Cannes 2025 Films Sold So Far: Christian Petzold’s ‘Miroirs No. 3’ Lands with 1-2 Special

The Cannes Film Festival is over, and while nan Marché Du Film is arsenic booming arsenic ever pinch exciting packages of early films, nan main action has been for those films playing successful competition, each of which could make a large scatter astatine nan container agency aliases nan awards play title for nan correct buyer. Last year’s “The Substance” was acquired by MUBI earlier it landed a Best Picture Oscar information and made $77.3 cardinal worldwide.

Here are nan 13 films we predicted up of nan show could find homes quickly, respective of which already have. We’ll update nan beneath database pinch each nan acquisitions arsenic they travel in.

“Miroirs No. 3”

Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Distributor: 1-2 Special
Director: Christian Petzold
Buzz: Upstart supplier 1-2 Special launched pinch a scatter acquisition retired of Berlin, and nan new company’s first bargain astatine Cannes is an breathtaking one. The head of “Phoenix” and “Afire” appeared astatine Cannes for nan first time, moreover if successful 1 of nan sidebars. But he showed up pinch a movie our professional called a “minor-key” drama, 1 that’s “ephemeral” and “delicate successful register” arsenic nan classical Ravel portion from which nan movie gets its name. The movie has a slim moving clip and immoderate esoteric imagery but a beardown capacity from lead Paula Beer. Metrograph primitively had nan film, but 1-2 Special now picked up U.S. authorities and plans to merchandise it theatrically.

“Left-Handed Girl”

Section: Critics’ Week
Distributor: Netflix
Director: Shih-Ching Tsou
Buzz: Netflix is getting successful nan Sean Baker business aft picking up a Mandarin and Taiwanese movie that he co-wrote pinch head Shih-Ching Tsou. The movie follows a azygous mother and her 2 daughters who relocate to Taipei to unfastened a nighttime marketplace stall, each navigating nan challenges of adapting to their caller situation while striving to support family unity. The movie won nan Gan Foundation Award and nan Prix du Rail d’Or from nan Cannes sidebar. Netflix took worldwide authorities connected “Left-Handed Girl” excluding nan Baltics, Benelux, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, France, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Scandinavia, Poland, and Taiwan.

“Magellan”

Section: Cannes Premiere
Distributor: Janus Films
Director: Lav Diaz
Buzz: Janus Films’ 2nd acquisition retired of Cannes is this well-mounted humanities epic astir nan famed Portuguese explorer who traversed nan world, which IndieWire successful its reappraisal called “hypnotizing” and “spiritual.” Gael Garcia Bernal stars successful nan title domiciled for nan movie that is billed not arsenic nan “myth of Magellan, but nan truth of his journey.”

“Amrum”

Section: Cannes Premiere
Distributor: Kino Lorber
Director: Fatih Akin
Buzz: The German-Turkish director’s latest task led disconnected IndieWire’s database of movies post-festival we’d love to spot still find a distributor. “Amrum” is simply a period, coming-of-age play group successful nan precocious days of World War II astir a 12-year-old boy (newcomer Jasper Ole Billerbeck recovered successful an unfastened casting call) who diligently forages and hunts for ingredients to thief cook a barroom for his Nazi-sympathizing mother. The movie reunites Akin pinch Diane Kruger, who antecedently won nan Cannes Best Actress prize for “In nan Fade.” Kino Lorber will merchandise “Amrum” theatrically earlier giving it a digital, home, and acquisition release.

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“The Love That Remains”

Section: Un Certain Regard
Distributor: Janus Films
Director: Hlynur Pálmason
Buzz: “The Love That Remains” marks Janus Films’ 2nd collaboration pinch Icelandic “A White, White Day” head Hlynur Pálmason aft “Godland,” which was his country’s 2022 submission for Best International Feature. The caller film, which centers astir a twelvemonth successful nan life of a family arsenic nan parents navigate their separation, earned favorable reviews, pinch IndieWire comparing it to “Scenes from a Marriage” and “Kramer vs. Kramer” arsenic a image of a fracturing marriage.

“The President’s Cake”

Section: Directors’ Fortnight
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Hasan Hadi
Buzz: While astir distributors person been picking complete nan title titles, SPC recovered its favourite among nan Directors’ Fortnight section, acquiring “The President’s Cake” aft nan movie won nan People’s Choice Award and nan Camera D’Or successful nan sidebar. Hadi made his characteristic debut pinch nan film, and it’s besides nan first Iraqi movie to beryllium honored astatine nan festival, but it does person Eric Roth and Marielle Heller progressive arsenic executive producers championing nan movie. The movie follows a 9-year-old woman who during nan 1990s successful Iraq is selected among her schoolhouse to hole a day barroom for nan country’s president, requiring her to usage her wits and imagination to stitchery nan basal ingredients.

“Resurrection”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Janus Films
Director: Bi Gan
Buzz: Janus Films picked up nan latest movie from nan Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan (“Long Day’s Journey Into Night”) aft it won nan Special Jury Prize from nan Cannes title jury. “Resurrection” is simply a kaleidoscopic travel told successful six parts and spanning a period astir a world wherever humanity has mislaid nan expertise to dream, and 1 animal remains entranced by nan fading illusions of nan dreamworld. It stars Chinese superstar vocalist and character Jackson Yee and character Shu Qi, champion known for her collaborations pinch Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Janus successful a connection said nan movie should entreaty to fans of David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Leos Carax, and Wong Kar-wai.

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“Nouvelle Vague”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Netflix
Director: Richard Linklater
Buzz: People were hopeful that Linklater mightiness locomotion distant pinch immoderate Cannes emotion successful nan shape of a Best Director prize, but nan assemblage seemed to favour worldly that said to nan oppression faced astir nan world today. Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” is simply not that type of film, but alternatively a love-letter/homage to nan independent filmmaking spirit. Ironically enough, nan supplier that was astir attracted by this connection was Netflix. The streamer has a narration pinch Linklater arsenic they distributed his romanticist crime drama “Hit Man” past year.

“Sirât”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Neon
Director: Oliver Laxe
Buzz: Neon’s buying spree continues successful nan distributor’s quest to again triumph nan Palme d’Or. This 1 though has immoderate superior “Mad Max” vibes, a movie group amid explosive physics euphony astatine a rave arsenic a begetter ventures into nan Moroccan godforsaken to hunt for his missing daughter. The movie stars Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda, and Jade Oukid and was moreover produced by Pedro Almodóvar. Neon picked up North American authorities and is again hoping to merchandise nan movie later this year. Just nary spoilers please!

“It Was Just an Accident”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Neon
Director: Jafar Panahi
Buzz: The Iranian auteur Panahi returned to Cannes for nan first clip since 2003 for this profoundly individual movie that was inspired and ideated during his 2nd stint successful an Iranian prison. Starring Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi, and Vahid Mobasser, nan movie follows a group of dissidents debating whether to termination their erstwhile torturer. The movie will beryllium released successful North America later this year. IndieWire’s review called it a “blistering civilized thriller,” and pinch immoderate of nan champion reviews of nan show truthful far, fitting aft it yet won the Palme d’Or. This is besides Neon’s 2nd clip partnering pinch Panahi aft antecedently releasing his movie “The Year of nan Everlasting Storm,” which premiered successful Cannes Special Screenings successful 2021.

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“Sound of Falling”

Section: Competition
Distributor: MUBI
Director: Mascha Schilinski
Buzz: Deemed virtually nan “buzziest income title” of Cannes by IndieWire’s Ryan Lattanzio and Anne Thompson, “Sound of Falling” landed astatine Mubi aft a competitory bidding war. Mascha Schilinski’s century-spanning coming of property movie centers connected 4 generations of women wrong nan aforesaid family, each surviving successful a mini German farming municipality crossed decades. Though separated by time, their lives statesman to reflector each other, starring to nan question: Can memories beryllium inherited, repeated, and ultimately, relived? IndieWire professional David Ehrlich likened Schilinski to being nan adjacent Sofia Coppola. It’s clear that Mubi has a gem connected its hands.

“The Secret Agent”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Neon
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Buzz: If you’re handicapping nan Palme D’Or race, support an oculus connected “The Secret Agent,” because Neon and Tom Quinn intelligibly for illustration it’s likelihood if they’re jumping to get it and support their streak alive. The supplier picked up North American authorities and is readying a theatrical merchandise later successful 2025. Star Wagner Moura has earned immoderate early buzz for Best Actor astatine Cannes, and nan movie earned strong reviews for nan Brazilian auteur down “Bacarau.” The movie besides stars Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leon, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, and Hermila Guedes and follows a exertion master connected nan tally who arrives successful Recife, Brazil successful 1977 during Carnival week, hoping to reunite pinch his son, only to realizes that nan metropolis is acold from being nan non-violent refuge he seeks.

“Die, My Love”

Section: Competition
Distributor: MUBI
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Buzz: The first awesome waste of Cannes is 1 of nan starriest, pinch Lynne Ramsay’s aggravated play astir postpartum slump and motherhood starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson going to MUBI successful a woody for $24 million, IndieWire tin confirm. The movie is besides expected to get a patient theatrical model and wide release, and MUBI acquired nan North American authorities successful summation to Latin America, UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, BeNeLux, Turkey, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Our reappraisal wrote that Lawrence gives nan type of capacity that is made for nan Cannes Best Actress prize successful her “feral” depiction of a female successful agrarian America engulfed by emotion and madness.

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Films Arriving astatine Cannes pinch U.S. Distribution

“Alpha”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Neon
Director: Julia Ducournau
Buzz: It was a basking marketplace title astatine past year’s Cannes, and a twelvemonth later nan latest from nan Palme D’Or victor of “Titane” is backmost successful nan main competition. The movie follows a 13-year-old woman whose world comes crashing down erstwhile she arrives location pinch a tattoo connected her arm.

“Bono: Stories of Surrender”

Section: Special Screenings
Distributor: Apple TV+
Director: Andrew Dominik
Buzz: For his first movie since nan Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” Dominik profiles nan U2 frontman arsenic he films nan stage accumulation of Bono’s one-man show.

“Dangerous Animals”

Section: Director’s Fortnight
Distributor: IFC Films
Director: Sean Byrne
Buzz: A serial slayer movie and a shark movie from nan head of “The Devil’s Candy?” What’s not to like?

“Eddington”

Section: Competition
Distributor: A24
Director: Ari Aster
Buzz: Destined to beryllium arsenic polarizing arsenic immoderate of his features, Aster’s pandemic-set 4th characteristic is simply a modern Western pinch a stellar formed that includes Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler.

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“Eleanor nan Great”

Section: Un Certain Regard
Distributor: TriStar Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Scarlett Johansson
Buzz: June Squibb stars successful this indie play that is besides Johansson’s directorial debut astir a nonagenarian who aft 70 years returns to New York metropolis and befriends a student.

“Highest 2 Lowest”

Section: Out of Competition
Distributor: Apple TV+ and A24
Director: Spike Lee
Buzz: Spike Lee’s reunion pinch Denzel Washington for a modern time reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low” looks for illustration 1 of Lee’s astir commercialized films successful years, truthful it’s fitting it will get a theatrical merchandise earlier landing connected streaming.

“The History of Sound”

Section: Competition
Distributor: MUBI
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Buzz: Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor prima successful this romance group successful 1917 amid nan world of early 20th Century people music.

“Honey Don’t!”

Section: Midnight
Distributor: Focus Features
Director: Ethan Coen
Buzz: Ethan Coen’s 2nd solo effort again pairs him pinch his partner and writer Tricia Cooke, arsenic good arsenic prima Margaret Qualley, who plays a small-town backstage oculus investigating a religion led by a dubious preacher played by Chris Evans.

“Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol”

Section: Special Screenings
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Director: Sylvian Chomet
Buzz: “The Triplets of Belleville” head brings his eclectic animated style to this biopic of nan life of 1 of France’s awesome artists, Marcel Pagnol.

“The Mastermind”

Section: Competition
Distributor: MUBI
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Buzz: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, John Magaro, Gaby Hoffmann, Eli Gelb, Hope Davis, and Bill Camp prima successful this heist movie from nan “First Cow” head group successful 1970 Massachusetts.

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“Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”

Section: Out of Competition
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Buzz: The eighth (and possibly final?) Mission: Impossible movie sees Tom Cruise dangling from a biplane and going underwater to conclusion an all-powerful AI.

“My Father’s Shadow”

Section: Un Certain Regard
Distributor: MUBI
Director: Akinola Davies Jr.
Buzz: Davies Jr. is making his characteristic directorial debut aft breaking retired pinch nan Sundance-winning short “Lizard.” The movie is simply a semi-autobiographical communicative group complete nan people of a azygous time successful nan Nigerian metropolis Lagos during nan 1993 Nigerian predetermination crisis.

“My Mom Jayne”

Section: Cannes Classics
Distributor: HBO Documentary Films
Director: Mariska Hargitay
Buzz: The “Law & Order: SVU” prima made her directorial debut pinch this documentary astir nan life of her mother Jayne Mansfield, nan Playboy Playmate and ’60s activity awesome who was killed successful a car mishap successful 1967 erstwhile Hargitay was only 3 years old. The movie will beryllium released via HBO connected June 20.

“Orwell: 2+2=5”

Section: Cannes Premiere
Distributor: Neon
Director: Raoul Peck
Buzz: Peck returns to Cannes 1 twelvemonth aft “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found” premiered location pinch his documentary astir nan life of “1984” writer George Orwell.

“The Phoenician Scheme”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Focus Features
Director: Wes Anderson
Buzz: Benicio Del Toro and Michael Cera prima alongside newcomer Mia Threapleton (Kate Winslet’s daughter), who holds her ain arsenic a nun successful this zany play drama astir 1 of nan richest men successful Europe.

“Pillion”

Section: Un Certain Regard
Distributor: A24
Director: Harry Lighton
Buzz: Based connected nan book “Box Hill” by Adam Mars-Jones, nan movie starring Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling follows an unassuming man swept disconnected his feet erstwhile an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him connected arsenic his submissive.

“Sentimental Value”

Section: Competition
Distributor: Neon
Director: Joachim Trier
Buzz: The Norwegian director’s sixth movie pairs him pinch “The Worst Person successful nan World” prima Renata Reinsve successful this family play astir nan reconciliatory powerfulness of art.

“Splitsville”

Section: Cannes Premiere
Distributor: Neon
Director: Michael Angelo Covino
Buzz: The squad down “The Climb” return to Cannes pinch different drama astir a man who turns to his friends for proposal amid a divorce, only to observe their concealed is an unfastened marriage. Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona prima alongside Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin.

Additional reporting by Samantha Bergeson, Harrison Richlin, and Ryan Lattanzio.