Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival takes place May 11 - 22, 2027 in Cannes, France. The dress code is Black tie strictly enforced for evening screenings in the Grand Theatre Lumiere - dinner jacket or floor-length gown; resort tailoring and flats by day. Typical cost ranges from 2000 to 8000 EUR per person.
Cinema's most consequential festival, where the Palme d'Or is decided and much of the year's arthouse distribution is negotiated along the Croisette. Twelve days of competition premieres, the Marche du Film trade market, yacht parties and floodlit red-carpet arrivals. It is a working festival first and a spectacle second, which is exactly why the badge system is guarded so tightly.
- When
- May 11 - 22, 2027
- Where
- Cannes, France
- Dress code
- Black tie strictly enforced for evening screenings in the Grand Theatre Lumiere - dinner jacket or floor-length gown; resort tailoring and flats by day
- Cost
- Typical cost ranges from 2000 to 8000 EUR per person.
- Weather
- 17 - 24C, warm and bright Riviera spring
- When to book
- Accreditation applications open on the festival site around January and close in the spring - miss that window and there is no late route in. The free beach screenings need nothing at all. Croisette hotels and apartments should be booked eight to twelve months out and are effectively non-negotiable on price.
- Getting there
- NCE (Nice), around 40 min to Cannes by road or coastal train
- Where to stay
- Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, InterContinental Carlton Cannes, Five Seas Hotel Cannes
- Official site
- https://www.festival-cannes.com
How to attend
The main screenings are accreditation-only - press, industry, and the Cinephiles and Trois Jours a Cannes passes aimed at younger film lovers, all applied for on festival-cannes.com from around January with a firm spring deadline. There is no public ticket sale for the Lumiere red-carpet screenings, though last-minute invitations do circulate outside the venue for those already in formal dress. Anyone can attend the free Cinema de la Plage beach screenings, and the parallel Quinzaine des Cineastes and Semaine de la Critique sections sell individual tickets to the public at modest prices.
Insider tip
Cinema de la Plage screens a competition title or restored classic on the beach every night, free and open to everyone without a badge - it is the best way to experience the festival with no accreditation whatsoever.
Get inside Cannes Film Festival
Booking matters here: accreditation applications open on the festival site around January and close in the spring - miss that window and there is no late route in. The free beach screenings need nothing at all. Croisette hotels and apartments should be booked eight to twelve months out and are effectively non-negotiable on price. Members track that window, what it really costs, and 573 more events across the season.
Free while in beta. One email when your invitation is ready, nothing else.