The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the line-up for its public-oriented Cinéma de la Plage sidebar at its 78th edition kicking off next week.
The sidebar will screen a selection of films, many of which have past Cannes connections, on the big screen on the beach beside the Palais des Festivals.
The titles include Terrence Malick’s drama A Hidden Life about Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter, which premiered at in Competition at the festival in 2019,
Older selections include King Vidor’s 1946 classic Dual in the Sun, presented and restored by Walt Disney Studios in association with The Film Foundation, with the participation of The George Eastman Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, and the involvement of Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.
Further highlights include Japanese animation director Mamoru Oshii’s 1985 animated feature Angel’s Egg to mark the 40 th anniversary of its release, Oshii is best known internationally for 1995 breakout Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, which world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2004, and the Patlabor sci-fi franchise.
The sidebar will also premiere Alexis Veller’s documentary The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues… featuring interviews with Claude Lelouch, Bong Joon-ho, Ken Loach, Ruben Östlund, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Costa-Gavras, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Jerry Schatzberg about their experiences in Cannes.
Following the announcement of a handful of fresh additions to the Official Selection earlier today, the Cinéma de Plage marks one of the last elements of the festival’s 2025 line-up, although full details of its masterclasses have yet to revealed.
Cinema de Plage Selection
A HIDDEN LIFE
Terrence Malick
2019, 2h54, United Kingdom/Germany/United States
HARD BOILED
John Woo
1992, 2h08, Hong Kong
LES MAUVAIS COUPS
François Leterrier
1961, 1h38, France
DUEL IN THE SUN
King Vidor
1946, 2h25, United States
THE LEGEND OF THE PALME D’OR CONTINUES…
Alexis Veller
France
SUNSET BOULEVARD.
Billy Wilder
1950, 1h50, United States
PALOMBELLA ROSSA (Red Wood Pigeon)
Nanni Moretti
1989, 1h28, Italy/France
BARDOT
Alain Berliner
France/Belgium
ANGELS’S EGGS
Mamoru Oshii
1985, 1h11, Japan
DARLING
John Schlesinger
1965, 2h08, United Kingdom
ANGE
Tony Gatlif
2025, 1h37, France
ANY NUMBER CAN WIN
Henri Verneuil
1963, 1h58, France/Italy
