GREAT 8
Our Great 8 showcase champions eight new talents at Cannes Film Festival each year.
Madfabulous directed by Celyn Jones - one of our 2025 GREAT 8
Each year we champion eight new UK voices at the Cannes Film Festival at the moment when each is putting the finishing touches to their new feature film.
Each selection is revealed in an online showcase of previously unseen footage screening exclusively to buyers and festival programmers at the Cannes Marche.
Now in its eighth year, the 2025 GREAT 8 showcase is funded and produced by the BFI and the British Council, with support from BBC Film and Film4.
The films and filmmakers in the 2025 GREAT 8 selection are:
- Animol – Ashley Walters
- Madfabulous - Celyn Jones
- On the Sea - Helen Walsh
- Ish - Imran Perretta
- Mission - Paul Wright
- Learning to Breathe Underwater - Rebekah Fortune
- The Son and the Sea - Stroma Cairns
- Retreat - Ted Evans
You can read more about our GREAT 8 here:
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