A very kinky and queer motorcycle film is debuting at Cannes

The Cannes Film Festival is about to get kinky.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival has officially announced its lineup, revealing several highly-anticipated queer projects, including a kinky motorcycle love story.

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First-time feature film director Harry Lighton will be premiering his film Pillion at the festival, and based on the description, it's about to be one of the most buzzed-about titles of the year.

Pillion, named for the passenger seat on the back of a motorcycle, stars Alexander Skarsgård (The Northman) and Harry Melling (The Queen's Gambit) and is described as a "fun and filthy romance with heart," per Variety.

The film follows Colin (Melling), a wallflower who is letting life pass him by, when he meets Ray (Skarsgård), the handsome leader of a motorcycle club, who takes him on as his sexual submissive.

"Ray uproots Colin from his dreary suburban life, introducing him to a community of kinky, queer bikers and taking all sorts of virginities along the way," Variety reports. "But as Colin steps deeper into Ray’s world of rules and mysteries, he begins to question whether the life of a 24/7 submissive is for him. Has he found his calling, or simply swapped one form of suffocation for another?"

Other films screening at the festival include Rebecca Zlotowski's Vie Privée, which stars Jodie Foster as a renowned psychiatrist who mounts an investigation into the death of one of her patients, Kelly Reichardt's heist movie The Mastermind, and Oliver Harmanus' The History of Sound, which stars Josh O'Connor and Paul Mescal as two men in love who record folk songs across the United States during World War I.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival will take place between May 13 and May 24.