Movies from Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster, Julia Ducournau, Kelly Reichardt and more will compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The 2025 event is shaping up to be a glamorous one with a large Hollywood presence — and of course, lots of stars. Earlier this week, it was officially announced that Tom Cruise will be back on the Croisette with “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” three years after the splashy premiere for “Top Gun: Maverick.”
Artistic director and general delegate Thierry Fremaux, who is co-hosting the lineup press conference in Paris alongside president Iris Knobloch, revealed that the festival received a record number of 2,909 submissions. A few movies are always added after the presser across different sections, including in competition, and it seems that could be more so the case this year.
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As previously announced, Juliette Binoche will preside over the jury, while Robert De Niro will receive this year’s honorary Palme d’Or.
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See all the titles debuting at Cannes Film Festival below.
OUT OF COMPETITION
“Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” Christopher McQuarrie
“The Coming of the Future,” Cedric Klapisch
“The Richest Woman in the World,” Thierry Klifa
“Vie Privée,” Rebecca Zlotowski
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“Bono: Stories of Surrender,” Andrew Dominik
“Tell Her That I Love Her,” Claude Miller
“Sons of the Neon Night,” Juno Mak
“Exit 8,” Genki Kawamura
“The Residence,” Yann Gozlan
CANNES PREMIERE
“Splitsville,” Michael Angelo Covino
“Amrum,” Fatih Akin
“Connemara,” Alex Lutz
“The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,” Kirill Serebrennikov
“La Ola,” Sebastian Lelio
“Orwell,” Raoul Peck
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Hubert Charuel, “Meteors”
“My Father’s Shadow,” Akinola Davies Jr.
“Urchin,” Harris Dickinson
“L’inconnue de la Grande Arche,” Stephane Demoustier
“Eleanor the Great,” Scarlett Johansson
“A Pale View of the Hills,” Kei Ishikawa
“Pillion,” Harry Lighton
“Aicha Can’t Fly Away,” Morad Mostafa
“Once Upon a Time in Gaza,” Tarzan and Arab Nasser
“Heads or Tails?,” Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
“The Last One for the Road,” Francesco Sossai
“Homebound,” Neeraj Ghaywan
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,” Diego Cespedes
COMPETITION
“Sentimental Value,” Joachim Trier
“Romeria,” Carla Simon
“Sound of Falling,” Mascha Schilinski
“The Eagles of the Republic,” Tarik Saleh
“The Mastermind,” Kelly Reichardt
“Dossier 137,” Dominik Moll
“The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonça Filho
“Fuori,” Mario Martone
“Two Prosecutors,” Sergei Loznitsa
“Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater
“Sirat,” Oliver Laxe
“La Petite Derniere,” Hafsia Herzi
“The History of Sound,” Oliver Hermanus
“Renoir,” Chie Hayakawa
“Alpha,” Julia Ducournau
“Young Mothers,” Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
“Eddington,” Ari Aster
“The Phoenician Scheme,” Wes Anderson
OPENING FILM
“Leave One Day,” Amélie Bonnin
