The 79th edition of the film festival will see work by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda and László Nemes considered for the coveted Palme d’Or
Gillian Anderson, Rami Malek, Cara Delevingne and John Travolta are expected to walk the red carpet at Cannes this year, as the world’s most influential film festival unveiled an auteur-heavy lineup for its 79th edition.
Competing for the coveted Palme d’Or will be new films by heavyweights Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Paweł Pawlikowski, László Nemes and Asghar Farhadi.
Spanish director Almodóvar, who previously won awards at Cannes for All About My Mother and Volver, makes a return with Bitter Christmas, about a group of film-maker friends who cannibalise each other’s lives for their work.
Sandra Hüller stars as the daughter of German novelist Thomas Mann in Oscar-winning Polish film-maker’s Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, set on the eve of the Manns’ return from American exile after the second world war.
