CANNES 2025 OFFICIAL SELECTION — FULL LIST

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OPENING NIGHT FILM


“Leave One Day” (“Partir un Jour”) — Amélie Bonnin

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IN COMPETITION


“The Phoenician Scheme” — Wes Anderson


“Eddington” — Ari Aster


“Young Mothers” (“Jeunes Mères”) — Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne


“Alpha” — Julia Ducournau


“Renoir” — Hayakawa Chie


“The History of Sound” — Oliver Hermanus


“La Petite Dernière” — Hafsia Herzi


“Sirat” — Oliver Laxe


“New Wave” (“Nouvelle Vague”) — Richard Linklater


“Two Prosecutors” — Sergei Loznitsa


“Fuori” — Mario Martone


“The Secret Agent” (“O Secreto Agente”) — Kleber Mendonça Filho 


“Dossier 137” — Dominik Moll


“It Was Just an Accident” (“Un Simple Accident”) — Jafar Panahi


“The Mastermind” — Kelly Reichardt


“Aigles of the Republic” — Tarik Saleh


“Sound of Falling” — Mascha Schilinski


“Romería” — Carla Simón


“Sentimental Value” — Joachim Trier

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UN CERTAIN REGARD


“The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” (“La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco”) — Diego Céspedes


“Météors” — Hubert Charuel


“My Father’s Shadow” — Akinola Davies Jr.


“L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche” — Stéphane Demoustier


“Urchin” — Harris Dickinson


“Homebound” — Neeraj Ghaywan


“A Pale View of Hills” (“Toi Yamanamino Hikari”) — Ishikawa Kei


“Eleanor the Great” — Scarlett Johansson


“Karavan” — Zuzana Kirchnerová


“Pillion” — Harry Lighton


“Aisha Can’t Fly Away” — Morad Mostafa


“Once Upon a Time in Gaza” — Arab Nasser and Tarzan Nasser


“The Plague” — Charlie Polinger


“Promised Sky” — Erige Sehiri


“The Last One for the Road” (“Le Città di Pianura”) — Francesco Sossai 


“Heads or Tails”? (“Testa o Croce?”) — Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis

OUT OF COMPETITION


“Colours of Time” — Cédric Klapisch


“The Richest Woman in the World” (“La Femme la Plus Riche du Monde”) — Thierry Klifa


“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” — Christopher McQuarrie


“Vie Privée” — Rebecca Zlotowski 


“Highest 2 Lowest” — Spike Lee

SPECIAL SCREENINGS


“Bono: Stories of Surrender” — Andrew Dominik


“Tell Her That I Love Her” — Romane Bohringer


“A Magnificent Life” — Sylvain Chomet

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MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS


“The Residence” (“Dalloway”) — Yann Gozlan


“Exit 8” — Kawamura Genki


“Sons of the Neon Night” (“Feng Lin Huo Shan”) — Mak Juno

CANNES PREMIERES


“Amrum” — Fatih Akin


“Splitsville” — Michael Angelo Covino


“The Wave” (“La Ola”) — Sebastián Lelio


“Connemara” — Alex Lutz


“Orwell: 2+2=5” — Raoul Peck


“The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” (“Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele”) — Kirill Serebrennikov 

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