Cannes 2025: Nominated Directors’ Filmography

A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.

A doctor plagued by feelings of guilt tries on her own initiative to clarify the identity of a dead woman who lay on her doorstep.

Sandra only has a weekend to go and see her colleagues and persuade them to waive their bonuses so that she can keep her job.

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, Samantha agrees to foster him on weekends.

4 years in the life of Julie as she navigates the murky waters of her love life and searches for a career path.

The great imam collapses and dies in front of his students. It's the start of a battle for influence to take his place.

After 40 years abroad, Felice returns to Naples and is confronted with a past that consumes him.

Young and ambitious Captain Vivés has just been appointed group leader at the Grenoble Criminal Squad when Clara's murder case lands on his desk. Vivés ...

A woman has disappeared. The day after a snowstorm, her car is found on a road leading to a plateau with with nothing but a few scattered farms. The gendarmes ...

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could ...

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An ...

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited ...

Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on ...

In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise ...

A documentarian heads deep into the Brazilian outback to profile a small village that recently lost its matriarch in his latest film. As his relationship ...

Three Iranian actresses: one from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today and a young girl longing to attend a conservatory.

As Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. Director ...

Thelma leaves home to go and study in Oslo. There she discovers that she is in communication with supernatural forces.

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. ...

The Donbass has been in a state of war since 2014. Based on 13 true events, Sergei Loznitsa deals with the absurdity of the war.

In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions ...

When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her. Raised as a rigorous vegetarian, ...

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation ...

In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. ...

A young waitress welcomes her husband home to the small South African town of Riviersonderend (Endless River) after his four-year jail sentence. At first ...

Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.

A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day, a parcel she sent to her husband, who is serving a sentence in prison, came back to her unopened.

Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the ...

François van Heerden, a mid-40s, white, Afrikaans-speaking family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so ...