Category: Actualité

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

The Prehistoric at the beach exhibition ! presents the relationship of our distant ancestors with the sea. This exhibition includes some local notions but is more global than the Nice region. It is presented at the Terra Amata prehistory museum in Nice.
You can continue your visit with the exhibition Nice, du rivage à la mer = Nice, from the shore to the sea, de l'antiquité à nos jours, at the Musée Massena.

Prehistory at the beach

Early man may have frequented the shores, to find materials useful for building their huts or pebbles from which they drew sharp weapons.

Then, little by little, the beaches provided them with food and elements of adornment, like small shells for example.

The shore became their favorite environment.

It is this set of discoveries, both local and broader, that are presented in the Terra amata prehistory museum's exhibition.

Practical information

Exhibition of Prehistorics at the beach
from April 25 to September 28, 2025

Terra Amata Prehistory Museum
25, boulevard Carnot - NICE

Access
tram line 2, Port Lympia stop
bus 7, 15, 38, etc

The exhibition Nice from the shore to the sea will take place from May 8 to September 21, 2025, at the Massena Museum in Nice. It traces the relationship between the people of Nice and the sea, which has been both a source of enrichment and a source of fear. As part of the 2025 Year of the Sea in Nice and the Biennale des Arts et de l'océan.

Exhibition Nice from the shore to the sea

The exhibition Nice, from the shore to the sea evokes the first Greek settlements, founders of Nikaïa, up to the creation of the Promenade des Anglais and the stays of Queen Victoria. The entire history of Nice's relationship with the sea. A relationship of "I love you, me neither."

The exhibition covers seven key themes:

• Nikaïa  the greek
• The migration of religions, the traveling saints
• The feared sea
• The late birth of a port
• The sea and the shore, objects of study
• From the Riviera to the Côte d'Azur
• Concern for the protection of the shore and the sea

Numerous historical, religious, utilitarian, and artistic objects illustrate the theme of Nice and the sea. Visitors can discover a head of a bearded man from the 2nd or 3rd century, contemporary works by Ernest Pignon-Ernest and Yves Klein, Turkish weapons, ex-votos, religious objects, old photographs, fish from the Baie des Anges and the surrounding area, and much more.

What about prehistory?

It should be noted that the territory of Nice was occupied as early as prehistoric times by nomadic hunter-gatherers. Prehistoric humans also had a relationship with the sea. But to learn more about them, you'll need to visit another exhibition, "Prehistoric People at the Beach!" at the Terra Amata Prehistory Museum.

Practical information

Official website 

Exhibition Nice from the shore to the sea
May 8 to September 21, 2025

With her exhibition Les Particules, le conte humain d'une eau qui meurt, Manon Lanjouère takes part in the Biennale des arts et de l'Océan 2025 in Nice. Musée de la photographie, from April 26 to September 7, 2025.

Exhibition Les Particules, le conte humain d’une eau qui meurt

This exhibition blends photography, visual arts and science. Its aim is to make us aware of "a primordial problem that is nonetheless invisible to the naked eye". This is, of course, marine pollution by plastics.
In fact, one wall displays marine micro-organisms existing naturally in seawater (photo 6).
And in the rooms are presented the artistic works of Manon Lanjouère, photos and sculptures. They are made from plastic waste and inspired by real marine micro-organisms (photo montage 1).
As much as we admire the artistic works, as much as we smile at their similarities with micro-organisms, we are left with a bitter taste to know that they are made from plastic waste.
The exhibition calls us out on this artificialization of the sea, which is suffocating and dying, due to our consumption of plastics.

Who is Manon Lanjouère

Manon Lanjouère studied art and photography. She embarked on the scientific schooner Tara, frequented the Roscoff biological station and the Lemar (Laboratoire des sciences de l'Environnement MARin) in Brest.
She thus has an in-depth knowledge of marine pollution by micro-plastics, like this weaving made from fragments of pierced plastic bottles. Each hole is a tiny plastic particle that doesn't disappear but goes on to contaminate the sea and marine life, and therefore, human life.

Practical information

Exhibition Les Particules, le conte humain d'une eau qui meurt
from April 26 to September 7, 2025

Musée Charles Nègre de la photographie
1 Pl. Pierre Gautier, 06300 Nice
Attenant au Marché aux fleurs du cours Saleya, dans le Vieux Nice
10h-18h sauf le lundi
Site officiel

Dream the wave on a horizon a promise. This is the phrase written in large letters on the top of Les Ponchettes in Nice, facing the sea. It's one of the works of Art dans la ville, on the occasion of the Year of the Sea 2025 in Nice.

Not very clear to some, it's true that it challenges in its formulation.
And yet, it holds the attention, it questions, it captivates.

Songer la vague

Songer la vague, not the ones we see, the wave we imagine, the one that flees to other places, other people, elsewhere, far from here. Or the one that will arrive soon, carrying the soul of elsewhere, all charged with who knows what yet.

On a horizon

On a horizon, over there, far away, towards infinity, under an ill-defined sky that we can't reach but which exists, a horizon like an Eden barely glimpsed, so far away, so near, a horizon full of expectation and already carrying meaning. A horizon, like everyone's own.

A promise

it's a promise of expectation, of discovery, of pleasure. A world opening up, pushing its limits ever further and yet bringing them ever closer to us. Hope like an outstretched hand.

So, is everything said on this page? Not at all. This is an impression, a personal interpretation, but you, you'll have your own. And every interpretation has its value.

The Year of the Sea 2025 in Nice takes place in various places, in various forms, from February to September. Indeed, exhibitions, Conferences, Installations and performances, shows surround and complement the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, Nice 2025. See the Official website.

3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, Unoc Nice 2025

This international UN conference is jointly organized by Costa Rica and France. "The aim is to reach a historic international agreement to protect the Ocean." The conference takes place from June 9 to 13, 2025, in Nice's brand-new Centre des Congrés.

Some key phrases from the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, Unoc Nice 2025

• Protecting the ocean means protecting a gigantic carbon sink and priceless reserves of biodiversity.
  Emmanuel Macron, President of France
• Let our commitment be as vast as the Ocean that feeds us! 
  Rodrigo Chaves Robles, President of Costa Rica
• Designated a pilot territory for ecological planning in 2022, the Southern Region is at the forefront of safeguarding marine ecosystems.
  Renaud Muselier, President of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Region, Delegate President of Régions de France
• Things are finally going to change thanks to this crucial summit for the future of the Ocean, which we are very proud to host. 
  Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice
• Through this program, we want to touch minds as much as hearts, so that everyone, resident or visitor, becomes convinced that the future of our oceans depends on us.
  Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice
• Committing together to sustainable ocean management.
• [Find] A universal framework for ocean protection.

Security around the Nice Convention Center

Practical information

Centre des congrés de Nice
Situated on Port Lympia, at the very end of Rauba Capeu.

Sessions are reserved for accredited members of the delegations.
For the public, numerous events are planned.

Official website