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Cannes Film Festival
Tuesday, 13 May 2025 until Saturday, 24 May 2025
Oscar-Qualifier:
Palme d’Or (Short Films)
The king of festivals, Cannes is the most important date in filmmakers’ calendar. Attracting hundreds of parties, glamour, yachts and celebrities, it also runs in parallel with a number of other festivals all serving under the same banner. Expect champagne, tuxedos, lots of business cards, business and lots of bullshit. The festival includes the Cannes Short Film Corner and Producers Network alongside the below strands.
2025 films...updating
COMPETITION (19 FILMS):
Sentimental Value - dir. Joachim Trier
Sound of Falling - dir. Mascha Schilinski
Romeria - dir. Carla Simon
The Mastermind - dir. Kelly Reichardt
The Eagles of the Republic - dir. Tarik Saleh
Dossier 137 - dir. Dominik Moll
The Secret Agent - dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
Fuori - dir. Mario Martone
Nouvelle Vague - dir. Richard Linklater
Two Prosecutors - dir. Sergei Loznitsa
La Petite Dernière - dir. Hafsia Herzi
A Simple Accident - dir. Jafar Panahi
The History of Sound - dir. Oliver Hermanus
Renoir - dir. Chie Hayakawa
Alpha - dir. Julia Ducournau
Sirat - dir. Oliver Laxe
Young Mothers - dirs. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Eddington - dir. Ari Aster
The Phoenician Scheme - dir. Wes Anderson
OPENING NIGHT FILM:
Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) - dir. Amélie Bonnin
OUT OF COMPETITION (4 FILMS):
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - dir. Christopher McQuarrie
The Coming of the Future - dir. Cedric Klapisch
Vie Privée - dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
The Richest Woman in the World - dir. Thierry Klifa
UN CERTAIN REGARD (14 FILMS):
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - dir. Diego Céspedes
My Father’s Shadow - dir. Akinola Davies Jr.
Urchin - dir. Harris Dickinson
Meteors - dir. Hubert Charuel
A Pale View of Hills - dir. Kei Ishikawa
Eleanor the Great - dir. Scarlett Johansson
Pillion - dir. Harry Lighton
L'inconnue de la Grande Arche - dir. Stephane Demoustier
Aisha Can't Fly Away - dir. Morad Mostafa
Once Upon a Time in Gaza - dirs. Arab Nasser & Tarzan Nasser
The Plague - dir. Charlie Polinger
Heads or Tails? - dirs. Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis
Homebound - dir. Neeraj Ghaywan
The Last One for the Road - dir. Francesco Sossai
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS (2 FILMS):
Songs of the Neon Night - dir. Juno Mak
Exit 8 - dir. Genki Kawamura
SPECIAL SCREENINGS (4 FILMS):
Bono: Stories of Surrender - dir. Andrew Dominik
Tell Her That I Love Her - dir. Claude Miller
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol - dir. Sylvain Chomet
Dolloway - dir. Yann Gozlan
CANNES PREMIÈRE (6 FILMS):
Amrum - dir. Fatih Akin
Splitsville - dir. Michael Angelo Covino
Connemara - dir. Alex Lutz
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell - dir. Raoul Peck
The Wave - dir. Sebastián Lelio