Everything you need to know about the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
Who says new year, says new edition of the most coveted Festival in France, the Cannes Festival.
This 77th edition will take place this year from May 14 to 25, 2024 in the heart of the unmissable Palais des Festivals.
The Jury of the Cannes Film Festival 2024
The president of the official competition is none other than... Greta Gerwig, the director of last summer's blockbuster, Barbie. She succeeds Ruben Ostlund The Danish director has been selected five times at Cannes, has won two Palme d'Ors in 2017 for The Square and in 2022 for No filter.
This is composed of:
- Ebru Ceylan, screenwriter, photographer
- Lily Gladstone, actress
- Eva Green, actress
- Nadine Labaki, director, screenwriter
- Juan Antonio Bayona, director, producer, screenwriter
- Pierfrancesco Favino, actor
- Kore-eda Hirokazu, director
- Omar Sy, actor, producer
The Jury A Certain Regard
This is composed of:
- the president Xavier Dolan, director, screenwriter, producer, actor
- Maimouna Doucouré, director, screenwriter
- Asmae El Moudir, director, screenwriter, producer
- Vicky Krieps, actress
- Todd McCarthy, film critic, director, writer
The mistress of ceremonies this year will be Camille Cottin , which succeeds Chiara Mastroianni.
George Lucas, inseparable from the saga Star Wars and IIndiana Jones, will be awarded an Honorary Palme d'Or for his career. It will be presented to him on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday, May 25, 2024.
Also for the first time, another Honorary Palme d'Or will be awarded as a collective prize to the Japanese Animation Studio, Ghibli, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki.
Meryl Streep will be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which will take place on Tuesday, May 14 on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière.
After Jeanne Moreau, Marco Bellocchio, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jane Fonda, Agnès Varda, Forest Whitaker and Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep will receive an honorary Palme d'Or on this occasion. 35 years after her Best Actress Award for A Cry in the Dark, which remains to this day her only appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, she will make a return as dreamed of as hoped for on the Croisette.
What about the actors on the red carpet this year?
On the French side first, Gilles Lellouche, François Civil and Adèle Exarchopoulos for Love Phew . Chiara Mastroianni for Marcello Mio of Christophe Honoré. International side, Uma Thurman and Jacob Elordi for Oh, Canada by Paul Schrader or even Emma Stone for Kinds of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos . Not to mention Richard Gere, Demi Moore, Nicolas Cage, Selena Gomez in competition for their respective films.
Not counting Megalopolis, the titanic film by Francis Ford Coppola served by a five-star cast: Adam Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Forest Whitaker, Michelle Pfeiffer, Shia Labeouf, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza and Cate Blanchett.
Selection 2024
The poster for this festival pays homage to a scene from Rhapsody in August signed by the great Japanese master Akira KurosawaHe was then 81 years old.
In this film presented Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991, a grandmother who was a victim of the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, passes on to her grandchildren and her American nephew her faith in love and integrity as a bulwark against war. With as much tenderness as contemplation. The penultimate film by the filmmaker of The Legend of Great Judo, Rashômon, The Seven Samurai, Dersu Uzala Or Dodes'kaden recalls the importance of coming together and seeking harmony in all things.
Mirroring the cinema, this poster aims to celebrate the 7th Art, with wonder.
On the program for this edition, 54 films (see full list below)
Competition:
Opening film
THE SECOND ACT by Quentin DUPIEUX | Out of Competition – Opening film
THE APPRENTICE by Ali ABBASI
MOTEL DESTINO by Karim AÏNOUZ
BIRD by Andrea ARNOLD
EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques AUDIARD
ANORA by Sean BAKER
MEGALOPOLIS by Francis Ford COPPOLA
THE SHROUDS by David CRONENBERG
THE SUBSTANCE by Coralie FARGEAT
GRAND TOUR by Miguel GOMES
MARCELLO MIO by Christophe HONORÉ
FENG LIU YI DAI by JIA Zhang-Ke
(CAUGHT BY THE TIDES)
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal KAPADIA
KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yorgos LANTHIMOS
LOVE PHEW by Gilles LELLOUCHE
ROUGH DIAMOND by Agathe RIEDINGER | 1st movie
OH CANADA by Paul SCHRADER
LIMONOV – THE BALLAD by Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
PARTHENOPE by Paolo SORRENTINO
PIGGY BACK WITH NUTS by Magnus VON HORN
(THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE)
THE MOST PRECIOUS OF GOODS by Michel Hazanavicius
TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII by Emanuel Parvu
(Three kilometers to the end of the world)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof
Out of Competition:
SHE'S GOT NO NAME by CHAN Peter Ho-Sun
HORIZON, AN AMERICAN SAGA by Kevin COSTNER
RUMOURS by Evan JOHNSON, Galen JOHNSON and Guy MADDIN
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA by George MILLER
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte
A Certain Regard:
WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Rúnar Rúnarsson – Opening film
NORAH by Tawfik ALZAIDI | 1er movie
THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin BOJANOV
THE KINGDOM by Julien COLONNA | 1er movie
TWENTY GODS by Louise COURVOISIER | 1er movie
THE DOG'S TRIAL by Laetitia DOSCH | 1er movie
(DOG ON TRIAL)
GOU ZHEN by GUAN Hu
(BLACK DOG)
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo HARAWE | 1er movie
SEPTEMBER SAYS by Ariane LABED | 1er movie
THE STORY OF SOULEYMANE by Boris LOJKINE
THE DAMNED by Roberto MINERVINI
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano NYONI
BOKU NO OHISAMA by Hiroshi OKUYAMA
(MY SUNSHINE)
SANTOSH by Sandhya SURI
VIET AND NAM by TRUONG Minh Quý
ARMAND by Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL | 1er movie
NIKI by Celine Sallette | 1st movie
FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis
Special sessions:
THE THREAD by Daniel AUTEUIL
ERNEST COLE, PHOTOGRAPHER by Raoul PECK
THE INVASION by Sergei LOZNITSA
LEARN by Claire SIMON
THE BEAUTY OF GAZA by Yolande ZAUBERMAN
SPECTATORS by Arnaud Desplechin
NASTY by Tudor Giurgiu
LULA by Oliver Stone
AN UNFINISHED FILM by Lou Ye
Midnight screenings:
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN by Soi CHEANG
THE SURFER by Lorcan FINNEGAN
WOMEN ON THE BALCONY by Noémie MERLANT
I, THE EXECUTIONER by RYOO Seung Wan
Cannes Premieres:
EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA by Nabil AYOUCH
IT'S NOT ME by Leos CARAX
IN FANFARES by Emmanuel COURCOL
MERCY by Alain GUIRAUDIE
JIM'S NOVEL by Arnaud LARRIEU and Jean-Marie LARRIEU
MEETING WITH POL POT by Rithy PANH
LIVE, DIE, BE REBORN by Gaël Morel
MARIA by Jessica Palud
So what's your prediction for this year's Palme d'Or winner?
