The alignment of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival was presented on Thursday morning and includes a mixture of Competition names Along with some relative newcomers.
In total, 19 films were announced to compete in the 78th edition of the Festival, thinking that the organizers of the festival thought that the organizers of the festival add an additional title or two before the opening of the ceremony in May.
Among the competitive films are new titles by directors Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Kelly Rehacyrdt and Ari Aster. Six of the movies in the alignment are led by women, a shy of the seven set records two years ago.
Complete list of titles competing in Cannes presented
- “The Phoenician scheme” (Wes Anderson)
- “Eddington” (Ari Aster)
- “Young Mothers” (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)
- “Alfa” (Julia Ducourneau)
- “Renoir” (Hayakawa Chie)
- “The history of sound” (Oliver Hermanus)
- “The Petite Dernière” (Hafsia Herzi)
- “SIRAT” (Oliver Laxe)
- “Nouvelle Vague” (Richard Linklater)
- “Two prosecutors” (Sergei Loznitsa)
- “Fuori” (Mario Martone)
- “The secret agent” (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
- “Archive 137” (Dominik Moll)
- “A simple accident” (Jafar Panahi)
- “The Mastermind” (Kelly Reichardt)
- “Aigles of the Republic” (Tarik Saleh)
- “Sound of Falling” (Mascha Schilinski)
- “Romería” (Carla Simón)
- “Sentimental value” (Joachim Trier)
It was also announced that Leave One Day “(” Spliting a Jour “), directed by Amélie Bonnin, would be the official selection of the opening night.
Many film enthusiasts and figures of the industry consider the annual award of the palm d’Or not only among the highest honors for artistic achievement in the world of cinema, but also an unofficial beginning of the following season of years, the special organization that gives the Oscar every spring, continues to court a more international vote.
In recent years, films that were thrown in Cannes have found more and more tremors in the Oscar hunt. In the last years of half boxes, two winners of Palma d’Or, “Parasite” by Bong Joon Ho and “Anora” of Sean Baker, have also achieved the Oscar for the best image. Before that, only “Marty” of 1955 and “The Lost Weekend” of 1945 managed to achieve the feat of winning both main awards.
A list of palm winners recently that at least were appointed for the Oscar of the best film includes “Anatomy of A Fall” by Justine Triet (2023), “Triangle of sadness” by Ruben Östlund (2022), Michael Haneke “and Terrence”. Last year’s Oscar Contenders list included more than a couple of titles that arrived in Cannes first, including “The Sustance”, “Emilia Pérez” and “The Ampprentice”.
Of the filmmakers in competition this year, Julia Ducournau and the Dardennes Brothers have won the palm d’Or in previous festivals, Ducournau for “Titane” and the Dardennes for both “such as” L’Ec Enfant. “The Dardennes are among a small group of filmmakers who have won twice.
Earlier this week, the organizers of the festival confirmed that Tom Cruise will return to the croisette with “Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning”, although they said that the film would be projected outside the competition. Cruise received an honorary Palma de Oro in 2022 when his movie “Top Gun: Maverick” is sent at the Cannes Festival of that year.
The organizers also announced that actor Robert de Niro will receive a palm of honorary duration of the opening ceremony.
This year’s festival extends from May 13 to 24.