LOOK: Filipinos who graced Cannes Film Festival 2025
(From left) Pia Wurtzbach, Marina Summers, and Chelsea Manalo at Cannes Film Festival 2025. Image: Instagram/@piajauncey, @marinaxsummers, @manalochelsea
As this year’s Cannes Film Festival concluded another edition, more Filipino celebrities noticeably have made their appearance at the prestigious international entertainment spectacle. Aside from promoting the premiere screening of Filipino films, many of these homegrown talents came as endorsers of fashion brands.
Check out this list to see them heat up the Cannes red carpet and join the fashion elite.
Pia Wurtzbach
Business in front, party in the back. This summed up the old Hollywood elegance that the Miss Universe 2015 titleholder radiated with in her black velvet long-sleeved gown by Lebanese designer Zuhair Murad. The bodice of the high-neckline dress is embellished with pearls and rhinestone crystals, and made dramatic by an open back.
Pia Wurtzbach at Cannes.
Wurtzbach also turned heads with another look, this time a simple— but not less dramatic— strapless black velvet gown featuring a flowing, mermaid-style ruched satin skirt adorned with black flowers at the back.
Pia Wurtzbach at Cannes. Images from Instagram.
Sylvia Sanchez
After three years of coming back and forth to Cannes as a producer, Sanchez marked a milestone as she walked the red carpet alongside her team after one of the films co-produced by her film studio was selected as part of this year’s Cannes Main Competition slate.
The film “Renoir” is a collaboration between the Philippines, France, Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia.
The actress-producer donned a black Filipiniana on the main red carpet. During the “Renoir” Q&A, Sanchez wore a deep blue Filipiniana.
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Marina Summers
Summers made history as the first Filipino drag queen to grace the red carpet of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. She radiated confidence and elegance in her one-shoulder sequined black gown, complemented by chain-link earrings.
Summers also had a fangirl moment with Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie after the latter took a moment to compliment the appearance of the Philippine pride, who was wearing a gold pleated gown for her second look.
Marina Summers was a looker at Cannes. Images from Instagram.
Michael Cinco
The renowned Filipino fashion designer walked this year’s red carpet for the premiere of Scarlett Johansson’s debut film “Eleanor The Great.” Cinco wore a black tuxedo suit and his signature oversized sunglasses.
Michael Cinco at the Cannes red carpet. Image from Instagram.
Chelsea Manalo
Without breaking the festival’s new dress code, Miss Universe 2025 – Asia Chelsea Manalo treaded the high-fashion world with her couture yellow fan gown by Michael Cinco, made dramatic by an extravagant one-shoulder collar. This marked Manalo’s Cannes red carpet debut, and she dedicated the moment to “every Filipino who dared to dream.”
“Walking the red carpet at Cannes still feels like a dream, one that I manifested, believed in, and held close to my heart. I’ve always trusted that everything happens for a reason, and this journey to France has proven just that,” she wrote on her Instagram post.
Chelsea Manalo in a vibrant yellow couture gown by Michael Cinco. Image from Instagram.
Kylie Verzosa
The Miss International 2016 Kylie Verzosa was a vision of beautiful “summer mornings” as she donned a butter yellow, strapless, petal-shaped ensemble by Mark Bumgarner. She later changed into a shimmering black fringe number with crystal beads.
Kylie Verzosa at the Cannes red carpet wearing Mark Bumgarner and Tony Ward. Images from Instagramm
Toni Gonzaga and Paul Soriano
The two-week festival served as a sort of honeymoon for the celebrity couple as they blended work and vacation together. Gonzaga shared a glimpse of their Cannes trip on her Instagram page. Some of the images showed the couple dining in restaurants in France. They also took a snapshot at the symbol of Cannes. The actress-host was also captured wearing her festival ID.
In one of her videos, she was wearing a simple black long gown with quarter sleeves and a modest neckline when she accompanied her husband in the screening of “Magellan,” a film entry directed by Lav Diaz.
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Lav Diaz
The Filipino filmmaker returned to the prestigious festival for the premiere of his film “Magellan,” starring award-winning Hollywood actor Gael Garcia Bernal. The movie earned a five-minute standing ovation after it was shown at the Debussy Theatre on the Croisette.
Aside from Diaz and Bernal, other Filipino actors graced the premiere, including Bong Cabrera, who plays Raja Kulambo; Amado Arjay Babon, who plays Magellan’s slave and interpreter Enrique; and Rafa Siguion-Reyna, who portrays the character Nuno.
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Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Danelle Romero
The Filipino directors have competed in the Official Short Film Competition of the festival with their film “Agapito.” The pair also served as screenwriters for the short film “Ali” by Bangladeshi filmmaker Adnan Al Rajeev, which was awarded a special prize.
Belarmino previously competed in the Critics’ Week (La Semaine de la Critique) section of the 2024 Cannes with his short film “Radikals.”
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