When is Cannes Film Festival 2025? Live streaming details and more explored

The Cannes Film Festival 2025 will be held from May 13 to 24, 2025. The festival celebrates the movie industry and thespians, and more than fifteen films will compete for the coveted Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) award in the Official Selection section.

The Un Certain Regard section will parallel the competition and highlight new talents from different countries. French actor Laurent Lafitte will do the honors of hosting the opening and closing ceremonies.

Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher will chair the jury of the Caméra d'Or. She will present the award to an exemplary first-time filmmaker on May 24, 2025.

The event will be streamed live on the Cannes Film Festival’s official website (Festival de Cannes) and its official YouTube channel. The festival’s social media pages will also provide live updates.

More details on the upcoming Cannes Film Festival 2025, the Official Selection list, and the Un Certain Regard

On April 10, 2025, Cannes’ Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux, alongside Festival President Iris Knobloch, announced the official selections for the Cannes Film Festival 2025 in a news conference.

Some of the entries include Young Mothers by two-time Palme d’Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier, starring Renate Reinsve, and Alpha, a film about an 11-year-old whose parent battles AIDS.

The film's Official Selection list includes:

• Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier
• Romeria by Carla Simon
• Sound of Falling by Masha Schilinski
• The Eagles of the Republic by Tarik Saleh
• The Mastermind by Kelly Reichardt
• File 137 by Dominik Moll
• The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Out by Mario Martone
• Two Prosecutors by Sergei Loznitsa
• New Wave by Richard Linklater
• Sirat by Oliver Laxe
• The Little Last by Hafsia Herzi
• The History of Sound by Oliver Hermanus
• Renoir by Chie Hayakawa
• Alpha by Julia Ducournau
• Young Mothers by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

For the Un Certain Regard section, Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with the movie Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb. Harris Dickinson will also feature his first film as a director, Urchin, under the section.

Check out the A Certain Regard list below:

• The mysterious mirada of flamenco by Diego Cespedes
• Meteors by Hubert Charuel
• My father's shadow by Akinola Davies Jr.
• The Unknown of the Great Arch by Stéphane Demoustier
• Urchin by Harris Dickinson
• Homebound by Neeraj Ghaywan
• A pale view of hills by Ishikawa Kei
• Eleanor the Great by Scarlett Johansson
• Karavan by Zuzana Kirchnerová
• Pillion by Harry Lighton
• Aisha can't fly away by Morad Mostafa
• Once Upon a Time in Gaza by Arab and Tarzan Nasser
• The Plague by Charlie Polinger
• Promis le ciel by Erige Sehiri
• The cities of the plain by Francesco Sossai
• Heads or Tails? by Matteo Zoppis, Alessio Rigo de Righi

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At the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2025, movie icon Robert De Niro will receive the honorary Palme d’Or for Lifetime Achievement. He will host a masterclass at the Théâtre Debussy the following day.

Tom Cruise, who received his honorary Palme d’Or in 2022, will return to the Cannes Film Festival for the Out of Competition premiere of Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning.

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