The countdown for Cannes 2024 has started. The annual film festival is scheduled to open on May 14 with the out-of-competition world premiere of the French comedy ‘The Second Act,’ directed by Quentin Dupieux and starring Léa Seydoux.
Today, Iris Knobloch, who is now in her second year as president, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the event, announced the official selection of films competing for a Palme d’Or at the 77th Festival de Cannes. The official lineup features 19 movies and includes some well-known filmmakers who have previously debuted productions in Cannes. Among them is British film director Andrea Arnold (‘American Honey’), who is debuting her sixth feature, ‘Bird,’ and Francis Ford Coppola, who won a Palme d’Or at Cannes 45 years ago for ‘Apocalypse Now.’ His new production, ‘Megalopolis,’ starring Adam Driver, is a $120 million self-funded sci-fi epic that has been in development since 1983, when Coppola wrote the first version of the screenplay.
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos will return to Cannes for the world premiere of ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ his latest collaboration with Emma Stone. Lanthimos is a familiar face at the festival, having won the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the psychological drama film ‘Dogtooth’ (2009), and scooping a Best Screenplay prize after competing with his ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ at the 70th Festival de Cannes in 2017.
Brazilian filmmaker Karim Ainouz will bring his eighth fiction feature, ‘Motel Destino,’ to Cannes after shooting his first English-language production, ‘Firebrand,’ starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law, which played in competition at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Aïnouz won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2019 for ‘Invisible Life.’
Among the other films playing in competition are new works by David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Jia Zhangke, Miguel Gomes, Paolo Sorrentino, and Coralie Fargeat.
Although last year marked a difficult one in Hollywood, with strikes by actors and writers forcing filming and post-production work to shut down for months – leaving significant gaps in 2024’s movie schedules and studios’ pockets – it will be a busy two weeks for the Festival de Cannes, with American filmmaker George Lucas set to receive an honorary Palme d’Or, and Sony’s Columbia Pictures also celebrating its 100th anniversary during the event.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival will run in the French Riviera from May 14-25, 2024. This year’s jury will be overseen by Barbie director and co-writer Greta Gerwig.
Official Selection 2024
Competition
- The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi
- Motel Destino, Karim Ainouz
- Bird, Andrea Arnold
- Emilia Perez, Jacques Audiard
- Anora, Sean Baker
- Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola
- The Shrouds, David Cronenberg
- The Substance, Coralie Fargeat
- Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes
- Marcello Mio, Christophe Honoré
- Caught By The Tides, Jia Zhang-Ke
- All We Imagine As Light, Payal Kapadia
- Kinds Of Kindness, Yórgos Lánthimos
- L’amour Ouf, Gilles Lellouche
- Wild Diamond, Agathe Riedinger
- Oh Canada, Paul Schrader
- Limonov – The Ballad, Kirill Serebrennikov
- Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino
- The Girl With The Needle, Magnus Von Horn
Out Of Competition
- The Second Act, Quentin Dupieux (opening film)
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, George Miller
- Horizon, An American Saga, Kevin Costner
- She’s Got No Name, Peter Chan
- Rumours, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
Midnight Screenings
- Twilight Of The Warrior Walled In, Soi Cheang
- I, The Executioner, Seung Wan Ryoo
- The Surfer, Lorcan Finnegan
- The Balconettes, Noémie Merlant
Cannes Premiere
- 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
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
Un Certain Regard
- Norah, Tawfik Alzaidi
- The Shameless, Konstantin Bojanov
- Le Royaume, Julien Colonna
- Vingt Dieux!, Louise Courvoisier
- Who Let The Dog Bite?, Lætitia Dosch
- Black Dog, Guan Hu
- The Village Next To Paradise, Mo Harawe
- September Says, Ariane Labed
- L’histoire De Souleymane, Boris Lojkine
- The Damned, Roberto Minervini
- On Becoming A Guinea Fowl, Rungano Nyoni
- My Sunshine, Hiroshi Okuyama
- Santosh, Sandhya Suri
- Viet And Nam, Truong Minh Quý
- Armand, Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
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