Cannes2025 : The selection

Bye Bye by Amélie Bonnin – first film Out of competition

With: Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, François Rollin, Dominique Blanc, Tewfik Jallab

As soon as she could, Cécile left the family roadside restaurant to go up to the capital, where she opened her own gastronomic restaurant. When her mother calls her to tell her that her father has had an accident, she has to come home to help them…

It was just an accident by Jafar Pahani

What begins as a minor accident sets in motion a series of escalating consequences.

Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier

With: Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Stellan Skarsgård, Anders Danielsen Lie, Elle Fanning, Cory Michael Smith, Catherine Cohen

On the death of their mother, Nora and Agnès see their father Gustav reappear in their lives. A film director, Gustav has written a screenplay in which he would like Nora, now an actress, to play the lead role, but she refuses. During a retrospective of his work at a French film festival, Gustav meets a young Hollywood star who, overwhelmed by one of his films, expresses a desire to work with him. He offered her the role originally written for Nora, seeing this as an unhoped-for opportunity to relaunch her career. Shooting in Norway becomes an opportunity for Gustav to confront his demons, and gives him one last chance to reconnect with his daughters.

Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski

With: Luise Heyer, Lena Urzendowsky, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Lea Drinda, Hanna Heckt, Laeni Geiseler, Florian Geißelmann, Andreas Anke, Susanne Wuest, Gode Benedix

Four girls in four different decades share growing up on a rural farm and seem to be connected with one another.

Romeria by Carla Simon

With: Llúcia Garcia, Mitch Robles, Tristán Ulloa, Celine Tyll, Miryam Gallego, Janet Novás, José Ángel Egido, Sara Casasnovas

Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain’s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met. She navigates a sea of new aunts, uncles, and cousins, uncertain whether she will be embraced or met with resistance. Stirring long-buried emotions, reviving tenderness, and uncovering unspoken wounds tied to the past, Marina pieces together the fragmented and often contradictory memories of the parents she barely remembers.

Eagles of the Republic by Tarik Saleh

With: Fares Fares, Lyna Khoudri, Zineb Triki, Sherwan Haji, Suhaib Neshwan, Cherien Dabis

Egypt’s most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, falls into disgrace with the authorities overnight. On the verge of losing everything, George is forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

The mastermind by Kelly Reichardt

With: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro, Hope Davis, Bill Camp, Gaby Hoffmann, Amanda Plummer, Eli Gelb, Cole Doman, Javion Allen

James Mooney orchestrates an audacious art heist against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the country’s burgeoning women’s liberation movement. As he engages in a daring criminal endeavor, he must navigate a world marked by shifting social and political dynamics.

File 137 by Dominik Moll

With: Léa Drucker, Yoann Blanc, Guslagie Malanda, Antonia Buresi, Kévin Debonne, Laurent Bozzi

File 137 seems like just another case for Stéphanie, an investigator at the IGPN, the police watchdog. A tense protest, a young man injured by an LBD shot, circumstances that need to be clarified to determine responsibility… But an unexpected element unsettles Stéphanie, turning File 137 into something more than just a number.

The secret agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho

With: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Udo Kier, Alice Carvalho, Suzy Lopes, Joálisson Cunha, Beto Quirino, Cely Farias, Buda Lira

Under the threatening specter of 1977 Brazil, we meet Marcelo, a man in his 40s who recently moved to Recife, on the northeastern coast of Brazil, to escape a violent past.

Fuori by Mario Martone

With: Valeria Golino, Matilda De Angelis, Elodie, Corrado Fortuna, Stefano Dionisi, Antonio Geraci, Francesco Gheghi

A writer ends up in prison for a crazy and unexpected act, where she meets with some young inmates. Once out the writer and the other women maintain their friendship, an authentic bond that no one else will be able to understand.

Two prosecutors by Sergey Loznitsa

With: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vytautas Kaniušonis

The film focuses on a young prosecutor who sets out to challenge a system during Stalin’s Great Terror in 1937 after discovering a letter from a prisoner that is a desperate plea for help.

Nouvelle Vague by Richard Linklater

With: Zoey Deutch, Alix Bénézech, Paolo Luka Noé, Guillaume Marbeck, Tom Novembre, Aubry Dullin, Jade Phan-Gia, Nicolas Dozol, Jean-Jacques Le Vessier, Bruno Dreyfürst

Follows the production of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave classic “Breathless”.

Sirat by Oliver Laxe

With: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez

SynopsisUn père, accompagné par son fils, part à la recherche de sa fille disparue en Afrique du Nord. non connu, en cours de production.

The youngest daughter d’ Hafsia Herzi

With: Aloïse Sauvage, Anouar Kardellas, Luna Ribeiro, Élisa Libri, Nacer Bouhanni, Olivia Courbis, Vincent Pasdermadjian, Rita Benmannana, Victorien Bonnet, Némo Schiffman

The story focuses on Fatima, who is the youngest daughter in a family of Algerian migrants in France. She discovers her love for women, which brings her into conflict with her family, her faith and her own identity.

The History of Sound by Oliver Hermanus

With: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor, Molly Price, Alison Bartlett, Michael Schantz, Chris Cooper, Raphael Sbarge, Hadley Robinson

Two young men during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen.

Renoir de Chie Hayakawa

With: Yumi Kawai, Lily Franky, Ryôta Bandô

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling cancer, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world…

Alpha by Julia Ducournau

With: Mélissa Boros, Emma Mackey, Golshifteh Farahani, Tahar Rahim, Finnegan Oldfield, Jean-Charles Clichet, Christophe Perez, Louai El Amrousy, Ambrine Trigo Ouaked, Fabien Giameluca

Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Young Mothers by Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne

With: Elsa Houben, Lucie Laruelle, Babette Verbeek, Janaïna Halloy Fokan, Samia Hilmi

Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julie, Naïma and Ariane, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.

Eddington by Ari Aster

With: Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Micheal Ward, William Belleau, Deirdre O’Connell, Matt Gomez Hidaka, Amélie Hoeferle, Gabe Kessler

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson

With: Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson

The story of a family and a family business.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes – First film

With: Alfredo Castro, Andrés Almeida, Felipe Ríos

1984. Lidia, an intrepid 12 year-old girl, lives in an isolated mining village affected by an unknown illness that has already killed several men and, according to rumours, is transmitted when a man falls in love with another by looking into each other’s eyes. Her beloved brother Alexo, an obese homosexual, is found guilty of carrying the disease and the townspeople decide to tie him up and keep watch over him. This pushes Lidia to confront the ignorance of a myth and put the relationship with her family to the test.

Météors by Hubert Charuel

With: Paul Kircher, Idir Azougli, Salif Cissé, Elsa Bouchain, Stéphane Rideau

Un village du Honduras se prépare à la chute d’une météorite. Pendant ce temps, en France, Julien revient d’un séjour en hôpital psychiatrique. Il est certain que la météorite ne tombera pas au Honduras mais à Saint-Dizier, en France.

Exit 8 by Genki Kawamura – 1er film

With: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yamato Kochi

A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?

My Father Shadow by Akinola Davis Jr.

With: Sope Dirisu, Efon Wini

Kid brothers Remi and Akin get to spend a gift of a day with their estranged father Folarin. They go on a voyage into Lagos observing the colossal city for the first time and the hoops their father must deal with to provide. All this happens in the backdrop of a huge 1993 presidential election result which calls into question his ability to get them home.

The Great Arch by Stéphane Demoustier

With: Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Swann Arlaud, Michel Fau, Xavier Dolan, Alessandro Bressanello

The story of Otto von Spreckelsen, a real-life architecture teacher from Copenhagen who surprised the world when he won an open- call competition launched by French president François Mitterrand.

Urchin by Harris Dinckinson – First film

With: Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Карина Химчук, Shonagh Marie

Mike, a rough sleeper in London, trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Raw and absurd, the film is a story about the strange patterns that keep pulling us back.

Homebound by Neeraj Ghaywan

With: Ishaan Khatter, Vishal Jethwa, Janhvi Kapoor

Screenplot: No available screenplot.

A Pale view of Hills by Kei Ishikawa

With: Suzu Hirose, Fumi Nikaido, Yoh Yoshida, Camilla Aiko

Dual timelines explore a Japanese widow’s memories spanning post-war Nagasaki in 1950s and England during 1980s Cold War era, unraveling secrets that intertwine her past and present experiences across borders.

Eleanor the Great by Scarlett Johansson – First film

With: June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Hecht, Erin Kellyman, Will Price

Follows a 90-year-old woman trying to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

Caravan by Zuzana Kirshnerova – First film

With: Anna Geislerová, Juliana Oľhová, David Vodstrčil, Jana Plodková, Mario Russo, Giandomenico Cupaiuolo

Screenplot: No available screenplot.

Pillion by Harry Lighton – First film

With: Harry Melling, Alexander Skarsgård, Georgina Hellier, Brian Martin, Zamir Mesiti

A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore by Morad Mostafa – First film

With: Buliana Simona, Ziad Zaza, Emad Ghoniem, Mamdouh Saleh, Maha Mohammed Al-Adwani, Mohamed Abd El Hady, Achai Ayom

Aisha, a 26-year-old Somali woman, lives and works in Ain-shams, a neighbourhood in Cairo with a large African migrant community. The authorities’ indifference to the violent tensions between Egyptians and various African nationalities, has allowed different gangs to seize control of the neighbourhood. The situation quickly turns sour after one of them offers Aisha security in exchange for a favour.

Once upon a time in Gaza by Arab and Tarzan Nasser

As Hamas tightened its grip on Gaza, developing the idea of resistance and martyrdom, Yahia’s life fell apart when Osama, for whom he had boundless admiration, was brutally murdered. But just as a new perspective on life opens up, Yahia’s encounter with his late friend’s murderer calls everything into question. Will he be able to avenge him without compromising himself?

The Plague by Charlie Polinger – First film

With: Joel Edgerton, Everett Blunck, Lucas Adler, Kenny Rasmussen, Kayo Martin, Kolton Lee, Caden Burris, Elliott Heffernan

A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.

Promised Sky by Erige SEHIRI

With: Laëtitia Ky, Sophie Tankou, Déborah Naney, Aïssa Maïga

In Tunisia, Marie, a 40-year-old Ivorian journalist and pastor, helps vulnerable women like Nané, a worker without her passport, and Jolie, an artist pressured to return home, as they navigate rising tensions and difficult choices with resourcefulness and humour.

Heads r Tais ? by Alessio Rigo de Righi et Matteo Zoppis

With: Alessandro Borghi, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Peter Lanzani, John C. Reilly, Mirko Artuso, Gabriele Silli, Gianni Garko

When cowboy Billi and his sweetheart Rosa run away together, he is accused of her husband’s death and becomes the symbol of a local uprising. Everyone wants his head and only Rosa knows the secret that could finally set them free.

Bono:Stories of Surrender by Andrew Dominik

With: Bono, Jacknife Lee, Kate Ellis, Gemma Doherty

Through words, music, and mischief, Bono pulls back the curtain on his deeply personal experiences that have shaped him as a son, father, husband, activist, and U2 frontman.

Tell her that I like her by Romane Bohringer

With: Romane Bohringer, Clémentine Autain, Philippe Rebbot, Eva Yelmani

Romane decides to adapt Clémentine Autain’s book about her mother for the cinema. This project will force her to confront her past and her own mother, who abandoned her when she was nine months old…

The magnificent Life of Monsieur Pagnol by Sylvain Chomet

With: Noa Staes, Olivia Gotanègre, Sophie Maréchal, Martin Meersman, Lohen van Houtte, Elodie Barthels

A modern fable, the animated biopic will chart the epic life of Pagnol, a celebrated French novelist, playwright and filmmaker who grew up in a middle-class household in Marseille and became one of the world’s most inventive and prolific artists from the 1930’s to the 1950’s. Throughout his long career, Pagnol’s books were translated into more than 50 languages and sold more than 150 million units. Pagnol also built his own studio and distribution company, pioneering talking pictures and helping shape the global cinema industry at the time. His movies, including his best-known Provence-set melodrama trilogy “Marius,” “Fanny” and “César,” reached more than 200 admissions worldwide..

Sons of the Neon Night by Juno Mak

With: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Sean Lau, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Louis Koo, Gao Yuanyuan, Nina Pau Hei-Ching, Alex To, Wilson Lam Jun-Yin, Lowell Lo Koon-Ting, Jiang Peiyao

A detective goes against the successor to a drug-trafficking crime syndicate, who aspires for a society free of drugs by orchestrating anarchy in Hong Kong.

The residence by Yann Gozlan

With: Cécile de France, Anna Mouglalis, Lars Mikkelsen, Frédéric Pierrot, Douglas Grauwels, Freya Mavor, Mylène Farmer, Mark Irons

In the near future, Clarissa, a novelist with writer’s block, joins a prestigious, state-of-the-art artist residency where she’s assigned an AI assistant named Dalloway. The latter quickly becomes more than a simple assistant and turns into a true confidante for Clarissa. Unsettled by Dalloway’s increasing intrusion, Clarissa is warned by whistleblower Mathias, who informs her of the true motives behind the residency and its tech company funder. Clarissa begins to suspect that this seemingly perfect situation is in fact a meticulously crafted trap.

Amrum by Fatih Akin

With: Jasper Billerbeck, Diane Kruger, Kian Köppke, Laura Tonke, Hark Bohm, Matthias Schweighöfer, Lisa Hagmeister, Detlev Buck, Lars Jessen

Island Amrum, early 1945: Hunting seals, fishing at night, nothing is too dangerous for 10-year old Nanning. He helps his mother to feed their family during the last days of war. After the war ends, new conflicts and challanges arise and Nanning has to find his own path in life.

La Disparition de Josef Mengele by Kirill Serebrennikov

With: August Diehl, Max Bretschneider, David Ruland, Dana Herfurth, Burghart Klaußner, Heinz K. Krattiger, Carlos Kaspar, Santino Lucci, Ramiro Lucci

The years of flight of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who found refuge in South America at the end of the Second World War. Told entirely from the fugitive’s point of view, from Paraguay to the jungles of Brazil, the work paints a harsh and complex portrait of an executioner trying to escape his fate, while the world around him evolves and becomes aware of Nazi crimes.

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Orwell 2+2=5 by Raoul Peck

Definitive feature-length documentary on visionary author George Orwell.

Splitsville by Michael Angelo Covino

With: Dakota Johnson, Adria Arjona, Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin, Nicholas Braun, David Castañeda, O-T Fagbenle, Charlie Gillespie

Ashley asks for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.

Connemara by Alex Lutz

With: Mélanie Thierry, Bastien Bouillon, Jacques Gamblin, Bruno Sanches, Eliot Giraud, Grégory Montel, Clémentine Célarié, Anne Charrier, Alexandre Auvergne, Johanna Lauraire

From a modest background, Hélène left the Vosges a long time ago. Today, she’s in her forties. A brutal burn-out forced her to leave Paris and return to where she grew up, between Nancy and Epinal. One evening, in the parking lot of a franchised restaurant, she spots a familiar face, Christophe Marchal, the handsome field hockey player from her high school days. Christophe, that distant object of desire, an affair Hélène never saw coming… In their embrace, two France’s, two now foreign worlds, dream of loving each other. Will this idyll, this island, be possible for them?

Highest 2 Lowest by Spike Lee

With: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, A$AP Rocky, Dean Winters, Ilfenesh Hadera, Michael Potts, Ice Spice, LaChanze, Jeremy Sample, Evyn George

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the “best ears in the business”, is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

Colours of Time by Cédric Klapisch

With: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne, Julia Piaton, Zinedine Soualem, Paul Kircher, Vassili Schneider, Sara Giraudeau, Cécile de France, Olivier Gourmet

Brought together by the unexpected inheritance of an abandoned house in rural Normandy, four cousins discover they share a mysterious family history. In 1895, their ancestor Adèle, then aged 21, leaves her hometown to search for her mother in Paris. She discovers a city on the cusp of modernity, bustling with new-found avant-garde creativity, with the rise of photography and the birth of Impressionist painting. As her descendants retrace her steps, they unravel Adèle’s surprising past. The two timelines of 1895 and 2024 intertwine and collide, confronting the cousins’ contemporary attitudes with life in late 19th century Paris, leaving everyone’s future forever changed.

The wave by Sebastián Lelio

With: Daniela López, Avril Aurora, Lola Bravo, Paulina Cortés, Néstor Cantillana, Mariana Loyola, Susana Hidalgo, Luis Dubó, Amparo Noguera, Antonia Santa María

Julia, a dedicated music student, gets involved in the growing feminist movement on her university campus – a group effort where women step up to bring attention to the widespread harassment and abuse suffered by many of their peers. Amid the excitement of protest marches, Julia joins her friends in dancing and singing, revisiting her own experiences of mistreatment. As she gathers the courage to share her story, she unexpectedly becomes a central figure in the movement-a role she didn’t foresee, which forces her to address her identity as a survivor in a society that promises change but remains resistant to it.

Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning by Christopher McQuarrie

With: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Esai Morales, Pom Klementieff, Henry Czerny, Mariela Garriga, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer

After escaping a calamitous train crash, Ethan realizes The Entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from his past named Gabriel is also on the trail.

The richest woman in the world by Thierry Klifa

With: Isabelle Huppert, Marina Foïs, Laurent Lafitte, Raphaël Personnaz, André Marcon, Mathieu Demy, Joseph Olivennes, Micha Lescot, Yannick Renier, Patrick Sobelman

A nonagenarian’s gift of millions to a young artist sparks a scandal, leading her daughter to uncover alleged political corruption involving a former president.

Vie privée by Rebecca Zlotowski

With: Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste, Luàna Bajrami, Sophie Letourneur

A psychiatrist mounts her own investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered.