78th Cannes Film Festival Line-up

In what is shaping up to be another staked year, the 78th Cannes Film Festival is the first major event of the 2024 award season. Iconic filmmakers and actor-turned-dirctors that have been announced as part of this years line-up include: Julia Ducournau, Ari Aster, Kelly Reichardt, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, Joachim Trier, Christopher McQuarrie, Andrew Dominik, Harris Dickinson and Scarlett Johansson, plus many more from the international movie scene.

Recent years have seen an increasing correlation between Cannes and the Academy Awards, with four of the last five Palme d’Or winners (“Parasite”, “Triangle of Sadness”, “Anatomy of a Fall” and “Anora”) all going on to receive Best Picture nominations, with “Parasite” and “Anora” both winning the coveted Oscar in 2020 and 2025 respectively. The most recent Academy Awards also saw three films from last years Cannes line-up with “Emilia Perez” and “The Substance” joining Sean Baker‘s film amongst the most recent Oscar best picture nominations.

The Festival will take place 13th – 24th May 2025

OPENING FILM:

“Leave One Day” Amelie Bonnin

COMPETITION

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

UN CERTAIN REGARD

  • “Aisha Can’t Fly Away” Morad Mostafa
  • “Caravan” Zuzana Kirchnerova
  • “Eleanor the Great” Scarlett Johansson
  • “Heads or Tails?” Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis
  • “Homebound” neeraj Ghaywan
  • “The Last One for the Road” Francesco Sossai
  • “L’inconnue de la Grande Arche” Stephanie Demoustier
  • “Meteors” Hubert Charuel
  • “My Father’s Shadow” Akinola Davies Jr.
  • “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” Diego Cespedes
  • “Once Upon a Time in Gaza” Tarzan and Arab Nasser
  • “A Pale View of the Hills” Kei Ishikawa
  • “Pillion” Harry Lighton
  • “Promis le ciel” Erige Sehiri
  • “The Plague” Charlie Polinger
  • “Urchin” Harris Dickinson

OUT OF COMPETITION

  • “Colours of Time” Cedric Klapisch
  • “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” Christopher McQuarrie
  • “The Richest Woman in the World” Thierry Klifa
  • “Vie Privee” Rebecca Zlotowski

CANNES PREMIERE

  • “Amrum” Faith Akin
  • “Connemara” Alex Lutz
  • “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” Kirill Serebrennikov
  • “La Ola” Sebastian Lelio
  • “Orwell: 2+2=5” Raoul Peck
  • “Splitsville” Michael Angelo Covino

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

  • “Dalloway” Yann Gozlan
  • “Exit 8” Genki Kawamura
  • “Sons of the Neon Night” Juno Mak

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

  • “Bono: Stories of Surrender” Andrew Dominik
  • “The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol” Sylvain Chomet
  • “Tell Her That I Love Her” Claude Miller

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  1. I was lucky enough to attend the film festival 12 times in my career – each one a highlight…seeing the world’s best and sometimes most polarizing cinema in one place is exhilarating – I was part of the mini-riot surrounding the screening of “Kids” for example…I did the first ever US TV interview with Lars von Trier for “Dancer In The Dark” and danced with Nicole Kidman at the world premiere of “Moulin Rouge”…so much fun and another great year awaits!

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