Cannes Festival 2025: The Un Certain Regard shortlist

After twelve days of intense festivities, the Cannes Film Festival 2025 is already drawing to a close, and the awards are starting to roll in. This is particularly true of the Un Certain Regard selection, focused on auteur and discovery cinema, which this year featured 20 films in competition , including 9 first films also competing for the Caméra d'Or.

For this 78th edition of the festival, the Un Certain Regard jury, chaired by British director, screenwriter and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker, included French-Swiss director and screenwriter Louise Courvoisier, Croatian director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival Vanja Kaludjercic, Italian director, producer and screenwriter Roberto Minervini and Argentine actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart.

Together, they presented 6 awards on Friday, May 23.

• To be read
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The winners of the Un Certain Regard 2025 selection:

• Un Certain Regard Prize: 

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes, in Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes 2025
Diego Céspedes' The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo will be presented in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes 2025 Festival. [Read more]

• Jury Prize: 

A Poet by Simón Mesa Soto, in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Festival 2025
A regular at Cannes, director Simón Mesa Soto presents his new film, Un Poète, in the Un Certain Regard 2025 selection. [Read more]

• Best Director Award:

Once Upon a Time in Gaza by Tarzan and Arab Nasser, in Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes 2025
Once Upon a Time in Gaza, the new film by brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser, will be presented in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Festival 2025. [Read more]

• Best Actress, Cleo Diára in:

  Le Rire et le Couteau by Pedro Pinho, in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes 2025 Festival
Director Pedro Pinho will present his new film, Le Rire et le Couteau, in the Un Certain Regard selection at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. [Read more]

• Best Actor, Frank Dillane in: 

Urchin by Harris Dickinson, in Un Certain Regard selection at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
Actor Harris Dickinson steps behind the camera to unveil his first film, Urchin, in the Un Certain Regard selection at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. [Read more]

• Best Screenplay: 

Pillion by Harry Lighton, in Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes 2025 Festival
Harry Lighton's film Pillion has been selected in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. [Read more] 

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