24/04/2025 - Lynne Ramsay and Saeed Roustaee join the competition; Anna Cazenave Cambet, Pedro Pinho and Kristen Stewart are in Un Certain Regard; Hlynur Pálmason, Kôji Fukada and Lav Diaz for Cannes Première

As expected, the Official Selection of the 78th Cannes Film Festival (13-24 May) has been topped off by 16 feature films. There are now 21 movies in the running for the Palme d'Or (see the article – seven of which have been directed by women). Indeed, joining the race are Scot Lynne Ramsay with Die, My Love (her third time taking part in the competition – Best Screenplay and Best Actor Awards in 2017) and Iran’s Saeed Roustaee with Woman and Child (her second time).

The Cannes Première programme has been enriched by the addition of The Love That Remains by Iceland’s Hlynur Pálmason, Love on Trial by Japan’s Kôji Fukada and Magalhaes by the Philippines’ Lav Diaz (toplined by Gael García Bernal).

The 16 titles previously announced for the Un Certain Regard selection (see the news) will now rub shoulders with Love Me Tender by France’s Anna Cazenave Cambet (toplined by Vicky Krieps – see the news), Un poeta by Colombia’s Simón Mesa Soto (Short Film Palme d’Or in 2014 for Leidi and Rising Star Award in the 2021 Critics’ Week with Amparo [+see also:
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Rocking up as Midnight Screenings are No One Will Know (Le Roi Soleil) by France’s Vincent Maël Cardona (see the article) and Honey Don’t by US helmer Ethan Coen.

Also of note are Special Screenings for the French animated films Little Amélie by Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han (an adaptation of the novel The Character of Rain by Belgium’s Amélie Nothomb – see the article) and Arco by Ugo Bienvenu, as well as for The Wonderers by France’s Joséphine Japy and Mama by Israel’s Or Sinai. Lastly, as part of a tribute to Pierre Richard, there will be a screening of his feature L’homme qui a vu l’ours qui a vu l’homme.

Here is the full list of selected films:

Competition

The Phoenician Scheme - Wes Anderson (USA/Germany)
Eddington - Ari Aster (USA)
The Young Mother’s Home - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France)
Alpha - Julia Ducournau (France/Belgium)
Renoir - Chie Hayakawa (Japan/France/Indonesia/Singapore)
The History of Sound - Oliver Hermanus (UK/USA)
The Little Sister - Hafsia Herzi (France/Germany)
Sirat [+see also:
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Nouvelle Vague - Richard Linklater (France)
Two Prosecutors - Sergei Loznitsa (France/Germany/Romania/Latvia/Netherlands/Lithuania)
Fuori [+see also:
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The Secret Agent - Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil/France)
Case 137 - Dominik Moll (France)
It Was Just an Accident - Jafar Panahi (France/Luxembourg/Iran)
Die, My Love - Lynne Ramsay (USA)
The Mastermind - Kelly Reichardt (USA)
Woman and Child - Saeed Roustaee (Iran)
Eagles of the Republic - Tarik Saleh (Sweden/France/Denmark/Finland)
Sound of Falling - Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
Romería - Carla Simón (Spain/Germany)
Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier (Norway/France/Denmark/Germany)

Un Certain Regard

Love Me Tender - Anna Cazenave Cambet
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo - Diego Céspedes
Meteors - Hubert Charuel
My Father's Shadow - Akinola Davies Jr
The Great Arch - Stéphane Demoustier
Urchin - Harris Dickinson
Homebound - Neeraj Ghaywan
A Pale View of Hills - Kei Ishikawa
Eleanor the Great - Scarlett Johansson
Caravan - Zuzana Kirchnerová
Pillion - Harry Lighton
Un poeta - Simón Mesa Soto
Aisha Can't Fly Away - Morad Mostafa
Once Upon a Time in Gaza - Arab and Tarzan Nasser
I Only Rest in the Storm - Pedro Pinho
The Plague - Charlie Polinger
Promis le ciel - Erige Sehiri
Heads or Tails? - Matteo Zoppis, Alessio Rigo de Righi
The Last One for the Road - Francesco Sossai
The Chronology of Water - Kristen Stewart

Cannes Première

Amrum - Fatih Akin
Splitville - Michael Angelo Covino
Magalhaes - Lav Diaz
Love on Trial - Kôji Fukada
The Wave - Sebastián Lelio
Connemara - Alex Lutz
The Love That Remains - Hlynur Pálmason
Orwell: 2+2=5 - Raoul Peck
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - Kirill Serebrennikov

Out of competition

Bye Bye - Amélie Bonnin (opening film)
Colours of Time - Cédric Klapisch
The Richest Woman in the World - Thierry Klifa
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - Christopher McQuarrie
Highest 2 Lowest - Spike Lee
Vie privée - Rebecca Zlotowski

Midnight Screenings

No One Will Know (Le Roi Soleil) - Vincent Maël Cardona
Honey Don’t - Ethan Coen
Sons of the Neon Night - Juno Mak
The Exit 8 - Genki Kawamura
Dalloway - Yann Gozlan

Special Screenings

Arco - Ugo Bienvenu
Stories of Surrender - Bono
Tell Her That I Love Her - Romane Bohringer
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol - Sylvain Chomet
The Wonderers - Joséphine Japy
L’homme qui a vu l’ours qui a vu l’homme - Pierre Richard
Mama - Or Sinai
Little Amélie - Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han

(Translated from French)