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The 22nd edition of the MonteCarlo Film Festival de la Comédie, created and chaired by Ezio Greggio, will be held from November 12 to 15, 2025, in the Principality of Monaco. This year, seven films will be in competition, an international selection celebrating the different forms of cinematic storytelling.

The festival opens with "Homo Argentum", a dark comedy by the duo Cohn & Duprat (who were at Monte-Carlo with Official Competition in 2022), composed of 16 stories, all played by the chameleon-like Guillermo Francella, who analyzes with ruthless and precise irony the vices and virtues of a society in constant contradiction.

The seven films in competition address many themes of contemporary society, always interpreted with irony or grotesque tones. Among these is the story of two past dictatorships and the dissidents opposing them, trying to overthrow their regimes and the fate of the two countries: one being Francoist Spain in 1939, told in "La cena", directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira which accompanies the Film at the Festival; the other is Cuba under the Castro dictatorship told in "Comandante Fritz", a romantic comedy set in 1972. Director Pavel Giroud will come to Monte-Carlo to present the film.

Then there is food, used in these films almost as a symbol of emancipation: "Partir un jour", a romantic comedy with musical elements, and "La petite cuisine de Mehdi". Stories of life and relationships unfolding around the kitchen, which is also the protagonist in "La cena" and "Comandante Fritz".

With his unique style, between grotesque and hilarious, Anders Thomas Jensen directs "Den Sidste Viking" ("The Last Viking"), a dark comedy about two brothers searching for hidden loot after a robbery.

Family is at the heart of Gianni Di Gregorio’s latest film, "Come ti muovi sbagli", presented this year at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice. With delicacy and irony, it tells the story of a seventy-year-old man whose peaceful daily life is completely disrupted by the sudden arrival of his daughter and grandchildren. Iaia Forte, in the role of the woman with whom the protagonist has an almost adolescent flirtation, will be present at the Monte-Carlo Festival to accompany the Film.