Young Mothers, by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Award: Screenplay Award
Release Date : since May 23
Synopsis : Jessica, Perla, Julie, Ariane, and Naïma are living in a motherhood home that helps them in their journey as young mothers. Five teenagers with hopes of achieving a better life for themselves and their children.
Sentimental Value, by Joachim Trier
Award : Grand Prize
Release Date : August 20, 2025
Synopsis : Agnès and Nora find their père débarquer after many years of absence. A renowned director, he offers Nora, a theater actress, a role in his next film, but she defiantly refuses. He then offers the role to a young Hollywood star, reviving painful family memories.
Sirât, by Oliver Laxe
Award : Jury Prize ex æquo
Release Date : September 3, 2025
Synopsis : A father and his son arrive at a lost rave in the heart of the southern Moroccan mountains. They are searching for Mar – daughter and sister – who has been missing for several months during one of these endless parties. Immersed in electronic music and raw freedom, they...eur is foreign, they tirelessly distribute his photo. Hope diminishes, but they persist and follow a group of ravers to one last party in the desert. As they delve deeper into the scorching vastness, the journey confronts them with their own limits.
A Simple Accident, by Jafar Panahi
Award : Palme d’or
Release date : September 10
Synopsis : The 11th feature film by Jafar Panahi, A Simple Accident stands out with its very short synopsis, made up of only seven words: « After a simple accident,les événements s’enchaînent… » Filmed secretly in Iran, the Iranian director faced a punishment of 20 years of filming bans, 14 years of travel restrictions, a six-year prison sentence in 2010 for "propaganda against the system," and seven months of detention interrupted by a hunger strike in 2023. A rebellious spirit for a thriller whose numerous qualities in writing and style have been unanimously praised, logically winning the Palme d’or, a gesture almost as artistic as it is political.
La Petite Dernière, by Hafsia Herzi
Award : Best Actress Award for Nadia Melliti (and the Queer Palm !)
Release Date : October 22, 2025
The Secret Agent, by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Award : Best Director Award; Best Actor Award for Wagner Moura
Release Date : January 14, 2026
Synopsis : Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a man in his forties…;years fleeing a troubled past, arrives in the city of Recife where the carnival is in full swing. He comes to reunite with his young son and hopes to build a new life there. But he is not counting on the death threats that linger and hover over his head…
Resurrection, by Bi Gan
Award : Special Prize
Release Date: May 22, 2025, postponed to an unknown later date
Synopsis : In a world where humans no longer know how to dream, a being unlike any other loses his footing and can no longer distinguish illusion from reality. Only one woman can see through him. She manages to enter his dreams., on a quest for truth...
Sound of Falling, by Mascha Schilinski
Award: Jury Prize ex aequo
Release Date: September 11, 2025 in Germany, date still unknown in France
Synopsis: Four young girls in four different eras. Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka spend their adolescence on the same farm in northern Germany. As the house transforms over the course of the century, the echoes of the past resonate within its walls. Despite the years that separate them, their lives seem to respond to one another.
The President's Cake, by Hasan Hadi
Award : Caméra d'or
Release Date : still unknown
Synopsis : In Saddam Hussein's Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia is given the important task of baking a cake to celebrate the president's birthday. Her quest for ingredients, along with her friend Saeed, turns her everyday life upside down.
Bonus 1 : The Phoenician.
Scheme, by Wes Anderson
Award : None, but we wanted to include it anyway.
Release Date : May 28, 2025
Synopsis : 1950. Korda, an enigmatic industrialist and one of the richest men in Europe, survives another assassination attempt (his sixth plane accident). His business activities have made him the target not only of his competitors but also of governments of all ideological leanings across the globe.
Korda is now engaged in the final phase of a project as ambitious as it is crucial for his career. The personal financial risk is now staggering. The threats to his life are constant. It is at this very moment that he decides to name and train his successor : Liesl, his twenty-year-old daughter (now a nun), whom he has lost touch with for several years.
Bonus 2 : Alpha, by Julia Ducourneau
Prize : It’s also a bit unclear, but it stirred up too much passion to be overlooked.
Release date : August 20, 2025
Synopsis : Alpha is 13 years old. She lives alone with her mother and is navigating a tumultuous adolescence. When she returns home from a night out with a tattoo, this seemingly innocent act triggers a shockwave in her household. The film unfolds between the 1980s and 1990s, infused with a fictional epidemic that clearly echoes the AIDS crisis.
Bonus 3: File 137 by Dominik Moll
Price: Not more than the previous one, but we promise, this is our last wild card!
Release date: November 19, 2025
Synopsis: The File 137 seems to be just another case for Stéphanie, an investigator at the IGPN, the police's police. A tense protest, a young man injured by LBD fire, circumstances to clarify in order to establish accountability... But an unexpected element will disturb Stéphanie, turning File 137 into something more than just a number.
