Cannes Film Festival 2024: discover all the selected films

Cannes, with its films, its cruises, its glamor and its shower of stars… This year, the largest film festival in the world will be held from May 14 to 25. During this seventy-seventh session, and perhaps more than usual, big names in the seventh art will appear on the red carpet. Who will win the Palme d’Or and succeed “Anatomy of a Fall” and its very beautiful story, which won last year before winning the Academy Award for Best Screenplay? A quick summary of what awaits us during these two weeks.

It is Quentin Dupieux’s film, Act Two, with Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lyndon, which will be shown as an opener, out of competition, on Tuesday 14 May. This feature film from the director of “Smoking Makes You Cough” and “Yannick” will be released in theaters on the same day. An honorary Palme d’Or will be awarded to George Lucas for his entire career, as well as to the animation studio Ghibli, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki.

The official competition, which has not yet been finalized, is already tough. Firstly, it is the great return of Francis Ford Coppola with the film “Megalopolis”, 45 years after he received his second Palme d’Or for the film “Apocalypse Now” (1979). The 85-year-old cinema giant won his first Palme d’Or for his film “Secret Conversation” in 1974.

Other anticipated films include “The Shrouds” by David Cronenberg, “Marcello mio” by Christophe Honoré, “Emilia Perez” by Jacques Audiard, “L’amour ouf” by Gilles Lellouche, but also “Parthenope”. », by Paolo Sorrentino or “The Most Precious Goods” by Michele Hazanavicius.

Films participating in the official competition

“The Apprentice” by Ali Abbasi
“Motel Destino” By Karim Ainouz
“The Bird” by Andrea Arnold
“Emilia Perez” by Jacques Audiard
“Anora” by Sean Baker
“Big Cities” by Francis Ford Coppola
“The Shrouds” by David Cronenberg
“Substance” by Coralie Fargate
“The Grand Tour” by Miguel Gomez
“The Most Precious Goods” by Michel Hazanavicius
“Marcelo Mio” by Christophe Honoré
“Feng Liu Yi Dai” by Jia Chang-ke (“Stuck at the Tide”)
“Everything We Imagine Is Like Light” by Payal Kapadia
“Types of Kindness” by Yorgos Lanthimos
“L’Amour ouf” by Gilles Lellouche
“Trei kilometers până la capătul lumii” by Emmanuel Parvo (“Three kilometers to the end of the world”)
“Diamonds in the Rough” by Agatha Redinger | First movie
“Oh Canada” by Paul Schrader
“Limonov: Eddie’s Song” by Kirill Serebrennikov
“Parthenope” by Paolo Sorrentino
“Pigen med nålen” by Magnus von Horn (“The Young Lady with the Needle”)

Outside of the competition, movie legends will come to introduce their new baby. For example, there will be George Miller and his character “Furiosa”, a new chapter in the “Mad Max” saga. Kevin Costner, another Croisette regular, will unveil “Horizon: An American Saga,” a multi-episode project about the conquest of the American West for which he is the director and one of the actors alongside Sienna Miller. Also expected is “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre de la Batilière and Mathieu Delaporte with Pierre Nigne, Anaïs Demoustier and Laurent Lafitte.

Submitted films are out of competition

“She Has No Name” by Chan Peter Ho Son
“The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre de la Patilière and Mathieu Delaporte
“Horizon: An American Epic” by Kevin Costner
“Rumours” by Evan Johnson, Jalen Johnson and Guy Madden
“Furiosa: The Mad Max Saga” by George Miller

And in “Midnight Screenings,” festival-goers will be able to discover Noémie Merlant’s second feature film as a director, “Les Femmes au balcon.”

Midnight sessions

“Twilight Warriors: Besieged” by Sui Qiang
“The Surfer” by Lorcan Finnegan
“Women on the Balcony” by Noémie Merlant
“I Am the Executioner” by Ryu Seung-wan

The “A Certain Look” category will be an opportunity to watch the first films of Céline Salette, “Nicky,” and Letitia Duch, “The Trial of the Dog.”

Category “A Certain Look”

“When the Light Breaks” by Runar Runarsson
“Noura” by Tawfiq Al-Zaidi | First movie
“The Impudent” by Konstantin Boyanov
“The Kingdom” by Julian Colonna | First movie
“Twenty Gods” by Louise Courvoisier | First movie
“The Trial of the Dog” by Letitia Duch | The first movie (The dog is on trial)
“Gu Chen” by Guan Hu (“Black Dog”)
“The Village Next to Paradise” by Mo Hrawi | First movie
“September Says” by Ariane Labd | First movie
“The Story of Solomon” by Boris Luzhkin
“The Damned” by Roberto Minervini
“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” by Rungano Nyoni
“Boku no Ohisama” by Hiroshi Okuyama (“My Sunshine”)
“Nikki” by Celine Salit | First movie
“Santosh” by Sandhya Suri
“Vietnam and Nam” by Minh Qui Truong
“Armand” by Halfdan Ullmann Tundel | First movie
“Flow” by Gintis Zilbaloudis

In the Cannes Premiere category, we expect a lot from “Maria,” director Jessica Palud’s film about the life of Maria Schneider, the actress of “Last Tango in Paris.”

Choose “It was first.”

“Everybody Loves Toda” by Nabil Ayouch
“This Is Not Me” by Leos Carax
“In Uproar” by Emmanuel Corkol
“Mercy” by Alain Giraudy
“Le Roman de Gem” by Arnaud Lario and Jean-Marie Lario
“Live, Die, Be Reborn” by Gayle Morell
“Maria” by Jessica Palud
“A Rendezvous with Pol Pot” by Rithy Banh

“Le Fil” by director Daniel Auteuil, “Spectators!” by Arnaud Deplechin, “Ernest Cole, Photographer” by Raoul Peck, “Learning” a documentary by Claire Simon or “Lula” a documentary by Oliver Stone about the former Brazilian president, and it will be shown in a “special session.” ».

Private sessions

“The Wire” by Daniel Auteuil
“Viewers!” » Written by Arnaud Desplechin
“Bad” by Theodor Georgiou and Theodor D. Popescu, and Cristian Pascario
“Unfinished Film” by Lu Yi
“Ernest Cole, Photographer” by Raoul Peck
“The Invasion” by Sergei Loznitsa
“Learn” by Claire Simon
“Lola” by Oliver Stone
“The Beauty of Gaza” by Yolande Zuberman

The 2024 edition innovates by introducing a new category, the “Immersive Competition,” which includes eight competing creations, group virtual reality installations, mixed reality experiences, video mapping, and holographic works. Among them is “Noir,” taken from the book by Tania de Montaigne.

Extreme competition

“In Love” by Claire Bardin, Adrien Mondot, Laurent Bardin
“sophisticated” By Barnaby Steele, Ersin Han Ersin, Robin McNicholas
“The Human Violin: An Introduction” by Ioana Michie
“Maya, The Birth of a Superhero” by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke
“Noir” by Tania de Montaigne, Stephane Foynkinos and Pierre-Alain Giraud – France, Taiwan
“Telos I” by Dorothea Saikaly, Emil Dame Seidel – Canada, Sweden, Denmark, world premiere
“Wanderings” by Mathieu Pradat – France, Luxembourg, Canada
“Passing the Mist” by Tung Yen Chu – Taiwan

Valeria Golino will also present her series, which is broadcast in theaters in Italy, “The Art of Joy”, which is adapted from the novel by Giulliarda Sapienza, with Yasmine Trinca and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.