Just four days before the start of its 78th edition, the Cannes Film Festival announced new additions to its lineup this Thursday, including the highly anticipated return of Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan. His new feature, Résurrection, has been added to the official competition for the Palme d’Or, bringing the total number of titles vying for the festival’s top prize to 22.

Bi Gan, internationally acclaimed for his films Kaili Blues and Long Day’s Journey Into Night, joins a main competition lineup that already includes established names such as Wes Anderson (The Phoenician Scheme), Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague), Carla Simón (Romería), and Kleber Mendonça Filho (O agente secreto).

Outside the competition, Cannes has also added 13 jours, 13 nuits by French director Martin Bourboulon, which will screen as a special presentation. In the same category, The Six Billion Dollar Man, a documentary by American filmmaker Eugene Jarecki focusing on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, will also be featured.

Additionally, in the Cannes Première section—also outside the official competition—Ma frère, directed by French filmmakers Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret, will be presented. The duo continues to explore youth dynamics following their debut feature The Dream Pills.