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Today, the president, Iris Knobloch, and the general delegate, Thierry Frémaux, held a press conference to announce the 2025 Cannes Film Festival selections. The early announcements have been fewer than usual. Still, it has already been announced that the final part of the Mission Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, will be screened at the festival, to nobody’s surprise. The opening film will be Partir un jour, directed by debutant Amelie Bonnin.

The main competition is littered with the tired usual suspects: Wes Anderson, the Dardenne Brothers, Kleber Mendoca Filho and others. Other returning directors include Jafar Panahi, Kelly Reichart, Joachim Trier, Richard Linklater, Julia Ducournau, and Tarik Saleh. The latter bafflingly won the award for Best Script for Boy From Heaven in 2022. The new film is, once again, co-produced by Film i Väst. It is downright startling to see Dominik Moll’s name in an A-list festival competition in 2025. The most interesting selections seem to be Sirat by Oliver Laxe, who made the beautiful Fire Will Come, and A Simple Accident by Jafar Panahi.

The fact that Kirill Serebrennikov was relegated to a minor section with The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele is puzzling. Without having seen László Nemes’ Árva, it is difficult to believe that it could be less interesting than the majority of the films selected. As the festival looks now, it doesn’t make much sense to attend the festival this year. Maybe that might change with additions. Last year, thirteen films were added 11 days after the presentation. Among them were The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Flow. Of course, La Semaine de la Critique and Quinzaine des Cineastes will present their selections next week, but It is difficult to imagine that it will make much difference.

Main Competition Selections

A Simple Accident – Jafar Panahi

Alpha – Julia Ducournau

Dossier 137 – Dir. Dominik Moll

Eagles Of The Republic – Tarik Saleh

Eddington – Ari Aster

Fuori – Mario Martone

La Petite Derniere – Hafsia Herzi

Mastermind – Kelly Reichardt

Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater

Renoir – Chie Hayakawa

Romería – Carla Simón

Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier

Sirat – Oliver Laxe

Sound Of Falling – Mascha Schilinsk

The History Of Sound – Oliver Hermanus

The Phoenician Scheme – Wes Anderson

The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendoca Filho

The Young Mother’s Home – The Dardenne Brothers

Two Prosecutors – Sergei Loznitsa

Un Certain Regard Selections

Aisha Can’t Fly Away -Morad Mostafa

Caravan – Zuzana Kirchnerová

Eleanor The Great – Scarlett Johansson

Heads Or Tails? – Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis

Homebound – Neeraj Ghaywan

The Last One For The Road – Francesco Sossai 

L’inconnu de la Grande Arche – Stéphane Demoustier

Meteors – Hubert Charuel

The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo – Diego Céspedes

My Father’s Shadow – Akinola Davies Jr

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo – Diego Céspedes

Once Upon A Time In Gaza – Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser

A Pale View Of The Hills – Kei Ishikawa

Pillion – Harry Lighton

Promised Sky – Erige Sehiri

The Plague, Charlie Polinger 

Urchin – Harris Dickinson

2025 Cannes Film Festival Selections Other sections

Out Of Competition

The Coming Of The Future, Cedric Klapisch

Highest 2 Lowest by Spike Lee

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Christopher McQuarrie

The Richest Woman in the World – Thierry Klifa

Partir un jour, Amélie Bonnin – opening film

Vie Privée – Rebecca Zlotowski 

Cannes Première

Amrum – Fatih Akin

Connemara – Alex Lutz

Splitsville – Michael Angelo Covino 

The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele – Kirill Serebrennikov

Orwell – Raoul Peck

The Wave – Sebastian Lélio

Special Screenings

Stories Of Surrender, Bono – Andrew Dominik

The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol – Sylvain Chomet 

Tell Her I Love Her – Romane Bohringer

Midnight Screenings

Dalloway – Yann Gozlan

Songs Of The Neon Night, Juno Mak 

The Exit 8 -Genki Kawamura