‘The Birthday Party’ by Lea Mysius

The third feature from the rising French director features Italy’s Monica Bellucci alongside French stars Bastien Bouillon and Hafsia Herzi.

‘Moulin’ by Laszlo Nemes

The Hungarian director of the acclaimed “Son of Saul” returns to Cannes with a biopic about the life of French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.

‘Fatherland’ by Pawel Pawlikowski

The Polish filmmaker, who won the best foreign language film Oscar for “Ida” in 2015, is back with another black-and-white movie, this time about writer Thomas Mann’s return to Germany in 1949.

‘The Man I Love’ by Ira Sachs

Rami Malek, who won an Oscar for his role as Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody”, plays an artist at the start of the AIDS pandemic in New York in the 1980s.

‘The Beloved’ by Rodrigo Sorogoyen

There is lots of buzz around the Spanish director’s drama starring Javier Bardem, about a director who rekindles his difficult relationship with his actress daughter on a film shoot.

‘Minotaur’ by Andrey Zvyagintsev

The exiled Russian filmmaker follows up his visually stunning “Leviathan” and “Loveless” with a film about the Russian middle classes grappling with army conscription during the Ukraine war.

‘The Dreamed Adventure’ by Valeska Grisebach

The German director of “Western” makes her main competition debut with the story of a woman living in the border region between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey who agrees to a deal to help a friend.