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The 78th Cannes Film Festival — where Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will make its world premiere — begins this week in Cannes in the South of France. You don’t have to be there, however, to take in the events of the prestigious annual event.
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival gets underway Tuesday evening and runs through May 24. The official lineup for this year’s festivities was unveiled on April 10.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is playing Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival 2025 on Wednesday with Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie and the film’s cast in attendance. Cruise last appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022 for the world premiere of Top Gun: Maverick. Also premiering Out of Competition at the festival is Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest.
Oscar winner Robert De Niro will be awarded the Cannes Film Festival’s honorary Palme d’Or at the opening ceremony on Tuesday, which will begin at 7:15 p.m. local time in Cannes (1:15 ET/10:15 PT). The opening night film for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival is the French comedy Partir un Jour (Leave One Day) from director Amélie Bonnin
The Cannes opening ceremony and other events, including red carpet premieres, photocalls and press conferences, will stream live on the Cannes Film Festival website, as well as Cannes’ YouTube channel and X and Instagram accounts.
Other major films premiering at the Cannes Film Festival — with casts and filmmakers in tow — include Wes Anderson’s Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Ari Aster’s Eddington, Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, Oliver Hermanus’ The History of Sound and Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, which are all playing In Competition.
Films from a trio of notable actors making their feature directorial debuts will also be featured at the festival in the Un Certain Regard category: Eleanor the Great from Scarlett Johansson, The Chronology of Water by Kristen Stewart and Urchin by Harris Dickinson.
Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche, who hails from France, is the president of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival Jury, which also includes Hollywood stars Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong.
Other Cannes jury members include Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, Italian actor Alba Rohrwacher, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, Congolese director and documentarian Dieudo Hamadi, Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo and Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas.
2025 Cannes Film Festival Lineup
In Competition
Alpha — Julie Ducournau
Die, My Love — Lynne Ramsay
Dossier 137 — Dominik Moll
The Eagles of the Republic — Tarik Saleh
Eddington — Ari Aster
Fuori — Mario Martone
The History of Sound — Oliver Hermanus
La Petite Derniere — Hafsia Herzi
The Mastermind — Kelly Reichardt
Nouvelle Vague — Richard Linklater
The Phoenician Scheme —Wes Anderson
Renoir — Chie Hayakawa
Romeria — Carla Simone
The Secret Agent — Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier
A Simple Accident — Jafar Panahi
Sirat — Oliver Laxe
Sound of Falling — Mascha Schilinksi
Two Prosecutors — Sergei Loznitsa
Woman and Child — Saeed Roustaee
Young Mothers — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Out Of Competition
Colours of Time — Cedric Klapisch
Highest 2 Lowest — Spike Lee
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning — Christopher McQuarrie
Partir un Jour — Amélie Bonnin
The Richest Woman in the World — Thierry Klifa
Vie Privée — Rebecca Zlotowski
Un Certain Regard
Aisha Can’t Fly Away — Morad Mostafa
The Chronology of Water — Kristen Stewart
Eleanor the Great — Scarlett Johansson
Heads or Tails? — Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis
Homebound — Neeraj Ghaywan
Karavan — Zuzana Kirchnerová
L’inconnu de la Grande Arche — Stéphane Demoustier
The Last One for the Road — Francesco Sossai
Love Me Tender — Anna Cazenave Cambet
Meteors — Hubert Charuel
My Father’s Shadow — Akinola Davies Jr
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo — Diego Céspedes
Once Upon a Time in Gaza — Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser
A Pale View of the Hills — Kei Ishikawa
Pillion — Harry Lighton
The Plague — Charlie Polinger
Promised Sky — Erige Sehiri
Un Poeta — Simón Mesa Soto
Urchin — Harris Dickinson
O Riso e a Faca (Le Rire et Le Couteau) — Pedro Pinho
Special Screenings
Amélie et la Métaphysique Des Tubes — Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han
As Part of a Tribute to Pierre Richard L’Homme Qui a Vu L’Ours Qui a Vu L’homme — Pierre Richard
Arco — Ugo Bienvenu
Bono: Stories of Surrender — Andrew Dominik
The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol — Sylvain Chomet
Mama — Or Sinai
Qui Brille au Combat — Joséphine Japy
Tell Her I Love Her — Romane Bohringer
Midnight Screenings
Dalloway — Yann Gozlan
Exit 8 — Kawamura Genki
Honey Don’t — Ethan Coen
Le Roi Soleil — Vincent Maël Cardona
Songs of the Neon Night — Juno Mak
Cannes Premiere
Ástin Sem Eftir Er — Hlynur Pálmason
Amrum — Fatih Akin
Connemara — Alex Lutz
The Disappearance of Josef Mengele — Kirill Serebrennikov
Magalhães — Lav Diaz
Orwell: 2+2 = 5 — Raoul Peck
Renai Saiban — Kōji Fukada
Splitsville — Michael Angelo Covino
The Wave — Sebastián Lelio
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is May 13-24. Last year’s winner of the Palme d’Or, Anora, went on to win the Best Picture Oscar at the 97th Academy Awards.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/05/12/2025-cannes-film-festival-where-to-stream-events-live/