Distribution Watch: Cannes 2025

Tracking which titles from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival have North American distribution

The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Last updated: May 5, 2026

Titles in bold will have at least one North American distributor, which I’ll include with a source linked to the distributor’s name. Rep titles will be listed in italics with the original year of the film’s premiere. As always, I’m only one person doing this, so any info on new acquisitions is always helpful in case I missed something.

Competition

• Alpha (dir. Julia Ducournau) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; NEON for US]

• Case 137 (dir. Dominik Moll) [Film Movement]

• Die My Love (dir. Lynne Ramsay) [MUBI]

• Eddington (dir. Ari Aster) [VVS Films for Canada; A24 for US]

• Fuori (dir. Mario Martone)

• It Was Just An Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi) [NEON]

• Mother and Child (dir. Saeed Roustaee)

• Nouvelle Vague (dir. Richard Linklater) [Netflix]

• Renoir (dir. Chie Hayakawa) [Film Movement]

• Resurrection (dir. Bi Gan) [Janus Films]

• Romeria (dir. Carla Simón) [Janus Films]

• Sentimental Value (dir. Joachim Trier) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; NEON for US]

• Sirat (dir. Oliver Laxe) [NEON]

• Sound of Falling (dir. Mascha Schilinksi) [MUBI]

• The Eagles of the Republic (dir. Tarik Saleh) [Cohen Media Group]

• The History of Sound (dir. Oliver Hermanus) [MUBI]

• The Little Sister (dir. Hafsia Herzi) [Strand Releasing]

• The Mastermind (dir. Kelly Reichardt) [MUBI]

• The Phoenician Scheme (dir. Wes Anderson) [Focus Features]

• The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho) [NEON]

• Two Prosecutors (dir. Sergei Loznitsa) [Janus Films]

• Young Mothers (dirs. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) [Music Box Films]

Un Certain Regard

• A Pale View of the Hills (dir. Kei Ishikawa)

• A Poet (dir. Simón Mesa Soto) [1-2 Special for US; Films We Like for Canada]

• Aisha Can’t Fly Away (dir. Morad Mostafa)

• Eleanor the Great (dir. Scarlett Johansson) [TriStar Pictures/Sony Pictures Classics]

• Heads or Tails? (dirs. Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis) [Samuel Goldwyn Films]

• Homebound (dir. Neeraj Ghaywan) [Dharma Productions]

• I Only Rest in the Storm (dir. Pedro Pinho)

• Karavan (dir. Zuzana Kirchnerová)

• Love Me Tender (dir. Anna Cazenave Cambet) [Axia Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• Meteors (dir.  Hubert Charuel)

• My Father’s Shadow (dir. Akinola Davies Jr) [MUBI]

• Once Upon A Time In Gaza (dirs. Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser) [Watermelon Pictures]

• Pillion (dir. Harry Lighton) [A24]

• Promised Sky (dir. Erige Sehiri) [Film Movement]

• The Chronology of Water (dir. Kristen Stewart) [The Forge]

• The Great Arch (dir. Stéphane Demoustier) [TVA Films for Canada; Cohen Media Group for US]

• The Last One for the Road (dir. Francesco Sossai) [Ritual Films for Canada; Music Box Films for US]

• The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (dir. Diego Céspedes) [Altered Innocence]

• The Plague (dir. Charlie Polinger) [Independent Film Company]

• Urchin (dir. Harris Dickinson) [1-2 Special]

Out of Competition

• 13 Days, 13 Nights (dir. Martin Bourboulon) [Samuel Goldwyn Films]

• Colours of Time (dir. Cédric Klapisch) [Mongrel Media for Canada; no US distribution]

• Highest 2 Lowest (dir. Spike Lee) [A24/Apple TV+]

• Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (dir. Christopher McQuarrie) [Paramount Pictures]

• Partir un jour (dir. Amélie Bonnin)

• The Richest Woman in the World (dir. Thierry Klifa)

• Vie Privée (dir. Rebecca Zlotowski) [Sony Pictures Classics]

Midnight Screenings

• Dalloway (dir. Yann Gozlan)

• Exit 8 (dir. Kawamura Genki) [NEON]

• Honey Don’t (dir. Ethan Coen) [Focus Features]

• No One Will Know (dir. Vincent Maël Cardona)

• Sons of the Neon Night (dir. Juno Mak)

Cannes Premiere

• Amrum (dir. Fatih Akin) [Kino Lorber]

• Connemara (dir. Alex Lutz)

• Ma frère (dirs. Lise Akoka & Romane Gueret)

• Magellan (dir. Lav Diaz) [Janus Films]

• Orwell: 2+2 =5 (dir. Raoul Peck) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; NEON for US]

• Love on Trial (dir. Kōji Fukada)

• Splitsville (dir. Michael Angelo Covino) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; NEON for US]

• The Disappearance of Josef Mengele (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)

• The Love That Remains (dir. Hlynur Pálmason) [Janus Films]

• The Wave (dir. Sebastián Lelio) [Wolfe Video]

Special Screenings

• A Magnificent Life (dir. Sylvain Chomet) [Sony Pictures Classics]

• Arco (dir. Ugo Bienvenu) [NEON]

• Bono: Stories of Surrender (dir. Andrew Dominik) [Apple TV+]

• L’homme Qui A Vu L’Ours Qui A Vu l’homme (dir. Pierre Richard)

• Little Amélie (dirs. Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han) [GKIDS]

• Mama (dir. Or Sinai)

• Tell Her I Love Her (dir. Romane Bohringer)

• The Six Billion Dollar Man (dir. Eugene Jarecki)

• The Wonderers (dir. Joséphine Japy)

Cannes Classics

• Amores Perros (dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu) {2000} [MUBI]

• Barry Lyndon (dir. Stanley Kubrick) {1974} [Warner Bros.]

• Beyond Oblivion (dir. Hugo del Carril) {1955}

• Bo Being Bo Widerberg (dirs. Jon Asp and Mattias Nohrborg)

• Chronicle of the Years of Embers (dir. Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina) {1975}

• Comanche Territory (dir. George Sherman) {1950} [Universal Pictures]

• Days and Nights in the Forest (dir. Satyajit Ray) {1970} [Janus Films]

• Dogma (dir. Kevin Smith) {1999} [Iconic Events]

• Floating Clouds (dir. Mikio Naruse) {1955}

• Hard Boiled (dir. John Woo) {1992} [Shout! Studios]

• I Love Peru (dirs. Raphaël Quenard & Hugo David)

• La Paga (dir. Ciro Durán) {1962}

• Leading the Race (dir. Joël Santoni) {1974}

• Magirama (dirs. Abel Gance & Nelly Kaplan) {1956}

• Merlusse (dir. Marcel Pagnol) {1935}

• My Mom Jayne (dir. Mariska Hargitay) [HBO]

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (dir. Miloš Forman) {1975} [Warner Bros.]

• Red Canyon (dir. George Sherman) {1949} [Universal Pictures]

• Said Effendi (dir. Kameran Husni) {1955}

• Slauson Rec (dir. Leo Lewis O’Neil)

• Stars (dir. Konrad Wolf) {1959}

• Sunshine (dir. István Szabó) {1999}

• The Arch (dir. T’ang Shushuen) {1968}

• The Girls (dir. Sumitra Peries) {1978}

• The Gold Rush (dir. Charlie Chaplin) {1925} [Janus Films]

• The One I Loved (dir. Diane Kury)

• To Vigo I Go (dirs. Lírio Ferreira and Karen Harley)

• Watch What You Say (dir. Vincent Glenn)

• Welcome to Hollywood (dir. Stéphane Ghez)

• Yi Yi (dir. Edward Yang) {2000} [Janus Films]

Cinéma de la plage

• A Hidden Life (dir. Terrence Malick) {2019} [Searchlight Pictures]

• Ange (dir. Tony Gatlif)

• Angel’s Egg (dir. Mamoru Oshii) {1985} [GKIDS]

• Any Number Can Win (dir. Henri Verneuil) {1963}

• Bardot (dir. Alain Berliner)

• Darling (dir. John Schlesinger) {1965}

• Duel in the Sun (dir. King Vidor) {1946}

• Hard Boiled (dir. John Woo) {1992} [Shout! Studios]

• Naked Autumn (dir. François Leterrier) {1961}

• Sunset Blvd. (dir. Billy Wilder) {1950} [Paramount Pictures]

• The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues… (dir. Alexis Veller)

• Red Wood Pigeon (dir. Nanni Moretti) {1989}

Directors’ Fortnight

• Brand New Landscape (dir. Yuiga Danzuka)

• Dangerous Animals (dir. Sean Byrne) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; Shudder for US]

• Death Does Not Exist (dir. Félix Dufour-Laperrière) [Maison 4:3 in Canada; no US distribution]

• Enzo (dir. Robin Campillo)

• Girl on Edge (dir. Jinghao Zhou)

• Her Will Be Done (dir. Julia Kowalski)

• Incomptables (dir. Thomas Ngijol)

• Kokuho (dir. Lee Sang-il) [GKIDS]

• Lucky Lu (dir. Lloyd Lee Choi)

• Militantropos (dirs. Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova & Simon Mozgovyi)

• Mirrors No. 3 (dir. Christian Petzold) [1-2 Special]

• Peak Everything (dir. Anne Émond) [Immina Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• Sorry, Baby (dir. Eva Victor) [VVS Films for Canada; A24 for US]

• The Girl in the Snow (dir. Louise Hémon)

• The Girls We Want (dir. Prïncia Car)

• The Party's Over! (dir. Antony Cordier) [Axia Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• The President's Cake (dir. Hasan Hadi) [Sony Pictures Classics]

• Wild Foxes (dir. Valéry Carnoy)

• Yes (dir. Nadav Lapid) [Kino Lorber]

International Critics’ Week

• A Useful Ghost (dir. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke) [Cineverse]

• Adam’s Sake (dir. Laura Wandel)

• Baise-en-ville (dir. Martin Jauvat)

• Dandelion’s Odyssey (dir. Momoko Seto)

• Imago (dir. Déni Oumar Pitsaev)

• Kika (dir. Alexe Poukine)

• Left-Handed Girl (dir. Shih-Ching Tsou) [Netflix]

• Love Letters (dir. Alice Douard) [Immina Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• Nino (dir. Pauline Loquès)

• Reedland (dir. Sven Bresser) [Outsider Pictures]

• Sleepless City (dir. Guillermo Galoe)

ACID

• A Light That Never Goes Out (dir. Lauri-Matti Parppei)

• Drifting Laurent (dirs. Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture & Mattéo Eustachon) [Wolfe Video]

• Drunken Noodles (dir. Lucio Castro) [Strand Releasing]

• Entroncamento (dir. Pedro Cabeleira)

• L'aventura (dir. Sophie Letourneur)

• Life After Siham (dir. Namir Abdel Messeeh)

• Nuit Obscure – Ain’t I A Child? (dir. Sylvain George)

• Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk (dir. Sepideh Farsi) [Kino Lorber]

• The Black Snake (dir. Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux)