{"id":372210,"date":"2026-04-10T01:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372210\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:35:19","slug":"train-to-busan-directors-new-zombie-movie-leads-cannes-2026-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/372210\/","title":{"rendered":"Train to Busan director’s new zombie movie leads Cannes 2026 movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any fans of Train to Busan in the house? Yeon Sang-ho<\/a>, who previously directed the propulsive zombie movie and its sequel Peninsula<\/a>, is going back to familiar (but welcome) stomping grounds with his new movie The Colony, announcd as part of the Cannes Film Festival’s 2026 lineup. The movie sounds very Resident Evil-y: \u201cA biotech conference descends into chaos when a rapidly mutating virus transforms the infected, forcing authorities to seal off the facility with survivors trapped inside.\u201d Colony isn’t in competition at Cannes, instead playing in the midnight section. But it’s in competition… in our hearts.<\/p>\n

Running May 12-23, this year’s festival is opening with the previously announced The Electric Kiss from filmmaker Pierre Salvadori and promising tons of new premieres from international auteurs. Other high-profile selections include John Travolta’s directorial debut, Propeller One-Way Night Coach, Pedro Almod\u00f3var’s Bitter Christmas, Ira Sachs musical The Man I Love, and Asghar Farhadi\u2019s Parallel Tales. Filmmaker Peter Jackson and renaissance woman Barbra Streisand will be receiving honorary Palme d\u2019Ors. Here’s the full lineup.<\/p>\n

Competition<\/p>\n

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\n Image: Caballo Films<\/p>\n

Minotaur – Andrey Zvyagintsev<\/p>\n

The Beloved – Rodrigo Sorogoyen<\/p>\n

The Man I Love – Ira Sachs<\/p>\n

Fatherland – Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski<\/p>\n

Moulin – L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes<\/p>\n

Histoires de la Nuit – L\u00e9a Mysius<\/p>\n

Fjord – Cristian Mungiu<\/p>\n

Notre Salut – Emmanuel Marre<\/p>\n

Gentle Monster – Marie Kreutzer<\/p>\n

Nagi Notes – Koji Fukada<\/p>\n

Hope – Na Hong-Jin<\/p>\n

Sheep in the Box – Hirokazu Kore-eda<\/p>\n

Garance – Jeanne Herry<\/p>\n

The Unknown – Arthur Harari<\/p>\n

All of a Sudden – Ryusuke Hamaguchi<\/p>\n

The Dreamed Adventure – Valeska Grisebach<\/p>\n

Coward – Lukas Dhont<\/p>\n

La Bola Negra (The Black Ball) – Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo<\/p>\n

A Woman\u2019s Life – Charline Bourgeois-Taquet<\/p>\n

Parallel Tales – Asghar Farhadi<\/p>\n

Bitter Christmas – Pedro Almod\u00f3var<\/p>\n

Un Certain Regard<\/p>\n

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\n Image: Hulu<\/p>\n

La M\u00e1s Dulce – La\u00efla Marrakchi<\/p>\n

Club Kid – Jordan Firstman<\/p>\n

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Jane Schoenbrun<\/p>\n

Everytime – Sandra Wollner<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll Be Gone in June – Katharina Rivilis<\/p>\n

Yesterday the Eye Didn\u2019t Sleep – Rakan Mayasi<\/p>\n

The Meltdown – Manuela Martelli<\/p>\n

Elephants in the Fog – Abinash Bikram Shah<\/p>\n

Iron Boy – Louis Clichy<\/p>\n

Ben\u2019imana – Marie-Cl\u00e9mentine Dusabejambo<\/p>\n

Congo Boy – Rafiki Fariala<\/p>\n

Ula – Viesturs Kairi\u0161s<\/p>\n

Forever Your Eternal Animal – Valentina Maurel<\/p>\n

Words of Love – Rudi Rosenberg<\/p>\n

All the Lovers in the Night – Sode Yukiko<\/p>\n

Out of Competition<\/p>\n

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\n Image: Black Cap Pictures<\/p>\n

Her Private Hell – Nicolas Winding Refn<\/p>\n

Diamond – Andy Garcia<\/p>\n

Objet du Deli – Agnes Jaoui<\/p>\n

De Gaulle: L\u2019Age de Fer – Antonin Baudry<\/p>\n

L\u2019abandon – Vincent Garenq<\/p>\n

Karma – Guillame Canet<\/p>\n

Cannes Premiere<\/p>\n

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\n Image: Apple TV<\/p>\n

Kokurojo: The Samurai and the Prisoner – Kiyoshi Kurosawa<\/p>\n

Propeller One-Way Night Coach – John Travolta<\/p>\n

The Third Night – Daniel Auteil<\/p>\n

The Match – Juan Cabral and Santiago Franco<\/p>\n

Visitation – Volker Schlondorff<\/p>\n

Special Screenings<\/p>\n

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\n Image: To Be Continued<\/p>\n

John Lennon: The Last Interview – Steven Soderbergh<\/p>\n

Avedon – Ron Howard<\/p>\n

Les Survivants du Che – Christophe R\u00e9veille<\/p>\n

Les Matins Merveilleux – Avril Besson<\/p>\n

Cantona – David Tryhorn and Ben Nicholas<\/p>\n

Rehearsals for a Revolution – Pegah Ahangarani<\/p>\n

L\u2019affaire Marie-Claire – Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller<\/p>\n

Midnight Screenings<\/p>\n

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\n Image:\u00a0Condor Distribution<\/p>\n

Roma Elastica – Betrand Mandico<\/p>\n

Full Phil – Quentin Dupieux<\/p>\n

Colony – Yeon Sang-ho<\/p>\n

Jim Queen – Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen<\/p>\n

Sanguine – Marion Le Coroller<\/p>\n

Opening Film<\/p>\n

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\n Image: Diaphana Distribution<\/p>\n

The Electric Kiss – Pierre Salvadori (previously announced, out of competition)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Any fans of Train to Busan in the house? Yeon Sang-ho, who previously directed the propulsive zombie movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-372210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}