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The 2025 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val line-up is here!

10 Apr 2025

Words by David Jenkins

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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…

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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)

Pre­mière
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.

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