2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Critics’ Week

The parallel selection dedicated to debut and sophomore features films had a chockfull of crème de la crème options last year beginning with solid opener and closing films in Laura Wandel’s L’intérêt d’Adam (review) and Alice Douard’s Love Letters (review) and with a competition section with not too shabby selections such as Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl, Pauline Loquès’ Nino, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s A Useful Ghost and Alexe Poukine’s Kika (review) who is featured in this year’s poster.