Cannes Film Festival Reveals 2025 Program
As the 78th Cannes Film Festival approaches, scheduled for May 13 to 24, the official lineup has been announced. This morning, Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, disclosed the details.
Notable entries include Ari Aster’s Eddington, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, Carla Simon’s Romeria, and others. Additional sections feature Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée, the directorial debuts of Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson, Michael Angelo Covino’s Splitsville, Sebastián Lelio’s The Wave, Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, and more.
Details are listed below.
In Competition
- After (Oliver Laxe)
- Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
- The Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
- Eddington (Ari Aster)
- Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)
- Fuori (Mario Martone)
- The History of Sound (Olivier Hermanus)
- It Was Just An Accident (Jafar Panahi)
- The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
- Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
- The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
- The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
- Romeria (Carla Simon)
- Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
- Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
- Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
- The Youngest Daughter (Hafsia Herzi)
- Young Mothers (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
Opening Night
- Partir un jour (Amélie Bonnin)
Out of Competition
- Colours of Time (Cedric Klapisch)
- Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee) (as stated by the director)
- Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
- Vie Privée (Rebecca Zlotowski)
- The Richest Woman in the World (Thierry Klifa)
Un Certain Regard
- Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore (Morad Mostafa)
- Eleanor the Great (Scarlett Johansson)
- L’inconnu de la Grande Arche (Stephane Demoustier)
- Heads or Tails? (Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis)
- Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan)
- Karavan (Zuzana Kirchnerová)
- The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
- Meteors (Hubert Charuel)
- The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes)
- My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr.)
- Once Upon a Time in Gaza (Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser)
- A Pale View of Hills (Kei Ishikawa)
- Pillion (Harry Lighton)
- The Plague (Charlie Polinger)
- Promised Sky (Érige Sehiri)
- Urchin (Harris Dickinson)
Special Screenings
- Bono: Stories of Surrender (Andrew Dominik)
- The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol (Sylvain Chomet)
- Tell Her That I Love Her (Claude Miller)
Cannes Premiere
- Amrum (Fatih Akin)
- Connemara (Alex Lutz)
- The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (Kirill Serebrennikov)
- Orwell: 2+2=5 (Raoul Peck)
- Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino)
- The Wave (Sebastián Lelio)
Midnight
- Dalloway (Yann Gozlan)
- Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura)
- Songs of the Neon Night (Juno Mak)
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Cannes Film Festival Reveals 2025 Program
In anticipation of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, scheduled for May 13 to 24, the program has been announced. This morning, Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, disclosed the selection. Notable entries include Ari Aster's Eddington, Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind, and Joachim Trier's Sentimal.