The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival seeks to be another Knockout, with some of the most popular features of this year, including Wes Anderson The Phoenician ProgramRichard Linklater Novelle WaveAnd Ari Aster Eddington Planned on the first on the Croisette.
The general delegate of Cannes Thierry Frémaux and President Iris KnoBloch announced Thursday morning the programming of this year during a press conference in Paris.
The programming of the 2025 competition is filled with heavy goods vehicles, including Kelly Reichardt, who returns to the Cannes competition with The brainAn art drama with Josh O’Connor and John Magaro, in the context of the Vietnam War; Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, who returned to La Croisette after his triumph in 2021 (with The worst person in the world) with Sentimental valuewith Renate Réinsve; And the Iranian director dissident Jafar Panahi, who will be back in Cannes competition with his latest drama, A simple accident.
The twice the winners of Palme d’Or, the Dardenne brothers return with their last slice of Belgian social realism, The young mother’s house; South African director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie) will have his debut in competition with The history of soundA gay romantic road film from the First World War, with Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor; And the French veteran Dominik Moll will reapproper the local team with his latest French criminal drama File 137.
Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme d’Or in 2021 with her explosive and her classic body horror division TitaniumGo back to the Cannes competition with AlphaA shock from the 1980s following an 11 -year -old girl who was rejected by her classmates after he was subjected to her was infected with a new disease.
American distributor Neon, who has just released a sequence of unprecedented Golden Palme winners (Parasite (2019), Titanium (2021), Sadness triangle (2022), Anatomy of a fall (2023), Anora (2024)) has two shots to make six games in a row, with both Alpha And sort Sentimental value in his stable.
Cannes Tuesday confirmed the secret of the most kept festival of this year: Tom Cruise will return to La Croisette for the world first of Mission: Impossible – The final calculationwhich will have an arc outside competition in Cannes before its world version of May 23 by Paramount.
Frémaux said that the festival had projected 2,909 features in its selection process, a record of all time.
Cannes reaffirmed its position as a film festival number one in the world last year, with 2024 cane selections accumulating a total of 31 Oscar nominations and nine victories, led by the winner of Sean Baker in 2024 Palme d’Or Golden Anora Who made his success on the Croisette to the 5 Oscars, including the best film. Last year, the festival also produced the successes in debortis by Emilia Pérez, The substance and animated winner To flowAuton an interest in this year’s selection.
Among the protruding facts outside the competition this year are Jodie Foster-Starrer PrivacyDirected by Rebecca Zlotowski, The Music Documentary Bono: Survey stories Since Blond And Kill them gently Director Andrew Dominik, about singer U2; AmrumThe latest feature by the German director Fatih Akin, with his In the fade collaborator Diane Kruger; Spanish feminist music by Sebastián Lelio The wave; And The disappearance of Joseph Mengele of the Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov.
Cannes cane sidebar is filled with director starts, including Eleanor the GreatScarlett Johansson’s first round behind the camera, which features June Squibb; Harrison Dickinson’s sea urchin, a British drama on a homeless in London; And The shadow of my father, A highly anticipated beginning of the British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies with London gangs And Slow horses actor on dìrísù.
Another beginning of director, the French drama Go on a day From the first time, Amélie Bonnin, will open the festival of this year, projected outside the competition.
The French star and winner of Oscar, Juliette Binoche, will direct the 2025 Cannes jury, who picks the winners of Palme, as president. Robert de Niro will be honored with an honorary palm of gold for a life achievement during the Cannes opening ceremony this year.
COMPETITION
AlphaJulie Ducournau
File 137Dominik Moll
The Eagles of the RepublicTarik Saleh
EddingtonAri Aster
FuerMario Martone
The history of soundOliver Hermanus
The little lastHafsia Herzi
The brainKelly Reichardt
Novelle WaveRichard Linklater
The Phoenician ProgramWes Anderson
RenireChie hayakawa
RomeriaCarla Simone
The secret agentKleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental valueJoachim Trier
A simple accidentJafar Panahi
SiratOliver Laxe
Sound to fallMascha Schilinksi
Two prosecutorsSergei Loznitsa
Young peopleJean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
A certain respect
Aisha cannot flyMorad Mosfa
Eleanor the GreatScarlett Johansson
Battery or face?Alessio Rigo de Rijui, Matteo Zoppis
Confronted with the houseNeeraj Ghaywan
KaravanZuzana Kirchnerová
The unknown of the Grande ArcheStéphane Demoustier
The last for the roadFrancesco Sossai
MeteorHUBERT CHARUEL
My father’s shadowAkinola Davies Jr
The mysterious gaze of the flamingoDiego Céspedes
Once upon a time in GazaTarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser
A pale view of the hillsKei Ishikawa
Back seatHarry Lighton
The plagueCharlie Polinger
Promised skyErige Sehiri
GuardianHarris Dickinson
Out of competition
Colors of time, Cedric Klapisch
Mission: Impossible – The Last Calculation, Christopher McQuarrie
Leave one day, Amélie Bonnin – opening film
The richest woman in the worldThierry Klifa
PrivacyRebecca Zlotowski
Special projections
Bono: Survey storiesAndrew Dominik
The magnificent life of Marcel PagnolSylvain Chomet
Tell him I love herRomane Bohringer
Midnight projections
DallowayYann Gozlan
Outing 8Kawamura Genki
Songs of the neon eveningJuno Mak
Rod first
AmrumFatih Akin
ConnemaraAlex Lutz
The disappearance of Josef MengeleKirill Serebrennikov
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5Raoul Peck
SplitsvilleMichael Angelo Covino
The waveSebastián Lelio
