57th Quinzaine des Cinéastes Selection

Today, Tuesday April 15, 2025 Julien Relj, Artistic Director, announced the selection for the 2025 edition of the Director's Fortnight and I expected more #Cannes2025 Official Selection omissions but only two are in this parallel section.

Before going into the list and as has been long since my last Quinzaine list will start reminding us what this Cannes festival parallel section is all about.

La Quinzaine

Created in 1969 by the Société des Réalisatrices et Réalisateurs de Films (SRF), the Directors’ Fortnight is an independent sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, which is dedicated to showcasing the most singular forms of contemporary cinema. The name of the section was changed in 2023 from Quinzaine des Réalisateurs to Quinzaine des Cinéastes, the international version in English did not change.

As opposed to the official selection, the Fortnight is non-competitive; it brings together short, medium- and feature-length films, fiction and non-fiction, live action and animation. Only one principle guides our selection: a filmmaker’s attendance to mise en scene, and their unique mode of artistic expression.

The Fortnight values freedom of thought and the invention of new forms of dialogue, of narrative, of representation, and of editing. We are also very attentive to propositions that reinvent cinematic genres which, traditionally, have been more popular.

La Carrose d'Or

In 2025, the SRF is proud to celebrate American filmmaker Todd Haynes. A filmmaker born in the heart of the American counterculture, he carries his legacy of challenging norms, whether social, sexual or artistic, with pride. Todd Haynes will receive the Carrosse d’Or on May 14, 2025 in Cannes, during the Directors’Fortnight’s opening ceremony.

Prix Alpine

The Société des réalisatrices et réalisateurs de films (SRF) is pleased to join forces with Alpine to present a new award during the Directors’ Fortnight. After the Carrosse d'Or, which recognizes a filmmaker's career, the Prix Alpine will be awarded for the first time at the 57th edition of the Quinzaine to spotlight audacity, creativity and the ability to break away from narrative norms.

The inaugural award goes to Thomas Cailley director of the feature films Les Combattants (2014) and Le Règne Animal (2023), for his audacious work and ability to stray from the beaten track.

People's Choice Award

Launched in 2024 the award is conceived as a label that aims to support an unusual and unique work, and a filmmaker whose style, as expressed through their mise en scène, surprises and delights the audience. The award is supported by the Fondation Chantal Akerman and reflects the legacy of one of my most admired French directors.

The Selection

Julien Rejl editorial reads as follows..
"In a turbulent world beset on all fronts by reactionary attitudes, where republican and universalist values are under attack, art’s subversive role is threatened and major works are cancelled, filmmakers on all continents stand fiercely opposed to these trends. The richness and dynamism of the young generation’s cinema are intact. The films – some of which come from countries at war or regions where obscurantism and populism prevail – avoid lofty speeches, preferring to show us another reality. As ever, cinema is one step ahead of society. Rather than judge, it complicates. Rather than condemn, it interrogates. Rather than make sweeping statements, it pays attention to small-scale stories – those of individuals as they experience events. It does so with anger or humor, and always with a good dose of poetry."

The 57th edition of the Fortnight is pluralist, mixed, rich in discoveries. It celebrates a cinematic liveliness that is invaluable and more essential than ever, even as directors and producers are finding it increasingly difficult to finance their project. It stands with directors the world over in the fight against the homogenization, the commodification and thus the neutralization of cinema. We are pleased to share with you a lineup that honors the art of mise en scene and the desire and generosity of the auteurs."

Feature Films
Opening Film: Enzo by Laurent Cantet (R.I.P.) and directed by Robin Campillo, France
Closing Film: Sorry Baby, Eva Victor, USA 1st Film (#Sundance2025 Screenwriting Award winner)
Amour Apocalypse (Peak Everything), Anne Émond, Canada 
見はらし世代 Brand New Landscape, Yuiga Danzuka, Japan 1st Film
Classe Moyene (The Party's Over), Antony Cordier, France
La Danse des Renards (Wild Foxes), Valéry Carnoy, Belgium and France 1st Film
L'Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow), Louise Hémon, France 1st Film
Les Filles Desir (The Girls We Want), Prïncia Car, France 1st Film
Hua yang shao nv sha ren shi jian (Girl On Edge), Jinghao Zhou, China 1st Film
Indomptables, Thomas Ngijol, Cameroon and France
国宝 Kokuho, Lee Sang-il, Japan
La mort n'existe pas (Death Does Not Exist), Félix Dufour-Laperrière, Canada and France (animation)
Lucky Lu, Lloyd Lee Choi, USA 1st Film
مملكة القصب Mamlaket al-Qasab (The President's Cake), Hasan Hadi, Iraq and Qatar 1st Film
(*) Militantropos, Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi, Ukraine, Austria and France (documentary)
Miroirs No.3 (Mirrors No.3), Christian Petzold, Germany and France
Que ma volonté soit faite (Her Will Be Done), Julia Kowalski, Poland and France

1st Film will compete for Camera d'Or. (*) competes for the L'Œil d'or documentary award




Short and Medium Length Films

+10K, Gala Hernández López, Spain and France 30'
Before The Sea Forgets, Ngọc Duy Lê, Vietnam 
Bread Will Walk, Alex Boya, Canada 11' (animation)
Cœur Bleu (Blue Heart), Samuel Suffren, Haiti
کرمش Karmash, Aleem Bukhari, Pakistan
Loynes, Dorian Jespers, UK, France, North Macedonia, and Belgium 25'
La Mort du Poisson (Dead of the Fish), Eva Lusbaronian, France (animation)
Nervous Energy, Eve Liu, USA 15'
The Body, Louris van de Geer, Australia
When The Geese Flew, Arthur Gay, USA

To check films at official site go here.



Press Conference Video