Cannes Film Festival 2025

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A Magnificent Life A Magnificent Life
A Magnificent Life and Bono: Stories Of Surrender
Arco (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Ugo Bienvenu; Writer: Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry; Stars: Natalie Portman, Louis Garrel, Swann Arlaud, Alma Jodorowsky, Vincent Macaigne, Oxmo Puccino)
In 2075, a 10-year-old girl, Iris, witnesses a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. He comes from an idyllic far future where time travel is possible. Iris shelters him and will do whatever it takes to help him return to his time.
Bono: Stories Of Surrender (Country: US, Italy, Ireland; Year: 2025; Director: Andrew Dominik; Stars: Bono, Gemma Doherty, Kate Ellis, Jacknife Lee)
A vivid reimagining of Bono’s critically acclaimed one-man stage show, Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief…
Little Amélie (Little Amélie or the Character of Rain) (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang, Mailys Vallade; Writer: Amélie Nothomb, Liane-Cho Han Jin Kuang, Aude Py, Mailys Vallade, Eddine Noël; Stars: Loïse Charpentier, Victoria Grobois, Yumi Fujimori, Cathy Cerda, Marc Arnaud, Laetitia Coryn, Haylee Issembourg, Isaac Schoumsky, François Raison, Emmylou Homs)
Amélie is a little Belgian girl born in Japan. Thanks to her friend Nishio-san, the world is full of adventure and discovery. But on her third birthday, an event changes the course of her life. For Amélie, everything is at stake at that age, happiness as well as tragedy.
A Magnificent Life (The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol) (Country: France, Belgium, US, Luxembourg; Year: 2025; Director: Sylvain Chomet; Writer: Sylvain Chomet, Marcel Pagnol; Stars: French version: Laurent Lafitte, Géraldine Pailhas, Thierry Garcia, Anaïs Petit, Vincent Fernandel, Véronique Philipponnat. English version: Matthew Gravelle, Lu Corfield, Jonathan Keeble, Celyn Jones, Jess Nesling, Flora Montgomery)
Animated consideration of the life of the cinema pioneer.
Mama (Country: Israel, Poland, Italy; Year: 2025; Director: Or Sinai; Writer: Or Sinai; Stars: Evgenia Dodina, Chelli Goldenberg, Meir Suissa)
After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion - and her secret romance - to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined.
Mama Mama
Mama and Little Amélie
The Six Billion Dollar Man (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Eugene Jarecki; Writer: Eugene Jarecki; Stars: Pamela Anderson, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Chris Hedges)
This film traces the saga of Julian Assange, a contemporary icon of the right to information, whose recent release from prison has reignited the global debate on press freedom.
Tell Her I Love Her (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Romane Bohringer; Writer: Clémentine Autain, Romane Bohringer, Gábor Rassov; Stars: Romane Bohringer, Dominique Frot, Clémentine Autain, Eva Yelmani, Josiane Stoléru, Raoul Rebbot-Bohringer, Liliane Sanrey-Baud)
Romane has directed a film adaptation of the book that Clémentine Autain wrote and dedicated to her mother, actress Dominique Laffin. Through this project, Romane is forced to confront her past and her own mother, who abandoned her when she was nine months old.
The Wonderers (Country: France; Year: 2025; Director: Joséphine Japy; Writer: Joséphine Japy, Olivier Torres; Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Félix Kysyl, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Angelina Woreth, Anne Loiret, Stéphane Varupenne, Sarah Pachoud, Thomas Gioria, Birane Ba, Pascal Decolland, Juliette Gasquet, Najim Zeghoudi, Maxence Tual, Ilinka Lony)
The Roussier family lives in a fragile equilibrium around the younger sister, Bertille, who suffers from a severe disability with an unclear diagnosis. Her parents, Madeleine and Gilles, and her sister Marion, each of them tries their best to deal with the doubts and needs surrounding this extraordinary child who could die at any moment. What does the future hold for this couple, and for Marion whose responsibilities made her grow up too fast? When a new diagnosis is unveiled, horizons open up…
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