CANNES2025 - remote notes

[Chris Knipp]

Cannes 2025 Directors' Fortnight

Short and Medium Length Films
+10K by Gala Hernández López
BEFORE THE SEA FORGETS by Ngọc Duy Lê
THE BODY by Louris van de Geer
BREAD WILL WALK (Le pain se lève) by Alex Boya
CŒUR BLEU (Blue Heart) by Samuel Suffren
KARMASH (کرمش) by Aleem Bukhari
LOYNES by Dorian Jespers
LA MORT DU POISSON (Death of the Fish) by Eva Lusbaronian
NERVOUS ENERGY by Eve Liu
WHEN THE GEESE FLEW by Arthur Gay

Feature Films
ENZO by Laurent Cantet, directed by Robin Campillo - opening film
AMOUR APOCALYPSE (Peak Everything) by Anne Émond
BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE (見はらし世代) by Yuiga Danzuka - first feature film
CLASSE MOYENNE (The Party's Over!) de Antony Cordier
DANGEROUS ANIMALS by Sean Byrne
LA DANSE DES RENARDS (Wild Foxes) by Valéry Carnoy - first feature film
L'ENGLOUTIE (The Girl in the Snow) by Louise Hémon - first feature film
LES FILLES DÉSIR (The Girls We Want) by Prïncia Car - first feature film
GIRL ON EDGE (Hua yang shao nv sha ren shi jian) by Jinghao Zhou – first feature film
INDOMPTABLES by Thomas Ngijol
KOKUHO by Lee Sang-il
LUCKY LU by Lloyd Lee Choi - first feature film
MILITANTROPOS by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi
MIROIRS No. 3 by Christian Petzold
LA MORT N’EXISTE PAS (Death Does Not Exist) by Félix Dufour-Laperrière
THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE (Mamlaket al-Qasab) by Hasan Hadi - first feature film
QUE MA VOLONTÉ SOIT FAITE (Her Will Be Done) by Julia Kowalski
YES de Nadav Lapid
SORRY, BABY by Eva Victor – first feature film - closing film. SOURCE

Comments
Opening and Closing Films:
."Enzo" opens the Fortnight, a film directed by Robin Campillo after his friend and co-writer, Laurent Cantet, passed away. "Sorry, Baby" closes the event, a drama produced by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight).
Christian Petzold's "Miroirs No. 3": This film, starring Paula Beer, follows an aspiring pianist whose life is disrupted by a miraculous survival from a car crash.
Nadav Lapid's "Yes!" ,which received the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival, follows a jazz musician and his wife who struggle to make ends meet while performing for the elite.
Other Notable Films: "Militantropos," a documentary about the impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Thomas Cailley, the first Prix Alpine winner, will receive his award during the closing ceremony.


FROM CHRISTIAN PETZOLD'S MIRRORS NO. 3