Dozens of Cannes Film Festival titles are among the 55 entries in the Centerpiece Programme and we find some anticipated world premiere items as well with the latest films by Adam Carter Rehmeier, Pete Ohs, Haifaa Al Mansour and Jan Komasa. Dinner in America’s Rehmeier’s Carolina Caroline features Samara Weaving, Kyle Gallner and Kyra Sedgwick in a romantic crime thriller. The almost one film per year Pete Ohs offers his second film of 2025 with Erupcja starring Charli XCX, Lena Góra, Will Madden and Jeremy O. Harris. Corpus Christi’s Jan Komasa landed Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Anson Boon for a thriller. Also working in the same genre, Haifaa Al Mansour’s Unidentified begins with a lifeless body of a teenage girl in the desert outside a small town. When no one claims the body, Noelle Al Saffan, a newly divorced, true crime aficionado who recently lost a child of her own, gets obsessively involved.
2025 CENTREPIECE PROGRAMME (in alphabetical order)
A Useful Ghost | Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke | Thailand/France/Singapore/Germany – NAP
Arco | Ugo Bienvenu | France – NAP
Barrio Triste | STILLZ | Colombia/USA – NAP
Blood Lines | Gail Maurice | Canada – WP
Blue Heron | Sophy Romvari | Canada/Hungary – NAP
Blue Moon | Richard Linklater | USA/Ireland – NAP
Carolina Caroline | Adam Carter Rehmeier | USA – WP
Dandelion’s Odyssey | Momoko Seto | France/Belgium NAP
Diya | Achille Ronaimou | Chad/France/Germany/Côte d’Ivoire – NAP
Duse | Pietro Marcello | France/Italy IP
Eagles of the Republic | Tarik Saleh | Sweden/France/Denmark/Finland/Germany – NAP
Erupcja | Pete Ohs | USA/Poland WP
Exit 8 | Genki Kawamura | Japan – NAP
Follies | Eric K. Boulianne | Canada – NAP
Girl | Shu Qi | Taiwan – NAP
Good Boy | Jan Komasa | Poland/UK – WP
Hamlet | Aneil Karia | UK – CP
Honey Bunch | Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli | Canada – NAP
I Swear | Kirk Jones | UK – WP
In Search of The Sky | Jitank Singh Gurjar | India – WP
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream | Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji | Iraq/United Arab Emirates/France/UK/Qatar/Saudi Arabia – NAP
Left-Handed Girl | Shih-Ching Tsou | Taiwan/France/USA/UK – NAP
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain | Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han | France – NAP
Lucky Lu | Lloyd Lee Choi | USA – NAP
Mama | Or Sinai | Israel/Poland/Italy – NAP
Memory of Princess Mumbi | Damien Hauser | Kenya/Switzerland/Saudi Arabia – NAP
Milk Teeth | Mihai Mincan | Romania/France/Denmark/Greece/Bulgaria – NAP
Miroirs No. 3 | Christian Petzold | Germany – NAP
Motor City | Potsy Ponciroli | USA – NAP
My Father’s Shadow | Akinola Davies Jr. | UK/Nigeria – NAP
New Years Rev | Lee Kirk | USA – WP
Nomad Shadow | Eimi Imanishi | USA/Spain/France – WP
Olmo | Fernando Eimbcke | USA/Mexico – NAP
Orphan | László Nemes | Hungary/France/Germany/UK – NAP
Palimpsest: the Story of a Name | Mary Stephen | France/Hong Kong/Taiwan – WP
Renoir | Chie Hayakawa | Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia/Qatar – NAP
Saipan | Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Ireland/UK – WP
Space Cadet | Kid Koala | Canada – NAP
The Blue Trail | Gabriel Mascaro | Brazil/Mexico/Chile/Netherlands – NAP
The Condor Daughter | Álvaro Olmos Torrico | Bolivia/Peru/Uruguay – WP
The Cost of Heaven | Mathieu Denis | Canada – WP
The Fox King | Woo Ming Jin | Malaysia/Indonesia – WP
The Last One for The Road | Francesco Sossai | Italy/Germany – NAP
The Last Viking | Anders Thomas Jensen | Denmark/Sweden – NAP
The Little Sister | Hafsia Herzi | France/Germany – NAP
The Love That Remains | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland/Denmark/Sweden/France – NAP
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo | Diego Céspedes | Chile/France – NAP
The President’s Cake | Hasan Hadi | Iraq/USA/Qatar – NAP
The Sun Rises On Us All | Cai Shangjun | China – NAP
Two Prosecutors | Sergei Loznitsa | France/Germany/Netherlands/Latvia/Romania/Lithuania – NAP
Under The Same Sun | Ulises Porra | Dominican Republic/Spain – WP
Unidentified | Haifaa Al Mansour | Saudi Arabia – WP
Wasteman | Cal McMau | UK – WP
Whitetail | Nanouk Leopold | Netherlands/Belgium/Ireland – WP
Youngblood | Hubert Davis | Canada – WP