Cannes Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach will be back at the festival for the first time in three years for a screening of 1995 Spanish Civil War drama Land and Freedom in the Cinéma de Plage strand which was unveiled today.
It is among 11 films programmed for the festival’s nightly open-air screenings on the public Macé Beach opposite the Majestic Hotel.
The lineup also features a 40th anniversary screening of Top Gun in the presence of Motion Picture Association (MPA) CEO Charles H. Rivkin, as well as Alan J. Pakula All The President’s Men, with Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, which screened in Competition at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
One new film, Molière, Cyrano and the Young King, by Michel Leclerc and starring Artus, Doria Tillier, Julia Piaton and Franck Dubosc, will also world premiere in the strand.
Full Cinéma de Plage Lineup
Top Gun
Tony Scott
1986, 1h50, United States
The Bullet Train/Super Express 109
Junya Sato
1975, 2h32, Japan
Molière, Cyrano and the Young King
Michel Leclerc
2026, 1h58, France
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
1965, 1h42, France
All The President’s Men
Alan J. Pakula
1976, 2h18, United States
Viva maria !
Louis Malle
1965, 2h02, France / Italy
Land and Freedom
Ken Loach
1995, 1h49, United Kingdom / Spain / Germany4K restored version.
Cría Cuervos
Carlos Saura
1976, 1h45, Spain
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Pietro Germi
1966, 2h00, Italy
I Hate Actors
Gérard Krawczyk
1986, 1h30, France
Mon oncle
Jacques Tati
1958, 1h56, France



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