78th Cannes Film Festival 2025

The 78th Cannes Film Festival will take place from Tuesday, May 13 to Saturday, May 24, 2025.
In addition to the films competing for the famous Palme d’Or, the festival will showcase around 100 feature films in various categories, including Un Certain Regard, Special Screenings, Critics’ Week, and Directors’ Fortnight.
Here’s an overview of the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

The 2025 jury

President: Juliette Binoche (photo)

Jury members

• Halle Berry, actress and filmmaker
• Payal Kapadia, director and screenwriter
• Alba Rohrwacher,actress
• Leïla Slimani, writer
• Dieudo Hamadi, director and producer
• Hong Sangsoo, director and screenwriter
• Carlos Reygadas, writer and producer
• Jeremy Strong, actor

Expected personalities

• Alain Chabat
• Robert De Niro (who will receive an honorary Palme d’or)
• Mylène Farmer (for an unreleased song and the film Dalloway, by Yann Gozlan)
• Tom Cruise
• Scarlett Johansson
• Bono
• Jodie Foster
• Denzel Washington
• Isabelle Huppert
• Tahar Rahim
• Golshifteh Farahani
• Pierre Richard
• Benicio del Toro
• Tom Hanks
• Bill Murray
• Benedict Cumberbatch
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
• Mathieu Amalric
• Jodie Foster
• Jennifer Lawrence
• Joaquin Phoenix
• Emma Stone
• Margaret Qualley

Opening film

• Partir un jour with actress and singer Juliette Armanet, Out of competition

Films in competition for the Palmes d’or

• The Phoenician Scheme, by Wes Anderson
• Eddington, by Ari Aster
• Young Mothers, by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
• Alpha, by Julia Ducournau
• Renoir, by Hayakawa Chie
• The History of Sound, by Oliver Hermanus
• La Petite dernière, by Hafsia Herzi
• Sirat, by Oliver Laxe
• New Wave, by Richard Linklater
• Two Prosecutors, by Sergeï Loznitsa
• Fuori, by Mario Martone
• The Secret Agent, by Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Dossier 137, by Dominik Moll
• A Simple Accident, by Jafar Panahi
• The Mastermind, by Kelly Reichardt
• Les Aigles de la République, by Tarik Saleh
• Sound of Falling, by Mascha Schilinski
• Romeria, by Carla Simon
• Sentimental Value, by Joachim Trier

Films out of competition

• 13 jours 13 nuits, by Martin Bourboulon
• Partir un jour, by Amélie Bonnin (1st film) – opening film
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, by Christopher McQuarrie
• La Venue de l’avenir, by Cédric Klapisch
• La Femme la plus riche du monde, by Thierry Klifa
• Vie privée, by Rebecca Zlotowski

Special Sessions

• Bono: Stories of Surrender, by Andrew Dominik
• Dite lui que je l’aime, by Romane Bohringer
• Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol, by Sylvain Chomet
• Arco, by Ugo Bienvenu
• Qui brille au combat, by Joséphine JAPY
• The six billion dollar man, by Eugene JARECKI
• Mama, by Or Sinai
• Amélie et la métaphysique des tubes, by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han

Cannes Première

• Ma frère, by Lise AKOKA and Romane GUERET
• Amrum, by Fatih Akin
• Splitsville, by Michael Angelo Covino
• Magalhães, by Lav Diaz
• Love on trial, by fukada Koji
• Lo Ola (the wave), by Sebastian Lelio
• Ástin sem eftir er, by Hlynur Palmason
• Connemara, by Alex Lutz
• Orwell: 2+2=5, by Raoul Peck
• Das verschwinden des Josef Mengele (The Disappearance of Josef Mengele), by Kirill Serebrennikov

Un certain regard

• Love me tender, by Anna Cazenave Cambet
• The Mysterious Gaze of Flamingo, by Diego Sespedas (Chile) – 1st film
• Météors, by Hubert Charuel (France)
• My Father’s Shadow, by Akinola Davies Jr. (Nigeria) – 1st film
• L’Inconnu de la Grande arche, by Stéphane Demoustier (France)
• Urchin, by Harris Dickinson (United Kingdom) – 1st film
• A Pale View of Hills, by Kei Ishikawa (Japan)
• Eleanor The Great, by Scarlett Johansson (United States)
• Caravan, by Zuzana Kirchnerova-Spidlova (Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia)
• Pillion, by Harry Lighton (UK)
• Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore, by Morad Mostafa (Egypt) – 1st film
• Once Upon a Time in Gaza, by Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser (Palestine)
• The Plague, by Charlie Polinger (USA) – 1st film
• Pile ou face? by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis (Italy)
• Promise le ciel, by Erige Sehiri (Tunisia)
• Homebound, by Neeraj Ghaywan (India)
• Un dernier pour la route, by Francesco Sossai (Italy)
• The Chronology of water, by Kristen Stewart
• Testa o croce ? by Matteo Zoppis, Alessio Rido De Righi

Exceptional screening of three films dedicated to the War in Ukraine

• Zelensky, by Yves Jeuland, Lisa Vapné and Ariane Chemin (France 2025, 2h15)
• Our War, a film by Bernard-Henri Lévy, directed by Bernard-Henri Lévy and Marc Roussel (2025, France-Ukraine, 1h18)
• A 2000 mètres d’Andriivka, by Mstyslav Chernov (Ukraine-USA, 2025, 1h51)

Cinéma de la Plage 2025

On Plage Macé, on the Croisette, opposite the Hotel Majestic.
Every evening from 9:30pm

• • May 13
    A hidden life (Une Vie cachée)
    Terrence Malick
    2019, 2h54, United Kingdom/Germany/United States
  • Wednesday, May 14
    Hard Boiled
    John Woo
    1992, 2h08, Hong Kong
  • Thursday, May 15
    Les Mauvais coups
    François Leterrier
    1961, 1h38, France
  • Friday, May 16
    Duel in the sun (Duel au soleil)
    King Vidor
    1946, 2:25 a.m. roadshow, U.S.A.
  • Saturday, May 17
    La légende de la Palme d’Or continue (The Legend of the Palme d’or continues…)
    Alexis Veller
    52mn, France
    followed by Sunset Boulevard (Boulevard du crépuscule)
    Billy Wilder
    1950, 1h50, United States
  • Sunday, May 18
    Palombella rossa (Red Wood Pigeon)
    Nanni Moretti
    1989, 1:28, Italy

Bardot
Alain Berliner
1:30, France/Belgium

• Tenshi no tamago (Angel’s Eggs)
  Mamoru Oshii
  1985, 1:11, Japan
• Wednesday, May 21
  Darling
  John Schlesinger
  1965, 2:08, United Kingdom
• Ange
  Tony Gatlif
  2025, 1:37, France
• Friday, May 23
  Surprise film
• Saturday, May 24
  Henri Verneuil
  1963, 1:58, France/Italy

The Short Film Competition 2025

• A Solidéão dos lartagos – Inês Nunes
• Aasvoëls – Dian Weys
• Agapito – Arvin Belarmino, Kyla Danelle Romero
• Ali – Adnan Al Rajeev
• Arguments in favor of love – Gabriel Abrantes
• Dammen – Grégoire Grasslin
• Fille de l’eau – Sandra Desmazières
• Hypersensible – Martine Frossard
• I’m glad you’re dead now – Tawfeek Barhom
• Nvhai – Zhaoguang Luo, Shuhan Liao
• The Spectacle – Bálint Kenyeres

Tribute to Pierre Richard

• L’Homme qui a vu l’ours qui a vu l’homme, by Pierre Richard

Immersive competition

16 virtual reality works will be screened and judged.

Practical information

Official website

Online ticketing