Cycles

Cannes 2025

10 films

Voici une sélection de films de cinéastes en compétition cette année au festival de Cannes.

Cannes 2025
  • Musical comedy, Comedy
  • 2021
  • 24min
by Amélie Bonnin

After graduating from high school, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital, leaving his memories behind. And then one day, he had to come back, and that day his memories jumped out at him from between two packets of Pepito cookies.

  • Comedy
  • 2022
  • 1h20
by Martin Jauvat

Leslie, a disillusioned young suburbanite, drags his best friend Renard into a crappy scheme at the other end of Île-de-France. On a construction site of the future Greater Paris metro line, they discover a mysterious artifact. What easily draw a small ticket. But over the course of their journey, the Parisian suburbs become the scene of strange phenomena.

  • Comedy
  • 2022
  • 29min
by Alice Douard

Céline, à la maternité, attend l’arrivée de son premier enfant. C’est Jeanne, sa compagne, qui va le mettre au monde. La nuit, dans le hall de l’hôpital, elle fait la connaissance d’hommes qui, comme elle, attendent.

  • Experimental film
  • 2022
  • 38min
by Gala Hernandez Lopez

In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled America is responsible for my death. Fluid Mechanics is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2021
  • 1h39
by Hafsia Herzi

Nora, a cleaning lady in her fifties, looks after her small family in a housing estate in the northern part of Marseille. She is worried about her grandson ELLYES, who has been in prison for several months for robbery and is awaiting his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety. NORA does everything she can to make this wait as painless as possible...

  • Drama, Thriller
  • 2023
  • 1h57
by Stéphane Demoustier

When Melissa, a prison guard gets transferred to a new prison in Corsica, a young male inmate helps her get her bearings and offers her protection —but he expects help in return.

  • Comedy-drama
  • 2021
  • 2h00
by Cédric Klapisch

Élise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance again. The path to physical and emotional recovery will lead her away from Paris to a picturesque location in Brittany – where her friends, a new love and the freedom of contemporary dance will help her reconnect with her father and most importantly, herself. A heartwarming and inspiring story that tells us how sometimes, the worst thing that could happen may turn out to be the best.

  • Drama
  • 2022
  • 1h32
by Erige Sehiri

Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.

  • Drama, Historical film
  • 2022
  • 1h41
by Sepideh Farsi

1980, Abadan. The capital of the Iranian oil industry is resisting an Iraqi siege. Fourteen-year-old Omid has braved the siege and stayed in the city with his grandfather, waiting for his elder brother to return from the front line. Along with Omid, a gallery of unusual characters have all remained in the city for their own reasons, and each resists in his or her own way. But the noose is tightening as Omid tries to save his loved ones, by embarking them on an abandoned boat he finds in Abadan’s port, that will become his ark.

  • Thriller
  • 2019
  • 1h36
by Stéphane Demoustier

16 years-old Lise is accused of murdering her best friend. Her parents stand by her as naturally expected. But once in court, her secret life begins to unfold and the plot thickens. Who is Lise really? Do we really know the ones we love?

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