The Cannes Classics selection for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled, with Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush celebrating its centenary as the opening film.
In addition to the Official Selection, the Directors' Fortnight, Critics' Week andAcid, the Cannes 2025 Festival has an extra section, Cannes Classics, dedicated to tributes and restorations. From May 13 to 24, these special screenings of heritage films will make way for the classics. New restorations, documentaries and special events will also be presented.
Numerous artists are also expected to present works from the Cannes Classics program at this year's Festival de Cannes 2025. They include Alejandro Iñárritu, Wes Anderson, Diane Kurys, Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem, Shia LaBeouf, Raphaël Quenard and Mariska Hargitay.
Cinephile filmmaker, Palme d'Or winner with Pulp Fiction, President of the Jury in 2004, Quentin Tarantino is this year's guest of honor at Cannes Classics. He will share his passion for George Sherman by showing two of his westerns: Le Mustang Noir and Sur le Territoire des Comanches.
Discover the entire Cannes Classics 2025 selection!
The Cannes Classics 2025 selection :
Events :
- Charlie Chaplin'sGold Rush. In the presence of Arnold Lozano, director of Roy Export SAS.
- Amours Chiennes by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. In the presence of Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
- Moi qui t'aimais by Diane Kurys. With Diane Kurys, Marina Foïs, Roschdy Zem and Thierry de Peretti.
- L'Arche by T'ang Shushuen. In the presence of T'ang Shushuen.
- Dogma: Resurrected by Kevin Smith. In the presence of Kevin Smith, and Robert Yeoman, the film's cinematographer.
- Sunshine by István Szabó. In the presence of István Szabó, producer Robert Lantos and György Ráduly, Director of the National Film Institute - Film Preservation and Technology Division Hungary.
- Slauson Rec by Leo Lewis O'Neil. In the presence of Leo Lewis O'Neil and Shia LaBeouf.
- I love Peru by Raphaël Quenard and Hugo David. In the presence of Raphaël Quenard and Hugo David.
- Yi Yi by Edward Yang. In the presence of Kaili Peng, Edward Yang's spouse, credited as composer, set designer, costume designer and actress in the film.
- A Toute Epreuve by John Woo. In the presence of Jordan Fields (Shout! Studios).
- Merlusse by Marcel Pagnol. With Nicolas Pagnol, Marcel Pagnol's grandson.
- David Lynch, a Hollywood enigma by Stéphane Ghez. In the presence of Riley Lynch, son of David Lynch, and Stéphane Ghez.
- A Vigo je vais by Lírio Ferreira and Karen Harley. In the presence of Karen Harley and Lírio Ferreira, producers Diogo Dahl and Maria Fernanda Miguel, editor Lucílio Jota, sound editor Waldir Xavier, the actress in one of Carlos Diegues' films, Ana Maria Magalhães, singer Ney Matogrosso, and Carlos Diegues' wife Renata Magalhaes and daughter Isabel.
- Dis pas de bêtises ! by Vincent Glenn. In the presence of Vincent Glenn.
- Bo Being Bo Widerberg by Jon Asp and Mattias Nohrborg. In the presence of Jon Asp and Mattias Nohrborg, and actors from Bo Widerberg's films, Thommy Berggren and Pia Degermark, Elvira Madigan's couple, in Competition at Cannes in 1967, for which Pia Degermark received the Best Actress Award.
- My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay. In the presence of Mariska Hargitay.
Restored copies :
- Days and Nights in the Forest by Satyajit Ray. In the presence of director and Film Foundation board member Wes Anderson, lead actress Sharmila Tagore, producer Purnima Dutta, Margaret Bodde, Executive Director of the Film Foundation, and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director of the Film Heritage Foundation.
- La Course en Tête by Joël Santoni. In the presence of Guillaume Roitfeld (Les Productions Roitfeld/Films Princesse) and Lhoussaïne Zammat (Panama Productions).
- Nuages Flottants by Mikio Naruse. In the presence of director Koji Fukada and Shion Komatsu (Toho Global).
- The Girls by Sumitra Peries. In the presence of lead actress Wasanthi Chaturani, lead actor Ajith Jinadasa, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director of the Film Heritage Foundation and Gayathri Mustachi, President of the Lester James Peries and Sumitra Peries Foundation.
- La Paga by Ciro Durán. In the presence of Joyce Ventura, Ciro Durán's long-time producer, as well as Alexis and Vladimir Durán, filmmakers and sons of the director, and the Fundación Patrimonio Fílmico Colombiano.
- Magirama by Abel Gance and Nelly Kaplan. In the presence of Laurent Cormier, Director of Heritage, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC).
- Beyond Oblivion by Hugo del Carril. With Luis Alberto Scalella, President of Argentina Sono Film.
- Saïd Effendi by Kameran Hosni. In the presence of Dr. Hassan Al-Sudani, President of the Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham Committee for Iraqi Visual Memory, and Wareth Kwaish, Project Manager of the Iraqi Cinémathèque project for Expertise France.
- Sterne by Konrad Wolf. In the presence of Philippe Bober (Coproduction Office) and Stefanie Eckert (DEFA-Stiftung).
- Chronique des Années de Braise by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina. In the presence of Tarek Lakhdar-Hamina, Malik Lakhdar-Hamina and Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, actors in the film and sons of director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina.
- Cuckoo's Nest by Miloš Forman. In the presence of Paul Zaentz (Teatro Della Pace Films).
- Barry Lyndon by Stanley Kubrick
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