58th Quinzaine des Cinéastes Selection

Today, Tuesday, April 14, Julien Relj, Artistic Director, announced the selection for the 2026 edition and yes, some films expected in #Cannes2026 Official Selection ended up here like films by Kantemir Balagov, Lisandro Alonso, Clio Barnard, Radu Jude, and Dominga Sotomayor. Most surprising fact is Quentin Dupieux having to movies in Cannes, one in the selection and one closing la Quinzaine!

Before going into the list lets star with a brief reminder of what this Cannes parallel section is all about.

La Quinzaine

Created in 1969 by the Société des Réalisatrices et Réalisateurs de Films (SRF), the Directors’ Fortnight is an independent sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, which is dedicated to showcasing the most singular forms of contemporary cinema. The name of the section was changed in 2023 from Quinzaine des Réalisateurs to Quinzaine des Cinéastes, the international version in English did not change.

As opposed to the official selection, the Fortnight is non-competitive; it brings together short, medium- and feature-length films, fiction and non-fiction, live action and animation. Only one principle guides our selection: a filmmaker’s attendance to mise en scene, and their unique mode of artistic expression.

The Fortnight values freedom of thought and the invention of new forms of dialogue, of narrative, of representation, and of editing. We are also very attentive to propositions that reinvent cinematic genres which, traditionally, have been more popular.

The Poster

At the heart of a bucolic forest, a man walks naked among the trees. His body is massive, earthly, fleshly. Has he just feasted? Is he searching for shelter for some coming reverie? Lost in a wondrous world, he could be a figure from a folktale. A bard, perhaps, wandering along in song after gathering dourougne — the wild plant from which, in these lands, a drink known as brigoule is brewed.


The image trembles with a slight blur; the foliage conceals what it half reveals. Between the visible and the hidden, desire circulates in this photograph by Alain Guiraudie, taken from his latest series exhibited at the Crèvecœur gallery in Paris. As in his films, nature becomes a space of desire, storytelling, and imaginative wandering: a place for sensual strolls and metamorphoses, a territory where reality is tinged with mythology.

After That Old Dream That Moves, No Rest for the Braves, and The King of Escape, all revealed at the Directors’ Fortnight, we are delighted to welcome back Alain Guiraudie — one of the most singular voices in contemporary French cinema, the author of seven feature films and four novels.
The poster for the 58th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight is an invitation to lose oneself in mysterious, ancient woods where a ray of sunlight pierces the foliage and seems to trace a path, straight ahead until morning.

Carrose d'Or

In 2002, the SRF - the French Film Directors’ Guild - established the Carrosse d’Or at the heart of the
Cannes Film Festival. This award honors a filmmaker whose freedom of vision and strength of direction have profoundly influenced cinema.

In 2026, the SRF is proud to present the Carrosse d’Or to Claire Denis, whose abundant and deeply independent body of work is distinguished by unwavering attention to the uniqueness of every human life, by the precision and acuity of her gaze, and by the constantly renewed inventiveness of her cinematic language.

Excerpt from the letter sent to Claire Denis by the Board of Directors, composed of: Julie Bertuccelli, Sylvain Desclous, Zoé Wittock, Cédric Klapisch, Ella Altman, Emma Benestan, Amélie Bonnin, Isabelle Brocard, Jean Breschand, Malik Chibane, Christophe Cognet, Xavier Delagnes, Stéphane Demoustier, Marine Francen, Jean-Raymond Garcia, Gallien Guibert, Rachid Hami, Caroline Hallier, Ted Hardy-Carnac, Vergine Keaton, Pierre H. Ollier, David Oelhoffen, Joseph Paris, Thomas Salvador, Pierre Salvadori.

"From Chocolat to Stars at Noon, from Beau Travail to 35 rhums, from Trouble Every Day to High Life, your cinema has continually explored territories - geographic, intimate and political - where relations of domination, desire, memory and exile are played out. Your work is marked by a rare attentiveness to bodies, silences and gestures, to what circulates between beings rather than to what is spoken. Your direction, characterized by sensory precision and radical freedom, has constantly reinvented itself, refusing aesthetic categorization as well as conventional narratives. Film after film, you have built a cinema of friction and uncertainty, where the world reveals itself in all its complexity - sometimes in its violence, but also in its emancipatory power.

Your work, profoundly political without ever yielding to illustration, has opened unprecedented spaces of representation, questioning colonial legacies, borders, identities and desires with formal rigor and an absolutetrust in cinema as an art of the present.”

Claire Denis will receive the Carrosse d’Or Award on May 13, 2026, in Cannes, during the Directors’ Fortnight opening ceremony.

Prix Alpine

The Société des réalisatrices et réalisateurs de films (SRF) is pleased to join forces with Alpine to present an award during the Directors’ Fortnight. After the Carrosse d'Or, which recognizes a filmmaker's career, the Prix Alpine is awarded to spotlight audacity, creativity and the ability to break away from narrative norms.

The 2026 Alpine Prize goes to Alice Winocour. The Alpine Prize will be awarded on Thursday, May 21, during the closing ceremony of the Directors’ Fortnight. A conversation with the award winner will take place the following day, Friday, May 22, in the form of a masterclass at the Théâtre Croisette.

People's Choice

The People's choice is back in 2026. Le Choix du Public was launched in 2024 and became the first audience award in the history of the Festival de Cannes. Award was conceived as a label that aims to support an unusual and unique work, and a filmmaker whose style, as expressed through their mise en scène, surprises and delights the audience. The award is supported by the Fondation Chantal Akerman.

The Selection

This edition presents a selection with 19 feature films and 9 short films; and works from 19 countries on five continents with notable contributions from a number of countries with little or no international exposure, such as Nigeria, Sudan, Guatemala, Venezuela and Cyprus.

Selection has 6 debut features that will compete for the Camera d'Or. Documentaries are present in the selection with 3 features and 2 shorts; anmation is present with also 3 features and 2 shorts.

Finally, we are honored to host a special event: the premiere of Alain Cavalier's latest film. He was among the pioneering discoverers of new films and talents at the start of the Fortnight. We are extremely proud to present the final installment of his filmed diary.

Feature Films

Opening Film: Butterfly Jam, Kantemir Blagov , France, Germany and Belgium
Closing Film: Le Vertige (Vertiginous), Quentin Dupieux, France (animation)

9 วัดสู่สวรรค์ 9 Wat Su Sawana (9 Temples To Heaven), Sompot Chidgasornpongse, Thailand 1st feature
Atonement, Redd Van Dyk, USA 1st feature
Carmen, l'ouiseau rebelle (Viva Carmen), Sébastien Laudenbach, Spain and France (animation)
Clarissa, Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, USA 
도라 Dora, July Jung, France and South Korea
Gabin, Maxence Voiseaux, France, Germany and Switzerland (documentary) 1st feature
I See Buildings Fall Like Lighting, Clio Barnard, UK
La Libertad Doble (Double Freedom), Lisandro Alonso, France and Argentina 
La Muerte No Tiene Dueño (Death Has No Master), Jorge Thielen Armand, Italy and Venezuela
La Perra, Dominga Sotomayor, Chile and Brazil 
Lave Forventninger (Low Expectations), Eivind Landsvik, Norway and Denmark 1st feature
L'espéce explosive (Too Many Bastards), Sarah Arnold, France 
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (The Diary of a Chambermaid), Radu Jude, France and Romania 
Merci d'étre venu (Thanks for Coming) Alain Cavalier, France (documentary)
Once Upon A Time in Harlem, William Greaves and David Greaves, USA (documentary)
Shana, Lila Pinell, France
我々は宇宙人 Wareware wa Uchuujin (We Are Aliens), Kōhei Kadowaki, Japan (animation) 1st feature


Short Films

À la recherche de l'oiseau gris aux rayures vertes (In Search of the Grey Bird with Green Stripes), Saïd Hamich Benlarbi, France  (documentary)
Daughters of the Late Colonel, Elizabeth Hobbs, Germany and USA 9' (animation)
エリ Eri, Yano Honami, France and Japan 12' (animation)
Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection), Alexandra Matheou, Greece and Cyprus 
The Joyless Economy, Marjorie Conrad, USA (documentary)
Madrugada, Sebastián Lojo, Guatemala and UK 20' 
لا شيءَ يحدثُ بعدَ غيابِكَ Nothing Happens After Your Absence, Ibrahim Omar, Sudan  
Oh Boys, Antonio Donato, Italy and UK 
Pithead, Wannes Vanspauwen and Pol De Plecker, Belgium and France 15' 


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Selection Announcement Video