Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film selected for Cannes main competition, Variety reports

Source: Variety

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new film, “Minotaur,” has been selected for the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 12–23, 2026, the entertainment trade outlet Variety reports.

The film follows a company director facing mass layoffs who discovers his wife is having an affair. The cast includes Iris Lebedeva, Dmitry Mazurov, Varvara Shmykova, and Juris Zagars.

Zvyagintsev’s previous film, “Loveless,” was released in 2017.

Filming took place in Riga, the director said, noting that audiences would be unlikely to recognize the Latvian capital on screen. “Only the people who own those locations, those interiors, will recognize them. Regular viewers won’t. Of course not. Because we’re shooting the film as if we’re in Russia. That’s how we shoot now,” he said.

Zvyagintsev described the film as “a film about a person in the circumstances they find themselves in.”

Zvyagintsev has been living in France in recent years. He underwent rehabilitation there in 2021 after contracting COVID-19. After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he decided not to return to Russia.

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