Cannes Lines Up Another Hot Festival With Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster Premieres (Full List)
The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is looking to be another knockout, with some of this year's hottest features, including Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague and Ari Aster's Eddington set to premiere on the Croisette.
Cannes delegate general Thierry Frémaux and president Iris Knobloch announced this year's lineup at a press conference in Paris on Thursday morning.
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The 2025 competition lineup is packed with auteur heavyweights, including Kelly Reichardt, who returns to Cannes competition with The Mastermind, an art-heist drama starring Josh O'Connor and John Magaro, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War; Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, who returns to the Croisette after his 2021 triumph (with The Worst Person of the World) with Sentimental Value, also featuring Renate Reinsve; and dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who will be back in Cannes competition with his latest drama, A Simple Accident.
Two-time Palme d'Or winners the Dardenne brothers return with their latest slice of Belgian social realism, The Young Mother's Home; South African director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie) will get his competition debut with The History of Sound, a World War I gay romantic road movie starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor; and French veteran Dominik Moll will be repping the home side with his latest, the French crime drama Dossier 137.
Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme d'Or in 2021 with her explosive, and divisive, body horror classic Titane, returns to Cannes competition with Alpha, a 1980s-set shocker that follows an 11-year-old girl who is rejected by her classmates after it is rumored she has been infected with a new disease.
Spike Lee, who prematurely announced Ducournau's Palme win when he was Cannes jury president, will also be returning to the Croisette. Frémaux did not name Lee in his presser on Thursday, but the Brooklyn-based director took to social media to announce his upcoming feature Highest 2 Lowest, starring Denzel Washington, will premiere out of competition. Cannes later confirmed the news, saying the film, an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic High and Low, will premiere May 19.
U.S. distributor Neon, which is coming off an unprecedented five-year winning streak of Palme d'Or winners — Parasite (2019), Titane (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Anatomy of a Fall (2023) and Anora (2024) — has two shots at making it six straight, with both Alpha and Trier's Sentimental Value in its stable.
Cannes on Tuesday confirmed this year's worst-kept festival secret: Tom Cruise will return to the Croisette for the world premiere of Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which will have an out-of-competition bow in Cannes ahead of its May 23 global release by Paramount.
Frémaux said the festival screened 2,909 features in its selection process, an all-time record.
Cannes reaffirmed its position as the world's No. 1 film festival last year, with Cannes 2024 selections racking up a total of 31 Oscar nominations, and nine wins, led by Sean Baker's 2024 Palme d'Or winner Anora, which rode its success on the Croisette all the way to five Academy Awards, including best picture. Last year's festival also produced the breakout successes of Emilia Pérez, The Substance and animated winner Flow, further stoking interest in this year's selection.
Among the out-of-competition highlights this year are Jodie Foster starrer Vie Privée, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski; the music documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, from Blonde and Killing Them Softly director Andrew Dominik, on the U2 frontman; Amrum, the latest feature from German director Fatih Akin, starring his In the Fade collaborator Diane Kruger; Sebastián Lelio's Spanish-language feminist musical The Wave; and The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele from Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov.
Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar will be packed with directorial debuts, including Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson's first turn behind the camera, which stars June Squibb; Harrison Dickinson's Urchin, a British drama about a homeless man in London; and My Father's Shadow, a hotly anticipated debut from British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies, starring Gangs of London and Slow Horses actor Sope Dìrísù.
Another directorial debut, the French drama Partir un Jour from first-timer Amélie Bonnin, will open this year's festival, screening out of competition.
French star and Oscar winner Juliette Binoche will head up the 2025 Cannes jury, which is picking the Palme winners, as president. Robert De Niro will be honored with an honorary Palme d'Or for lifetime achievement at the Cannes opening ceremony this year.
COMPETITION
Alpha, Julie DucournauDossier 137, Dominik MollThe Eagles of the Republic, Tarik SalehEddington, Ari AsterFuori, Mario MartoneThe History of Sound, Oliver HermanusLa Petite Derniere, Hafsia HerziThe Mastermind, Kelly ReichardtNouvelle Vague, Richard LinklaterThe Phoenician Scheme, Wes AndersonRenoir, Chie HayakawaRomeria, Carla SimonThe Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça FilhoSentimental Value, Joachim TrierA Simple Accident, Jafar PanahiSirat, Oliver LaxeSound of Falling, Mascha SchilinksiTwo Prosecutors, Sergei LoznitsaYoung Mothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Aisha Can't Fly Away, Morad MostafaEleanor the Great, Scarlett JohanssonHeads or Tails?, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo ZoppisHomebound, Neeraj GhaywanKaravan, Zuzana KirchnerováL'inconnu de la Grande Arche, Stéphane DemoustierThe Last One for the Road, Francesco Sossai Meteors, Hubert CharuelMy Father's Shadow, Akinola Davies JrThe Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego CéspedesOnce Upon A Time In Gaza, Tarzan Nasser and Arab NasserA Pale View of the Hills, Kei IshikawaPillion, Harry LightonThe Plague, Charlie PolingerPromised Sky, Erige SehiriUrchin, Harris Dickinson
OUT OF COMPETITION
Colours of Time, Cedric KlapischHighest 2 Lowest, Spike LeeMission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarriePartir un jour, Amélie Bonnin — opening filmThe Richest Woman in the World, Thierry KlifaVie Privée, Rebecca Zlotowski
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Bono: Stories of Surrender, Andrew DominikThe Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Sylvain ChometTell Her I Love Her, Romane Bohringer
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Dalloway, Yann GozlanExit 8, Kawamura GenkiSongs of the Neon Night, Juno Mak
CANNES PREMIERE
Amrum, Fatih AkinConnemara, Alex LutzThe Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Kirill SerebrennikovOrwell: 2+2 =5, Raoul PeckSplitsville, Michael Angelo CovinoThe Wave, Sebastián Lelio
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