The Cannes Film Festival will open its Cannes Classics 2025 program on May 13 with a special showing of Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, celebrating its 100th birthday. This year’s lineup brings back many great films and honors famous people from movie history.
One of the big highlights is the 25th anniversary of Amores Perros by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, who will be there at the festival. There will also be a special showing of Yi Yi, a well-loved film by Taiwanese director Edward Yang.
A new movie by Diane Kurys about the famous French couple Yves Montand and Simone Signoret will have its world premiere. Action fans can enjoy the re-release of John Woo’s Hard Boiled, and Kevin Smith’s cult movie Dogma is also returning to Cannes.
The festival will remember other great filmmakers like István Szabó and Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina. Audiences will also see rare films from Colombia, Iraq, and Sri Lanka — including one by Sri Lanka’s first female director.
There will be documentaries about directors David Lynch, Carlos Diegues, and Pierre-William Glenn. Actors Shia LaBeouf and Raphaël Quenard will show short films they made themselves.
Quentin Tarantino will appear at the festival with two films and will speak about director George Sherman. There will also be a touching moment when actress Mariska Hargitay honors her mother, Jayne Mansfield. Director Wes Anderson will talk about the work of Satyajit Ray, with help from Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation.
Other special moments include a tribute to cycling legend Eddy Merckx with a film about his career and a screening of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon to close the event.
Cannes Classics 2025 is all about remembering the magic of old movies and the people who made them.