Cannes Film Festival is the ultimate destination for chic red carpet stars, as well as directors and actors looking for their next big break and story to tell. And 2025’s festival is no exception.

So what are the best titles at Cannes this year? Well, it’s a big year for Hollywood women behind the camera, as the line-up features both Kristen Stewart and Scarlett Johansson‘s directorial debuts, The Chronology of Water and Eleanor the Great respectively. Both quite rightly centre female-led stories, one drawing on writer and swimmer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir and one focusing on an elderly woman’s quest for connection in New York City.

Others to note include BDSM romantic drama Pillion, Elle Fanning‘s turn in The Worst Person In The World director Joachim Trier’s latest title Sentimental Value and Wes Anderson’s latest offering The Phoenician Scheme, starring many Hollywood names including Mia Threapleton.

Here’s GLAMOUR’s round up of the very best films to look out for from Cannes Film Festival 2025.

Sentimental Value

Kasper Tuxen

Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning, Cory Michael Smith, Renate Reinsve

Plot: From the director of The Worst Person In The World, Joachim Trier, we follow the story of two sisters, Nora and Agnes, who reunite with their estranged once-renowned director father. Nora is offered a role in his comeback film, and when she turns it down he gives it to a young Hollywood star, Rachel, played by Elle Fanning. The two sisters must navigate their tricky relationship with their father, with Rachel dropped bang in the middle of the complexity.

Pillion

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