This year’s Cannes Film Festival has barely started and already has been an attention-grabbing affair, from new rules for its red carpets, nerves about potential U.S. tariffs and the return of Tom Cruise.

Stars and directors from around the world are out in full force for the 78th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, from May 13 to May 24, 2025.

Cannes is making it official: nudity and “excessively voluminous” clothing are not welcome on the red carpet of the Palais. After a demonstrator appeared topless on the Cannes red carpet in 2022 and Bianca Censori stretched the limits with her appearance with a transparent dress at the Grammys earlier this year,