Cannes Film Festival 2025: The very slow rise of women directors
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Director Justine Triet is the third woman to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes. It was in 2023, for Anatomy of a Fall. SEBASTIEN NOGIER / EPA
Chaired by Juliette Binoche, the 78th Cannes Film Festival opens this Tuesday evening, May 13th, with Amélie Bonnin's debut film, Partir un jour. Female directors are still struggling to make their mark. This evolution is taking a slow turn, mirroring that of the seventh art on this issue.
Is this the year of change for women at the Cannes Film Festival? The juries of the official selection are all chaired by women. Parity in the selection of films has been achieved for the first time at Critics' Week, a parallel section that hosts first and second films. And, even if the 2023 record of a third of films competing for the Palme d'Or being directed by women is not broken, with seven out of 22 features, this proportion compares to the average percentage since the festival's creation in 1946: 6%!
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