Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes), the independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival, has unveiled the lineup for the 57th edition taking place May 14-24, 2025.
Directors’ Fortnight will open with Enzo, the drama film directed by Robin Campillo (BPM Beats Per Minute) who stepped in to direct the feature film after his friend and the film’s co-writer Laurent Cantet died. It follows a 16-year-old boy who defies his upper class family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.
It will close with Sorry, Baby, the drama film directed by Eva Victor and produced by Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins. The film which premiered at Sundance Film Festival where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: US Dramatic, tells the story of a college professor trying to recover from a sexual assault.
At the festival, Todd Haynes will receive the Carrosse d’Or honor, during the Directors’ Fortnight’s opening ceremony; and filmmaker Thomas Cailley (Love at First Fight (2014) and The Animal Kingdom (2023)) is the first Prix Alpine winner, which he will receive during the closing ceremony. The Prix Alpine aims to reward filmmakers who dare to shatter conventions and blaze new trails in French and international cinema.
Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2025 Lineup
Feature Films
Enzo by Laurent Cantet, Directed by Robin Campillo – Opening Film
Amour Apocalypse (Peak Everything) by Anne Émond
Brand New Landscape (見はらし世代) by Yuiga Danzuka – First Feature Film
Classe Moyenne (The Party’s Over!) De Antony Cordier
Dangerous Animals by Sean Byrne
La Danse Des Renards (Wild Foxes) by Valéry Carnoy – First Feature Film
L’engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) by Louise Hémon – First Feature Film
Les Filles Désir (The Girls We Want) by Prïncia Car – First Feature Film
Girl on Edge (Hua Yang Shao Nv Sha Ren Shi Jian) by Jinghao Zhou – First Feature Film
Indomptables by Thomas Ngijol
Kokuho by Lee Sang-il
Lucky Lu by Lloyd Lee Choi – First Feature Film
Militantropos by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi
Miroirs No. 3 (Mirrors No. 3 ) by Christian Petzold
La Mort N’existe Pas (Death Does Not Exist) by Félix Dufour-laperrière
The President’s Cake (Mamlaket Al-qasab) by Hasan Hadi – First Feature Film
Que Ma Volonté Soit Faite (Her Will Be Done) by Julia Kowalski
Sorry, Baby by Eva Victor – First Feature Film – Closing Film
Short & Medium Length Films
+10k by Gala Hernández López
Before the Sea Forgets by Ngọc Duy Lê
The Body by Louris Van De Geer
Bread Will Walk (Le Pain Se Lève) by Alex Boya
Cœur Bleu (Blue Heart) by Samuel Suffren
Karmash (کرمش) by Aleem Bukhari
Loynes by Dorian Jespers
La Mort Du Poisson (Death of the Fish) by Eva Lusbaronian
Nervous Energy by Eve Liu
When the Geese Flew by Arthur Gay