THE CANNES 2025 FILM FESTIVAL WRAP-UP

MAY 25, 2025

(It Was Just an Accident - France/Luxembourg)

Here are the complete winners of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival:

MAIN COMPETITION
Palme d’Or: It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi (France/Luxembourg)
Gran Prize: Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier (Norway)
Jury Prize: Sirât by Oliver Laxe (Spain) and Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski (Germany)
Best Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho for The Secret Agent (Brazil)
Best Actor: Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent (Brazil)
Best Actress: Nadia Melliti for The Little Sister (France)
Best Screenplay: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for Young Mothers (Belgium)
Special Prize: Resurrection by Bi Gan (China)

A CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Prize: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes (Chile)
Jury Prize: A Poet by Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia)
Best Director: Tarzan and Arab Nasser for Once Upon a Time in Gaza (Palestine)
Best Actor: Frank Dillane for Urchin (USA)
Best Actress: Cleo Diára for I Only Rest in the Storm (Portugal)
Best Screenplay: Harry Lighton for Pillion (USA)

CAMERA D’OR
Winner: The President’s Cake by Hasan Hadi (Iraq)
Special Mention: My Father Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr. (Nigeria)

FIPRESCI
In Competition: The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil)
Un Certain Regard: Urchin by Harris Dickinson (USA)
Parallel section (first features): Dandelion’s Odyssey by Momoko Sato (Japan)

(Sentimental Value - Norway; Sirat - Spain; Sound of Falling - Germany)

Last year, 7 of the 15 films shortlisted for International Feature made their debut at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. The year before, that number was 6. In 2022, Cannes produced an impressive 9 shortlisted titles. With the festival continuing to shape the awards landscape, here are the films we think could be submitted by their respective countries and could become serious contenders this year:

• Young Mothers (Belgium)
• The Secret Agent (Brazil)
• The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Chile)
• A Poet (Colombia)
• A Light That Never Goes Out (Finland)
• It Was Just an Accident (France/Luxembourg)
• Imago (Georgia)
• Sound of Falling (Germany)
• The Love That Remains (Iceland)
• The President's Cake (Iraq)
• Yes! (Israel)
• The Last One for the Road (Italy)
• Renoir (Japan)
• Two Prosecutors (Latvia)
• My Father's Shadow (Nigeria)
• Sentimental Value (Norway)
• Once Upon a Time in Gaza (Palestine)
• Magellan (Philippines)
• I Only Rest in the Storm (Portugal)
• Sirat (Spain)
• Eagles of the Republic (Sweden)
• Left-Handed Girl (Taiwan)
• A Useful Ghost (Thailand)
• Promised Sky (Tunisia)
• Militantropos (Ukraine)
• The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (Uruguay)​