Bruce and Laura Dern, Guillermo del Toro, Artavazd Pelechian, Dario Argento, Jerzy Skolimowski will be among the guests attending Cannes Classics this year.
The line-up for the Cannes Film Festival’s heritage strand, which was unveiled on Tuesday, features a 4K restoration of del Toro’s 2006 picture Pan’s Labyrinth. Del Toro will attend the screening marking the 20th anniversary of its world premiere in Cannes.
Other restored films include the 1982 picture Moonlighting in the presence of Polish director Skolimowski and his wife Ewa Piaskowska. Argento will attend a screening of Giuseppe Patroni Griffi’s 1968 work Love Circlefor which he wrote the screenplay.
Bruce Dern will touch down for documentary Dernsie: The Amazing Life Of Bruce Dern, drawn from over fifty hours of conversations filmed across four years, and featuring candid interviews with Quentin Tarantino, Alexander Payne, Billy Bob Thornton, Walton Goggins, Walter Hill, Fred Specktor, Patty Jenkins, Will Forte, Joe Dante, and daughter Laura Dern.
The entire Cannes Classics section – spanning 21 feature films, three short films, and 6 documentaries – will be dedicated to U.S. The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and Bonnie and Clyde production designer Dean Tavoularis who died in Paris on April 22 at the age of 93.
The short films include Jia Zhang-Ke’s Torino Shadow which he created for Italy’s Museo Nazionale del Cinema Torino as part of its Torino Encounters initiative. Zhao Tao stars as a woman who travels from southern China to Turin, Italy, to see her husband. But an unexpected departure leaves her to find herself again – and to find cinema. Jia Zhang-Ke and lead actress Zhao Tao will attend the screening.
THE GOLDEN AGE Béranger Thouin 2026, 1h53, France / Italy A GoGoGo Films and Graffiti Films production, in association with Les Films de La Chapelle and Lesterfilm.
A LIFE, A MANIFESTO Jean-Gabriel Périot 2026, 1h26, France
GOODNIGHT LAMBY Dustin Yellin 2026, 15min, United States
TORINO SHADOW JIA Zhang-Ke 2026, 32min, Italy / China
PLAYGROUND (ZAMINE BAZI) Amirhossein Shojaei 2025, 15min, Iran / France
Film Documentaries THE STORY OF DOCUMENTARY FILM (THE 70s) Mark Cousins 2026, 1h58, United Kingdom
DERNSIE: THE AMAZING LIFE OF BRUCE DERN Mike Mendez 2026, 1h51, United States
MAVERICK: THE EPIC ADVENTURES OF DAVID LEAN Barnaby Thompson2026, 1h51, United States
VITTORIO DE SICA – STAGING LIFE (VITTORIO DE SICA – LA VITA IN SCENA) Francesco Zippel 2026, 1h40, Italy
MON COLUCHE A MOI (MY COLUCHE) Michel Denisot, Camille Bruere and Julie Lazare 1h35, France
NOSTALGIA FOR THE FUTURE Brecht Debackere 2026, 1h15, Belgium
PAN’S LABYRINTH Guillermo del Toro 2006, 1h58, Mexico
PELECHIAN PROJECT (LAND OF THE PEOPLE, THE BEGINNING, WE, THE INHABITANTS, SEASONS) Artavazd Pelechian 1966-1975, 1h30, Armenia / Belarus / Russia
SIERRA DE TERUEL (ESPOIR) André Malraux 1938, 1h30, France
MOONLIGHTING Jerzy Skolimowski 1982, 1h37, United Kingdom
LOVE CIRCLE Giuseppe Patroni Griffi 1968, 2h05, Italy
REPORT TO MOTHER John Abraham 1986, 1h66, India
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE Kaige Chen 1993, 2h51, Hong-Kong
MAN OF IRON Andrzej Wajda 1981, 2h33, Poland
KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS Ken Russell 1971, 1h54, UK /U.S.
THE HOUSE OF ANGEL Leopoldo Torre Nilsson 1957, 1h16, Argentina
LA CIOCIARA (TWO WOMEN) Vittorio De Sica 1960, 1h41, France / Italy
LA DÉRIVE (THE DRIFT) Paula Delsol 1964, 1h23, France
LA SYMPHONIE PASTORALE (PASTORAL SYMPHONY) Jean Delannoy 1946, 1h37, France
L’INNOCENTE (THE INNOCENT) Luchino Visconti 1976, 2h10, Italy
THE DULL-ICE FLOWER Yang Li-Kuo 1989, 1h40, Taiwan
MACHINE GUN KELLY Roger Corman 1958, 1h24, U.S.
SEAGULLS DIE IN THE HARBOUR Roland Verhavert, Rik Kuypers, Ivo Michiels 1955, 1h27, Belgium
SUGATA SANSHIRO Akira Kurosawa 1943, 1h31, Japan
TILAÏ Idrissa Ouedraogo 1990, 1h21, Burkina Faso / Switzerland / France
THE STRANGER Orson Welles 1945, 1h35, United States
Source: deadline.com