Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson are set to make their directorial debuts at this years Cannes Film Festival.

The two actors have concentrated their focus behind the camera for the debuting titles, featuring in Cannes Un Certain Regard, announced by Cannesdelegate general Thierry Frmaux and presidentIris Knoblochat a press conference in Paris on Thursday morning.

Johansson, best known for her Avengers outings in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will premiere Eleanor the Great. It follows a 90-year-old Floridian woman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 19-year-old student in New York City and stars June Squibb,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Jessica Hecht andErin Kellyman. Meanwhile, Dickinson, Babygirl actor and a relative newcomer to A-list stardom, will debut his feature film Urchin, about a drifter (Frank Dillane) on the streets of London. Dickinson is not turning to directing entirely he is set to play John Lennon in Sam Mendes Beatles biopics for Sony for a 2028 release.

Elsewhere, Cannes competition lineup ispacked with auteur heavyweights, including Kelly Reichardts 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 The Worst Person of the World withSentimental 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.

Hot features this year includeWes AndersonsThe Phoenician Scheme (with Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed and Tom Hanks among others), Richard Linklaters Nouvelle Vague (Guillaume Marbeck and Zoey Deutch) and Ari AstersEddington(Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler) also set to premiere on the Croisette.

The festival screened 2,909 features in its selection process, an all-time record. See the full lineup for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival here.