The 2026 Cannes Film Festival, it seems, has war on its mind.
An extraordinary number of movies at this year's festival, which concludes on May 23, deal with the experience of life in wartime.
In Lukas Dhont's Belgian World War I drama "Coward," young soldiers in the trenches confront ideas of heroism and masculinity.
"Visitation," the latest film from Volker Schlöndorff ("The Tin Drum"), continues the German director's obsession with the Second World War and its aftermath, tracing the fate of three families living on a lake near Berlin through decades of turbulent history, from the rise of Hitler until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
There are two French films — "Moulin" and "De Gaulle: Tilting Iron" — about French resistance to Nazi occupation, while another movie, "A Man of His Time," takes a rare look at French collaboration during wartime.
