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 Circle for 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.
Cannes Classic Lineup
New Films
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
Short Films
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
Restored Prints
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
EVE
Maria Plyta
1953, 1h30, Greece
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