The lineup for the 2025 Cannes Movie Pageant was unveiled Thursday morning, and contains a mixture of names familiar to the competition alongside some relative newcomers.
In all, 19 movies have been introduced to compete within the 78th version of the pageant, although oftentimes pageant organizers add an additional title or two previous to the opening of the ceremony in Could.
Among the many competing movies are new titles from administrators Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Kelly Reichardt and Ari Aster. Six of the movies within the lineup are directed by girls, one shy of the report of seven set two years in the past.
Full record of titles competing at Cannes contains Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster
- “The Phoenician Scheme” (Wes Anderson)
- “Eddington” (Ari Aster)
- “Younger Moms” (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
- “Alpha,” (Julia Ducournau)
- “Renoir” (Hayakawa Chie)
- “The Historical past of Sound” (Oliver Hermanus)
- “La Petite Dernière” (Hafsia Herzi)
- “Sirat” (Oliver Laxe)
- “Nouvelle Obscure” (Richard Linklater)
- “Two Prosecutors” (Sergei Loznitsa)
- “Fuori” (Mario Martone)
- “The Secret Agent” (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- “File 137” (Dominik Moll)
- “Un Easy Accident” (Jafar Panahi)
- “The Mastermind,” (Kelly Reichardt)
- “Aigles of the Republic” (Tarik Saleh)
- “Sound of Falling” (Mascha Schilinski)
- “Romería” (Carla Simón)
- “Sentimental Worth” (Joachim Trier)
It was additionally introduced that Depart One Day” (“Partir un Jour”), directed by Amélie Bonnin, could be the official opening night time choice.
Many movie fans and business figureheads regard the annual awarding of the Palme d’Or to be not solely among the many highest honors for inventive achievement on this planet of movie, but in addition an unofficial begin to the following yr’s awards season, particularly because the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences – the group who fingers out Oscars each spring – continues to courtroom a extra worldwide voting physique.
In recent times, movies that have been launched at Cannes have more and more discovered themselves within the Oscar hunt. In simply the previous half dozen years, two Palme d’Or winners – Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and Sean Baker’s “Anora” – have additionally landed the Oscar for greatest image. Previous to that, solely 1955’s “Marty” and 1945’s “The Misplaced Weekend” managed to realize the feat of profitable each of these high prizes.
An inventory of current Palme winners that went on to not less than be nominated for one of the best image Oscar contains Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” (2023), Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Disappointment” (2022), Michael Haneke’s “Amour” (2012) and Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” (2011). Final yr’s roster of Oscar contenders included greater than a pair titles that arrived at Cannes first, together with “The Substance,” “Emilia Pérez” and “The Apprentice.”
Of the filmmakers in competitors this yr, Julia Ducournau and the Dardennes brothers have gained the Palme d’Or in earlier festivals, Ducournau for “Titane” and the Dardennes for each “Rosetta” and “L’Enfant.” The Dardennes are amongst a small group of filmmakers who’ve gained twice.
Earlier this week, pageant organizers confirmed that Tom Cruise will return to the Croisette with “Mission: Not possible — Closing Reckoning,” although they mentioned that movie could be screening out of competitors. Cruise was awarded an honorary Palme d’Or in 2022 when his movie “Prime Gun: Maverick” screened at that yr’s Cannes pageant.
Organizers additionally introduced that actor Robert De Niro can be awarded an honorary Palme d’Or through the opening ceremony.
This yr’s pageant runs from Could 13 to 24.
