The 26 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival:

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival may be lighter on glitz and glamour than in years past, but that means arthouse and international fare from emerging and established filmmakers will get a chance to shine. Still, at least two American auteurs, Francis Ford Coppola (“Megalopolis”) and Paul Schrader (“Oh, Canada”), have films in the main competition for the first time in decades. David Cronenberg (“The Shrouds”) and Yorgos Lanthimos (“Kinds of Kindness”) are also back at the festival, with both making personal stories in their own way: Cronenberg, here, reckons with grief over the death of his wife seven years ago, while Lanthimos appears to retreat back into “Dogtooth” territory in a film that’s almost a rebuke of the global success he’s acquired with “Poor Things” and “The Favourite.”

Sean Baker, Andrea Arnold, Ali Abbasi, Jia Zhangke, Karim Aïnouz, and Paolo Sorrentino are also back at Cannes this year with new films in the competition. Mohammad Rasoulof joins their ranks with “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” but whether the Iranian director, who recently fled his home country after a prison sentencing, can attend the festival remains an open question. Then there’s George Miller, Kevin Costner, Leos Carax, and more screening new films out of the competition. There’s plenty to seek out across Un Certain Regard, Critics’ Week, and Directors’ Fortnight — often from first-time filmmakers.

IndieWire rounds up the 2024 Cannes titles we’re most anticipating at IndieWire.