Ira Sachs 'The Man I Love' premiere

Ira Sachs’ “The Man I Love” reached the Cannes red carpet on May 20 as part of the 79th Festival de Cannes, with Demi Moore, Rami Malek and Rebecca Hall among the attendees documented in premiere coverage. The film was listed in the festival’s 2026 Official Selection in Competition, placing it in Cannes’ top section rather than one of the sidebars. Deadline’s photo gallery from the premiere also named Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Tom Sturridge among those on the carpet. The festival’s official live page logged “The Man I Love” on the Red Steps at 23:20 on May 20, confirming the screening’s place in the day’s Cannes schedule. The premiere matters first as a Cannes competition launch. Cannes’ official selection release lists “The Man I Love” alongside other Competition titles from directors including Pedro Almodóvar, James Gray and Ryusuke Hamaguchi. That placement means Sachs’ film entered the festival in contention for the Palme d’Or. Reuters also reported from Cannes on May 20 that Malek made his Cannes red-carpet debut with the film. (festival-cannes.com) The cast list around the premiere gives a clearer picture of the project than the red-carpet images alone. Deadline’s gallery identified Malek, Hall, Moss-Bachrach and Sturridge at the event, while Reuters described the film as an AIDS-crisis drama set in 1980s New York City. Search results tied to same-day coverage also described it as the latest film from Sachs and a world premiere at Cannes. (festival-cannes.com) The Cannes schedule shows how the premiere fit into the festival’s public-facing machinery. The official live page placed “The Man I Love” between other red-carpet events on May 20 and listed a separate “Rang I” entry for the film at 08:18 on May 21. Cannes uses that live page to aggregate red-steps arrivals, photocalls, press conferences and related festival events, making it the clearest official tracker for when a title moved through the Croisette. (msn.com) Vanity Fair’s day-by-day Cannes live coverage, cited in upstream briefing material, reflects the broader media environment around the premiere: a festival where screenings, press reactions and red carpets are being tracked in parallel. In this case, the verified facts are narrower and firmer: the film premiered on May 20, it was part of the official Competition lineup, and Moore, Malek and Hall were among the people photographed at the event. (festival-cannes.com) May 21 is the next concrete date in the public record. Cannes’ official live page shows “The Man I Love” in its morning “Rang I” programming on that date, and the festival’s live and video hub continues to aggregate footage and images from the premiere as coverage moves beyond the red carpet. (festival-cannes.com 1) (festival-cannes.com 2)