New Delhi, June 26 -- Neon has committed its entire awards season to Cannes. The distributor announced Thursday that James Gray's Paper Tiger will open in select theaters November 13, expanding wide November 20, placing it six weeks behind Cristian Mungiu's Fjord, which Neon is releasing October 9. Two Cannes 2026 titles, one distributor, one awards window.

Neon was building its year around the Croisette's most talked-about films. Fjord took the festival's top prize. Paper Tiger didn't need one. It left the Lumiere with a seven-minute standing ovation and reviews that called it the most fully realized work of Gray's career since The Yards.

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