Did the 2026 Cannes Film Festival jury make the right choices? If the question bothers you, you will have to wait a few more months before knowing if you agree with the prices of the jury composed of Park Chan-wook, Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Chloé Zhao, Diego Céspedes, Isaach de Bankolé, Paul Laverty et Stellan Skarsgård.
You haven’t walked the Croisette going from one screening to another? Here is the schedule of cinema release dates for the award-winning films – some do not yet have dates announced.
Palme d’or : Fjord by Cristian Mungiu
Cinema release date in France: August 19, 2026
Fjord will be screened Tuesday May 26 at the MK2 Bibliothéque, in Paris.
Grand Prize: Minotaur d’Andre Zvyagintsev
Cinema release date in France: October 14, 2026
Jury prize: L’Aventure rêvée by Valeska Grisebach
Cinema release date in France: July 15, 2026
Price of the staging: Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for The black ball et Paweł Pawlikowski pour Fatherland
Cinema release dates in France: unknown
Prix du scénario : Our salvationby Emmanuel Marre
Cinema release date in France: September 30, 2026
Prix d’interprétation féminine : Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, for Suddenly de Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cinema release date in France: August 12, 2026
Male actor award: Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne, for Coward de Lukas Dhont
Cinema release date in France: unknown
Some films presented at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival have already been released or will be on screens very soon. The Electric Venusthe opening film directed by Pierre Salvadorihas been in theaters since May 12. Three other films in the competition, Parallel stories of Asghar Farhadi (May 14), L’Être aimé of Rodrigo Sorogoyen (May 16), Autofiction of Pedro Almodóvar (May 20), were all released during the Festival, as were L’Abandon of Vincent Garenq (13 mai), présenté hors compétition.
During the closing weekend, from May 22 to 24, more than ten films from the official selection will be presented in the Pathé Palace cinemas in Paris, Boulogne, Rennes, Nantes, Lyon, Toulouse, Masséna in Nice, Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand and Grenoble. The entire program can be viewed here. Slight delay for the UGC group, which will give pride of place to Cannes films from May 23 to 26 in seven establishments: Les Halles, La Défense, Vélizy, Lyon Part-Dieu, Bordeaux, Lille and Strasbourg (reservations here). In Paris, the MK2 Bibliothéque follows suit from May 22 (times here).
