The statement you would hear the loudest at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival<\/a> was the fact that it was a relatively quiet year. Sure, some movies inspired old-fashioned bidding wars (like Jordan Firstman\u2019s<\/a>Club Kid, which eventually went to A24), and international superstars like Isabelle Huppert, Demi Moore<\/a>, and Javier Bardem blindingly decorated the red carpet of the Palais steps on the Croisette. But this edition of Cannes was still one that was hampered by a so-so competition lineup\u2014usually the festival\u2019s most hotly anticipated segment\u2014and a cinematic vibe of generally underwhelmed attendees.<\/p>\n Still, you get to choose your own adventure every time you attend a film festival, and Cannes is no exception. And it isn\u2019t necessarily a challenge to find some truly great movies\u2014some poised to become new classics\u2014if you dig into the offerings inquisitively enough with tireless time commitment. Among more than 40 titles I have screened across the festival\u2019s official selection and sidebars, here are 12 films (many of them future awards contenders) that you should look forward to.<\/p>\n You Might Also Like<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tue, May 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM UTC The Best Films From Cannes 2026NEON (NEON) The statement you would hear the loudest at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival was the fact that it was a relatively quiet year. Sure, some movies inspired old-fashioned bidding wars (like Jordan Firstman\u2019sClub Kid, which eventually went to A24), and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[326557,39502,477449,356170,313601,355294],"class_list":["post-2433567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-demi-moore","tag-international-superstars","tag-isabelle-huppert","tag-javier-bardem","tag-jordan-firstman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Early-Oscar-Contenders-to-Know-From-the-2026-Cannes.com2Fen2Faol_elle_8462Febf5f9320cc0347f0549453db26a84d5.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433569,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433567\/revisions\/2433569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}