Cannes, France
May 13 — 24, 2025

MAY 13, 2025

CÉRÉMONIE D’OUVERTURE
OPENING CEREMONY

(19.15)

Main Competition Jury

Un Certain Regard JURY

Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition JURY

• Maren Ade, German filmmaker and producer — Jury President
• José Maria Prado Garcia, Spanish producer and former Director of Filmoteca Española
• Reinaldo Marcus Green, American filmmaker and producer
• Camélia Jordana, French actress, singer & songwriter
• Nebojša Slijepčević, Croatian filmmaker

Caméra d’Or JURY

• Alice Rohrwacher, Italian filmmaker – Jury President

Immersive Competition

• Luc Jacquet, French filmmaker – Jury President
• Laurie Anderson, American artist
• Tania de Montaigne, French writer
• Martha Fiennes, British filmmaker
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Japanese video game creator

L’Œil d’Or JURY

• Julie Gayet, French actress and producer – Jury President
• Carmen Castillo, Chilean filmmaker
• Frédéric Maire, Swiss director of the Cinémathèque suisse
• Juliette Favreul Renaud, French producer
• Marc Zinga, Congolese-Belgian actor

Critics’ Week JURY

• Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Spanish filmmaker – Jury President
• Yulia Evina Bhara, Indonesian producer
• Jihane Bougrine, Moroccan journalist
• Josée Deshaies, French-Canadian cinematographer
• Daniel Kaluuya, British actor and filmmaker

Queer Palm JURY

• Christophe Honoré, French filmmaker – Jury President
• Marcelo Caetano, Brazilian filmmaker
• Faridah Gbadamosi, American film programmer
• Léonie Pernet, French composer and singer
• Timé Zoppé, French journalist

Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born. Far from the hubbub of Paris life, she runs into her teenage crush. The memories come flooding back, destabilizing her certainties.

MAY 14, 2025

Cinéma de la Plage

A Hidden Life	2019	Terrence Malick	United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Hard Boiled	1992	John Woo	Hong Kong
Les Mauvais Coups	1961	François Leterrier	France
Duel In The Sun	1946	King Vidor	United States
La Légende De La Palme D’or Continue	2025	Alexis Veller	France
Sunset Blvd	1950	Billy Wilder	United States
Palombella Rossa	1989	Nanni Moretti	Italy, France
Bardot	2025	Alain Berliner	France, Belgium
Angel’s Egg	1985	Mamoru Oshii	Japan
Darling	1965	John Schlesinger	United Kingdom
Ange	—	Tony Gatlif	France
Film Surprise…	—	—	—
Mélodie En Sous-Sol	1963	Henri Verneuil	France, Italy

Enzo, 16, defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship, a path far removed from the prestigious life they had envisioned for him. In their chic villa in the sun-drenched South of France, tensions simmer as relentless questions and pressures weigh on Enzo’s future and dreams. On the construction sites, however, Vlad, a charismatic Ukrainian colleague, shakes up Enzo’s world and opens the door to unexpected possibilities.

Following a court ruling, four-year-old Adam is hospitalised for malnutrition. Lucy, he head nurse, allows Adam’s mother to stay past the court-mandated visiting hours. Complications ensue when the mother, once again, refuses to leave her son’s bedside. For the sake of the child, Lucy will do anything to help this mother in distress.

NJ Jian, his wife Min-Min and their two kids are typical middle-class family, sharing their Taipei apartment with Min-Min’s elderly mother. NJ is a partner in a computer hardware firm which made big profits last year but will go bankrupt soon if it doesn’t change direction. He warms to the idea of teaming up with Ota, an innovative designer of games software in Japan, and enjoys spending time with the charming and urbane Japanese man. Things start to go wrong for the Jians on the day that Min-Min’s brother A-Di gets married. That’s the day when Min-Min’s mother suffers a stroke and is rushed to hospital in a coma from which she may never awaken. It’s also the day when NJ bumps into Sherry, his first childhood sweetheart, a woman (now married) he hasn’t seen for twenty years.

When reed cutter Johan discovers the lifeless body of a girl on his land, he is overcome by an ambiguous sense of guilt. While taking care of his granddaughter, he sets out on a quest to track down evil. But darkness can thrive in unexpected places.

The Factory aims at the emergence of new talents on the international scene, allowing young local and international filmmakers couples to meet and create together. For its 10th edition, Directors’ Factory arrives in Brazil with full force as a celebration of its essence, the power of collective creation.

After Taiwan, Denmark and Finland, Chile, South Africa, Lebanon, Tunisia, Sarajevo, Northern Portugal, and the Philippines, Directors’ Fortnight, Janaina Bernardes (Cinema Inflamável) and Dominique Welinski (DW) join forces to continue the adventure with Directors’ Factory Ceará Brazil. For this milestone edition in the context of the Brazil-France Cultural crossed Season, under the patronage of Karim Aïnouz, this Factory, entirely filmed and finalized in Fortaleza, is supported by the Government of Ceará through the Secretariat of Culture, represented by Instituto Mirante and Instituto Dragão do Mar, in partnership with Projeto Paradiso and our new French partner Titrafilm.

We are proud to present, within the framework of the Directors’ Fortnight, the fruit of these exchanges: four short films co-written and co-directed by four pairs of young filmmakers from the North and Northeast of Brazil, Cuba, Portugal, Israel, and France. The films will be screened at the Théâtre Croisette on Wednesday, May 14, the opening day of the 57th edition of the Directors’ Fortnight.

After presenting Top Gun in 2022 as its producer, Christopher McQuarrie is back to present Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning as its director. While in Cannes, Christopher McQuarrie will meet with audiences. Oscar-winning screenwriter for Bryan Singer’s Usual Suspect, talented director of Jack Reacher and 4 episodes of the Mission: Impossible saga, Christopher McQuarrie has made thrillers his trademark and action cinema the work of a master craftsman.

Because this is the kind of cinema that fascinates cinephiles, listening to him talk about his craft, his world and his projects will be all the more valuable. This session will highlight the mastery and choreographed precision of his direction, which blossoms with the outstanding acting of Tom Cruise at the top of his game.

Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician’s life and work.

With an unwavering commitment to his creative vision and freedom, David Lynch, an artist fascinated by the most deviant depths of the human soul, has composed his oeuvre like a riddle to decipher, on the cusp between dreams and reality. From Eraserhead, his cult-classic first feature film; to Twin Peaks, which transformed the world of TV series; via Mulholland Drive, seen as the greatest movie of the 21st century, David Lynch has been taking us through the looking glass to explore the strange foundations of the American dream. In revisiting both the filmmaker’s life and his work, this documentary will probe his creative process and plumb the hidden meaning of an implacably consistent filmography.

Four girls, Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka, each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, their lives begin to mirror each other.

There are faces that stand in for the 7th Art, and lines of dialogue that leave an indelible mark on cinephilia. The actor, director, producer and artist-activist has become a cinematic legend, with his emblematic, interiorized style, which surfaces in a gentle smile or a harsh gaze. This is why the Festival de Cannes has decided to present him with an honorary Palme d’or on opening night.

Throughout his filmography, Robert De Niro has expressed the violence of American society in all its subtleties and ambiguities: organized crime taking the place of the state, the trauma of the Vietnam War and the manipulation of a country by the culture of entertainment.

About the intimate project centered on his family heritage that he has been working on for several years with visual artist JR (his father’s studio preserved intact, letters, photos of his mother…):
We don’t worry about having a deadline. I did a lot of documentaries about my father but this time I thought it would be something more than that. Who knows, to me it’s more important to keep going. My father loved me genuinely just like I love my kids. I wish I had more time to be around him. I don’t necessarily need to see the results. I don’t know what will come out, but it’s there. It makes more sense to me to do it like that. You make the time.

About acting, the actor inspired by Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, and Laurence Olivier confided:
When in doubt, don’t doubt! You must be smart enough to follow your instinct. What the director says is not necessarily right. I would say: “Get the idea of the scene, of what you are supposed to play.”

❃ Quinzaine des cinéastes ❃
Directors’ Fortnight
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Carrosse D’or

He was born in South California and studied arts at Brown Uniersity. He made his first short film in 1978, The suicide. He settled in New York where he founded Apparatus Production with Barry Ellsworth and Christine Vachon. He made a medium length film Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story, awarded in San Francisco and the USA Film Festival. He directed his first feature film in 1990; he won grand prize in Sundance and many awarded in international festivals. He made a short film Dottie Gets Spanked for PBS TV channel. He initiated Gran Fury, a group of artists fighting against AIDS. His work was awarded at the Whitney Biennial.

Cannes Classics invites Quentin Tarantino, winner of the Palme d’or for Pulp Fiction in 1994, to present two George Sherman films: Red Canyon and Comanche Territory. Two westerns cherished by Tarantino himself.

Tarantino’s love for westerns is common knowledge, especially since he tried out the genre himself with Django Unchained (2012) and The Hateful Eight (2015). In fact, westerns have been a source of inspiration throughout his work.

In Kill Bill, many shots pay homage to the films of Sergio Leone, as well as the theme of revenge, which is at the heart of the genre, and is also explored in Inglourious Basterds, whose original soundtrack draws from the music of his favorite musician, Ennio Morricone.

Time and again, Quentin Tarantino has shown us his love for the spaghetti western, citing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as part of his essential viewing. But it’s not just the spaghetti western that Tarantino loves, it’s the western genre on a whole, and he will be in attendance this year to share his love for them with the Festival.

He chose the work of prolific director George Sherman (1908‒1991), particularly the time in his career when he believes Sherman was his most ambitious and creative, during the 1940s and 1950s, when he was working with Universal. Tarantino presents two of his lesser-known films that he has watched and rewatched time and again: Red Canyon and Comanche Territory.

Released in 1950, in Comanche Territory, we follow Jim Read who has been sent to the border to investigate the outbreak of violence between the Mexicans and the Comanche. Restoring the peace becomes tricky given what’s at stake regarding the exploitation of the mines.

Red Canyon, released one year earlier, follows the story of Lucy, the daughter of a horse farmer who dreams of capturing a wild stallion, and that of a lone cowboy with a troubled past.

Both films have been restored and will delight fans of action and Technicolor.

Our lives are the sum of our choices. Tom Cruise is Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Marie, an Ivorian pastor and former journalist, has lived in Tunisia for ten years. Her home becomes a refuge for Naney, a young mother seeking a better future, and Jolie, a strong-willed student carrying her family’s hopes. The arrival of a little orphan girl challenges their sense of solidarity in a tense social climate, revealing both their fragility and strength.

Summer holidays. Sardinia, Italy. A family (road) trip. Claudine, soon to be 11 y.o., tells the story of their adventures as they go along. When Raoul, her 3-y.o. brother, doesn’t bother her…

Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. Kornev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of corrupt agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play. His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.

MAY 15, 2025

After a failed armed attack on wealthy landowners, Hélène abandons her companions and flees into the forest. Manon, one of her friends and accomplices, returns to haunt her. Hélène has to revisit her convictions and choices, in a valley where metamorphoses and great upheavals disrupt the natural order of things.

In 1982, UK. An aspiring Japanese-British writer plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war experiences in Nagasaki. Etsuko, haunted by the suicide of her older daughter, begins to recount her memories from 1952 as a young mother-to-be. Her story begins with her encounter with Sachiko, who was full of hope about starting a new life abroad, and her young daughter Mariko, who constantly spoke of an eerie woman. The writer finds something at odds as she confronts the mementoes of her mother’s Nagasaki years, as well as the memories Etsuko shares with her.

After years of absence, Ciro is back in the Colombian Tatacoa desert, at the bedside of his dying mother. As he confronts those who have abandoned and an age-old legacy, the last guardians of the desert prowl a land as sublime as it is fragile.

Put your soul on your hand and walk  was my response as a filmmaker, to the ongoing massacre of he Palestinians. My personal way not to lose my sanity. A miracle happened when I met Fatem through a Palestinian friend. Ever since, she became my eyes in Gaza, while surviving under the bombs and documenting the war. And I, became her connection to the outside world, from her Gaza prison, as she puts it. We kept this line of life going for more than 200 days. The bits of pixels and sounds that we exchanged constitute the film that you see. Fatem’s assasination on April 16, 2025, following an Israeli attack on her home has forever changed its meaning.

On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.

A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their own way, will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and succeed in maintaining the family unity. Three generations of family secrets begin to unravel after the youngest daughter who’s left-handed is told by her traditional grandfather to never use her “devil hand”.

Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved queer family in a desert mining town in northern Chile. As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.

In the ever-changing landscape of redeveloping Shibuya, Tokyo, Ren works as a delivery driver for moth orchids. Haunted by the childhood loss of his mother, Yumiko, to suicide, he has long been estranged from his father, Hajime, a landscape designer. One day, during a routine delivery, Ren unexpectedly comes face to face with Hajime…

In the Andes, a peasant works the land under exploitative conditions to ensure his family’s survival. His son is sick, his wife is pregnant, and he replicates the violence that surrounds him within his own home. Without money for medical care, he gets drunk one night and is arrested. In prison, in a fit of rage, he rebels against the village’s political boss in the only way he can.

La Paga was a pioneering work of social and political cinema in Latin America, influenced by Italian neorealism and Soviet cinema. Inspired by the director’s childhood memories, the film denounces the exploitation of the peasantry.

Successful classical flutist Pauli (29) returns to his small hometown after a breakdown. Reconnecting with old schoolmate Iiris, he is drawn into experimental music. Pauli, who has always sought perfection, is drawn to her chaotic energy and finds comfort in their sonic experiments.

In the 1950s, Said Effendi, a schoolteacher, moves with his family to a new home in a modest neighborhood of Baghdad after being forced to vacate his previous house by order of the landlord. In his new residence, Said Effendi faces social challenges with his neighbor, Abdullah the cobbler, as conflicts arise between their children, leading to escalating tensions between the two families. As the problems intensify, Saeed finds himself facing a difficult challenge: achieving a balance between raising his children and maintaining a good relationship with his neighbors, without resorting to violence.

Stéphanie, a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

The Roussier family lives in a fragile equilibrium around the younger sister, Bertille, who suffers from a severe disability with an unclear diagnosis. Her parents, Madeleine and Gilles, and her sister Marion, each of them tries their best to deal with the doubts and needs surrounding this extraordinary child who could die at any moment. What does the future hold for this couple, and for Marion whose responsibilities made her grow up too fast? When a new diagnosis is unveiled, horizons open up…

Being Bo Widerberg is the story of the acclaimed and eccentric director who in the shadow of Ingmar Bergman became Sweden’s most influential film-maker. The film describes Widerberg’s celebration during the progressive early 1960s, from being an aspiring author and a harsh critic in working-class Malmö to his heydays as hallmarked film auteur in Stockholm and on to adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also shows to what cost Bo Widerberg’s career, or rather his ardent search for life, came at – on his colleagues, on his family and on himself.

Amrum Island, Spring 1945. In the final days of the war, 12-year-old Nanning braves the treacherous sea to hunt seals, goes fishing at night, and works the nearby farm to help his mother feed the family. Despite the hardship, life on the beautiful, windswept island almost feels like paradise. But when peace finally comes, it reveals a deeper threat: the enemy is far closer than he imagined.

A father (Sergi López) and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness, the journey forces them to confront their own limits.

Clarissa, a writer lacking inspiration, joins a prestigious artist residency at the cutting edge of technology. There, she finds support—and even a confidante— in Dalloway, her virtual assistant, who helps her write. But Clarissa begins to grow uneasy with the AI’s increasingly intrusive presence, a discomfort amplified by the conspiratorial warnings of another resident. Feeling watched, Clarissa secretly embarks on an investigation to discover the true intentions of her hosts. Real threat or a paranoid delusion?

MAY 16, 2025

After a failed armed attack on wealthy landowners, Hélène abandons her companions and flees into the forest. Manon, one of her friends and accomplices, returns to haunt her. Hélène has to revisit her convictions and choices, in a valley where metamorphoses and great upheavals disrupt the natural order of things.

At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious twelve-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.

Laurent, 29 years old, is looking for meaning in his life. He ends up in a deserted ski resort in the off-season and quickly blends into the surprising lives of its few locals. When the tourists arrive with winter, Laurent can’t leave anymore…

While pregnant with her second child, Kika faces the sudden death of her partner. Totally heartbroken, and broke, she sets her priorities straight : 1.⁠ ⁠make money fast 2.⁠ ⁠stay strong. Dirty underwear, dildos and neurotic parents will unexpectedly help.

Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes and strange powers, just like her dead mother before her…

French President François Mitterrand decides to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his mandate: the Great Arch of La Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. Against all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the competition.
Overnight, this 53-year-old man, unknown in France, arrives in Paris where he is propelled at the helm of this pharaonic project. While the architect intends to build the Great Arch exactly as he envisioned, his ideas quickly clash with realistic constraints and the vicissitudes of politics.

A Jewish teacher and a German officer fall in love in a Bulgarian camp where Greek Jews await their deportation to Auschwitz in 1943. Their love is crushed by fascism, hate and discrimination in one of the first films to confront Germany’s role in the Holocaust. Based on the experiences of the Bulgarian writer Angel Wagenstein (1922-2023).

Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?

Sprite, 25 years old, must absolutely find a job. To start working, Sprite needs to know how to drive; but to pay his driving lessons, he needs a job. To end this vicious circle, Sprite ends up finding an odd gig: cleaning-up big parties in fancy villas around Paris. But he’s quickly confronted with the hassle of taking public transportation at night in poorly-connected suburbs. Sprite’s driving instructor enrolls him on a dating app to score overnight stays, and sleep closer to these villas. The only problem is that Sprite is not a big seducer…

A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who’s working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.

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

In 2075, a ten year old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.

Waves of change erupt on campus, and among the occupations and rallies is Julia, a music student who joins the cause to denounce the harassment and abuse they’ve endured for far too long. But as she sings and dances to the rhythm of the chants, an unresolved episode haunts her: a confusing encounter with Max, her voice teacher’s assistant. What happened that night? Was it just another date? Did she say yes? Or was it something much worse? Swept up in the collective euphoria and her own ghosts, Julia becomes the heart of the movement. Her testimony, intimate and complex, becomes a wave that pushes, shakes and disrupts a polarized society.

SUNSHINE follows three generations of a Hungarian-Jewish family as they navigate anti-Semitism, assimilation, fascism, war, communism and revolution — with Ralph Fiennes playing his own son and grandson across all three eras.

“Bono: Stories of Surrender” is a vivid reimagining of Bono’s critically acclaimed one-man stage show, “Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief…” As he pulls back the curtain on a remarkable life and the family, friends and faith that have challenged and sustained him, he also reveals personal stories about his journey as a son, father, husband, activist and rock star. Along with never-before-seen, exclusive footage from the tour, the film features Bono performing many of the iconic U2 songs that have shaped his life and legacy.

Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to find her own voice in an exploration of how trauma can be transformed into art through re-possessing our own bloody histories, particularly those uniquely experienced by the bodies of women and girls.

Set in a snow-struck and surreal Hongkong, the film opens with gunmen aimlessly shooting in the over-crowded neon-lit downtown area. A series of seeming accidents lead to with the chairman of a pharmaceutical group, and secretive god father of illegal drug trade, killed in an explosion of the hospital he was detained. The city is in chaos, the police paralysed and the family businesses in turmoil. The youngest son, determined to break from the family’s disreputable past, will be the natural successor only if his fugitive elder brother and his deceased father’s followers present no hurdles. The film’s Chinese title, Feng (Wind) Lin (Forrest) Huo (Fire) Shan (Mountain) originates from the military classic, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. In Sons of the Neon Night, family is the ultimate battlefield.

MAY 17, 2025

At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille narrowly survives a fatal accident, saved by his best friend Matteo. After a swift recovery, an inexplicable pain gradually takes hold of him, threatening his dreams of greatness and his relationship with the team. In the ring and in a man’s world, there’s no room for weakness.

In the town of Entroncamento, violence, misfortune, greed, and loyalty rule the streets. Laura arrives there to rebuild her life, but the irresistible pull of quick money and crime immediately draws her back into a troubled past. For those she meets at this crossroads, every day presents the choice between who they were and who they might become.

The story follows 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.

After Nat tragically dies from dust pollution, March is consumed by grief. But his daily life is turned upside down when he discovers his wife’s spirit has been reincarnated in a vacuum cleaner. As absurd as it seems, their bond is rekindled, stronger than ever. But it hardly to everyone’s liking. His family, still haunted by the accidental death of a factory worker, reject this supernatural relationship. To prove their love, Nat offers to clean the factory to prove herself a useful ghost, even if that means doing away with some lost souls…

On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with motherly devotion. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura’s presence, the four of them slowly build up some family-like routine. But soon they can no longer ignore their past…

Sergio, a Portuguese environmental engineer, travels to Guinea Bissau to conduct an impact report for a road-building project. As he grapples with heat and isolation, he meets Diara and Guillermhe—two locals equally yearning to find their own way. But as tensions arise within their ambiguous relationship and as Sergio understands the capitalist and post-colonial dynamics at play around his mission, they each have to confront how their identities shape them in a globalized world.

Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the gaze of her friends, her mother, and the law, Céline looks for her place and sense of legitimacy.

Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, 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…

Set in rural Sri Lanka, Sumitra Peries’ debut film is a delicate, poetic film that tells the heartbreaking tale of two sisters whose dreams and aspirations come to nought in the face of insurmountable class barriers. Kusum, a dutiful girl falls in love with Nimal, an upper class boy, in whose house she works. Nimal’s mother is outraged when she finds out about the relationship as Kusum belongs to a lower class and sacks her, leading to Kusum breaking off all contact with Nimal. Her happy-go-lucky sister Soma’s dreams of becoming a beauty queen are shattered when she becomes pregnant and has an illegitimate child. The film is a lyrical exploration of the end of innocence and romantic dreams of two young girls crushed by the heavy hand of tradition and patriarchy.

When Siham passed, Namir not realized that she was gone forever. In a child’s mind, mothers are immortal … To keep her memory alive, Namir delves into his family history from Egypt and France. With the cinema of Youssef Chahine as his companion, a story of exile and above all, of love and begins unfold.

In the relentless pursuit of success, a quirky actor leaves behind his closest allies. Alone facing himself, he is struck by a disturbing vision. Off to Peru for a spiritual journey.

This is the story of Godard making “Breathless”, told in the style and spirit in which Godard made “Breathless”.

At the height of his glory, Marcel Pagnol receives a commission from the editor-in-chief of a major women’s magazine to write a literary serial, in which he can recount his childhood, his Provence, and his first loves. As he writes the first pages, the child he once was, little Marcel, suddenly comes to life. Thus, his memories resurface through the words: the advent of sound cinema, the first major film studio, his affection for the actors, the experience of writing. The greatest storyteller of all time then becomes the hero of his own story

Premiered at the 1968 San Francisco Film Festival, The Arch was one of the earliest art-house films and independent productions from Hong Kong. Adapting a Chinese folktale about a widow torn between her amorous desires and moral obligations, the film examines gender roles in traditional Chinese society, where such plight has rarely been confronted openly. Madam Tung (Lisa Lu), a devoted widow, is to be honoured by the court with the establishment of a chastity archway in her name. However, she finds herself developing feelings for Captain Yang (Roy Chiao), who is staying in her study, for whom her daughter (Hilda Chou) also harbours affection.

George Orwell finishes what will be his last but most important novel, 1984. ORWELL: 2+2=5 delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece… Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother… disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.

When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

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Mariska Hargitay was just three years old when her mother, Hollywood legend Jayne Mansfield, tragically passed away in a car accident with Mariska in the back seat. “My Mom Jayne” follows Mariska Hargitay as she searches for answers about her mother—the icon illuminated by flashbulbs, the artist, the mom she never knew. Through deeply personal interviews with family and friends and a vast array of never-before-seen photos and home movies, we discover with Mariska who Jayne was, not just to the public but to those who were closest to her.

In a shabby bar outside Paris, in the early hours of the morning, a few customers are having a last drink or a first coffee, when out of nowhere one of the regulars wins the €294 million lottery. But another customer decides otherwise: a gun is drawn, shots are fired and the winner collapses, leaving the ticket ownerless. The remaining customers lock themselves behind closed doors, and see an opportunity to concoct the perfect story to cover up the crime, then all walk away millionaires. But as unforeseen events conspire against them, their temptation sends them all on a bloody downward spiral.

MAY 18, 2025

Upon the death of his father, the head of a yakuza gang, Kikuo is taken under the wing of the renowned Kabuki actor Hanjiro Hanai. He becomes his disciple alongside Shunsuke, Hanjiro’s only son. The two young men decide to dedicate their lives to the art of Kabuki. Over the course of fifty years, they experience glory and downfall, scandal and triumph, friendship and betrayal.

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

Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer. He’s interning at a gallery where an unconventional older artist he once encountered is exhibited. As moments from his past and present begin to intertwine, a series of encounters – both artistic and erotic – open cracks in his everyday reality.

In three days, Nino will face a major challenge. But first, his doctors have assigned him two vital tasks. Two missions that will lead the young man on a journey through Paris, compelling him to reconnect with the world – and himself.

Adam, 45, is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. To help combat his eco-anxiety, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp’s supplier’s technical support line, he meets Tina, a woman with a voice that soothes all of his worries. This unexpected encounter changes everything: earth trembles, and hearts explode…

A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in the Nigerian capital Lagos during the 1993 Nigerian election crisis. The story follows a father, estranged from his two young sons, as they travel through the massive city while political unrest threatens their journey home.

Hosted by Stéphane Lerouge, this dialogue between composer and filmmaker will take us behind the scenes of musical creation, and plunge us into the heart of the workings of an essential pairing in contemporary cinema.

They will explain why music is an essential dimension of a cinematographic work, and why the composer is one of a film’s auteurs. They will also explain how music finds equivalents for materials such as water, for The Shape of Water in 2017, or wood for Pinocchio in 2022, and how music can reveal the human side of monsters with Frankenstein, scheduled for release in autumn 2025.

Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. He arrives in Recife during carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son but soon realizes that the city is far from being the non-violent refuge he seeks.

Fernando de Arellano, a wealthy man, loses his young wife Blanca, who dies of a serious illness. After a long period of depression, he meets Mónica in a French cabaret. She looks identical to his late wife but is very different in many ways. Mónica and Fernando get married, while her ex-lover and procurer, Luis, plots revenge against her.

The story of a family and a family business.

After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion—and her secret romance—to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined. As tensions surface, Mila struggles to repair what was lost, confronting the cost of her choices and the woman she has become.

“Slauson Rec” examines the fine line between mentorship and manipulation in the pursuit of making art within an experimental theater collective. In 2018, Shia LaBeouf launched a free theater school at the Slauson Rec Center in South Central, Los Angeles. What started as an open, egalitarian workshop quickly evolved into intense daily rehearsals led by Shia, pushing participants to their limits. First-time filmmaker Leo Lewis O’Neil, a participant from day one, documents this complex journey of shifting power dynamics, and the lasting impact on the diverse group over three years.

A year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through both playful and heartfelt moments, the film portrays the bittersweet essence of faded love and shared memories amidst the changing seasons.

The richest woman in the world: her beauty, her intelligence, her power.
A photographer: his ambition, his insolence, his folly.
It’s love at first sight.
A distrustful heiress fighting to be loved.
A watchful butler who knows more than it appears.
Family secrets. Astronomical donations.
A war where no holds are barrel.

Magellan is a navigator rebelling against the power of the King, due to his humanism and belief in justice. But once he is finally in command of the Spice Fleet, in which he will make the first circumnavigation of the Earth, what will his journey unravel about himself?

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?

MAY 19, 2025

Lucky Lu follows a New York City delivery rider whose world is turned upside down when he loses his only source of income. With his long-estranged family finally on their way from Asia, Lu is forced to navigate the unforgiving city and fight to protect the fragile life he’s spent all these years building.

Gaza, 2007. Yahya, a young student, forges a friendship with Osama, a charismatic restaurant owner with a big heart. Together, they start peddling drugs while delivering falafel sandwiches, but they are soon forced to grapple with a corrupt cop and his oversized ego …

Toni, a 15-year-old Roma boy, lives in the largest illegal slum in Europe, on the outskirts of Madrid. Proud to belong to his family of scrap dealers, he follows his grandfather everywhere. But when demolition companies start closing in on their land, the family is divided: while some decide to move to the city, his grandfather refuses to abandon their land. Night after night, Toni must make a choice: leap into an uncertain future, or hang on to the world of his childhood.

Mehdi had planned to spend a quiet summer in his in-laws’ sumptuous home. But as soon as he arrives, a conflict breaks out between his girfriend’s family and the villa’s janitor couple. As Mehdi comes from a modest background, he thinks he can lead the negotiations between the two parties and bring everyone back to their senses. But things start to escalate…

France’s rural wasteland. Three long-time friends, Tony has become the construction king, Mika and Daniel the kings of nothing. They have big dreams but little luck. Cornered after another blunder, they end up working for Tony at the nuclear dumping ground. So far, so bad…

“TO VIGO I GO!” is a doc that delves into the work of Carlos Diegues, one of the greatest Brazilian filmmakers of all times, who portrayed the history and the soul of Brazil since 1961. The feature navigates between his films and ideas with excerpts from his works and interviews with him over the last 60 years displaying the evolution of both and stitching together this dialog with never-before-seen images from Diegues’ last filming day, a screening of Bye Bye Brasil in the Favela do Vidigal, with him in attendance, and a final personal meeting of Carlos Diegues with artists who were companions on his journey.

Oscar Restrepo’s obsession with poetry brought him no glory. Aging and erratic, he has succumbed to the cliché of the poet in the shadows. Meeting Yurlady, a teenage girl from humble roots, and helping her cultivate her talent brings some light to his days, but dragging her into the world of poets may not be the way

Figure skater Jiang struggles to salvage her career under the ruthless eye of her mother and coach, Wang. At the rink, she finds a kindred spirit in Zhong, a worker with a buried gift for skating. But when Wang begins to train Zhong, tension builds and Jiang’s ambition spirals into destructive obsession.

When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), 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. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s crime thriller High and Low, now played out on the mean streets of modern day New York City.

Romane has directed a film adaptation of the book that Clémentine Autain wrote and dedicated to her mother, actress Dominique Laffin. Through this project, Romane is forced to confront her past and her own mother, who abandoned her when she was nine months old.

Splitsville picks up with Ashley (Adria Arjona) asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey (Kyle Marvin) runs to his friends, Julie (Dakota Johnson) and Paul (Michael Covino), 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.

In a work that confirms Satyajit Ray’s place amongst the masters of world cinema, Days and Nights in the Forest tells the tale of four brash young men from the city who set out on a lark to the forests of Jharkhand to escape their mundane urban lives, not realizing that it will challenge their views on life and love and blunt their confidence. The arrogant Asim is attracted to the cool and elegant Aparna who crushes his pride with ruthless subtlety. The shy and inhibited Sanjoy lacks the courage to respond to Jaya’s advances. The sportsman Hari tries to forget his heartbreak enamoured by a sensual tribal girl, while Shekhar, the joker of the group seems unperturbed by the underlying tensions and inner turmoil of his friends.

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

MAY 20, 2025

Yaoundé, Inspector Billong investigates the murder of a police officer. On the field and in his household, he struggles to maintain order. Entangled in his morals and traditions, he approaches the breaking point.

Aisha is a 26-year-old Sudanese caregiver living in a neighbourhood in the heart of Cairo where she witnesses the tension between her fellow African migrants and local gangs. Stuck between an undefined relationship with a young Egyptian cook, a gangster that blackmails her into an unethical deal in exchange for safety, and a new house she’s assigned to work in, Aisha struggles to cope with her fears and lost battles, causing her dreams to cross with reality and leading her to an impasse.

When Déni inherits a small patch of land in the wild, beautiful valley of Pankissi, he sees a chance to finally build the house in the trees that he’s dreamed of since he was a boy. But nothing in the rugged Caucasus is ever simple. Returning to a village just across the Chechen border where he was born – a place he barely knows – Déni stirs up old feuds, buried family dramas, and above all, the question everyone keeps asking: when, and with whom, is he finally going to get married?

In Eleanor The Great, June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut is a comically poignant exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell.

❃ Quinzaine des cinéastes ❃
Directors’ Fortnight

Hosted by Stéphane Lerouge, this dialogue between composer and filmmaker will take us behind the scenes of musical creation, and plunge us into the heart of the workings of an essential pairing in contemporary cinema.

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

One late summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s having romantic relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he takes custody of her son. Clémence must fight to remain a mother, a woman and a free woman.

Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-san, the world is full of adventure and discovery. But on her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life. For Amélie, everything is at stake at that age, happiness as well as tragedy.

Mikio Naruse’s masterful exploration of obsessive love, follows Yukiko (Hideko Takamine), a woman returning to postwar Japan after working in French Indochina. Hoping to rekindle an affair with a married man, Tomioka (Masayuki Mori), she finds herself trapped in a destructive cycle of longing, betrayal, and despair. Set against the bombed-out landscapes of a devastated Japan, the film drifts between painful memories and harsh realities, culminating in one of Naruse’s most emotionally shattering conclusions.

When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients she is deeply troubled. Convinced that it was murder, she decides to investigate…

México City, a fatal car accident. Three lives collode, revealing the hounding side of human nature.
Octavio, a young teenage, decides to run away with Susana, his brother’s wife. His dog Cofi becomes a cruel instrument to get the money they need to run off together, further complicsting this touching triangle of passion where forbidden love becomes a road of no return. Meanwhile Daniel, a 42 year-old man, leaves his wife and daughters to move in with Valeria, a beautiful model. On the day they’re celebrating their new life together, destiny pushes Valeria into the tragic accident and she is brutally ran-over. What does a man do when he thought he had it all and his whole life changes in an instant?

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, escapes to South America to rebuild his life in hiding. Through the eyes of his son who finds him again, Mengele is confronted with a past he can no longer ignore. From Buenos Aires to Paraguay via Brazil, the man who became known as « The Angel of Death » will organize his methodical disappearance to avoid any form of trial.

Rome, 1980. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is rejected by the Italian publishing world, writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing jewelry, but the encounter with some young inmates turns out to be a life-changing experience. After their release and over the course of a sweltering summer, the women continue to meet, and Goliarda forms a deep bond with Roberta, a repeat offender and political activist. A connection no one on the outside can truly understand, but through which Goliarda rediscovers the joy of living and the drive to write again.

MAY 21, 2025

Militantropos captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war — those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight — tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness. Amid devastation and atrocity, the human is absorbed into war — and war, in turn, becomes part of the human.

Obscure Night traces the path of young exiles through the nights of Paris. Both stealthy gestures and vibrating presences, it sketches youth as a power of being, bringing and giving, through silence and duration, other ways of inhabiting the world.

Two childhood friends from a small North Indian village chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as they inch closer to their dream, mounting desperation threatens the bond that holds them together.

Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa – four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth – are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive. However, they must face countless obstacles: the elements, fauna, flora, the climate.

Marseille, the holidays. Omar, 20, oversees the children summer camp with his longtime friends. The adolescents are full of dreams, principles, and prejudices. When Carmen returns after years being away, the group dynamic is put to the test. In a group where boys view girls as whore to fuck or chicks to marry and where reputation is everything, the electric and free spirit Carmen triggers everyone to question his own belief, desire, and sexuality.

Carlobianchi and Doriano, two broke fiftysomethings with a “never skip the last drink” philosophy, meet Giulio, a shy architecture student adrift in life. What starts as a chance encounter turns into a chaotic road trip through the Venetian plains — where bad advice, hangovers, and unexpected friendship redraw Giulio’s plans for life and love.

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.

Shai and Djeneba are 20 years old and have been friends since childhood. That summer, they are animators in a summer camp. They accompany in the Drôme a group of children who, like them, have grown up between the towers of the Place des Fêtes in Paris. At the dawn of adulthood, they will have to make choices to shape their future and reinvent their friendship.

The Magirama is made up program of four short films implementing the polyvision system device developed by Abel Gance: Auprès de ma blonde, Fête foraine, Château des nuages, J’accuse. Since Napoleon in 1928, the triple screen has been for the director the means allowing cinema to develop a narrative of its own, engaging the viewer both through image and spatialized sound. With Nelly Kaplan, Gance revisits his J’accuse from 1937 to which he adds shots of Napoleon but also of La Fin du monde to construct the pacifist discourse that has obsessed him since 1918. The experimental story of Auprès de ma blonde and the sensory experience of Fête foraine and Château des nuages complete this manifesto for another cinema.

Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa – four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth – are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive. However, they must face countless obstacles: the elements, fauna, flora, the climate.

Merlusse is a teacher in an all-boys boarding school – pupils hate him since he smells, has a glass eye and is very strict. When Christmas Eve arrives most boys leave school to spend the holidays with their families but a small group of lonely boys is left behind with Merlusse as their overseer. Merlusse doesn’t get along with the boys very well and they pull various tricks on him but on Christmas Morning boys wake to find a huge surprise waiting for them…

Lionel is a talented singer from rural Kentucky raised on the songs his father would sing on the front porch. In 1917, he leaves his family farm to attend the Boston Music Conservatory. There he meets David, a charming music composing student who is soon drafted into the end of the war. In 1920, the two spend a winter walking through the forests and islands of Maine, collecting folk songs in order to preserve them for future generations. Lionel drifts through Europe in his twenties and thirties, building a new life of profound success and happiness, and experiencing new loves. Yet he is constantly drawn back to memories of his brief time with David, trying to understand the impact of their relationship. Eventually, a reminder of their work together reveals why their connection rang loud

Being a journalist has never been as dangerous as it is today, in a world where the defence of truth is under attack from all sides. This film traces the saga of Julian Assange, a contemporary icon of the right to information, whose recent release from prison has reignited the global debate on press freedom. Thanks to privileged access to Wikileaks footage and archives and never-before-seen evidence, this documentary takes the form of a high-tech international thriller.

Born into a modest family, Hélène left the Vosges a long time ago. Today, a sudden burn-out forces her to leave Paris and return to the place where she grew up. One evening, in the parking lot of a franchised restaurant, she spots Christophe Marchal, the charismatic field hockey prodigy from her high school days. An unexpected love affair begins between these two people, who are now at odds with each other. In their embrace, two France’s, two worlds that are now strangers, dream of loving each other. Will this idyll, this island, be possible for them?

In the fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.

MAY 22, 2025

At the dawn of the 20th century, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show rolls into Italy, peddling the myth of the American frontier and sparking the imagination of Rosa, a young woman trapped in a stifling marriage to a powerful and violent landowner. When a rodeo between American cowboys and Italian butteri ends in tragedy, Rosa flees with Santino, the daring local rider who bested the Americans. But in a world where justice is sold to the highest bidder, Buffalo Bill and others join the hunt for the bounty on Santino’s head. Rosa’s dream of freedom quickly collides with the weight of reality—and like in every good Western ballad, fate flips a coin.

Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa – four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth – are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive. However, they must face countless obstacles: the elements, fauna, flora, the climate.

Israel, in the aftermath of October 7. Y., a jazz musician struggling to make ends meet, and his wife Jasmine, a dancer, sell their art, souls and bodies to the elite, and bring pleasure and consolation to a bleeding nation. Soon, Y. is given a mission of the highest importance: setting to music a new national anthem.

Ester’s just turned 45 and has nothing in her life except caring for her severely mentally disabled son, David (15). David can’t speak and needs constant attention. Ester loves him deeply, but she’s drained by routine and coping alone. Friends in Italy invite her for a visit, but they find David’s unpredictable behaviour causes problems. They ask them to stay in a caravan in the garden. For Ester, it’s the final straw. She doesn’t want to feel like a burden anymore. When the night comes, she starts the caravan up and takes off. On their life changing journey across Italy and thanks to the people they meet, especially Zuza (29)-their fun loving companion and David’s first love, Ester realizes she can be more than just a mother and can live a different life. At least for a short while.

Eddy Merckx, the greatest champion in the history of cycling, is a legend in his own right. To portray this man who was both a conqueror on his bike and reserved in his private life, Santoni abandons the traditional documentary formula (alternating interviews and voice-overs) and creates a film that highlights the mythological dimension of the champion. Through a series of shots showing heat, thirst, joy, pain, fatigue, falls, injuries, retirements and finally the deliverance of victory – all accompanied by classical music – the races are transformed into veritable epics. The film offers a portrait of a legendary champion, as well as a tribute to the anonymous riders who populate the peloton.

Mahnaz, a 40-year-old widowed nurse, struggles with her rebellious son, Aliyar, who has been suspended from school. Family tensions reach a peak during the betrothal ceremony with her new boyfriend Hamid, and a tragic accident occurs. In the aftermath, Mahnaz will be forced to confront betrayal and loss, and to embark on a quest for justice.

Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa – four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth – are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive. However, they must face countless obstacles: the elements, fauna, flora, the climate.

Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa – four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth – are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive. However, they must face countless obstacles: the elements, fauna, flora, the climate.

United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history. While exploring the house, left untouched since the 1940s, they excavate the life of their ancestor, Adèle Vermillard, a 20 year old woman who lived there in 1895. The end of the 19th century saw the birth of both photography and the Impressionist movement, which profoundly changed painting. Through back-and-forth journeys between 1895 and 2025, they find in the relics of the past what will help them better envision their own future.

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on – for everyone around her, at least.

Mai, a rising J-Pop idol, is finally about to have her big break when she unexpectedly falls in love. But in an industry where young female singers must maintain an image of flawless purity for their fans, love is forbidden. When her relationship is exposed, Mai’s agency takes drastic action, dragging the couple to court over the “no love” clause in her contract, throwing her life into chaos.

Grégoire and Michel are not from the same generation, but they are united by friendship, a love of nature, and a deep affection for a circus bear who escaped.

Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto and Taraxa – four dandelion achenes that survive from a series of nuclear explosions destroying Earth – are propelled into the cosmos. After crash-landing on an unknown planet, they set out in search of soil where their species might survive. However, they must face countless obstacles: the elements, fauna, flora, the climate.

Dogma (1999), directed by Kevin Smith, is a satirical comedy about two fallen angels, Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki (Matt Damon), who plan to return to Heaven by exploiting a loophole in Catholic doctrine. However, their plan could destroy the universe. Bethany Sloane (Linda Fiorentino), a disillusioned Catholic, is chosen to stop them. She is joined by Jay (Jason Mewes), Silent Bob (Kevin Smith), Rufus (Chris Rock), and Metatron (Alan Rickman), who reveal deeper truths about faith and purpose. The film explores religion, dogma, and spirituality with humor and satire, challenging beliefs while questioning divine authority.

In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one else can see—until a woman appears. Gifted with the rare power to perceive these illusions for what they truly are, she chooses to enter the monster’s dreams, determined to uncover the truth that lies hidden within.

MAY 23, 2025

Thomas Cailley receives the first Prix Alpine at the closing ceremony of the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes

What is the connection between a pension reform and motorcycle racing, between the Louvre Museum and tenderness, between a phoenix and the work of a cinematographer, between abandonment and cruelty, between alcohol and memory? There is this film—woven like an essay, like a journey… or perhaps a journey on trial. At its origin, a heart surgery gone wrong. What follows unfolds like a tragicomedy, drawing a father and son toward an unknown destination. A luminous escape, punctuated by chiaroscuro, defiant colors, and black-and-white photographs. Something affirmative? Sometimes, old conflicts lead to conversations about the future—and the improbable eternity.

Ryan O’Neal and Marisa Berenson star in director Stanley Kubrick’s lavish adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic 18th-century novel about the rise and fall of a sensitive and dashing rogue, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.. Forced to leave Ireland after killing an English officer in a duel, handsome young Redmond Barry (O’Neal) seeks his fortune as a soldier in Prussia, as a spy then as a gambler living among the elite of Europe. He changes his name and marries an aristocrat (Berenson) for her wealth, but the acceptance he seeks finally eludes him.

Winner of four Academy Awards®: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score.

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1st, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the “Algerian War” is not an accident of history, but a slow process of revolts and suffering, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this “Red All Saints’ Day” of November 1st, 54. Composed of six chapters, the film paints the merciless picture of political and warlike history of colonial Algeria.

Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane and Naïma are housed in a shelter for young mothers. Five teenagers hoping for a better life for themselves and their babies.

In a sedate corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney (Josh O’Connor) an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plans his first big heist. When things go haywire, his life unravels.

She loved him more than anything else, he loved her more than anyone else. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand were the most famous couple of their time. Haunted by her husband’s affair with Marilyn Monroe and bruised by all those that followed, Signoret always refused the role of victim. What they knew was that they would never leave each other.

MAY 24, 2025

CLOSING CEREMONY

(18.40)

Kabul, August 15, 2021. US troops are preparing to withdraw from Afghanistan, while the Taliban are marching on the capital to seize power. Amid the chaos, Commander Mohamed Bida and his men are in charge of security at the French embassy, the last Western mission to remain open. Trapped along with 500 people, left to their own devices, the team must reach the airport at all costs. A perilous mission with no guarantee of success to flee the hell of Kabul and rescue what remains of humanity.

HONEY DON’T! is a dark comedy about Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church

WINNERS

Feature Films

Palme d’or

UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT
Jafar PANAHI

Grand Prix

AFFEKSJONSVERDI
(SENTIMENTAL VALUE)
Joachim TRIER

Joint Jury Prize

SIRÂT
Oliver LAXE

SOUND OF FALLING
Mascha SCHILINSKI

Best Director

Kleber MENDONÇA FILHO
O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)

Best Screenplay

Jean-Pierre DARDENNE & Luc DARDENNE
JEUNES MÈRES

Best Performance by an Actress

Nadia MELLITI
LA PETITE DERNIÈRE

Best Performance by an Actor

Wagner MOURA
O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)

Prix Spécial

KUANG YE SHI DAI (RESURRECTION)
Bi GAN

Short Films

Palme d’or

I’M GLAD YOU’RE DEAD NOW
Tawfeek BARHOM

Special Mention

ALI
Adnan AL RAJEEV

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard Prize

LA MISTERIOSA MIRADA DEL FLAMENCO (THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO)
Diego CÉSPEDES
1st film

Jury Prize

UN POETA (A POET)
Simón MESA SOTO

Best Directing

Arab & Tarzan NASSER
Once Upon a Time in Gaza

Best Actor

Frank DILLANE
Urchin

Best Actress

Cleo DIÁRA
O Riso e a Faca (I Only Rest in the Storm)

Best Screenplay

PILLION
Harry LIGHTON
1st film

Caméra d’or

Caméra d’or Prize

THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE
Hasan HADI
Directors’ Fortnight

Special Mention

MY FATHER’S SHADOW
Akinola DAVIES JR
Un Certain Regard

La Cinef Films

First Prize

FIRST SUMMER
Heo GAYOUNG
KAFA, South Korea

Second Prize

12 MOMENTS BEFORE THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY
QU Zhizheng
Beijing Film Academy, China

Joint Third Prize

GINGER BOY
Miki TANAKA
ENBU Seminar, Japan

WINTER IN MARCH
Natalia MIRZOYAN
Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

Immersive Competition

From Dust
Michel van der Aa

Superior Technical Commission

THE CST AWARD FOR BEST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN is presented to Ruben Impens, director of photography, and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer of ALPHA, directed by Julia Ducournau

The 2025 jury of the CST Award for best Artist-Technician acknowledges the powerful creativity of sound and image in this film, achieved by Ruben Impens, director of photography and Stéphane Thiébaut, mixer, of Alpha directed by Julia Ducournau.

THE CST AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG FEMALE FILM TECHNICIAN is presented to Éponine Momenceau, Director of photography of CONNEMARA, directed by Alex Lutz

The 2025 jury of the CST Award for best Young, Female Film Technician is proud to present this year’s prize to Éponine Momenceau, director of photography of Connemara directed by Alex Lutz, for the delicacy and subtlety of the work on the images that accompany the film’s story and direction.

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

In Competition

O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)
Kleber Mendonça Filho

Un Certain Regard

Urchin
Harris Dickinson

Parallel Section (first features)

Dandelion’s Odyssey
Momoko Sato

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Prix du Jury Œcuménique

Young Mothers
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Critics’ Week

Grand Prize

A Useful Ghost
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

French Touch Prize of the Jury

Imago
Déni Oumar Pitsaev

Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film

L’mina
Randa Maroufi

Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award

Théodore Pellerin
Nino

Gan Foundation Award for Distribution

Left-Handed Girl
Shih-Ching Tsou

Canal+ Award for Short Film

Erogenesis
Xandra Popescu

SACD Award

Guillermo Galoe and Víctor Alonso-Berbel
Sleepless City

Directors’ Fortnight

Audience Award

The President’s Cake
Hasan Hadi

Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film

Wild Foxes
Valéry Carnoy

SACD Prize for Best French Film

Wild Foxes
Valéry Carnoy

Golden Coach

Todd Haynes

L’Œil d’or

Golden Eye

Imago
Déni Oumar Pitsaev

Special Jury Prize

The Six Billion Dollar Man
Eugene Jarecki

Queer Palm

The Little Sister
Hafsia Herzi

Best Short Film

Bleat!
Ananth Subramaniam

Cannes Soundtrack Award

Kangding Ray
Sirât

Prix François Chalais

Two Prosecutors
Sergei Loznitsa

Prix de la Citoyenneté

Citizenship Prize

UN SIMPLE ACCIDENT
Jafar Panahi

Prix des Cinémas Art et Essai

AFCAE Art House Cinema Award

O AGENTE SECRETO (THE SECRET AGENT)
Kleber Mendonça Filho

Special Mention

Sirât
Oliver Laxe

PALM DOG

Panda
The Love That Remains

Grand Jury Prize

Pipa and Lupita
Sirât

Mutt Moment

Hippo
Pillion

Trophée Chopard

Male Revelation of the Year

Finn Bennett

Female Revelation of the Year

Marie Colomb