The this year’s most anticipated films were being shown at the prestigious event. With world premieres including Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning and Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, there have been plenty of major releases at this year’s festival. These premieres have all continued the long-standing tradition of standing ovations from the audience, which can grow surprisingly lengthy.

The current record for the longest standing ovation at Cannes is held by Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth, which received an astonishing 22 minutes of clapping following its premiere in 2006. Since then, films like Fahrenheit 9/11 and Mud have come close to breaking the long-standing record, managing 20 minutes and 18 minutes respectively. Audiences have continued to show their respect and iration for the Cannes premieres, and one even challenged for a spot in the top three ever recorded.

27 Sound Of Falling (3.5 Minutes)

Directed By Mascha Schilinski

Sound of Falling may not have received the longest standing ovation after its Cannes premiere (at just 3.5 minutes), but the film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from those critics in attendance (via Variety). The film marks Mascha Schilinski’s follow-up to her 2017 debut, Dark Blue Girl.

Sound of Falling follows the lives of four young girls on a farm in rural , whose lives become intertwined when they discover important truths about their past. ScreenRant’s review of Sound of Falling mirrors the consensus that it’s one of the festival’s finest offerings.

26 Leave One Day (5+ Minutes)

Directed By Amelie Bonnin

The opening film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Leave One Day, the first-ever directorial debut to open the festival. The film centers around an ambitious chef who yearns to open her own restaurant in Paris.

The film received an impressive 5-minute standing ovation from the crowd after its premiere (via Deadline). The film was preceded by the festival’s opening ceremony, in which Robert De Niro was awarded an honorary Palme d’Or for his contributions to cinema.

25 Eleanor The Great (6 Minutes)

Directed By Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson has starred in plenty of great films throughout the years, from Avengers: Endgame to Marriage Story, but now she’s decided to direct her own. Eleanor the Great follows June Squibb’s protagonist as she attempts to grieve the loss of her lifetime best friend.

The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, with many critics praising its sense of humor and sincerity.

Johansson’s movie received a six-minute standing ovation at Cannes, with the director offering a short thank-you speech afterward for her “very timely” film (via Deadline). The movie has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, with many critics praising its sense of humor and sincerity.

24 Highest 2 Lowest (6 Minutes)

Directed By Spike Lee

Starring Denzel Washington and Jeffrey Wright, Spike Lee’s newest movie is a modern adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, which follows a wealthy businessman who finds himself extorted when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped.

The film reunites Lee and Washington for the first time since 2006’s Inside Man, and the latter was awarded with an honorary Palme d’Or shortly before the screening. Afterward, audiences gave the film a six-minute standing ovation (via Deadline).

23 The Chronology Of Water (6.5 Minutes)

Directed By Kristen Stewart

Best known for her performances in Spencer and the Twilight saga, actress Kristen Stewart has turned her attention to directing, with her debut feature The Chronology of Water receiving a 6.5-minute standing ovation at Cannes (via Deadline).

The movie is adapted from Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the same name, which follows her journey growing up in the Pacific Northwest through complex relationships and difficult life decisions. Stewart described the film as “about iteration. Getting up and trying again. Repossessing your body, your desires, your ambitions and your dreams.”

22 Honey Don't! (6.5 Minutes)

Directed By Ethan Coen

The final official selection movie to play at Cannes in 2025 came from the Midnight Screenings section. Honey Don't, the second entry in director Ethan Coen's "lesbian B-movie trilogy" that began with Drive-Away Dolls, stars Margaret Qualley as private investigator Honey O'Donahue, who finds herself unraveling a series of murders tied to a church. The film was received warmly with a late-night, 6.5-minute standing ovation (via Deadline).

21 Resurrection (7 Minutes)

Directed By Bi Gan

Bi Gan's second Cannes feature, Resurrection, received a 7-minute long standing ovation this week, with many critics calling it one of the festival's best chances of receiving the Palme d'Or (via Deadline). The film centers around a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream, interrogating the power of our subconscious and what life would look like without this natural creativity.

20 Eddington (7 Minutes)

Directed By Ari Aster

Ari Aster’s latest feature also premiered at Cannes this year, with audiences giving a standing ovation of “nearly seven minutes” according to Deadline. Starring Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, and Pedro Pascal, this unique, COVID-era Western is described as one of Aster’s most singular projects to date.

Though Eddington’s reviews have been mixed, the film was among the most anticipated releases of the festival, and audiences clearly showed up to display their iration for the cast and crew. Aster joked during the ovation that he was “sorry” for what he’d made everybody watch, while Phoenix was visibly moved by the reception.

19 Fuori (7.5 Minutes)

Directed By Mario Martone

Fuori is a powerful character drama inspired by Italian author Goliarda Sapienza’s 1983 autobiography The University of Rebibbia, and following her journey to get her novel The Art of Joy published after nearly ten years of writing.

The story is a fierce exploration of ambition, politics, and authenticity that landed a 7.5-minute standing ovation from audiences at Cannes (via Deadline). The film stars Valeria Golino as the iconic writer.

18 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (7.5 Minutes)

Directed By Christopher McQuarrie

The final Mission: Impossible movie may have opened to mixed reviews, but that didn’t stop audiences showing their adoration for Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie at the film’s premiere. The movie received a 7.5-minute standing ovation after it screened out of competition, with Cruise and McQuarrie expressing their gratitude to audiences after the film (via Deadline).

The long-awaited sequel follows Cruise’s protagonist Ethan Hunt as he undergoes his deadliest mission yet: infiltrating a sunken submarine to find the source code of a dangerous “entity” that has the power to destroy the entire world.