These were the years of Scola, Fellini and Visconti, regularly present at the Cannes Film Festival, as recalled the general delegate of the French event Thierry Frémaux. In 2025, however, Italian cinema must be satisfied with a single film in competition, Out Of Mario Martonewho returns to the French Riviera after having already been among the big names in 2022 with Nostalgia.
Will have to deal with, among the various, with great authors such as brothers Dardenne And Wes Anderson, aficionados of Cannes, young voices of European cinema such as Norwegian Joachim Trier and French Julia Ducournaualready golden palm in Cannes in 2021 with Titane, with the Americans Richard Linklater And Ari Astermaster of the new horror.
There are two Italian films also in the competition dedicated to the new one, a Certain Regard. It is Head or cross? Of Alessio Rigo de Righi And Matteo Zoppis And The cities of Pianura Of Francesco Sossai.
The opening of the Festival is entrusted to Start a Jour East of the French Amélie Bonnin.
The films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2025
There are 19 films that contribute to the golden palm in the number 78 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, scheduled on the French Riviera from 13 to 24 May 2025. It will be up to Juliette binochemagnificent jury president, sum up.
“The historical mission of the Cannes Film Festival, to which we are very close, is to offer all the filmmakers of the world an kindergarten, sometimes in the literal sense of the term,” he said Iris Knoblochpresident of the Festival. And in fact, among the directors in the race, there is Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director several times put behind the bars from the Tehran regime on charges of propaganda against the Iranian government.
Here are all the films in competition.
- The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson
- Eddington by Ari Aster
- Jeunes Mères by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
- Alpha by Julia Ducournau
- Renoir by chhi hayakawa
- The History of Sound Of Oliver Hermanus
- The Petite Dernière by Hafia Herzi
- Sirat Of Oliver Laxe
- Nouvelle vague by Richard Linklater
- Deux Procureurs Of Sergei Loznitsa
- Out by Mario Martone
- Or secreted agent (The agent secret) Of Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Dossier 137 by Dominik Moll
- A Simple accident by Jafar Panahi
- The Mastermind by Kelly Reichardt
- Les Aigles de la république by Tarik Saleh
- Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski
- Romería by Carla Simon
- Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier
Out by Mario Martone: plot and cast
The only Italian film running for the golden palm, Out by Mario Martone, tells the story of Goliarda SapienzaItalian writer with a complex and multifaceted personality, famous for the novel published posthumously The art of joy.
The singular thing: to interpret it is Valeria Golinowho directed the mini TV series as director The art of joydeals with the homonymous novel by Sapienza. In the cast too Matilda De Angelis, Elodie, Corrado Fortuna, Antonio Gerardi, Francesco Gheghi.
Here is the plot of OutItaly-French co-production. In Rome in 1980, the writer Goliarda Sapienza ends up in prison for stealing jewels, but the meeting with some young prisoners proves to be an experience of rebirth for her. Exit of prison, in a warm Roman summer, women continue to frequent each other and Goliarda holds a deep bond with Roberta, a habitual criminal and political activist. A relationship that no one, outside, can be able to understand but thanks to which Goliarda finds the joy of living and the push to write.
Photography is curated by Paolo Carnera, the editing of Jacopo Quadri, the original music by Valerio Viglier, the scenography of Carmine Guarino, the costumes of Loredana Buscemi, the direct sound of Maricetta Lombardo.
Italian films to a Certain Regard: plot and cast
And here are some details on the two Italian films in competition in the Un Certain Regard section.
The cities of Pianura It is the first work of Francesco Sossai, on the subject and script by Francesco Sossai and Adriano Candiago. 36 years old, born in the Belluno Dolomites, Sossai had stood out with his short film Enrico’s birthday (2023), presented in the world premiere at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes at the Cannes Film Festival, entered the short list of the European Film Awards and César.
The cities of Pianura sees in the cast Filippo Scotti, Sergio Romano, Pierpaolo CapovillaRoberto Citran and Andrea Pennacchi.
It is a road movie in the endless Venetian plain that travels at the speed with which a plow is disposed of. Carlobianchi and Doriano, two exhausted fifty -year -olds, have an obsession: going to drink the last glass. One night, wandering in the car from one bar to another, they come across Giulio, a shy architecture student: the encounter with these two improbable mentors will profoundly transform Giulio into his way of seeing the world and love, and to imagine the future.
Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, born in 1986, are two Italian-American directors. Their collaboration began with the short documentary Black beast and the documentary The solengo. Their first fictional feature film King crab It was previewed at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes 2021.
Head or cross? He is a western on Buffalo Bill. In the early 1900s, the Wild West Show of Buffalo Bill He arrives in Rome to sell Italians the myth of the border, with shots of blank rifles and cowboy shows. Here, in the frame of a tender that has become legend between Italian cowboys and butteri, pink, young wife of the local gentleman, falls in love with Santino, the butter who wins the challenge. Following the murder of her husband, Rosa and Santino flee together, but justice, as always, is sold to the best bidder and a large size is put on the head of Santino. With Buffalo Bill on their tracks, Rosa dreams of America, the real one, not that of advertising posters with bisons, but his dream will have to deal with reality. Because, as in any self -respecting western ballad, fate launches the coin. And often, the truth remains buried underground.
In the cast Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Alessandro Borghi and John C. ReillyPeter Lanzani, Mirko Artuso, Gabriele Silli, with the participation of Gianni Garko.
The other films at the Cannes 2025 festival
Among the great premiere that will be at the Cannes Film Festival, there will be the last chapter dedicated to the secret agent Ethan Hunt, played by Tom Cruise. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning by Christopher Mcquarrie will then arrive promptly in Italian cinemas on May 22nd.
It will also be screened out of competition La Venue de l’avenir French Cédric Klapischwith Cécile de France.
Among the Cannes Première there are The ola Chilean Sebastián LelioOscar winner for the best foreign language film for A fantastic womanAnd Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele (The odrition de Josef Mengele) Russian Kirill Serebrennikovdeclaredly non -navorous gay director, invaded to Moscow.
Under the section a Certain Regard is the debut of the direction of Scarlett Johansson with the movie Eleanor The Great With June Squibb and Chiwetel EjioFor.
