This year again, the Champs-Elysées Film Festival is preparing to celebrate the best of French and American independent cinema. See you from June 17 to 23, 2025 in emblematic cinemas on the most beautiful avenue in the world!
For a week, Champs-Elysées Film Festival festival-goers will be able to discover the latest independent productions in France and the United States, but also a selection of “heritage” films that have marked author's cinema. In total, more than 60 films (short, medium and feature films) will be screened in the partner rooms of the avenue des Champs-Élysées: Le Balzac, Publiciscinémas, Le Cinéma Mac-Mahon, the Star club, the Lido Theater and at the Théâtre du Rond Point.
Twelve short American short films, ten French short films and six resources will also compete for public prices and the Grand Prix of the Jury.
A young festival which has quickly become talent incubator
Founded in 2012 by Sophie Dulac, the Champs-Élysées Film Festival is a major film festival dedicated to the public and to discover new talents. A meeting of film buffs, he wants to be a bridge between the French and American cinematographies and a meeting place for both cinematographic and musical creation.
Thanks to its five categories of competition, the festival fervently defends emerging talents, freedom of tone, areas of experiments and cinematographic tests and presents bold, unpublished, powerful and committed works to discover for the most part exclusively.
Three juries made up of singular personalities with eclectic universes and a sharp musical selection come to punctuate the first summer evenings each year and vibrate the nights of the festival on the most beautiful rooftop of the capital!
Exclusive reruns and previews
For the first time, this year the festival will pay tribute to Marilyn Monroe with an exceptional projection of The Misfits, twilight masterpiece of John Huston. Released in 1961, it is the adaptation of the new eponym of Arthur Miller. Tearing a love of love with infinite sadness, his “evil-foultus” tell us about the end of an era, the Hollywood golden age and the myth of the great American West.
After being unveiled during the 75th Berlinale, the new film by Sébastien Betbeder, the incredible woman of the snow, embodied by the famous Blanche Gardin, Phillippe Katerine and Bastien Bouillon will also be broadcast exclusively during the festival.
Two directors will also unveil their first feature film, after their broadcast in Cannes: Princïa Car and her film Les Filles Désir (fifteen of filmmakers) and Alice Douard with her film of Evidence of Love (Week of Critics).
Presented during the 81st Venice Biennale, the biopic pavements produced by Alex Ross Perry will also be broadcast exclusively during a session presented by the journalist, author and director Sophie Rosemont.
Finally, after having made one of the most beautiful films of the year 2023, Past Lives – our lives before – named twice to the Oscars -, Celine Song continues her analysis of triangular relationships and fallen loves in her second mailist feature film where Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal share the poster. The film will be broadcast at the end of the festival.
Emblematic directors and new faces gathered around independent cinema
New face of independent American cinema, director of explosive and subversive comedies and flagship figure of the Gen Z, Emma Seligman will be the guest of honor of this edition. The opportunity to (re) discover on the big screen its two feature films as provocative as Salvateurs – Shiva Baby (2020) and Bottoms (2023). The filmmaker will also present her first two short films, unpublished premises of a delightful and singular filmography.
Flagship personalities of the French cinema and the independent French creation, Alice Winocour (Juries feature films) and Jonathan Millet (jury short formats) will succeed Rebecca Zlotowski and Jean-Baptiste Durand. Flore Benguigui, Thibaut de Longeville, Uèle Lamore and Florent Gouëlou will also compose the jury short formats.
Winner of the Alice Guy prize for best director, presented and rewarded in many international festivals, Alice Winocour was appointed for the César for the best first film for Augustine and for the César for the best scenario for Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven.
Following several court-films acclaimed and rewarded at festivals, Jonathan Millet produced the ghosts, the first remarkable feature film presented in Cannes, awarded the Louis Delluc Prize for the best first film and appointed for the César for the best first film.
Competition – French short films
• 3xmina of Nans Laborde-Jourdàa
• Balam Balam by Paul-Guy Rabiet
• Large boys of Chriss Itoua
• The death of Eva Lusbaronian fish
• Malina by Ana Blagojević
• Neither God nor father of Paul Kermarec
• No skate! of Guil Sela
• Sixty-seven milliseconds of Fleuryfontaine
• Sulaimani of Vinnie Ann Bose
• Their Eyes by Nicolas Gourault
Competition – Courts of American
• Between the fire and the moonlight of Dominic Yarabe
• F*CK that guy of Hanna Gray Organschi
• Georgette in the Garden by Grace Philips
• Master of the house by Eleanore Pienta
• Samuel McIntosh metal
• No Bad Blood by Emily McEvoy
• September, All Over by Kali Kahn
• The Non-Actor by Eliza Barry Callahan
• Trapped de Sam and David Cutler-Kreutz
• WSHIP NOT DONE YET DE SOFIA CAMARGO AND JOSEPH LONGO
• We Were the Scenery by Christopher Radcliff
• Words of her de Charlene XU
Find the selections of means and feature films in competition, as well as the complete program of Champs-Elysées Film Festival on the Official event of the event.
From June 17 to 23, 2025, celebrate independent cinema on one of the most beautiful avenues in the world!
