2025 Cannes Film Festival
 Official double poster designed by Hartland Villa featuring Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant embracing in A Man and a Woman (1966) | |
| Opening film | Bye Bye |
|---|---|
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or |
| Hosted by | Laurent Lafitte |
| Artistic director | Thierry Frémaux |
| No. of films | 21 (In Competition) |
| Festival date | 13–24 May 2025 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 78th annual Cannes Film Festival will take place from 13 to 24 May 2025.[1] French actress Juliette Binoche will serve as jury president for the main competition.[2]
The official double poster for the festival featuring actress Anouk Aimée and actor Jean-Louis Trintignant in the movie A Man and a Woman (1966) by Claude Lelouch, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 19th Cannes Film Festival, was designed by Hartland Villa.[3] French actor Laurent Lafitte will serve as host for the opening and closing ceremonies.[4]
The Honorary Palme d'Or will be awarded to Robert De Niro during the festival's opening ceremony.[5]
One day after the announcement of the ACID official selection, Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona one of the main subjects of the documentary film Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk by Sepideh Farsi, was killed along with ten members of her family in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza City on 16 April 2025.[6][7] The festival released an official statement expressing condolences and criticizing the ongoing violence in Gaza.[8]
The festival will open with the French comedy film Bye Bye by Amélie Bonnin.
Juries
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Main Competition
[edit]- Juliette Binoche, French actress – Jury President[2]
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Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition
[edit]- Maren Ade, German filmmaker and producer - Jury President[9]
- Reinaldo Marcus Green, American filmmaker and producer
- Camélia Jordana, French actress, singer & songwriter
- José Maria Prado Garcia, Spanish producer, photographer and former Director of Filmoteca Española
- Nebojša Slijepčević, Croatian filmmaker
Caméra d'Or
[edit]- Alice Rohrwacher, Italian filmmaker – Jury President[10]
L'Œil d'Or
[edit]- Julie Gayet, French actress and producer – Jury President[11]
- Carmen Castillo, Chilean filmmaker
- Juliette Favreul Renaud, French producer
- Frédéric Maire, Swiss director of the Cinémathèque suisse
- Marc Zinga, Congolese-Belgian actor
Critics' Week
[edit]- Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spanish filmmaker – Jury President[12]
- Jihane Bougrine, Moroccan journalist
- Josée Deshaies, French-Canadian cinematographer
- Yulia Evina Bhara, Indonesian producer
- Daniel Kaluuya, British actor and filmmaker
Queer Palm
[edit]- Christophe Honoré, French filmmaker – Jury President[13]
Official Selection
[edit]In Competition
[edit]The following films were selected to compete for the Palme d'Or:[14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpha | Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium | |
| Die, My Love | Lynne Ramsay | United States | |
| Dossier 137 | Dominik Moll | France | |
| Eagles of the Republic | Tarik Saleh | Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland | |
| Eddington | Ari Aster | United States | |
| Fuori | Mario Martone | Italy, France | |
| The History of Sound | Oliver Hermanus | United Kingdom, United States | |
| It Was Just an Accident | یک تصادف ساده | Jafar Panahi | Iran, France, Luxembourg |
| The Mastermind | Kelly Reichardt | United States, United Kingdom | |
| Nouvelle Vague | Richard Linklater | France | |
| The Phoenician Scheme | Wes Anderson | United States, Germany | |
| Renoir | ルノワール | Chie Hayakawa | Japan, France, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia |
| Romería | Carla Simón | Spain, Germany | |
| The Secret Agent | O Agente Secreto | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands |
| Sentimental Value | Affeksjonsverdi | Joachim Trier | Norway, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom |
| Sirat | Óliver Laxe | Spain, France | |
| Sound of Falling | In die Sonne schauen | Mascha Schilinski | Germany |
| Two Prosecutors | Два прокурора | Sergei Loznitsa | Latvia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Lithuania |
| Woman and Child | زن و بچه | Saeed Roustayi | Iran |
| The Young Mother's Home | Jeunes mères | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
| The Youngest Daughter | La petite dernière | Hafsia Herzi | France, Germany |
Un Certain Regard
[edit]The following films were selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section:[14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aisha Can't Fly Away (CdO) | عائشة لم تعد قادرة على الطيران | Morad Mostafa | Egypt, Qatar, Tunisia |
| Caravan (CdO) | Karavan | Zuzana Kirchnerová | Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy |
| The Chronology of Water (CdO) | Kristen Stewart | France, United Kingdom, United States | |
| Eleanor the Great (CdO) | Scarlett Johansson | United States | |
| The Great Arch | L’inconnu de la Grande Arche | Stéphane Demoustier | France |
| Heads or Tails? | Testa o croce? | Matteo Zoppis and Alessio Rigo de Righi | Italy, United States |
| Homebound | Neeraj Ghaywan | India | |
| I Only Rest in the Storm | O Riso e a Faca | Pedro Pinho | Portugal |
| The Last One for the Road | Le città di pianura | Francesco Sossai | Italy |
| Love Me Tender | Anna Cazenave Cambet | France | |
| Meteors | Météors | Hubert Charuel | |
| My Father's Shadow (CdO) | Akinola Davies Jr. | United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria | |
| The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (CdO) | La misteriosa mirada del flamenco | Diego Céspedes | Chile |
| Once Upon a Time in Gaza | Tarzan and Arab Nasser | Palestine, France, Portugal | |
| A Pale View of Hills | 遠い山なみの光 | Kei Ishikawa | Japan, United Kingdom, Poland |
| Pillion (CdO) | Harry Lighton | United Kingdom, Ireland | |
| The Plague (CdO) | Charlie Polinger | Australia, United States | |
| Promised Sky | Promis le ciel | Erige Sehiri | Tunisia, France, Netherlands, Qatar |
| Un Poeta | Simón Mesa Soto | Colombia, Germany, Sweden | |
| Urchin (CdO) | Harris Dickinson | United Kingdom | |
- (CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
Out of Competition
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[15][14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bye Bye (opening film) (CdO) | Partir un jour | Amélie Bonnin | France |
| The Coming of the Future | La venue de l'avenir | Cédric Klapisch | |
| Highest 2 Lowest | Spike Lee | United States, Japan | |
| Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Christopher McQuarrie | United States | |
| The Richest Woman in the World | La femme la plus riche du monde | Thierry Klifa | France, Belgium |
| Vie privée | Rebecca Zlotowski | France | |
| Midnight Screenings | |||
| Dalloway | Yann Gozlan | France, Belgium | |
| The Exit 8 | 8番出口 | Genki Kawamura | Japan |
| Honey Don't! | Ethan Coen | United States, United Kingdom | |
| No One Will Know | Le Roi Soleil | Vincent Maël Cardona | France |
| Sons of the Neon Night | 風林火山 | Juno Mak | Hong Kong, China |
- (CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
Cannes Premiere
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened in the Cannes Premiere section:[14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amrum | Fatih Akin | Germany | |
| Connemara | Alex Lutz | France | |
| The Disappearance of Josef Mengele | Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele | Kirill Serebrennikov | Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain |
| Love on Trial | Renai Saiban | Koji Fukada | Japan, France |
| The Love That Remains | Ástin Sem Eftir Er | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland, Denmark, France, Finland, Sweden |
| Magellan | Magalhães | Lav Diaz | Philippines, Spain, Portugal |
| Orwell: 2+2=5 (ŒdO) | Raoul Peck | France, United States | |
| Splitsville | Michael Angelo Covino | United States | |
| The Wave | La ola | Sebastián Lelio | Chile |
- (ŒdO) indicates film eligible for the L'Œil d'or as documentary.
Special Screenings
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened in the Special Screenings section:[14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arco (CdO) | Ugo Bienvenu | France | |
| Bono: Stories of Surrender (ŒdO) | Andrew Dominik | Australia, United States | |
| Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (CdO) | Amélie et la Métaphysique des Tubes | Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han | France |
| A Magnificent Life | Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol | Sylvain Chomet | France, Canada, Belgium, Luxembourg, United States |
| Mama (CdO) | Or Sinai | Israel | |
| Tell Her That I Love Her | Dites-lui que je l'aime | Romane Bohringer | France |
| The Wonderers (CdO) | Qui Brille au Combat | Joséphine Japy | |
| Tribute to Pierre Richard | |||
| L’Homme qui a vu l’Ours qui a vu l’Homme | Pierre Richard | France | |
- (CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
- (ŒdO) indicates film eligible for the L'Œil d'or as documentary.
Short Films Competition
[edit]Selected from 4 781 films, 9 are fiction short films and 2 animated short films. The following short films were selected to compete for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[9]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agapito | Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero | Philippines | |
| Ali | Adnan Al Rajeev | Bangladesh | |
| Arguments in Favor of Love | Disputes en Faveur de l’Amour | Gabriel Abrantes | France, Portugal |
| Dammen | Grégoire Graesslin | France | |
| Fille de l’Eau | Sandra Desmazières | ||
| I’m Glad You’re Dead Now | Tawfeek Barhom | ||
| Hypersensitive | Hypersensible | Martine Froissard | |
| Lili | Nvhai | Zhaoguang Luo and Shuhan Liao | China |
| The Loneliness of Lizards | A Solidão dos Lagartos | Inês Nunes | Portugal |
| The Spectacle | Bálint Kenyères | Hungary | |
| Vultures | Aasvoëls | Dian Weys | South Africa |
Cinéfondation
[edit]The Cinéfondation (or La Cinéf) section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The Cannes Film Festival allocates a €15,000 grant for the winner of the First Prize, €11,250 for the winner of the Second Prize and €7,500 for the winner of the Third Prize. 13 live-action and 3 animated films from 2,700 submitted by film schools all over the world were selected:[9]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Moments Before the Flag-Raising Ceremony | Qu Zhizheng | Beijing Film Academy, China | |
| A Doll Made Up of Clay | Kokob Gebrehaweria Tesfay | Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India | |
| Bimo | Oumnia Hanader | CinéFabrique, France | |
| The Bird from Within | O Pássaro de Dentro | Laura Anahory | Escola das Artes - UCP, Portugal |
| Ether | Vida Skerk | NFTS, United Kingdom | |
| First Summer | Heo Gayoung | KAFA, South Korea | |
| The Land of Slumber | Le Continent Somnambule | Jules Vésigot-Wahl | La Fémis, France |
| The Lightning Rod | Matalapaine | Helmi Donner | Aalto University, Finland |
| Maybe in March | Maske i Marts | Mikkel Bjørn Kehlert | Super16, Denmark |
| Milk and Cookies | Fursecuri si Lapte | Andrei Tache-Codreanu | UNATC “I. L. Caragiale”, Romania |
| My Grandmother is a Skydiver | Polina Piddubna | Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany | |
| Ginger Boy (Separated) | Miki Tanaka | ENBU Seminar, Japan | |
| The Sorceress Echo | Per Bruixa i Merzinera | Marc Camardons | ESCAC, Spain |
| Talk Me | Joecar Hanna | NYU, United States | |
| Three | Tres | Juan Ignacio Ceballos | UCINE, Argentina |
| Winter in March | Natalia Mirzoyan | Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia | |
Cannes Classics
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restored Prints | |||
Cinéma de la Plage
[edit]The Cinéma de la Plage section line-up includes classics films, commemorations and world premieres of new productions at the Cannes's Plage Macé. The following films were selected to be screened:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|
Parallel sections
[edit]Critics' Week (Semaine de la critique)
[edit]The Critics' Week is a parallel selection dedicated to first and second films. The following films were selected to be screened in competition:[16][17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| A Useful Ghost (CdO) | ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ | Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | Thailand, France, Singapore, Germany |
| Imago | Déni Oumar Pitsaev | France, Belgium | |
| Kika | Alexe Poukine | Belgium, France | |
| Left-Handed Girl | 左撇子女孩 | Shih-Ching Tsou | Taiwan, France, United States, United Kingdom |
| Nino (CdO) | Pauline Locques | France | |
| Reedland (CdO) | Rietland | Sven Bresser | Netherlands, Belgium |
| Sleepless City (CdO) | Ciudad sin sueño | Guillermo Galoe | Spain, France |
| Special Screenings | |||
| Adam's Interest (opening film) | L'intérêt d'Adam | Laura Wandel | Belgium, France |
| Baise-en-ville | Martin Jauvat | France | |
| Dandelion's Odyssey (closing film) (CdO) | Planètes | Momoko Sato | France, Belgium |
| Love Letters (CdO) | Des preuves d’amour | Alice Douard | France |
| Short Films Competition | |||
| Alișveriș | Vasile Todinca | Romania | |
| Bleat! | கத்து! | Ananth Subramaniam | Malaysia, Philippines, France |
| Critical Condition | КРИТИЧНЕ СТАНОВИЩЕ | Mila Zhluktenko | Germany |
| Erogenesis | Xandra Popescu | ||
| Free Drum Kit | Donne Batterie | Carmen Leroi | France |
| Glasses | 안경 | Yumi Joung | South Korea |
| God is Shy | Dieu est timide | Jocelyn Charles | France |
| The Mine | L'mina | Randa Maroufi | Morocco, France, Italy, Qatar |
| Samba Infinito | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil, France | |
| Wonderwall | Róisín Burns | United Kingdom, France | |
| Special Screenings - Short Films | |||
| Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag | Eraserhead dans un Filet à Provisions | Lili Koss | France, Bulgaria |
| No Skate! | Guil Sela | France | |
| To the Woods | Une Fugue | Agnès Patron | |
- (CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes)
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes) section:[18][19]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feature films | |||
| Brand New Landscape (CdO) | 見はらし世代 | Yuiga Danzuka | Japan |
| Dangerous Animals | Sean Byrne | Australia | |
| Death Does Not Exist | La mort n'existe pas | Félix Dufour-Laperrière | Canada, France |
| The Foxes Round (CdO) | La danse des renards | Valéry Carnoy | France, Belgium |
| Enzo (opening film) | Robin Campillo | France | |
| The Girl in the Snow (CdO) | L'Engloutie | Louise Hémon | |
| Girl on Edge (CdO) | 花漾少女杀人事件 | Jinghao Zhou | China |
| The Girls We Want (CdO) | Les filles désir | Prïncia Car | France |
| Her Will Be Done | Que ma volonté soit faite | Julia Kowalski | |
| Indomptables | Thomas Ngijol | Cameroon, France | |
| Kokuho | 国宝 | Lee Sang-il | Japan |
| Lucky Lu (CdO) | Lloyd Lee Choi | United States | |
| Militantropos (ŒdO) | Мілітантропос | Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi | Ukraine, France, Austria |
| Mirrors No. 3 | Miroirs No. 3 | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| The Party's Over | Classe moyenne | Antony Cordier | France, Belgium |
| Peak Everything | Amour Apocalypse | Anne Émond | Canada |
| The President's Cake (CdO) | مملكة القصب | Hasan Hadi | Iraq, Qatar |
| Sorry, Baby (closing film) (CdO) | Eva Victor | United States | |
| Yes! | Ken! | Nadav Lapid | Israel, France, Germany, Cyprus |
| Short Films | |||
| +10k | Gala Hernández López | ||
| Before the Sea Forgets | Ngọc Duy Lê | ||
| Blue Heart | Cœur bleu | Samuel Suffren | |
| The Body | Louris van de Geer | ||
| Bread Will Walk | Le pain se lève | Alex Boya | Canada |
| Death of the Fish | La mort du poisson | Eva Lusbaronian | |
| Karmash | کرمش | Aleem Bukhari | |
| Loynes | Dorian Jespers | ||
| Nervous Energy | 兩個女導演 | Eve Liu | |
| When the Geese Flew | Arthur Gay | New Zealand | |
- (CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
- (ŒdO) indicates film eligible for the L'Œil d'or as documentary.
ACID
[edit]The following films were selected to be screened in the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) section, consisting of six fiction features and 3 documentaries:[20]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'aventura | Sophie Letourneur | France | |
| The Black Snake | La Couleuvre Noire | Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux | France, Colombia, Brazil |
| Drifting Laurent | Laurent dans le Vent | Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture and Mattéo Eustachon | France |
| Drunken Noodles | Lucio Castro | United States, Argentina | |
| Entroncamento | Pedro Cabeleira | Portugal, France | |
| A Light That Never Goes Out (CdO) | Lauri-Matti Parppei | Finland, Norway | |
| Life After Siham (ŒdO) | La Vie Après Siham | Namir Abdel Messeeh | France, Egypt |
| Obscure Night - "Ain't i a Child?" (ŒdO) | Nuit Obscure - «Ain't i a Child?» | Sylvain George | France, Switzerland, Portugal |
| Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (ŒdO) | Sepideh Farsi | France, Palestine, Iran | |
- (CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as a feature directorial debut.
- (ŒdO) indicates film eligible for the L'Œil d'or as documentary.
Official Awards
[edit]Independent Awards
[edit]- Carrosse d’Or: Todd Haynes[21]
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