The official selection of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival: Scarlett Johansson, Julia Ducournau, Ari Aster, Wes Anderson…
The new films by Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Dominik Moll, Kelly Reichardt or Sergei Loznitsa will also be presented on the Croisette.
Cannes 2025let’s go. The general delegate Thierry Frémaux unveiled the official selection of the great film festival of the world this Thursday morning, after an introduction to President Iris KnoBloch who returned to the success of the 2024 edition and the growing place of women in the event. For the first time, two women follow one another as president of the jury (Juliette Binoche after Greta Gerwig), she recalled.
Six directors will be in competition this year (against 4 last year), of which Hafsia Herzi With his third feature film, The little last,, Julia Ducournau Back four after Titanium with Alpha (with Tahar Rahim and Golshifteh Farhani) and Kelly Reichardt (The Cow) with The Mastermind. Scarlett Johansson will defend her first film, Eleanor The Greatin the a certain look section, and Rebecca Zlotowski will present Privacy (with Jodie Foster) Outside competition.
Cannes will also open with the first feature film ofAmélie Bonnin, Go on a dayinspired by his eponymous short film rewarded at the César. A film at the We know the songdixit Frémaux, with Juliette Armanet and Bastien Bouillon in the main roles.
19 films are currently in competition, a figure which could increase with the traditional additions which will be announced next week, said Frémaux. The battle for the Palm of gold will also see each other compete Dominik Moll, Joachim Trier, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Sergei Loznitsa, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster, the Dardenne brothers or Wes Anderson. The absence of Paul Thomas Anderson with Leonardo DiCaprio, One battle after anotherhowever, seems confirmed.
Amazing, Cédric Klapisch will present a film in Cannes for the first time in his great career, The arrival of the futureexcluding competition. We can also discover Marcel and Mr. Pagnol of Sylvain Chomet In special session, the new document of Raoul Peck On George Orwell in Cannes Premiere and the first film of Harris Dickinson To a certain look.
We also note the presence of a feature filmAlex Lutz,, Connemaraadapted from a novel by Nicolas Matthieu with Bastien Bouillon and Mélanie Thierry. Newly Thierry Klifa On Liliane Bettencourt (played by Isabelle Huppert), The richest woman in the world. And a film with Paul Kircher, Weather by Hubert Charge
The selection committee has 2,909 feature films this year, a new record, from 156 countries.
Here is the full list of the official selection of the 78th Cannes Film Festival:
Films in competition
A simple accident of Jafar Panahi
Sentimental value of Joachim Trier
Romeria by Carla Simon
Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski
The Eagles of the Republic of Tarik Saleh
The Mastermind from Kelly Reichardt
File 137 by Dominik Moll
The secret agent from Kleber Mendonça Filho
Fuer by Mario Martone
Two prosecutors of Sergei Loznitsa
New wave by Richard Linklater
Sirat of Oliver Laxe
The little last by Hafzia Herzi
The History of Sound From Oliver Hermanus
Renoir from Hayakawa Chie
Alpha by Julia Ducournau
Young people de Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Eddington Ari Aster (with Joaquin Phoenix)
The Phoenician Scheme of Wes Anderson
Opening film
Go on a day Amélie Bonnin
Hors competition films
The arrival of the future by Cédric Klapisch
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning by Christopher McQuarrie
The richest woman in the world by Thierry Klifa
Privacy by Rebecca Zlotowski
Highest 2 Lowest of Spike Lee
Special sessions
Stories of Surrender of Andrew Dominik
Tell him I love him by Romane Bohringer
Marcel and Mr. Pagnol from Sylvain Chomet
Midnight sessions
Son of the Neon Night Juno Mak
Exit 8 from Kawamura Genki
Dalloway from Yann Gozlan
The Premier Cannes Selection
Amrum From Fatih Akin
Splitsville by Michael Angel Covino
Connemara of Alex Lutz (adapted from Nicolas Matthieu with Bastien Bouillon and Mélanie Thierry)
The disappearance by Josef Mengele from Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell: 2+2 = 5 from Raoul Peck
The Ola from Sebastian Chelio
A certain look
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo Diego Cespedes
Weather by Hubert Charge
My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr.
The unknown of the Grande Arche by Stéphane Demoustier
Urchin of Harris Dickinson
Homebound by Neeraj Ghaywan
A pale view of hills from Ishikawa Kei
Eleanor The Great of Scarlett Johansson
Karavan by Zuzana Kirchnerová
Pillion Harry Lighton
Aisha Can’t Fly Away from Morad Mostafa
Once Upon a Time in Gaza from Arab and Tarzan Nasser
The Plague by Charlie Polinger
Promised the sky of Erige Sehiri
Testa o Croce? de Matteo Zoppis, Alessio Rigo de Rijui
CITTA di Pianura from Francesco Sose
