Cannes Film Festival

Tuesday, 13 May 2025 until Saturday, 24 May 2025

Oscar-Qualifier:

Palme d’Or (Short Films)

The king of festivals, Cannes is the most important date in filmmakers’ calendar. Attracting hundreds of parties, glamour, yachts and celebrities, it also runs in parallel with a number of other festivals all serving under the same banner. Expect champagne, tuxedos, lots of business cards, business and lots of bullshit. The festival includes the Cannes Short Film Corner and Producers Network alongside the below strands.

2025 films...updating

COMPETITION (21 FILMS):

Sentimental Value - dir. Joachim Trier
Sound of Falling - dir. Mascha Schilinski
Romeria - dir. Carla Simon
The Mastermind - dir. Kelly Reichardt
The Eagles of the Republic - dir. Tarik Saleh
Dossier 137 - dir. Dominik Moll
The Secret Agent - dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho
Fuori - dir. Mario Martone
Nouvelle Vague - dir. Richard Linklater
Two Prosecutors - dir. Sergei Loznitsa
La Petite Dernière - dir. Hafsia Herzi
A Simple Accident - dir. Jafar Panahi
The History of Sound - dir. Oliver Hermanus
Renoir - dir. Chie Hayakawa
Alpha - dir. Julia Ducournau
Sirat - dir. Oliver Laxe
Young Mothers - dirs. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Eddington - dir. Ari Aster
The Phoenician Scheme - dir. Wes Anderson
Die, My Love - dir. Lynne Ramsay
Mother and Child - Saeed Roustaee

OPENING NIGHT FILM:

Leave One Day (Partir un jour) - dir. Amélie Bonnin

OUT OF COMPETITION (5 FILMS):

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - dir. Christopher McQuarrie
Colours of Time - dir. Cedric Klapisch
The Richest Woman in the World - dir. Thierry Klifa
Highest 2 Lowest - dir. Spike Lee
Vie Privée - dir. Rebecca Zlotowski

UN CERTAIN REGARD (20 FILMS):

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - dir. Diego Céspedes
My Father's Shadow - dir. Akinola Davies Jr.
Urchin - dir. Harris Dickinson
Meteors - dir. Hubert Charuel
A Pale View of Hills - dir. Kei Ishikawa
Eleanor the Great - dir. Scarlett Johansson
Pillion - dir. Harry Lighton
L'inconnue de la Grande Arche - dir. Stephane Demoustier
Aisha Can't Fly Away - dir. Morad Mostafa
Once Upon a Time in Gaza - dirs. Arab Nasser & Tarzan Nasser
The Plague - dir. Charlie Polinger
Heads or Tails? - dirs. Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis
Homebound - dir. Neeraj Ghaywan
The Last One for the Road - dir. Francesco Sossai
Karavan - dir. Zuzana Kirchnerová
Promised Sky - dir. Erige Sehiri
Love Me Tender - dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet
Un Poeta - dir. Simón Mesa Soto
O Riso e a Faca - dir. Pedro Pinho
The Chronology of Water - dir. Kristen Stewart

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS (5 FILMS):

Dalloway - dir. Yann Gozlan
Songs of the Neon Night - dir. Juno Mak
Exit 8 - dir. Genki Kawamura
No One Will Know (Le Roi Soleil) - dir. Vincent Maël Cardona
Honey Don't! - dir. Ethan Coen

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (7 FILMS):

Amélie ou la Métaphysique des Tubes - dirs. Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han
Bono: Stories of Surrender - dir. Andrew Dominik
Tell Her That I Love Her - dir. Claude Miller
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol - dir. Sylvain Chomet
Mama - dir. Or Sinai
Arco - dir. Ugo Bienvenu
The Wonderers (Qui brille au combat) - dir. Joséphine Japy

CANNES PREMIÈRE (9 FILMS):

Amrum - dir. Fatih Akin
Splitsville - dir. Michael Angelo Covino
Connemara - dir. Alex Lutz
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell: 2+2=5 - dir. Raoul Peck
The Wave - dir. Sebastián Lelio
Love on Trial - dir. Kōji Fukada
The Love That Remains - dir. Hlynur Pálmason
Magellan (Magalhães) - dir. Lav Diaz

THE SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

Selected from 4 781 films, 11 shorts will be presented this year in Competition. The selection comprises 9 fiction short films and 2 animated short films. 5 of them are directed by women.

The Short Film Palme d’or will be handed by the Jury chaired by Maren Ade, on Saturday, May 24, during the closing ceremony of the 78th Festival de Cannes.

ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF LOVE (DISPUTES EN FAVEUR DE L’AMOUR)

Gabriel Abrantes

9′

ALI

Adnan Al Rajeev

15′

I’M GLAD YOU’RE DEAD NOW

Tawfeek Barhom

13′

AGAPITO

Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero

15′

FILLE DE L’EAU

Sandra Desmazières

15′

HYPERSENSITIVE (HYPERSENSIBLE)

Martine Froissard

9′

DAMMEN

Grégoire Graesslin

15′

THE SPECTACLE

Bálint Kenyères

15′

NVHAI (LILI)

Zhaoguang Luo and Shuhan Liao

14′

A SOLIDÃO DOS LAGARTOS (THE LONELINESS OF LIZARDS)

Inês Nunes

15′

AASVOËLS (VULTURES)

Dian Weys

15′

LA CINEF SELECTION

La Cinef has selected 13 live-action and 3 animated films from among the 2,700 submitted by film schools all over the world.

Three short films coming from schools invited for the first time: Escola das Artes – UCP (Portugal), Super16 (Denmark) and the Estonian Academy of Arts. Estonia is also taking part for the very first time.

The 28th edition awards will be handed over by the Jury on Thursday, May 22 during a ceremony in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.

O PÁSSARO DE DENTRO (THE BIRD FROM WITHIN)

Laura Anahory

Escola das Artes – UCP – Portugal – 5′

PER BRUIXA I METZINERA (THE SORCERESS ECHO)

Marc Camardons

ESCAC – Spain – 24′

TRES (THREE)

Juan Ignacio Ceballos

UCINE – Argentina – 24′

MATALAPAINE (THE LIGHTNING ROD)

Helmi Donner

AALTO University – Finland – 21′