Cannes Film Festival

Region Sud goes to Cannes Film Festival 2026

Professional Meetings

The Region Sud, host of the Cannes Film Festival, is hosting, in collaboration with its partners, professional meetings on current topics in the film and audiovisual sector:

Meetings between young people and cinema exhibitors, directors’ masterclasses, pitches from a feature film writing and film score residency, the announcement of the winners of a traveling short film writing residency, safety on film sets, updates on animation in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and meetings with high school students.

Download our professional meetings’ program(pdf - 487 Ko)

Region Sud’s line-up in Cannes 2026

The Region Sud ranks third among French regions in terms of the number of shooting days. Our regional fund aims to promote creation in all its diversity: from screenwriting to post-production, we support feature films, animated films, documentaries, fiction for television and platforms, immersive works, web-based creations and video games.

This year, 9 films supported by the Region Sud are selected for the Cannes Film Festival :

Fresh Cut

By Hadrien Bels – Official Selection, Short films Competition

The Last Spring

By Mathilde Bédouet – Official Selection, Short films Competition

Les Matins Merveilleux

By Avril Besson – Official Selection, Special Screenings

Roma Elastica

By Bertrand Mandico – Official Selection, Midnight Screenings

La Bataille de Gaulle : L’âge de fer

By Antonin Baudry – Official Selection, Out of Competition

Crescendo

By Agnès Jaoui – Official Selection, Out of Competition

Katábasis

By Ugo Arsac – Immersive Competition – In Competition

A Life, A Manifesto

By Jean-Gabriel Périot – Sélection Officielle, Cannes Classics

Stonewall

By Julien Gaspar-Oliveri - Semaine de la Critique, Special Screenings

The Region Sud team is attending Cannes Film Festival 2026 !

We are available for meetings on request, 

Mis à jour le 24 juin 2026