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The Cannes Film Festival is back and more powerful than ever. In recent years, the festival has put more and more movies in line for the American Oscars — this year, Anora was the second Palme d’Or winner since 2019 to win Best Picture (the first was Parasite). The last movie that won both the Palme and Best Picture before Parasite was 1955’s Marty. Also a trend? For the past five festivals, indie distributor Neon has won consecutively with Parasite, Titane, Triangle of Sadness, Anatomy of a Fall, and Anora. This year, the distributor has two chances: Titane director Julia Ducournau’s Alpha and Joachim Trier’s Worst Person in the World follow-up, Sentimental Value.
Elsewhere on the lineup, Josh O’Connor appears twice, in both Kelly Reichardt’s art-heist film, The Mastermind, and the gay WWI romance The History of Sound opposite Paul Mescal. Plus, Tom Cruise is going to debut Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning out of competition. And American film lovers will recognize Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, along with Richard Linklater (Nouvelle Vague) and Ari Aster (Eddington) in competition. Screening in “Un Certain Regard” will be the directorial debuts of Scarlett Johansson (Eleanor the Great) and Harris Dickinson (Urchin). The festival runs May 13–24. Below, find the full 2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup.
Competition
Alpha — Julie Ducournau
Dossier 137 — Dominik Moll
The Eagles of the Republic — Tarik Saleh
Eddington — Ari Aster
Fuori — Mario Martone
The History of Sound — Oliver Hermanus
La Petite Derniere — Hafsia Herzi
The Mastermind — Kelly Reichardt
Nouvelle Vague — Richard Linklater
The Phoenician Scheme —Wes Anderson
Renoir — Chie Hayakawa
Romeria — Carla Simone
The Secret Agent — Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier
A Simple Accident — Jafar Panahi
Sirat — Oliver Laxe
Sound of Falling — Mascha Schilinksi
Two Prosecutors — Sergei Loznitsa
Young Mothers — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Un Certain Regard
Aisha Can’t Fly Away — Morad Mostafa
Eleanor the Great — Scarlett Johansson
Heads or Tails? — Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Homebound — Neeraj Ghaywan
Karavan — Zuzana Kirchnerová
L’inconnu de la Grande Arche — Stéphane Demoustier
The Last One for the Road — Francesco Sossai
Meteors — Hubert Charuel
My Father’s Shadow — Akinola Davies Jr
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo — Diego Céspedes
Once Upon a Time in Gaza — Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser
A Pale View of the Hills — Kei Ishikawa
Pillion — Harry Lighton
The Plague — Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky — Erige Sehiri
Urchin — Harris Dickinson
Out of Competition
Colours of Time — Cedric Klapisch
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning — Christopher McQuarrie
Partir un Jour — Amélie Bonnin
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 I Love Her — Romane Bohringer
Midnight Screenings
Dalloway — Yann Gozlan
Exit 8 — Kawamura Genki
Songs of the Neon Night — Juno Mak
Cannes Premiere
Amrum — Fatih Akin
Connemara — Alex Lutz
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele — Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell: 2+2 = 5 — Raoul Peck
Splitsville — Michael Angelo Covino
The Wave — Sebastián Lelio
