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 (13-24 May) has just been rounded off with four additional feature films. There are now 22 movies vying for the Palme d'Or (see the news - seven of which are directed by women), after the addition of Resurrection [+see also:
trailer
film profile], 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 has added Ma frère, the second feature by Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret (winners in the 2022 Un Certain Regard 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 diptych The Three Musketeers [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]) will present 13 jours, 13 nuits (see the 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) as a special screening.

Here is the complete list of the Official Selection titles:

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 [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Bi Gan (China/France)
Renoir [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - 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 [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] - 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 [+see also:
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film profile] - Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
Romería - Carla Simón (Spain/Germany)
Sentimental Value - Joachim Trier (Norway/France/Denmark/Germany)

Un Certain Regard

Promised Sky [+see also:
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interview: Erige Sehiri
film profile] - Erige Sehiri (France/Tunisia) (opening film)
Love Me Tender - Anna Cazenave Cambet (France)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo [+see also:
film review
interview: Diego Céspedes
film profile] - Diego Céspedes (France/Germany/Spain/Chile/Belgium)
Meteors [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Hubert Charuel (France)
My Father's Shadow - Akinola Davies Jr (UK/Ireland/Nigeria)
The Great Arch - Stéphane Demoustier (France/Denmark)
Urchin [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Harris Dickinson (UK)
Homebound - Neeraj Ghaywan (India)
A Pale View of Hills [+see also:
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film profile] - Kei Ishikawa (Japan/UK/Poland/Singapore)
Eleanor the Great - Scarlett Johansson (USA)
Caravan - Zuzana Kirchnerová (Czech Republic/Slovakia/Italy)
Pillion - Harry Lighton (UK/Ireland)
A Poet - Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia/Germany/Sweden)
Aisha Can't Fly Away - Morad Mostafa (Egypt/Sudan/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/France/Germany)
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 (USA)
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 (Italy/Germany)
The Chronology of Water - Kristen Stewart (USA/UK/France/Latvia)

Cannes Première

Amrum [+see also:
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film profile] - Fatih Akin (Germany)
Ma frère - Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret (France)
Splitsville - Michael Angelo Covino (USA)
Magellan [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Lav Diaz (Portugal/Spain/France/Philippines/Taiwan)
Love on Trial - Kôji Fukada (Japan/France)
The Wave - Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
Connemara - Alex Lutz (France)
The Love That Remains [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/France)
Orwell: 2+2=5 - Raoul Peck (France/USA)
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele - Kirill Serebrennikov (France/Germany/Mexico/USA/UK)

Out of Competition

Leave One Day [+see also:
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film profile] - Amélie Bonnin (France) (opening film)
13 jours, 13 nuits - Martin Bourboulon (France)
Colours of Time [+see also:
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film profile] - Cédric Klapisch (France)
The Richest Woman in the World - Thierry Klifa (France/Belgium)
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - Christopher McQuarrie (USA)
Highest 2 Lowest - Spike Lee (USA)
A Private Life - Rebecca Zlotowski (France)

Midnight Screenings

No One Will Know - Vincent Maël Cardona (France)
Honey Don’t - Ethan Coen (USA)
Sons of the Neon Night - Juno Mak (China/Hong Kong)
Exit 8 - Genki Kawamura (Japan)
Dalloway [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Yann Gozlan (France)

Special Screenings

Arco - Ugo Bienvenu (France)
Bono: Stories of Surrender - Andrew Dominik (USA)
Tell Her That I Love Her - Romane Bohringer (France)
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Sylvain Chomet (France/Luxembourg/Belgium)
The Wonderers - Joséphine Japy (France)
The Six Billion Dollar Man - Eugene Jarecki (USA)
The Man Who Saw the Bear - Pierre Richard (France)
Mama - Or Sinai (Israel/Poland/Italy)
Little Amélie or the Character of the Rain [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han (France)

(Translated from French)