The Cannes Film Festival takes place from May 13 to 24, gathering many outstanding filmmakers, actors, and works.
At this year's film festival, legendary French actress Juliette Binoche will take over as Chairwoman of the Jury from Greta Gerwig in 2024. After 60 years, Cannes has only had 2 women hold this role for 2 consecutive seasons.
Experts say that this year's film season will be dramatic with films from veteran directors and new faces. Actors Harris Dickinson, Kristen Stewart and scarlett Johansson are all directing their own films for the first time
Many blockbusters will be featured such as Tom Cruise's " Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning" and a team of experienced directors such as Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, Joachim Trier, Ari Aster, Ethan Coen and Wes Anderson.
One of the highly appreciated works at this year's Film Festival is "The Phoenician Scheme" by Wes Anderson. This is Anderson's third film to be shown in Cannes, following "The French Dispatch" and " Asteroid City".
"The Phoenician Scheme" features a strong cast including Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Riz Ahmed, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright... The film is highly appreciated and is predicted to win the Golden Ward.
In addition to Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Ari Aster, Julia Ducournau and Kelly Reichardts film will also compete for the Golden Ward award this year.
According to W Magazine, notable names include director Dardennes with "Young Mothers", Sergei Loznitsa with "Two Prosecutors".
Lynne Ramsay's comedy horror film " Die, My Love" starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson is also a strong candidate.
Reichardt, Ramsay, Simon and Schilinski are the four female directors nominated for the Golden Rooster Award this year - accounting for one-third of the total number of films competing for the award and a positive step forward for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
Among them, female director Julia Ducournau - who won the Golden Branch in 2021 with " titane" - returned to "Alpha". The film is a horror film, set in the AIDS pandemic.
According to Screen Daily, this year, the film festival recorded many actors taking on the role of director. In the Un Certain Regard category for emerging filmmakers, Kristen Stewart directed "The Chronology of Water," a film adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch's memoir.
"The Chronology of Water" is Kristen Stewart's first film as a director.
Similarly, "Eleanor The Great" directed by star scarlett Johansson, starring June Squibb and Harris Dickinson, is set on the streets of London.
Another notable film in the Un Certain Regard category is "My Father's Shadow," which is said to be the first Nigeria film to make the official shortlist of films of Cannes.
The art director of the Cannes Film Festival - Thierry Fremaux - said that the organizing committee received a record of 2,909 entries. Of these, 68% were directed by male directors and 32% were directed by female directors.
Last year, director Sean Seniors Anora won the Golden Rooster Best Director award. After that, the work also "swed" the 97th Academy Awards, winning 5 awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress.
