CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2025 LINEUP: Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier, Julia Ducournau, and More Among the Competition Lineup

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the first slate of films for its 78th edition, which will take place from May 13 through 24. The films are divided into sections, from the Main Competition to Un Certain Regard. Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate, revealed the slate this morning.

Numerous highlights in this year’s competition include 2021 Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau with her latest horror Alphas; Joachim Trier with Sentimental Value starring his Worst Person in the World lead Renate Reinsve; Ari Aster with his contemporary western Eddington; Richard Linklater with Nouvelle Vague (about the making of Godard’s Breathless); Kelly Reichardt with her heist drama The Mastermind, starring Josh O’Connor; Wes Anderson with The Phoenician Scheme; the Dardenne Brothers with their latest drama Young Mothers; Jafar Panahi with his latest undertaking It Was Just An Accident; and more.

Other highlights in the other sections include feature directorial debuts from Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson premiering Un Certain Regard, Spike Lee’s Denzel Washington-starrer Highest 2 Lowest, Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin’s Splitsville, Raoul Peck’s newest documentary Orwell, Fatih Akin’s Amrum, Sebastian Lelio’s The Wave, Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, and more.

See the official selection below:

OPENING NIGHT

Leave One Day (dir. Amélie Bonnin)

 

COMPETITION

It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi

Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier

Romeria, Carla Simón

The Mastermind, Kelly Reichardt

Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinski

The Eagles of the Republic, Tarik Saleh

Dossier 137, Dominik Moll

The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho

Fuori, Mario Martone

Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa

Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater

Sirat, Oliver Laxe

La Petite Derniere, Hafsia Herzi

The History of Sound, Oliver Hermanus

Young Mothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Eddington, Ari Aster

The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson

Renoir, Chie Hayakawa

Alpha, Julia Ducournau

Leave One Day, Amelie Bonin

 

UN CERTAIN REGARD

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego Céspedes

My Father’s Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr

Urchin, Harris Dickinson

Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson

Once Upon A Time In Gaza, Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser

Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Morad Mostafa

Meteors, Hubert Charuel

Heads or Tails?, Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis

Pillion, Harry Lighton

L’inconnue de la Grande Arche, Stephane Demoustier

A Pale View of the Hills, Kei Ishikawa

The Last One for the Road, Francesco Sossai

Homebound, Neeraj Ghaywan

Karavan, Zuzana Kirchnerová

The Plague, Charlie Polinger

Promised Sky, Erige Sehiri

 

OUT OF COMPETITION

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie

Vie Privée, Rebecca Zlotowski

The Richest Woman in the World, Thierry Klifa

Colours Of Time, Cedric Klapisch

Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee

CANNES PREMIERE

Amrum, Fatih Akin

Splitsville, Michael Angelo Covino

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Kirill Serebrennikov

Orwell: 2+2=5, Raoul Peck

The Wave, Sebestian Lelio

Connemara, Alex Lutz

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Stories of Surrender, Bono

The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Sylvain Chomet

Tell Her That I Love Her, Romane Bohringer

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

Dalloway, Yann Gozlan

Exit 8, Kawamura Genki

Sons Of The Neon Night, Mak Juno