Wes Anderson, Richard Linclter, Ari Aster to compete at the 2025 Festival Festival Festival

The Festival Festival Festival Festival was unveiled on Thursday morning, and includes a mixture of Familiar names in the competition Besides some relative arrivals.

In all, 19 films were announced to compete in the 78th edition of the festival, although festivals organizers often add an additional title or two before the opening of the ceremony in May.

Among the competing films are new titles from the directors, Wes Anderson, Richard Lincalter, Kelly Richard and Ari Aster. Six of the films are directed in the collection by women, one shy of the record of seven groups two years ago.

A full list of competing addresses at the Cannes Festival

• “The Phoenicians” (Wes Anderson)
• “Eddington” (ARI ASTER)
• “Young Mothers” (Jean -Pierre Darden and Luke Dardin)
• “Alpha” (Julia Dukorno)
• “Renoir” (Hayakawa Che)
• “The History of Voice” (Oliver Hermanos)
• “The Small” (Herzi)
• “Cerat” (Oliver Luxe)
• “New Wave” (Richard Lincalter)
• Two prosecutors (Sergey Luznita)
• “Outside” (Mario Marton)
• “Kleber Mindonça Filho”
• File 137 (Dominique Mall)
• “Simple accident” (Jaafar Banahi)
• “The Master” (Kelly Richardt)
• “Aigles of the Republic” (Tarik Saleh)
• “The Voice of the Fall” (Mascha Schilinski)
• “Romeria” (Carla Simon)
• “Emotional Value” (Joachim Trier)

It was also announced by the departure one day (“Partir Un jour”, directed by Amily Bonin, which will be the choice of the official opening night.

Many filmmakers and industrial characters are the granting of the annual granted for what or not among the highest honor of artistic achievement in the world of the film, but also at an informal start for the season of the year’s awards that followed, especially the Academy of Animation and Science Arts – the organization that gives the Oscars continues in every spring.

In recent years, the films that were launched at the Cannes Festival have found themselves at an Oscar chase. Only in the past half, two of the winners – Bong John Ho “The parasite” and Shawn Baker “Anura” – also fell to the Academy Award for the best image. Before that, “Marty” and “The Lost Weekend” for 1955 managed to win by winning each of these higher awards.

The list of the last winners in Bali, who have been nominated at least to get the best image of Justin Treeit, “Anatomy” (2023), “Sad Triangle” from Robin Ostrlong (2022), and “Amour” (2012) and Terrence Malick “The Tree of Life” (2011). The list of competitors last year included more than two titles that reached the Cannes Festival first, including “The Submetance”, “Emilia Pérez” and “The Appness”.

Among the film makers in the competition this year, Julia Ducurno and Dardennes Brothers won in previous festivals, and Ducounau for “Titane” and Dardennes of “Rosetta” and “L’enfant”. Dardens is among a small group of directors who won twice.

Earlier this week, festivals organizers confirmed that Tom Cruise would return to Createit with “Mission: Impossible – Reckoning”, although they said the film would appear outside the competition. Cruise was awarded the Honorary Award in 2022 when his movie “Top Gun: Maverick” was shown at the Cannes Festival that year.

The organizers also announced that the actor Robert De Niro will give Bali or during the opening ceremony.

This year’s festival extends from May 13 to 24.