Clockwise from top left: 'Fatherland,' 'Fjord,' 'The Man I Love,' 'Paper Tiger' and 'Full Phil' Cannes Film Festival

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic .

Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs.

It joined by new films from stalwart auteurs including Pedro Almodóvar, Cristian Mungiu, Guillaume Canet, Nicolas Winding Refn and Paweł Pawlikowski

Read all of Deadline’s takes below throughout the festival, which runs May 12-23.…