Launched for the first time last year, the Immersive Competition is the Cannes Film Festival 2025 selection celebrating new technologies.
Last year, the Cannes Film Festival unveiled a brand-new selection, the Immersive Competition, held this year at the Carlton Hotel, which includes collective virtual reality installations, mixed reality experiences, video mapping and holographic works.
In all, 9 projects from 9 countries have been selected to "showcase the avant-garde of this new art form, challenging established conventions, embracing new technologies and celebrating new artists as well as established figures." 2 works will also be presented out of competition. They"explore the evolution of the medium and draw parallels between virtual reality, virtual production, cinema and collective storytelling." A focus on five Luxembourg creations is also expected.
The Best Immersive Work Award will be presented at a closing ceremony on May 23 by a select jury. Chaired by French director Luc Jacquet, the jury includes American artist Laurie Anderson, French writer Tania de Montaigne, British director Martha Fiennes and Japanese video game designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
In Immersive competition :
- BEYOND THE VIVID UNKNOWN by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio (USA, international premiere)
- FILLOS DO VENTO: A RAPA by Brais Revalderia and María Fernanda Ordóñez Morla (Spain, USA, World premiere)
- FROM DUST by Michel van der Aa (Netherlands, International premiere)
- IN THE CURRENT OF BEING by Cameron Kostopoulos (USA, France, International premiere)
- LACUNA by Maartje Wegdam and Nienke Huitenga-Broeren (Netherlands, International Premiere)
- LA FILLE QUI EXPLOSE VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel (France, Greece, world premiere)
- LA MAISON DE POUPÉE by Charlotte Bruneau and Dominic Desjardins (Luxembourg, Canada, world premiere)
- LILI by Navid Khonsari (USA, UK, France, World Premiere)
- tAxI by Yamil Rodriguez, Michael Arcos, and Stephen Henderson (UK, world premiere)
Out of competition Immersive :
- CHEZ MOI by Victoria Yakubova and Frédéric Le Louët (France, world premiere)
- TRAILBLAZER by Eloise Singer (UK, French premiere)
Focus:
- CECI EST MON CŒUR by Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies (Luxembourg, France, Canada)
- CHAMP DE BATAILLE by François Vautier (France, Luxembourg, Belgium)
- FLOATING WITH SPIRITS by Juanita Onzaga (Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands)
- ITO MEIKYU by Boris Labbé (France, Luxembourg)
- OTO'S PLANET by Gwenael François (Luxembourg, Canada, France)
