2025 Cannes Film Festival Unveils ‘Glamourous’ Line Up

In just over a months time the Cannes Film Festival will kick-off with it’s 78th edition. Today the festival unveiled it’s 2025 line-up with Hollywood coming to town with a ‘glamourous’ line-up.

From the 13th until 25th May, Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, Spike Lee, Julia Ducournau, Joachim Trier  will premiere their latest films. The Croisette will also be the place to catch Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson‘s directorial feature debuts.  With Eleanor The Great (Johansson) starring June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor  and Urchin (Dickinson) starring Frank Dillane and Amr Waked.

Cannes Film Festival will also welcome back Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning. After 3 previous visits and 30 years of action, perfect place to end the long running franchise.

This year’s festival will open with Amélie Bonnin‘s Partir un jour (Leaving One Day).

COMPETITION

• Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
• Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)
• The Eagles Of The Republic (Tarik Saleh)
• Eddington (Ari Aster)
• Fuori (Mario Martone)
• The History Of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
• A Simple Accident (Jafar Panahi)
• La Petite Dernière (Hafsia Herzi)
• The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
• Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
• The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
• Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
• Romeria (Carla Simon)
• The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
• Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
• Sirat (Oliver Laxe)
• Sound Of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
• Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
• Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)

UN CERTAIN REGARD

• Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore (Morad Mostafa)
• Eleanor The Great (Scarlett Johansson)
• L’inconnue de la Grande Arche (Stephane Demoustier)
• Meteors (Hubert Charuel)
• My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr)
• The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo (Diego Céspedes)
• Once Upon A Time In Gaza (Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser)
• A Pale View Of Hills (Kei Ishikawa)
• Pillion (Harry Lighton)
• The Plague (Charlie Polinger)
• Urchin (Harris Dickinson)

OUT OF COMPETITION

• The Coming Of The Future (Cedric Klapisch)
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
• The Richest Woman In The World (Thierry Klifa)
• Vie Privée (Rebecca Zlotowski)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

• Bono: Stories Of Surrender (Andrew Dominik)
• The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol (Sylvain Chomet)
• Tell Her That I Love Her (Claude Miller)

CANNES PREMIERE

• Amrum (Fatih Akin)
• Connemara (Alex Lutz)
• The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele (Kirill Serebrennikov)
• Orwell (Raoul Peck)
• Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino)
• The Wave (Sebastián Lelio)

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The 78th edition of Cannes Film Festival will take place between 13th and 25th May.