The official 2025 Cannes Film Festival selection is being unveiled. The 78th festival of the French event, a prominent event on the yearly film calendar, will take place from Tuesday, May 13 to Saturday, May 24. Despite circulating speculations, only a small number of films were confirmed for the festival in advance, but usually a few high-profile titles are announced first. Earlier this week, the Cannes premiere of Only Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was revealed.
The majority of Cannes 2025’s official roster was just unveiled at a press conference. Thierry Frémaux, the General Delegate, presented the first list of choices following an introduction by Festival de Cannes President Iris Knobloch. However, he concluded his presentation by stating that more titles will be revealed before the festival begins, adding that a record 2,909 feature submissions were examined by the selection committee. Here is a replay of the announcement itself:
Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, which dramatizes the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and always seemed destined to premiere at the French festival, Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, and Ari Aster’s Eddington are among the many films that were previously predicted to be included in the official Competition selections. Renowned American director Kelly Reichardt will make her competition debut with The Mastermind after making her debut with her 2022 picture Showing Up, while Julia Ducournau, who became the second woman to win the Palme D’Or with her 2021 horror film Titane, returns with Alpha.
Tom Cruise will be presenting their latest Mission: Impossible film to the public in Cannes with Christopher McQuarrie, according to Frémaux, and he won’t be the only celebrity there. Actors Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson are reported to be directing their first films, Eleanor the Great and Urchin, respectively. The casts of The Phoenician Scheme and Eddington alone would likely pack the red carpet. Those films will participate in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.
Check out the full list of announced films below:
Opening Night
- Leave One Day, Amélie Bonnin
In Competition
- Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
- Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski
- Romeria, Carla Simon
- The Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt
- The Eagles of the Republic, Tarik Saleh
- Dossier 137, Dominik Moll
- The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Fuori, Mario Martone
- Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater
- Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa
- La Petite Dernière, Hafsia Herzi
- In Simple Accident, Jafar Panahi
- The History of Sound, Oliver Hermanus
- Renoir, Chie Hayakawa
- Alpha, Julia Ducournau
- Sirat, Oliver Laxe
- Young Mothers, Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
- Eddington, Ari Aster
- The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson
Out Of Competition
- The Coming of the Future, Cedric Klapisch
- Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie
- The Richest Woman in the World, Thierry Klifa
- Vie Privée, Rebecca Zlotowski
Un Certain Regard
- The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego Céspedes
- Meteors, Hubert Charuel
- My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies, Jr.
- L’inconnue de la Grande Arche, Stephane Demoustier
- Urchin, Harris Dickinson
- A Pale View of Hills, Kei Ishikawa
- Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson
- Pillion, Harry Lighton
- Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore, Morad Mostafa
- Once Upon a Time in Gaza, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser
- The Plague, Charlie Polinger
- Heads or Tails?, Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis
- Homebound, Neeraj Ghaywan
Cannes Premieres
- Splitsville, Mike Covino
- Amrum, Fati Akin
- Connemara, Alex Lutz
- The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Kirill Serebrennikov
- Orwell, Raoul Peck
- La Ola, Sebastien Leilo
Midnight Screenings
- Son of the Neon Night, Juno Mack
- Exit 8, Genki Kawamura
Special Screenings
- Stories of Surrender, Bono
- Tell Her That I Love Her, Claude Miller
- Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol, Sylvain Chomet
- Dolloway, Yann Gozlan
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