A WEEK UNTIL CANNES ANNOUNCES-UPDATES AND POSSIBLE TFF FILMS
With a week left until the Cannes Film Festival announces the bulk of its 2026 lineup...MTFB is laser focused on the titles that will be announced and their potential as possible choices for TFF #53. To remind readers, the two fests commonly share about 6-8 titles every year. Last year such films as Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, The History of Sound, Nouvelle Vague, It Was Just an Accident, The Mastermind, Urchin, A Private Life and Pillion screened in France and then appeared in Telluride for TFF #52.
Recently Ioncinema posted two separate pieces focused on what might play at Cannes. I have combined both to consolidate this list of TFF possibilities:
All of a Sudden/Hamaguchi/NEON
Bitter Christmas/Almodovar***/Sony Pictures Classics
Butterfly Jam/Balagov***
Fjord/Mungiu***/NEON
Gentle Monster/Kreutzer
Minotaur/Zvyagintsev***
Paper Tiger/Gray***
Parallel Tales/Farhadi***
Sheep in the Box/Kore-eda***/NEON
The Unknown/Harari/NEON
https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2026-cannes-film-festival-predictions-palme-dor-part-1
https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-festivals/2026-cannes-film-festival-predictions-golden-palme-dor
Meanwhile, Jordan Ruimy has updated his Cannes predictions as of last Monday. His latest assessment includes what I think could be TFF titles:
1949 (Fatherland?)/Pawlikowski***/MUBI
All of a Sudden/Hamaguchi/NEON
Bitter Christmas/Almodovar***/Sony Pictures Classics
Butterfly Jam/Balagov
Fjord/Mungiu***/NEON
Gentle Monster/Kruetzer
Minotaur/Zvyagintsev***
Paper Tiger/Gray***
Parallel Tales/Farhadi***
Sheep in the Box/Kore-eda***/NEON
The Unknown/Harari/NEON
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2026/3/30/variety-james-grays-paper-tiger-and-jane-schoenbruns-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma-to-premiere-at-cannes
We'll know more next Thursday.
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