Decision to Leave is famed South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s first movie in six years following The Handmaiden in 2016. It will be competing for the Palme d’Or.

The movie is about a detective (Park Hae-il) who falls for a mysterious widow (Tang Wei). As it turns out, she’s the prime suspect in his latest murder investigation.

Joyland is the first Pakistani film to screen in the Official Selection category of the Cannes Film Festival.

The movie marks the feature debut of writer and director Saim Sadiq. His short film Darling took home the Orizzonti Best Short Film at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.

Joyland tells the story of a patriarchal family yearning for a baby boy to continue the family line. Unknown to the parents, their youngest son joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for the trans scarlet.

Chie Hayakawa’s Plan 75 is having its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard category. Hayakawa is best known for her short films Identify This Girl and Photography of Zero. She also directed Ten Years Japan, inspired by the omnibus film from Hong Kong.

The movie is set in Japan in the near future where a government program, Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanised in order to remedy an ageing society.

It follows the story of an elderly woman whose only means of survival is to vanish, a Plan 75 salesman and a young Filipino labourer facing the choice of life and death.

Davy Chou’s Retour à Séoul (Return to Seoul) is competing in the Un Certain Regard category.

The feature centres on Freddie, a 25-year-old (Park Ji-min) who returns to South Korea for the first time since being adopted and raised in France. She starts looking for her biological parents in a country that feels so foreign.

Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae makes his feature directorial debut, Hunt. The espionage action film is selected for the Midnight Screening section of the Cannes Film Festival.

The movie is set in the 1980s when the military dictatorship in South Korea reached its peak. KCIA Foreign Unit chef Park Pyong-ho (Lee) and Domestic Unit chief Kim Jung-do (Jung Woo-sung) team up to uncover a North Korean spy Donglim, hiding within their agency.

See also: 10 Lee Jung-Jae Movies and Shows to Watch

Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes is selected for the Special Screening section of the Cannes Film Festival.

The 90-minute documentary focuses on environmental issues. It follows two Indian brothers, Saud and Nadeem who rescue and treat injured birds. They run a bird clinic in Delhi and have made it their life’s work to care for the injured creatures.

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