The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is looking to be another knockout, with some of this years hottest features, including Wes AndersonsThe Phoenician Scheme, Richard LinklatersNouvelle Vague, and Ari Asters Eddington set to premiere on the Croisette.

Cannes delegate general Thierry Frmaux and president Iris Knobloch announced this years line-up at a press conference in Paris Thursday morning.

The 2025 competition line-up is packed with auteur heavyweights, including Kelly Reichardt, who returns to Cannes competition with The Mastermind, an art-heist drama starring Josh OConnor and John Magaro, set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War; Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier, who returns to the Croisette after his 2021 triumph (withThe Worst Person of the World) with Sentimental Value, also featuring Renate Reinsve; and dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who will be back in Cannes competition with his latest drama, A Simple Accident. Two-time Palme dOr winners the Dardenne Brothers return with their latest slice of Belgian social realism, The Young Mothers Home; South African director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie) will get his competition debut with The History of Sound, a WWI gay romantic road movies, starring Paul Mescal and Josh OConnor; and French veteran Dominik Moll will be repping the home side with his latest, the French crime drama Dossier 137.

Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme dOr in 2021 with her explosive, and divisive, body horror classic Titane, returns to Cannes competition with Alpha, a 1980s-set shocker that follows an 11-year-old girl who is rejected by her classmates after it is rumored she has been infected with a new disease.

U.S. distributor Neon, which is coming off an unprecedented five-year winning streak of Palme dOr winners (Parasite (2019), Titane (2021), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Anora (2024)) has two shots at making it six straight, with both Alpha and Triers Sentimental Value in its stable.

Cannes on Tuesday confirmed this years worst-kept festival secret: Tom Cruise will return to the Croisette for the world premiere ofMission: Impossible The Final Reckoning, which will have an out-of-competition bow in Cannes ahead of its May 23 global release byParamount.

Frmaux said the festival screened 2,909 features in its selection process, an all-time record.

Cannes reaffirmed its position as the worlds number one film festival last year, with Cannes 2024 selections racking up a total of 31 Oscar nominations, and nine wins, led by Sean Bakers 2024 Palme dOr winner Anora which rode its success on the Croisette all the way to 5 Academy Awards, including best picture. Last years festival also produced the break-out successes of Emilia Prez, The Substance and animated winner Flow, further stoking interest in this years selection.

Among the out of competition highlights this year are Jodie Foster-starrer Vie Prive, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski, the music documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender from Blonde and Killing Them Softly director Andrew Dominik, about the U2 frontman; Amrum, the latest feature from German director Fatih Akin, starring his In the Fade collaborator Diane Kruger; Sebastin Lelios Spanish-language feminist musical The Wave; and The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele from Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov.

Cannes Un Certain Regard sidebar will be packed with directorial debuts, including Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johanssons first turn behind the camera, which stars June Squibb; Harrison Dickinsons Urchin, a British drama about a homeless man in London; and My Fathers Shadow, a hotly-anticipated debut from British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies starring Gangs of London and Slow Horses actor Sope Drs.

Another directorial debut, the French drama Partir un Jour from first-timer Amlie Bonnin, will open this years festival, screening out of competition.

French star and Oscar winner Juliette Binochewill head up the 2025 Cannes jury, which is picking the Palme winners, as president. Robert De Nirowill be honored with an honorary Palme dOr for lifetime achievement at the Cannes opening ceremony this year.

COMPETITION

Alpha, Julie Ducournau

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 Mendona Filho

Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier

A Simple Accident, Jafar Panahi

Sirat, Oliver Laxe

Sound of Falling, Mascha Schilinksi

Two Prosecutors, Sergei Loznitsa

Young Mothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Aisha Cant Fly Away, Morad Mostafa

Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson

Heads or Tails?, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis

Homebound, Neeraj Ghaywan

Karavan, Zuzana Kirchnerov

Linconnu de la Grande Arche, Stphane Demoustier

The Last One for the Road, Francesco Sossai

Meteors,Hubert Charuel

My Fathers Shadow, Akinola Davies Jr

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, Diego Cspedes

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

Urchin, Harris Dickinson

OUT OF COMPETITION

Colours of Time,Cedric Klapisch

Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning,Christopher McQuarrie

Partir un jour,Amlie Bonnin opening film

The Richest Woman in the World, Thierry Klifa

Vie Prive, Rebecca Zlotowski

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Bono: Stories of Surrender, Andrew Dominik

The Magnificent Life of Marcel Pagnol, Sylvain Chomet

Tell Her I Love Her, Romane Bohringer

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

Dalloway, Yann Gozlan

Exit 8, Kawamura Genki

Songs of the Neon Night,Juno Mak

CANNES PREMIERE

Amrum, Fatih Akin

Connemara, Alex Lutz

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele, Kirill Serebrennikov

Orwell: 2+2 =5, Raoul Peck

Splitsville, Michael Angelo Covino

The Wave, Sebastin Lelio