The Cannes Film Festival has announced further additions to its lineup, including Zachary Wiggon’s horror film Victorian Psycho starring Maika Monroe and Judith Godreche’s feature debut A Girl’s Story in the Un Certain Regard category.
Victorian Psycho stars scream queen Monroe as Winifred Notty, “an eccentric young governess who arrives at a secluded Gothic mansion known as Ensor House,” according to the film’s synopsis. “As Winifred assimilates into life at Ensor House, staff members begin to mysteriously disappear, and the owners of the house begin to suspect that something is wrong with their new governess.”The cast also includes Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, Ruth Wilson, Amy de Brune and Hamnet star Jacobi Jupe. The film was produced by Dan Kagan (“Longlegs”) under the Traffic banner and Sébastien Reybaud (“Greenland: The Immigrant”) in collaboration with Anonymous Content for Anton and Wigon.
Diego Luna’s Ashes has also been added to the special screening list. The Spanish-language drama is based on the award-winning novel “Eating Ashes” by Brenda Navarro and stars Anna Diaz (“Let Me Be With You”), Adriana Paz (“Emilia Perez”), Laura Gomez (“Orange is the New Black”) and Charlie Rowe (“Wolf Hall”).
Godreche’s “A Girl’s Story” is based on Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical novel about a girl who leaves her small village to work at a summer camp in 1958 and is seduced by an older man. Another of Ernaux’s novels, The Happening, was previously adapted for the big screen by Audrey Dewan and won the Golden Lion in Venice. “Un Certain Regard” also includes “Titanic Ocean,” a coming-of-age story about teenage girls training to become mermaids in Japan, directed by Greek filmmaker Constantina Cozzamani. The slate also includes two animated features: Leah Nelson’s Tangles in a special screening and Olivier Clair’s Lucy Lost in a family screening.
As Variety exclusively revealed earlier Wednesday, James Gray’s The Paper Tiger has also joined the lineup and is set to compete for the Palme d’Or. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Miles Teller, the gritty crime thriller is about two brothers trying to achieve the American Dream, but become “caught up in a scheme that’s too good to be true,” according to the plot description. In a world of corruption and violence, they find themselves and their families subjected to cruel terror by the Russian “Mafiya”. Their bond begins to fray, and betrayal, once completely unthinkable, is now all too likely. ” Neon has secured the North American rights to this highly anticipated film that is sure to be the most talked about movie on the Croisette.
The Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 12th to May 23rd.
The 2026 lineup is as follows:
competition
“Paper Tiger” James Gray
a certain point of view
“Victorian Psycho” Zachary Wiggon
“A Girl’s Story” by Judith Godreche
“Titanic Ocean” Constantina Cozzamani
“Ulysse” by Laetitia Masson (“Un Certain Regard” closing film)
cannes premiere
“The End of It” Maria Martinez Bayona
“Mary Magdalene” Jessica Geneus
“Aki” Tiago Guedes
“Marriage au Gou d’Orange” Christophe Honoré
“Si Tu Penses Bien” Geraldine Nakash
Special screening
“Spring” Rostislav Kirpichenko
“Ash” Diego Luna
“Tangles” Leah Nelson
“Le Triangle d’Or” Hélène Roslet-Lewis
“Granswell” Joshua Tickell & Rebecca Tickell
family screening
“Lucy is Lost” Olivier Claire
