The 2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup includes movies by Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, and Spike Lee.
What movies are premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival?
Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme and Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague are two of the noteworthy movies premiering In Competition at Cannes.
The Phoenician Scheme is an espionage black comedy starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, and Michael Cera. Meanwhile, Nouvelle Vague depicts the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Breathless, with Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard and Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg.
Other films premiering in competition include Ari Aster’s Eddington, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, and Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound.
One of the films you won’t find in the official announcement is Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest. Lee’s movie was not announced at the press conference. However, Lee wrote on Instagram that his English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low will premiere Out of Competition.
The Cannes Film Festival will run from May 13 to 24. Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury. Robert De Niro is the recipient of this year’s honorary Palme d’Or
View the entire list of films selected to premiere at Cannes.
In Competition
Alpha by Julie Ducournau
Dossier 137 by Dominik Moll
The Eagles of the Republic by Tarik Saleh
Eddington by Ari Aster
Fuori by Mario Martone
The History of Sound by Oliver Hermanus
La Petite Derniere by Hafsia Herzi
The Mastermind by Kelly Reichardt
Nouvelle Vague by Richard Linklater
The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson
Renoir by Chie Hayakawa
Romeria by Carla Simone
The Secret Agent (O Secreto Agenete) by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier
A Simple Accident by Jafar Panahi
Sirat by Oliver Laxe
Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinksi
Two Prosecutors by Sergei Loznitsa
Young Mothers by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Un Certain Regard
Aisha Can’t Fly Away by Morad Mostafa
Eleanor the Great by Scarlett Johansson
Heads or Tails? (“Testa o Croce?”) by Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Homebound by Neeraj Ghaywan
Karavan by Zuzana Kirchnerová
L’inconnu de la Grande Arche by Stéphane Demoustier
The Last One for the Road by Francesco Sossai
Meteors by Hubert Charuel
My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (La Misteriosa Mirada del Flamenco) by Diego Céspedes
Once Upon A Time In Gaza by Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser
A Pale View of the Hills (Toi Yamanamino Hikari) by Kei Ishikawa
Pillion by Harry Lighton
The Plague by Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky by Erige Sehiri
Urchin by Harris Dickinson
Out of Competition
Colours of Time by Cedric Klapisch
Highest 2 Lowest by Spike Lee
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning by Christopher McQuarrie
Partir un jour by Amélie Bonnin – opening film
The Richest Woman in the World by Thierry Klifa
Vie Privée by Rebecca Zlotowski
Midnight Screenings
Dalloway by Yann Gozlan
Exit 8 by Kawamura Genki
Songs of the Neon Night by Juno Mak
Cannes Premiere
Amrum by Fatih Akin
Connemara by Alex Lutz
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Kirill Serebrennikov
Orwell: 2+2 =5 by Raoul Peck
Splitsville by Michael Angelo Covino
The Wave by Sebastián Lelio
Special Screenings
Bono: Stories of Surrender, Andrew Dominik
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Sylvain Chomet
Tell Her I Love Her, Romane Bohringer
