How To Watch The Cannes Film Festival Lineup Announcement – Livestream​on April 9, 2025 at 4:23 pm

The Cannes Film Festival will announce the lineup for its 78th edition Thursday morning at 11 a.m. Paris time (2 a.m. PT/5 a.m. ET). Cannes Delegate General Thierry Frémaux and President Iris Knobloch, who was recently confirmed for a second three-year term in the role until 2027, will preside over the press conference.

The stream can be found on the official Cannes website as well as the festival’s official Facebook page, Twitter feed, and YouTube channel.

You can also watch the stream live here. 

Deadline will also be live reporting the list of Official Selection films as the names come in. This year’s festival will run from May 13 to 24. Earlier this week, the fest confirmed Tom Cruise and Paramount‘s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning will debut on the Croisette. The movie will play Out of Competition on May 14 with Cruise, director Christopher McQuarrie, and cast treading the carpet. The trailer for the movie launched on Monday.

Titles for which speculation is running high include Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, Maryam Touzani’s Calle Malaga, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Vie Privée, Haifaa Al Mansour’s Unidentified, Fatih Akin’s Amrum, Lazlo Nemes’ Orphan and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent.

Other films we’d be surprised not to see somewhere in the Cannes lineup — i.e., not all in Competition, but spread across the whole program — are Jim Jarmusch’s Father, Mother, Sister, Brother, the Dardenne brothers’ Young Mothers, Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Kirill Serebrennikov’s The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele. 

Robert De Niro will receive the festival’s honorary Palme d’Or at the opening night ceremony, and French actress Juliette Binoche will serve as the President of the Jury.