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All eyes are on the Croisette for the start of the Cannes Film Festival. Running May 16 through May 27, the 76th edition of France's premiere festival boasts one of the most anticipated lineups in years, including the latest works by auteurs filmmakers Wes Anderson, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Steve McQueen, and a record seven films directed by women in competition.

Not to be outdone by last year's starry slate — which included eventual Best Picture nominees like Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick and Triangle of Sadness — this year's festival includes a number of already hotly-anticipated titles: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Harrison Ford's final outing as Indy, will world premiere out of competition at Cannes, as will Disney and Pixar's Elemental. Martin Scorsese, who won the Palme d'Or in 1976 with Taxi Driver, returns with Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Scorsese regulars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.

Arguably the highlight of the fest is not a feature at all, but Pedro Almodóvar's 30-minute short movie Extraña Forma de Vida (aka Strange Way of Life), a queer Western starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke.

Below, A.frame has rounded up 10 of our most anticipated films playing during this year's Festival de Cannes. Scroll on to see the full lineup of films in and out of competition, Un Certain Regard, and more.

Like with his last film, 2020's The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson has opted to debut his latest at Cannes. Asteroid City is set in a fictional desert town in 1955 and revolves around the attendees of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention. The cast is stacked even by Anderson's usual standards, including much of his regular troupe (Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton, and so on) as well as new collaborators like Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks.

Filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (whose short film Le Pupille was nominated at this year's Oscars) returns to Cannes with the third entry in her Italian-set trilogy, which began with 2014's The Wonders and continued in 2018's Happy as Lazzaro. Set in the 1980s, La Chimera stars Josh O'Connor as a tomb robber in search of a special prize: A mythological door to the afterlife that would reunite him with his lost love.

More than 30 years have passed since Víctor Erice, the Spanish filmmaker behind classics such as The Spirit of the Beehive and El Sur, released his last feature, 1992's Dream of Light. At long last, he's back with Cerrar los ojos (Close Your Eyes), which is programmed as a Cannes Premiere, a crime drama about an actor who disappears during the making of a movie. Years later, the case is reopened by a TV film crew.

Austrian writer-director Jessica Hausner has been a staple of Un Certain Regard since 2001's Lovely Rita, before segueing into competition with 2019's Little Joe — which won the festival's award for best actress for Emily Beecham. In Club Zero, Mia Wasikowska plays a new teacher at an international boarding school, brought in to lead a conscious eating course — which she instructs in insidious fashion. By the time the other teachers and parents notice, it may be too late.

British cinematographer and filmmaker Molly Manning Walker's first feature will debut in Un Certain Regard and boasts perhaps the most titillating title of the entire festival. According to the official synopsis, How to Have Sex follows three teenage girls on a "rites-of-passage holiday — drinking, clubbing and hooking up — in what should be the best summer of their lives." Which perhaps sounds more foreboding than raucous.

Todd Haynes was last at Cannes with the 2021 documentary, The Velvet Underground, but now returns with his latest scripted feature — and latest collaboration with Safe, Far From Heaven and Wonderstruck star Julianne Moore. Moore plays Gracie Atherton-Yu, a teacher whose tabloid romance with a student (played by Charles Melton) gripped the nation. Twenty years later, the couple's life is put back under the microscope when an actress (Natalie Portman) comes to their home to research Gracie before playing her in a film.

The last film Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda shot in his home country was 2018's Shoplifters, which won the Palme d'Or. After shooting two movies abroad — including Broker, which debuted at Cannes last year — he returned to Japan for Kaibutsu (Monster), about a mother (played by Shoplifters breakout Sakura Ando) who begins to believe that something is wrong with her son. Of note, Monster also features a score by the late Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Steve McQueen (director and producer of Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave) will debut his first feature documentary as a Special Screening at Cannes. In collaboration with his wife — Dutch journalist and filmmaker Bianca Stigter — the four-hour documentary juxtaposes present day Amsterdam with its past, and the atrocities committed under Nazi occupation during World War II. "Living in Amsterdam for me is like living with ghosts," McQueen says. "It feels there are always two or three parallel narratives unfolding at once. The past is always present."

German filmmaker Wim Wenders has debuted 12 of his films at Cannes — including the Palme d'Or-winning Paris, Texas — and this year, he returns with two more: Perfect Days will premiere in competition, starring Kōji Yakusho as a toilet cleaner living a deceptively simple life in Tokyo. Elsewhere, Wenders' Anselm - Das Rauschen der Zeit, a 3D documentary about painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, will debut as a Special Screening.

It has been 10 years since Sexy Beast and Birth director Jonathan Glazer's last film: The mesmerizing sci-fi masterwork Under the Skin. Returning with something completely different, The Zone of Interest adapts Martin Amis' novel about a Nazi officer who falls for his commander's wife — although the official synopsis frames his adaptation as such: "The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp."

Find the full lineup for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival below.

JEANNE DU BARRY by Maïwenn (Out of Competition)

CLUB ZERO by Jessica HausnerTHE ZONE OF INTEREST by Jonathan GlazerKUOLLEET LEHDET (FALLEN LEAVES) by Aki KaurismäkiLES FILLES D'OLFA (FOUR DAUGHTERS) by Kaouther Ben HaniaASTEROID CITY by Wes AndersonANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE (ANATOMY OF A FALL) by Justine TrietKAIBUTSU (MONSTER) by Kore-eda HirokazuIL SOL DELL' AVVENIRE (A BRIGHTER TOMORROW) by Nanni MorettiL'ÉTÉ DERNIER (LAST SUMMER) by Catherine BreillatKURU OTLAR USTUNE (ABOUT DRY GRASSES) by Nuri Bilge CeylanLA CHIMERA by Alice RohrwacherLA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT (THE POT–AU–FEU) by Trần Anh HùngRAPITO (KIDNAPPED) by Marco BellocchioMAY DECEMBER by Todd HaynesQING CHUN (YOUTH) by Wang BingTHE OLD OAK by Ken LoachBANEL E ADAMA by Ramata-Toulaye SyPERFECT DAYS by Wim WendersFIREBRAND by Karim AïnouzBLACK FLIES by Jean-Stéphane SauvaireLE RETOUR (HOMECOMING) by Catherine Corsini

LE RÈGNE ANIMAL by Thomas Cailley (Opening Film)LOS DELINCUENTES (THE DELINQUENTS) by Rodrigo MorenoHOW TO HAVE SEX by Molly Manning WalkerGOODBYE JULIA by Mohamed KordofaniKADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES) by Asmae El MoudirSIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN (THE NATURE OF LOVE) by Monia ChokriCROWRÃ (THE BURITI FLOWER) by João Salaviza and Renée Nader MessoraLOS COLONOS (THE SETTLERS) by Felipe GálvezOMEN (AUGURE) by BalojiRAN DONG (THE BREAKING ICE) by Anthony ChenROSALIE by Stéphanie Di GiustoTHE NEW BOY by Warwick ThorntonIF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE by Zoljargal PurevdashHWA–RAN (HOPELESS) by Kim Chang-hoonAYEH HAYE ZAMINI (TERRESTRIAL VERSES) by Ali Asgari and Alireza KhatamiRIEN À PERDRE by Delphine DelogetLES MEUTES (HOUNDS) by Kamal LazraqHE BIAN DE CUO WU (ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS) by Wei ShujunSALEM by Jean-Bernard MarlinUNE NUIT (STRANGERS BY NIGHT) by Alex Lutz (Closing Film Out of Competition)

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY by James MangoldGEO–MI–JIP (COBWEB) by Kim Jee-woonTHE IDOL by Sam LevinsonKILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by Martin ScorseseL’ABBÉ PIERRE – UNE VIE DE COMBATS by Frédéric Tellier

KENNEDY by Anurag KashyapOMAR LA FRAISE (THE KING OF ALGIERS) by Elias BelkeddarACID by Just PhilippotHYPNOTIC by Robert RodriguezPROJECT SILENCE by Kim Tae-gon

KUBI by Takeshi KitanoBONNARD, PIERRE AND MARTHE by Martin ProvostCERRAR LOS OJOS (CLOSE YOUR EYES) Víctor Erice LE TEMPS D’AIMER (ALONG CAME LOVE) by Katell Quillévéré PERDIDOS EN LA NOCHE (LOST IN THE NIGHT) by Amat EscalanteL'AMOUR ET LES FORÊTS (JUST THE TWO OF US) by Valérie DonzelliEUREKA by Lisandro Alonso

MAN IN BLACK by Wang BingOCCUPIED CITY by Steve McQueenANSELM - DAS RAUSCHEN DER ZEIT by Wim Wenders RETRATOS FANTASMAS (PICTURES OF GHOSTS) by Kleber Mendonça FilhoLITTLE GIRL BLUE by Mona AchacheBREAD AND ROSES by Sahra ManiLE THÉORÈME DE MARGUERITE (MARGUERITE'S THEOREM) by Anna NovionAS FILHAS DO FOGO (THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE) by Pedro Costa (Short)EXTRANA FORMA DE VIDA (STRANGE WAY OF LIFE) by Pedro Almodóvar (Short)

ELEMENTAL by Peter Sohn (Out of Competition)