Cea de-a 78-a editie a Festivalului de Film de la Cannes va avea loc in perioada 13 – 24 mai 2025. Lineup-ul din acest an include noile filme alor unor cineasti veterani ai festivalului, precum fratii Dardenne, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater si Joachim Trier, dar si ale noilor veniti Ari Aster, Carla Simon si Mascha Schilinski; competitia oficiala include noile filme ale 6 regizori femei – Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind), Julia Ducournau (Alpha), Mascha Schilinski (Sound of Falling), Hafsia Herzi (La Petite Dernière), Chie Hayakawa (Renoir) si Carla Simón (Romeria).

La ceremonia de deschidere a festivalului din data de 13 mai 2025, legendarul Robert De Niro va primi Palme d’Or-ul pentru intreaga cariera; 14 ani dupa ce a fost Presedintele Juriului, actorul, regizorul si producatorul american va fi onorat in cadrul editiei din acest an, intalnindu-se si cu participantii la festival in cadrul unui masterclass care va avea loc pe 14 mai, pe scena Debussy Room. De asemenea, filmul francez Leave One Day, regizat de Amélie Bonnin, va fi proiectat in deschiderea festivalului.

Presedintele Juriului competitiei oficiale din 2025 este celebra actrita de origine franceza Juliette Binoche, care va acorda mult ranitul Palme d’Or, dar si ale premii din cadrul festivalului, impreuna cu un juriu care va fi selectat si anuntat in scurt timp.

Filmul din deschidere:

Leave One Day, Amélie Bonnin  

In Competitie:

Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Romeria (Carla Simón)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
The Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Fuori (Mario Martone)
Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
La Petite Dernière (Hafsia Herzi)
A Simple Accident (Jafar Panahi)
The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
Renoir (Chie Hayakawa)
Alpha (Julia Ducournau)
Sirat (Oliver Laxe)
Young Mothers (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)

Un Certain Regard

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes)
My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr)
Urchin (Harris Dickinson)
Meteors (Hubert Charuel)
A Pale View of Hills (Kei Ishikawa)
Eleanor the Great (Scarlett Johansson)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
L’inconnue de la Grande Arche (Stephane Demoustier)
Aisha Can’t Fly Away (Morad Mostafa)
Once Upon a Time in Gaza (Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser)
The Plague (Charlie Polinger)
Heads or Tails? (Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis)
Homebound (Neeraj Ghaywan)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
Karavan (Zuzana Kirchnerová)
Promised Sky (Erige Sehiri)

Premiere de la Cannes

Amrum (Fatih Akin)
Splitsville (Michael Angelo Covino)
Connemara (Alex Lutz)
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (Kirill Serebrennikov)
Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 (Raoul Peck)
The Wave (Sebastián Lelio)

Special Screenings

Bono: Stories of Surrender (Andrew Dominik)
Tell Her That I Love Her (Romane Bohringer)
A Magnificent Life (Sylvain Chomet)

Midnight Screenings

Songs of the Neon Night (Juno Mak)
Exit 8 (Genki Kawamura)
Dalloway (Yann Gozlan)

In afara Competitiei

Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)
Colours of Sky (Cedric Klapisch)
Vie Privée (Rebecca Zlotowski)
The Richest Woman in the World (Thierry Klifa)
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)