The 2025 Cannes Film Festival line-up is here!

Wes Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier and Julia Ducournau are among the contenders for this year’s Golden Palm.

It’s that time of year again. Award season has officially come to a close, and that little liminal space that follows it has wrapped. And so now, next year’s major contenders sneak into the limelight as the Cannes Film Festival announces the line-up of its 2025 edition. And its made a rod for its own back, as last year no less than three of its competition line-up made their way into the Best Picture Oscar list, with Sean Baker’s Anora doing the double by winning the 2024 Palme d’Or and the 2025 Best Picture and Director.

The year, Bobby De Niro is getting a special lifetime achievement award, but in terms of pre-announcements, that is all we know. No jury, no poster, no opening film. So here we go for the biggest movie drop of the year…

Opening Film
Leave One Day (Amélie Bonnin)

Competition
Sentental Value (Joachim Trier)
Romeria (Carla Simon)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
The Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Fihlo)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitza)
Fuori (Mario Martone)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Sirat (Oliver Laxe)
La Petite Dernier (Hafsia Herzi)
The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)

Premiere
Amrum (Fatih Akin)
Splitsville (Mike Covino)
Connermara (Alex Lutz)
The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele (Kirill Serebrennikov)
Orwell (Raoul Peck)
La Ola (Sebastian Leilio)

Un Certain Regard
Meteors (Hubert Charuel)
My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr.)
L’inconnue de la Grande Arche (Stephane Demoustie)
Urchin (Harris Dickinson)
Eleanor the Great (Scarlett Johannsson)
A Pale View of the Hills (Kei Ishikawa)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
Aicha Can’t Fly Away (Morad Mostafa)
Once Upon a Time in Gaza (Tarzan and Arab Nasser)
Heads or Tails? (Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis)

Special Selections
Bono: Stories of Surrender (Andrew Dominik)
Tell Her I Love Her (Claude Miller)
Marcel and Mr Pagnol (Sylvian Chomet)

Midnight
Songs of the Neon Night (Juno Mak)
Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura)
Dolloway (Yann Gozlan)

Out of Competition
The Coming of the Future (Cedric Klapisch)
Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
The Richest Women in the World (Thierry Klifa)
Private Lives (Rebecca Zlotowski)

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival kicks off on 13 May.

Published 10 Apr 2025

Tags: Ari Aster Cannes Joachim Trier Julia Ducournau Kelly Reichardt Richard Linklater The Dardenne Brothers Wes Anderson