The Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the unveiling of Greta Gerwig’s jury selection and the presentation of an honorary Palme d’Or — the festival’s most prestigious prize — for Meryl Streep as the French Riviera spectacular kicked off its 77th edition.

But along with buzzy films from Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, to Kevin Costner’s American Horizon and Yargos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness, Cannes is looking particularly Canadian this year. In the largest showing since 2012 — which saw three features and a short film from the country in the official selection — this year’s festival is largely bolstered by productions and artists from the Great White North.

After his 2022 Crimes of the Future inspired Cannes walkouts and a seven-minute standing ovation (somewhat obligatory at the festival), body horror specialist David Cronenberg is headed back to the French film showcase. This time he is debuting The Shrouds, a Guy Pearce, Vincent Cassell, Diane Kruger and Sandrine Holt-led horror about a recently bereaved husband who invents a way to observe, and commune with, the dead.