The Jury for the 77th Festival de Cannes, chaired by Greta Gerwig, will include Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green and Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, as well as Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu, and French actor and producer Omar Sy.

The Jury will have the honour of awarding the Palme d’or to one of the 22 films in Competition, after Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, presented by Ruben Östlund’s Jury, in 2023. The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 25 at the Closing Ceremony, broadcast live by France Télévisions in France and by Brut. internationally.

New Generation of Women Directors at Cannes (in French)

New titles

Opening Film

The Second Act – Quentin Dupieux

To launch the festivities of the 77th edition, a daring and unpredictable artist will stride the red carpet at the Grand Théâtre Lumière, surrounded by his entire team.

A filmmaker who embraces freedom – in tone, form and subject – Quentin Dupieux has freed himself from convention through an already extensive body of work (13 feature films in 17 years), establishing the absurd as a genre in its own right and shaking up all the others – of which The Second Act is a perfect case in point!

Like previous ones, The Second Act shows itself to be a new mise en abyme around acting. Red carpet: The cast is as prestigious as it is unexpected: Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon and Louis Garrel enter Quentin Dupieux‘s zany universe for the first time, while Raphaël Quenard returns for the fourth time, after Mandibles, Smoking Causes Coughing and Yannick.

The Second Act follows Smoking Causes Coughing, presented in 2022 in the Official Selection, Out of Competition.

Cannes Film Festival unveils 2024 Official Selection

Previously announced titles include Quentin Dupieux’s The Second Act, which will open the festival on 14 May out of competition, George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Kevin Costner’s Horizon, An American Saga and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.

Barbie director Greta Gerwig will preside over the jury.

Little White Lies round-up

Cannes 2024 lineup includes 3 BFI-supported UK films

The line-up includes Andrea Arnold’s Bird and Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, both backed by the BFI Filmmaking Fund, as well as September Says, directed by Ariane Labed and supported by the UK Global Screen Fund.

Official Selection 2024

Competition

All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia

Anora, Sean Baker

The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi

Bird, Andrea Arnold

Caught by the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai), Jia Zhang-Ke

Emilia Perez, Jacques Audiard

The Girl With the Needle, Magnus von Horn

 

Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes

Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos

L’Amour Ouf, Gilles Lellouche

Limonov: The Ballad, Kirill Serebrennikov

Marcello Mio, Christophe Honoré

Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola

Motel Destino, Karim Aïnouz

Oh, Canada, Paul Schrader

Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino

The Shrouds, David Cronenberg

 

The Substance, Coralie Fargeat

Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut), Agathe Riedinger

Additions:

LA PLUS PRÉCIEUSE DES MARCHANDISES Michel Hazanavicius

TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII (Trois kilomètres jusqu’à la fin du monde) Emanuel Parvu

THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Mohammad Rasoulof

Out Of Competition

The Second Act, Quentin Dupieux

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 5, George Miller
Horizon, An American Saga, Kevin Costner

She’s Got No Name, Peter Chan

Rumours, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin

Additions:

LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO
Alexandre De La Patellière et Matthieu Delaporte

Cannes Classics

Napoléon by Abel Gance (1st period)

opening Cannes Classics at the 77th Festival de Cannes

A legend known to cinephiles the world over, a major work of the silent era, one of the most monumental restorations in the history of filmmaking will be unveiled on May 14 as a world premiere: Napoléon by Abel Gance (1st period), in a version resulting from a colossal, passionate effort by the Cinémathèque française, with the support of the CNC.

It has taken more than sixteen years to bring Abel Gance’s masterwork back to life. The film-opera extravaganza has gone through an epic saga to regain its integrity and glory.

Various sources were used to rediscover the original storyline for this extraordinary reconstruction of the 7-hour film, divided into two eras. Reels were found at the Cinémathèque française, the CNC, the Cinémathèque de Toulouse and the Cinémathèque de Corse, as well as in Denmark, Serbia, Italy, Luxembourg and New York. Georges Mourier and his team worked frame-by-frame and reviewed nearly 100 kilometers of film. Director Abel Gance’s editing notes and correspondence with his editor, found at the BNF, made it possible to re-edit the film in its original version.

In 1927, Napoléon by Abel Gance was as ambitious as its subject: it used multiple technical and aesthetic innovations such as horse-mounted cameras and the famous triptych ending, on three screens simultaneously. With its grandiose cast and thousands of extras, the film amazed audiences and critics alike when it premiered at the Paris Opera on April 7, 1927, in the presence of French President Gaston Doumergue and Marshals Foch and Joffre. It then embarked on a world tour.

With the advent of talking pictures, the reels were scattered across the globe, some lost or destroyed. The film was then recut and mutilated many times over — with 22 different versions known to date. In the 1980s, Abel Gance’s film fascinated filmmakers Claude Lelouch and Francis Ford Coppola, as well as the great silent historian Kevin Brownlow and Costa-Gavras, President of the Cinémathèque française. It has not been shown in its original version, known as the “Grande Version”, since 1927.

The film will then be shown in its entirety with an exceptional live performance of the film score, with 250 musicians from Radio France at the Seine Musicale in Paris on July 4 and 5, as well as at the Radio France festival in Montpellier, and then at the Cinemathèque française and in summer festivals. It will be released in French cinemas at a later date and will be shown on France Télévisions and Netflix.

The Festival de Cannes is proud to be the venue for the rebirth of Napoléon by Abel Gance, a monument of the 7th Art, almost 100 years after its creation.

The first part, with a running time of 3 hours and 40 minutes, will be presented as the pre-opening event at the Festival de Cannes and as the opening film of Cannes Classics.

Napoléon by Abel Gance (1927)

Reconstructed and restored by the Cinémathèque française, with the support of the CNC (French Ministry of Culture), under the direction of Georges Mourier, with the Éclair Classics/L’Image Retrouvée laboratory.
Musical setting by Simon Cloquet-Lafollye, performed by Benjamin Bernheim, tenor, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique and the Chœur de Radio France, conducted by Fabien Gabel.

The Cannes Classics selection, created twenty years ago, once again features celebrations, restored prints and documentaries. It will be marked by the presence of great artists: Faye Dunaway, Wim Wenders, Sylvia Chang, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Marco Bellocchio, Ron Howard, Frederick Wiseman, Dong-ho Kim, Montxo Armendáriz and more, to visit the history of cinema with those who preserve and restore our heritage, those who distribute and show films, film librarians and laboratories, festivals from all over the world, public institutions, 2024 festival-goers, loyal Cannes Cinéphiles accredited members and young 3 Three Days in Cannes spectators. Welcome!

EVENTS

100 years of Columbia Pictures

GILDA

Charles Vidor

1946, 1h50, United States

A Sony Pictures Entertainment presentation. Restoration from the original 35mm nitrate negative and a 35mm nitrate internegative. 4K digitization and digital image restoration by Cineric, Inc. Audio restoration by John Polito at Audio Mechanics from the sound track of the original 35mm nitrate negative. Color correction, conformation, additional image restoration and DCP creation by Motion Picture Imaging colorist Sheri Eisenberg. Restoration supervised by Grover Crisp.

Screening in the presence of Tom Rothman, President of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The 40th anniversary of Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders, Palme d’or 1984

PARIS, TEXAS

Wim Wenders

1984, 2h28, West Germany/France

A Wim Wenders Stiftung presentation. A 4K restoration commissioned by the Wim Wenders Stiftung under the supervision of Wim Wenders and with the kind collaboration of Argos Films.

Distribution France Tamasa, release July 3, 2024.

Screening in the presence of Wim Wenders.

Le siècle de Costa-Gavras

LA VÉRITÉ EST RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE – L’AVEU

Directed by Yannick Kergoat, written by Edwy Plenel

2024, 52mins, France

Michèle Ray-Gavras presents a KG Productions production with the support of INA, Gaumont Pathé Archives, ERT.

Presentation of one of the ten episodes of the documentary series « Le Siècle de Costa-Gavras », dedicated to the history of the film L’Aveu.

Screening in the presence of Costa-Gavras, Edwy Plenel and Yannick Kergoat.

The ultimate film of Jean-Luc Godard

SCÉNARIOS

Jean-Luc Godard

2024, 18mins and 34mins, France/Japan

An Écran noir productions production in association with ARTE France and Nekojarashi Llp (Roadstead).

Scénarios is the title Jean-Luc Godard chose for his final 18-minute film, made, literally, the day before his voluntary death. In addition, Jean-Luc Godard recorded a 34-minute film in which, mixing still and moving images, halfway between reading and seeing, he outlined his project for Scénarios.

Screening in the presence of Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Luc Godard’s assistant, and Mitra Farahani, producer.

The 70th birthday of the Seven Samourai

THE SEVEN SAMOURAI

(Les Sept Samouraïs)

Akira Kurosawa

1954, 3h27, Japan

A presentation of Toho Global Ltd. Digital restoration by Toho Co.,Ltd. For the 4K restoration, the 35mm print was supplied by Toho and produced by TOHO Archive Co, Ltd. Images and sound respectively digitized by ARRISCAN and SONDOR RESONANCES. Restoration carried out to celebrate the film’s 70th anniversary since its first Japanese cinema release. French distributor : The Jokers Films.

Screening in the presence of Shion Komatsu (Toho).  

The complete works of Frederick Wiseman

LAW AND ORDER

Frederick Wiseman

1969, 1h21, United States

A presentation and restoration by Zipporah Films in association with Steven Spielberg, with the participation of the Library of Congress.

New version restored in 4K from the 16mm image negative and original sound. Digitization and color grading carried out at DuArt and Goldcrest laboratories in New York. Calibration and restoration by Jane Tolmachyov, under the supervision of Frederick Wiseman and the production direction of Karen Konicek. Digitization of the complete works of Frederick Wiseman, which will be the subject of retrospectives around the world from autumn 2024.

Screening in the presence of Frederick Wiseman.

Raymond Depardon Photographer

LES ANNÉES DÉCLIC

(The Declic Years)

Raymond Depardon

1984, 1h07, France

A Presentation of the Films du losange. Restauration in 4K under the supervision of Claudine Nougaret and Raymond Depardon at TransPerfect Media laboratory from 35mm image, magnetic and sound negatives.

Screening in the presence of Claudine Nougaret and Raymond Depardon.

Lucy Barreto, a producer in Brasil

BYE BYE BRASIL

(Bye bye Brésil)

Carlos Diegues

1970, 1h42, Brazil

A presentation and restoration by Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto for Produções Cinematográficas LC Barreto, in association with Quanta, Alexandre Rocha and Marcelo Pedrazzi, financed by Rede D’Or.

Screening in the presence of Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto, Paula Barreto.

The 60th anniversary of Jacques Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Palme d’or 1964

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG

Jacques Demy

1964, 1h32, France

A presentation by Ciné-Tamaris. 4K restoration under the supervision of Mathieu Demy and Rosalie Varda-Demy from the original negative, scanned in immersion to reduce the effects of time on the film by the Eclair Classics and L.E. Diapason laboratories in Paris. Sound restoration based on a three-track stereophonic mix of music and vocals.

Screening in the presence of Rosalie Varda-Demy and Mathieu Demy.

JACQUES DEMY, LE ROSE ET LE NOIR

Florence Platarets

2024, 1h28, France

An Ex Nihilo, Ciné-Tamaris, ARTE France and INA production, with the participation of Ciné +, Cineventure 9, and the CNC. International distribution by mk2 Films.

Screening in the presence of Florence Platarets and Frédéric Bonnaud (screenwriter).

DOCUMENTARIES

FAYE 

Laurent Bouzereau

2024, 1h31, United States

A Needland Media, Amblin and HBO production.

The first feature-length documentary about Faye Dunaway who speaks about her career, with landmark roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network. Joining Faye are her son Liam, colleagues and friends such as Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, James Gray and many others.

Screening in the presence of Faye Dunaway and Laurent Bouzereau.

JIM HENSON IDEA MAN

Ron Howard

2024, 1h51, United States

An Imagine Documentaries and Disney Branded Television production.

Welcome to the mind of Jim Henson, a singular creative visionary, from his early years as a puppeteer on local television to the worldwide success of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show and more. With unprecedented access to Jim’s personal archives, Oscar-winning director Ron Howard offers a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose vivid imagination inspired the world.

Screening in the presence of Ron Howard.

WALKING IN THE MOVIES

Lyang Kim

2024, 1h28, South Korea

A ZONE Film, Kookje Daily News co-production with the participation of Busan’s Committee for Local Press.

A portrait of one of the key figures in the rise of Korean cinema: Kim Dong-ho, founder of the Busan International Film Festival. The film describes his own dedication and creativity in the service of cinema and asks: “How could a high official fall in love with cinema?”

Screening in the presence Dong-ho Kim and Lyang Kim. 

JACQUES ROZIER, D’UNE VAGUE À L’AUTRE

Emmanuel Barnault

2024, 1h, France

An INA and mk2 Films production, with the participation of Ciné+ and the CNC.

Jacques Rozier or the fierce, independent itinerary of a filmmaker in perpetual disarray, admired by his peers and pampered by the critics.

Screening in the presence of Emmanuel Barnault.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR: THE LOST TAPES

Nanette Burstein

2024, 1h41, United States

A Zipper Bros Films, Gerber Pictures, Sutter Road Picture Company and Bad Robot production.

Thanks to access to Elizabeth Taylor’s personal archives and seventy hours of newly-discovered intimate recordings, the film by Nanette Burstein, who won acclaim at Cannes a few years ago for The Kid Stays in the Picture, which she co-directed with Brett Morgen, lifts the veil on the star, revealing a woman far removed from her public image.

Screening in the presence of Nanette Burstein.

FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, LE SCÉNARIO DE MA VIE

David Teboul

2024, 1h38, France

A co-production of 10.7 production and INA, with the participation of France Télévisions, CNC, Procirep-Angoa and Fondation La Poste. International sales mk2 Films.

At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied during his long agony. The filmmaker confided in his friend Claude de Givray, with the intention of writing his autobiography. Too weakened, he abandoned the project. The film reveals part of this final story.

Screening in the presence of David Teboul and Serge Toubiana (screenwriter).

ONCE UPON A TIME MICHEL LEGRAND

David Hertzog Dessites

2024, 2h, France

A MACT Productions and Le Sous-Marin Productions production with the participation of OCS, in association with Dulac Distribution, Mediawan Rights and Indéfilms 10.

Michel Legrand, jazz musician and composer extraordinaire, has left his mark on the history of cinema, including the films of Jacques Demy, especially The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, the 60th anniversary of which is being celebrated in Cannes. Using never-before-seen archives and personal accounts, the film looks back on a lifetime dedicated to music, and the career of a man who served it masterfully to the very end.

Screening in the presence of David Hertzog Dessites.

RESTORED PRINTS

SLAP THE MONSTER ON PAGE ONE

Marco Bellocchio

1972, 1h28, Italy/France

A Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna presentation. Restored in 4K by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Surf Film and Kavac Film, under the supervision of Marco Bellocchio at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.

Screening in the presence of Marco Bellocchio and Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna.

THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS

Steven Spielberg

1974, 1h50, United States

A presentation and restoration by Universal Pictures. Special thanks to Steven Spielberg for his oversight of the 4K restoration of this film.

Screening in the presence of Cassandra Moore, Vice President, Mastering & Archive at NBCUniversal.

CAMP DE THIAROYE

Ousmane Sembene and Thierno Faty Sow

1988, 2h33, Senegal/Algeria/Tunisia

A presentation of The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project. Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in association with the Tunisian Ministry of Culture and the Senegalese Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage. Thanks to Mohammed Challouf. Restoration funded by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

Screening in the presence of Margaret Bodde, Executive Director of The Film Foundation.

ARMY OF SHADOWS

Jean-Pierre Melville

1969, 2h23, France

A Studiocanal presentation. 4K restoration created from the original 35mm negative and sound negative carried out by L’Image Retrouvée.

Screening in the presence of Juliette Hochart, EVP of Library, and Thierry Lacaze, Head of French theatrical, video and VOD distribution, Studiocanal.

JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN

Dalton Trumbo

1971, 1h52, United States

A Gaumont presentation. New 4K digital print, produced by GP Archives. Malavida will be released in France on October 2, 2024 in this new 4K print.

Screening in the presence of Nicolas Seydoux, Chairman of Gaumont.

ROSORA AT 10 O’CLOCK

Mario Soffici

1958, 1h42, Argentina

An Argentina Sono Film presentation. Restored in 4K by Cubic Restauration in collaboration with the Society for Audiovisual Heritage, coordinated by Fernando Madedo and supervised by Luis Alberto Scalella. Restored in the original AlexScope 2.35 format from the original 35mm negatives in the archives of Argentina Sono Film, the owner of the film.

Screening in the presence of Luis Alberto Scalella, president of Argentina Sono Film.

TASIO

Montxo Armendáriz

1984, 1h36, Spain

A presentation of the Cinémathèque Basque, Spain. 4K restoration financed by the Basque Government and carried out by the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory from the original negative, supervised by director Montxo Armendáriz and with the agreement of production company Enrique Cerezo, PC. French distribution by Tamasa and release in French theaters in 2025.

Screening in the presence of Montxo Armendáriz.

THE ROSE OF THE SEA

Jacques de Baroncelli

1947, 1h26, France

A Pathé presentation. 4K restoration, based on the original nitrate negatives, an image negative and an optical sound negative, as well as a 1st generation standard brown. Work carried out by the L’Image Retrouvée laboratory (Paris-Bologna).

Screening in the presence of Sophie Seydoux, President of the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation.

BONA

Lino Brocka

1980, 1h26, Philippines

A Kani Releasing and Carlotta Films presentation. New version restored in 4K by Carlotta Films and Kani Releasing at the Cité de Mémoire laboratory (Paris) from the original 35mm image and sound negatives preserved by LTC Patrimoine. Special thanks to Pierre Rissient and José B. Capino. French theatrical release: September 25, 2024.

Screening in the presence of Vincent Paul-Boncour, director and co-founder of Carlotta Films.

MANTHAN

(The Churning)

Shyam Benegal

1976, 2h14, India

A presentation of Film Heritage Foundation. Restored by Film Heritage Foundation at Prasad Corporation Pvt. Ltd.’s Post – Studios, Chennai and L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory, in association with Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd., the cinematographer Govind Nihalani and the director Shyam Benegal. Manthan was restored using the best surviving elements: the 35 mm original camera negative preserved at the NFDC-National Film Archive of India and the sound was digitised from the 35 mm release print preserved at Film Heritage Foundation. Funding supported by Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd.

Screening in the presence of actor Naseeruddin Shah, the family of actress Smita Patil, producers of the film and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Director, Film Heritage Foundation.

SHANGHAI BLUES

Tsui Hark

1984, 1h42, Hong Kong

A Film Workshop presentation to mark the company’s 40th anniversary. 4K restoration of the original negative supervised by Tsui Hark and Nansun Shi, in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata, soundtrack remixed by One Cool Sound.

Screening in the presence of actress Sylvia Chang.

FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER 

Robert Bresson

1971, 1h23, France/Italy

A mk2 presentation. Restored in 4K by mk2 Films with the support of the CNC from the image negative and magnetic sound at ECLAIR CLASSICS, Paris/Bologna.

Restoration and color grading supervised by Mylène Bresson. Color grading by Christophe Bousquet. Sound restoration by L.E. DIAPASON. French theatrical release by mk2.Alt and Carlotta first quarter of 2025. International distribution: mk2 films.

Screening in the presence of Nathanaël Karmitz, Chairman of the board of mk2. 

REMINDER!

Napoléon par Abel Gance (1927) to open Cannes Classics 

NAPOLÉON PAR ABEL GANCE (1927)

Abel Gance

1927, 3h40, France

After 16 years in the making, here is the first part (3h40) of Abel Gance’s Napoleonic epic (from Bonaparte’s youth to the Siege of Toulon).

Screening in the presence of Costa-Gavras, President, and Frédéric Bonnaud, General Director, of the Cinémathèque française.

The screening will take place in Salle Debussy on Tuesday May 14 at 2PM.

The 77th Festival de Cannes will take place from Tuesday May 14 to Saturday May 25, 2024.

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Midnight Screenings

Twilight Of The Warrior Walled In, Soi Cheang
I, The Executioner, Seung Wan Ryoo
The Surfer, Lorcan Finnegan – Nicholas Cage

The Balconettes, Noémie Merlant – Les Femmes au Balcon

Cannes Première

Miséricorde, Alain Guiraudie
C’est Pas Moi, Leos Carax

Everybody Loves Touda, Nabil Ayouch
The Matching Bang, Emmanuel Courcol
Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot, Rithy Panh
Le Roman de Jim, Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu

Additions:

VIVRE, MOURIR, RENAITRE Gaël Morel

MARIA Jessica Palud

Special Screenings

Le Belle De Gaza, Yolande Zauberman
Apprendre, Claire Simon
The Invasion, Sergei Loznitsa

Ernest Cole, Lost And Found, Raoul Peck
Le Fil, Daniel Auteuil

Additions:

SPECTATEURS Arnaud Desplechin

NASTY Tudor Giurgiu

LULA Oliver Stone

AN UNFINISHED FILM Lou Ye

Un Certain Regard

The Canadian actor, director, screenwriter and producer Xavier Dolan will be the President of the Un Certain Regard Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes. He will be joined by French-Senegalese screenwriter and director Maïmouna Doucouré, Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer Asmae El Moudir, German-Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps, and American film critic, director, and writer Todd McCarthy. They will be in charge of awarding prizes for the Un Certain Regard section, which showcases art and discovery films by young auteurs.

This year, 18 films have been selected, including 8 first films. The 2023 Un Certain Regard top prize went to director Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature How to Have Sex.

When the light breaks by Rúnar Rúnarsson will open the Un Certain Regard section on Wednesday May 15, 2024.

 

Armand, Halfdan Ullman Tondel

Black Dog (Gou Zhen), Guan Hu

The Damned (Les Damnes), Roberto Minervini

L’Histoire de Souleymane, Boris Lojkine

Le Royaume, Julien Colonna

My Sunshine (Boku No Ohisama), Hiroshi Okuyama

Norah, Tawfik Alzaidi

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Rungano Nyoni

Santosh Sandhya Suri

September Says, Ariane Labed

The Shameless, Konstantin Bojanov

Viet and Nam, Truong Minh Quy

The Village Next to Paradise, Mo Harawe

Vingt Dieux!, Louise Courvoisier

Who Let the Dog Bite (Le Proces du Chien), Lætitia Dosch

Additions:

UN CERTAIN REGARD

WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS Rúnar Rúnarsson

NIKI Céline Sallette 1st film

FLOW Gints Zilbalodis

When the light breaks by Rúnar Rúnarsson will open the Certain Regard section on Wednesday May 15.

Immersive Competition

 

The Cannes Film Festival has launched a new immersive works competition strand for its 77^thedition (May 14-25). Eight projects that utilise virtual reality, augmented reality and other new technologies will compete for the inaugural best immersive work prize chosen by an international jury.

Cannes Film Festival launches immersive competition for 2024

Eight immersive projects will compete for the best immersive work prize.

 

Semaine de la Critique

Find all information about the selected films online on
www.semainedelacritique.com

Competition

Babe – Marcelo Caetano (Brésil-France-Pays-Bas)

Blue Sun Palace – Constance Tsang (États-Unis)

Julie Keeps Quiet – Leonardo Van Djil (Belgique-Suède)

Locust – KEFF (Taïwan/France/États-Unis)

La Pampa – Antoine Chevrollier (France)

The Brink of Dreams (Rafaat einy Il sama) – Nadia Riyadh & Ayman El Amir (Égypte-France-Danemark-Qatar-Arabie Saoudite)

Simon de la Montaña – Frederico Luis (Argentine – Chili – Uruguay)

En séances spéciales:

Les Fantômes – Jonathan Millet (France-Allemagne-Belgique)

La Mer au loin – Saïd Hamich Benlarbi (France-Maroc-Belgique-Qatar)

Les Reines du drame – Alexis Langlois (France-Belgique)

Spanish writer-director-producer Rodrigo Sorogoyen will preside over the festival’s Critics’ Week.

Short films

Directors’ Fortnight

The Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section has unveiled its lineup for the 2024 festival, which will open with This Life of Mine, the final feature from the late French director Sophie Fillières. The drama features Agnès Jaoui as a woman whose identity starts to unravel when she turns 55. Fillières died shortly after wrapping principal photography on the film and her children finished post-production.

There are four U.S. titles in the feature section of the non-competitive sidebar: Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point, Carson Lund’s Eephus, India Donaldson’s Good One and Gazer from Ryan J. Sloan.

Among the veteran directors in the fortnight lineup this year is French filmmaker Patricia Mazuy whose Visiting Hours will premiere in the Cannes sidebar. Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi star as two women who bond over visits to their partners in prison. Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s dark comedy Plastic Guns is the closing night film.

Launched by the French Directors’ Guild in 1969 in the wake of the student and labor protests that disturbed — and ultimately shut down — the 1968 Cannes Film Festival —the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes) is an independent section that runs parallel to the main festival in Cannes with a focus on more cutting edge and provocative cinema.

For the first time this year, Directors’ Fortnight section will present an audience award to one of the titles in competition. The prize, named in honor of the late Belgian director Chantal Akerman (Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce – 1080 Brussels), is backed with €7,500 ($8,100) in prize money from the Chantal Akerman Foundation and will be the first-ever audience prize in Cannes.

The 2024 Directors’ Fortnight runs May 15-25.
Line-Up

OPENING FILM

This Life Of Mine Sophie Fillières (Opening Film) (France)

 

Feature Films

In His Own Image (A Son Image), Thierry de Peretti (France)

Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point, Tyler Taormina (USA)

Desert of Namibia, Yôko Yamanaka (Japan)

East of Noon, Hala Elkoussy (Egypt)

Eat The Night, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel (France)

Eephus, Carson Lund (USA)

Gazer, Ryan J. Sloan (USA)

Ghost, cat anzu, Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita (Japan)

Good One, India Donaldson (USA)

Mongrel, Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin (Taiwan) first feature film

Savanna and the Mountain, Paulo Carneiro (Portugal)

Sister Midnight, Karan Kandhari (India)

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Hernán Rosselli (Argentina)

The Falling Sky, Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (Brazil)

The Hyperboreans, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña (Chile)

 

To A Land Unknown, Mahdi Fleifel (Palestine, Denmark)

The Other Way Around, Jonás Trueba (Spain)

Universal Language, Matthew Rankin (Canada)

Visiting Hours (La Prisonnière de Bordeaux), Patricia Mazuy (France)

Plastic Guns, Jean-Christophe Meurisse (Closing Film) (France)

Special Screening

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy, Chantal Akerman (Belgium)

Short Films

After the Sun, Rayane Mcirdi

Extremely short, Maryam Tafakory

Immaculata, Kim Lêa Sakkal

Les Météos d’Antoine, Jules Follet

Mulberry Fields, Nguy?n Trung Ngh?a

Our Own Shadow, Agustina Sánchez Gavier

The Moving Garden, Inês Lima

ACID 2024 line-up

 

A Fireland
Dir. Mona Convert
(France)

Ce n’est pas qu’un revoir
Dir. Guillaume Brac
(France)

Chateau Rouge
Dir. Hélène Milano
(France)

Fotogenico
Dir. Marcia Romano and Benoit Sabatier
(France)

In Retreat
Dir. Maisam Ali
(India, France)

It Doesn’t Matter
Dir. Josh Mond
(U.S., France)

Kyuka – Before Summer’s End
Dir. Kostis Charamountanis
(Greece, North Macedonia)

Mi Bestia
Dir. Camila Beltrán
(Colombia, France)

Most People Die On Sundays
Dir. Iair Said
(Argentina, Italy, Spain)

Studio Ghibli Honorary Palme d’or of the 77th Festival de Cannes

The Festival de Cannes is honoring a cinema legend, awarding its Honorary Palme d’or for the first time to a group: Studio Ghibli. Alongside the Hollywood greats, the Japanese studio embodied by two superb storytellers, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and a host of cult characters, has unleashed a fresh wind on animated film over the past four decades.

 

Tourist information for attendees