08/05/2025 - The festival welcomes Bi Gan in competition, Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret in Cannes Première, Martin Bourboulon out of competition and Eugene Jarecki in the special screenings

The Official Selection of the 78th Cannes Film Festival (from 13 to 24 May) has just been rounded off with four feature films. The films vying for the Palme d'Or (read news) are now 22 (seven of which are directed by women), after the addition of Resurrection, the new film by Bi Gan (who made waves in the 2018 Un Certain Regard section with Long Day's Journey into Night [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]), who will be in this section for the first time.

The Cannes Première programme adds Ma frère (read news), the second feature by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (winners in the 2022 Un Certain Regard section with The Worst Ones [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Romane Gueret and Lise Akoka
film profile]).

French filmmaker Martin Bourboulon (well-known for Eiffel [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] and the dyptich The Three Musketeers [+see also:
film review
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film profile]) will present 13 jours, 13 nuits (article - starring Roschdy Zem, Lyna Khoudri and Sidse Babett Knudsen) out of competition, and US filmmaker Eugene Jarecki will present his documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man (on the Julian Assange case) in a special screening.

The complete list Official Selection :

Competition

The Phoenician Scheme [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Wes Anderson (USA/Germany)
Eddington - Ari Aster (USA)
The Young Mother’s Home [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium/France)
Alpha - Julia Ducournau (France/Belgium)
Resurrection - Bi Gan (China/France)
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:
trailer
film profile] - Óliver Laxe (Spain/France)
Nouvelle Vague - Richard Linklater (France)
Two Prosecutors - Sergei Loznitsa (France/Germany/Romania/Latvia/Netherlands/Lithuania)
Fuori [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Mario Martone (Italy/France)
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/Francia)
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

Promised Sky - Erige Sehiri (France/Tunisia) (opening film)
Love Me Tender - Anna Cazenave Cambet (France)
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 (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Italy)
Pillion - Harry Lighton
A Poet - Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia/Germany/Sweden)
Aisha Can't Fly Away - Morad Mostafa
Once Upon a Time in Gaza - Arab & Tarzan Nasser (France/Germany/Portugal/Palestine)
I Only Rest In The Storm - Pedro Pinho (Portugal/France/Romania/Brazil)
The Plague - Charlie Polinger
Heads or Tails? [+see also:
interview: Alessio Rigo de Righi and M…
film profile] - Matteo Zoppis & Alessio Rigo de Righi (Italy/USA)
The Last One for the Road - Francesco Sossai
The Chronology of Water - Kristen Stewart (USA/UK/France/Latvia)

Cannes Première

Amrum - Fatih Akin
Ma frère - Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret (France)
Splitville - Michael Angelo Covino
Magellan - Lav Diaz (Portugal/Spain/France/Philippines/Taiwan)
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 [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Amélie Bonnin (France) (opening film)
13 jours, 13 nuits - Martin Bourboulon (France)
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
Bono: Stories of Surrender - Andrew Dominik
Tell Her That I Love Her - Romane Bohringer
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol - Sylvain Chomet
The Wonderers - Joséphine Japy (France)
The Six Billion Dollar Man - Eugene Jarecki (USA)
L’homme qui a vu l’ours qui a vu l’homme - Pierre Richard
Mama - Or Sinai
Little Amélie or the Character of the Rain- Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han

(Translated from French)