From American Wes Anderson to Briton Ken Loach to Frenchwoman Catherine Breillat: here are the 19 films in the running for the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Noticed in 2019 with Little Joe, which won an interpretation award for her actress Emily Beecham, the Austrian filmmaker looks at youth with Club Zero. Mia Wasikowska plays a teacher in a posh preparatory school, who forms very strong ties with five of her students.

Based on a book by Brit Martin Amis, the director of Under the Skin enters the competition with a story set in Auschwitz. That of a Nazi officer who fell in love with the wife of the commandant of the extermination camp.

The Finnish filmmaker of The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix in 2002 at Cannes), On the Other Side of Hope or Le Havre, Master of Melancholy, returns for his 19th film with two Finnish actors, Jussi Vatanen and Alma Pöysti.

The Tunisian director will enter the competition with a film “on the edge of the essay”, according to the Festival’s general delegate, Thierry Frémaux. In 2017, her film La Belle et la Meute, about violence against women, was presented in the category “Un Certain Regard”.

Two years after The French Dispatch and its cast of stars that lit up the red carpet, the American director brings together Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton or even Margot Robbie and Tom Hanks in a fictional American city that brings together parents and students for competitions learned.

After Sibyl in 2019, Frenchwoman Justine Triet is back in competition. Her 4th feature film tells the story of a woman accused of the murder of her husband, with the German Sandra Hüller in the title role, who conquered the Croisette in 2016 with Toni Erdmann.

Return to Japan for the filmmaker, Palme d’Or in 2018 with A Family Affair, after breakaways in France and Korea (Les Bonnes Étoiles, in competition last year).

Filmed at Cinecitta studios in Rome, the Italian’s new opus, after Tre piani, promises to talk about “cinema, circus and the 1950s”. With his favorite actress Margherita Buy and the French Mathieu Amalric.

The competitive Italian returns with La Chimera, which features an almost unrecognizable Josh O’Connor as a young archaeologist embroiled in a group of grave robbers in 1980s Italy.

The Turkish filmmaker, Palme d’or in 2014 with Winter Sleep, returns to the Croisette with a drama taking place in Anatolia at the center of which a teacher faces accusations of harassment.

Ten years after her last film Abuse of weakness, and serious health problems, the sulphurous director looks at a mother whose life changes following an affair with her stepson.

French of Vietnamese origin who had signed The Smell of Green Papaya in the 1990s, Tran Anh Hung adapted a novel devoted to gastronomy, with Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.

The Palme d’Or year for the Italian giant? Palme d’honneur in 2021, the director of Le Traiteur has never yet received the supreme distinction despite films regularly selected in competition. At 83 years old, Rapito reflects on the true story of Edgardo Mortora, a 6-year-old Jewish child kidnapped by the Catholic Church and forcibly converted in the 19th century.

The American reconnects with one of his favorite actresses, Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven), and enlists Natalie Portman for a drama around a couple with a significant age difference.

The Brazilian director of The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, for which he won the “Un Certain Regard” award in 2019, is back in Cannes, after Marin des Montagnes, a film on the edge of the documentary on his discovery of Algeria (his father’s country), which he presented at Cannes in 2021.

” Are you sure ? asked the British veteran (86) when he learned of his new entry in competition for a social and realistic drama, his favorite genre. Shot in the North East of England, the film recounts the meeting of a pub owner and a Syrian refugee.

Young Senegalese director, Ramata-Toulaye Sy enters directly into competition with this first film.

Also present out of competition with a documentary on visual artist Anselm Kiefer, Win Wenders (Les Ailes du Désir, Paris, Texas, Buena Vista Social Club) promises to surprise with a film on “the ideal of Japanese public toilets”.

The great Chinese documentary filmmaker, accustomed to river films about the marginalized of his country, is doubly present at Cannes in selection (competition and special screening with Man in Black).