She turned the Croisette upside down and turned the stomachs of many festival-goers with Titane, which won the Palme d'Or in 2021. This year, Julia Ducournau returns to Cannes 2025 with her eagerly awaited new film Alpha.
The French director makes her return with a choice cast: Tahar Rahim and Golshifteh Farahani in the lead roles.
"Julia Ducournau isn't resting on her laurels: she's a filmmaker who visits genre cinema, who takes it (like all genre filmmakers) to make her own personal cinema, a cinema of mise en scène, a cinema of formal inventions, a cinema of actors - Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim, whom you'll hardly recognize as he does a very striking composition role. "revealed Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, at the press conference on April 10.
So, will Julia Ducournau make it a Palme double? Find out on May 24!
Alpha will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival 2025. The release date in French cinemas is not yet known.
Synopsis: Alpha, 13, is a restless teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world falls apart the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Cannes Festival 2025: Films in the Official Selection
Discover the official selection for the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, held on the Croisette from May 13 to 24, 2025. The first films presented in and out of competition were revealed on Thursday April 10, 2025. [Read more]
Cannes Festival 2025: Films in the Official Selection
