In Theaters in May

Out of Competition 2026 • IN THEATRES MAY 12, 2026 - Paris, 1928. Antoine Balestro, a young, popular painter is unable to work since the death of his spouse and Armand, his gallery owner, is becoming exasperated. One drunken night, Antoine tries to make contact with his wife through a medium. Unbeknownst to him, he’s in fact talking to Suzanne, an unassuming fair worker who had snuck into the trailer to steal some food. Suzanne proves to have a gift for deception and with Armand’s help, she begins holding fake séances. Gradually, Antoine becomes inspired again, but for Suzanne things get complicated as she slowly begins falling in love with the man she’s manipulating.

Out of Competiton 2026 • IN THEATERS MAY 12, 2026 - A few years after the Charlie Hebdo attack, teacher Samuel Paty leads a classroom discussion on free speech in a suburban Paris school. A lie, carried by outrage and amplified online, sets off a chain reaction no one can control. As tensions escalate and silence spreads, an ordinary lesson turns into a fatal spiral. In the aftermath, voices collide to confront a devastating truth: how a rumor, a click, and collective inaction can lead to the irreparable.

In Competition 2026 • IN THEATRES MAY 14, 2026 - In search of inspiration for her new novel, Sylvie starts spying on her neighbors opposite. When she hires a young man, Adam, to help with daily chores, she’s unaware that he will upend her life and her work, until the narrative she had imagined surpasses everyone’s reality.

In Competition 2026 • IN THEATRES MAY 16, 2026 - When universally acclaimed director, Esteban Martínez returns to Spain to make his new movie. He offers the lead role to his daughter, now a young unknown actress whom he hasn’t seen in 13 years. The young woman accepts this incredible opportunity with the knowledge that this shoot will mean facing a man she could never consider to be a father. The burden of the past threatens to reopen their wounds.

In Competition 2026 • IN THEATRES MAY 20, 2026 - Raúl is a cult filmmaker in full creative crisis. When disaster strikes one of his close associates, he uses the material to write his next movie. Step by step, he creates Elsa, a director in full writing mode, whose trajectory seems to closely mirror his own. The two filmmakers become two facets of the same character in a game of mirrors where the shamelessness of autobiographical fiction is as revealing as it is destructive. But how far can you go to tell a story?

Out of Competition 2026 • IN THEATRES MAY 27, 2026 - Behind the scenes of an ambitious staging of the opera “The Marriage of Figaro,” tensions run high amidst an accusation of sexual misconduct, which is threatening the production and forcing everyone to take sides. A generational conflict and a veritable “he said, she said” ensue until laughter takes the upper hand as is always the case in Agnès Jaoui’s work.

Midnight Screenings 2026 • IN THEATRES MAY 27, 2026 - In a skyscraper in downtown Seoul, a mysterious contamination is quickly spreading. The building is locked down and everyone inside is now confined. Initially, the infected individuals crawl like animals. But slowly, they evolve…