genre-defying drama shot entirely on sound stages in support of a film-within-a-film narrative.
Director: Jee-woon Kim | Stars: Park Jeong-su, Krystal Jung, Oh Jung-se, Song Kang-ho
Votes: 43
Out of Competition
42. The King of Algiers (2023)
92 min | Drama
Omar, a gangster on the run tries to lay low for the rest of his life in Algiers to escape his sentence of 20 years in prison by the French authorities.
Director: Elias Belkeddar | Stars: Reda Kateb, Benoît Magimel, Meriem Amiar, Haroun Attalah
Votes: 194
Midnight Screenings
43. Kennedy (2023)
142 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An 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.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Rahul Bhat, Megha Burman, K.K. Gautam, Sunny Leone
Votes: 76
Midnight Screenings
44. Acid (2023)
90 min | Drama, Fantasy
In 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.
Director: Just Philippot | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Laetitia Dosch, Patience Munchenbach, Marie Jung
Votes: 21
Midnight Screenings
45. Pictures of Ghosts (2023)
93 min
A multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking.
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Votes: 10
Special Screenings
46. Anselm (2023)
93 min | Documentary