Cannes Film Festival 2024
by Alexa Dalby23 films in competition, 18 in Un Certain Regard, 5 out of competition, 4 midnight screenings, 8 Cannes première titles, and 9 special screenings – and Cannes also added new categories this year. These include screenings for young audiences and a much anticipated Immersive section, in addition to a tribute to Studio Ghibli, one of the two Honorary Palme d’ors at the (the other is George Lucas) and the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des Cinéastes), Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique), and l’ACID.
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.
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Opening Film
Meryl Streep will receive an honorary Palme d’or at the Opening Ceremony
Meryl Streep will be the guest of honour at the opening ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes which will take place on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Tuesday, May 14. A celebrated figure in American cinema, the American actress will kick-off the upcoming edition which will draw to a close on Saturday, May 25th with the awards’ list given by the President of the Jury, Greta Gerwig.
After Jeanne Moreau, Marco Bellocchio, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jane Fonda, Agnès Varda, Forest Whitaker or Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep will receive the Festival’s Honorary Palme d’or. 35 years after winning the Best Actress award for Evil Angels, her only appearance in Cannes to date, Meryl Streep will be making her long-awaited return to the Croisette.
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.
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
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
Anora, Sean Baker
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi
THE APPRENTICE is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.
Bird, Andrea Arnold
Bailey lives with his brother Hunter and his father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
Caught by the Tides (Feng Liu Yi Dai), Jia Zhang-Ke
The film is set across the first two decades of the 21st century and tells the story of how a Chinese woman lives by herself in silence, celebrating the prosperous Belle Epoque with songs and dance. Some 22 years in the making, the film’s first elements were shot as far back as 2001.
Emilia Perez, Jacques Audiard
A woman is tasked with assisting an escaped Mexican cartel leader undergo sex reassignment surgery to both evade the authorities and affirm her gender.
The Girl With the Needle, Magnus von Horn
In Copenhagen, young pregnant Karoline takes on a position as a wet nurse for an older woman named Dagmar to help support herself. Dagmar operates a clandestine adoption agency under the guise of a candy shop, assisting disadvantaged mothers place their unwanted newborns in foster homes.
Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes
Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.
Kinds of Kindness, Yorgos Lanthimos
KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
L’Amour Ouf, Gilles Lellouche
A girl from an upper-middle-class family and a boy from a modest background fall in love but drift apart; he eventually becomes a criminal and spends 12 years in prison. Follows an improbable relationship between two people.
Limonov: The Ballad, Kirill Serebrennikov
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness.
Marcello Mio, Christophe Honoré
The film is the story of a woman named Chiara. She is an actress, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, who one summer when her own life is in turmoil, tells herself that she would prefer to live her father’s life
Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola
An accident destroys a New York City-like metropolis already in decay. Cesar, an idealist, aims to rebuild the city as a sustainable utopia, while the venal mayor, Frank Cicero, has other plans. Coming between the opposing men and their visions is Frank’s socialite daughter, Julia.
Motel Destino, Karim Aïnouz
Oh, Canada, Paul Schrader
“Oh, Canada depicts the story of famed documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, an American leftist who fled to Canada as a young man to avoid the Vietnam War draft. As Fife battles cancer in Montreal during his twilight years, he agrees to a final interview.
Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino
According to Sorrentino, the film is about a woman named Partenope “who bears the name of her city but is neither siren nor myth.”
The Shrouds, David Cronenberg
Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
The Substance, Coralie Fargeat
Body horror
Wild Diamond (Diamant Brut), Agathe Riedinger
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LA PLUS PRÉCIEUSE DES MARCHANDISES The story centers on a Holocaust-surviving Jewish girl whose father throws her from a moving train heading to Auschwitz and ultimately found by a woodcutter and his family. |
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TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII Adi, 17 years, is spending the summer in his home village in the Danube Delta. One night he is brutally attacked on the street, the next day his world is turned upside-down. His parents no longer look at him as they did, and the seeming tranquillity of the village starts to crack. |
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THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG The story centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears. |
Out Of Competition
The Second Act, Quentin Dupieux
Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father. But David isn’t attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 5, George Miller
Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way home.
Horizon, An American Saga, Kevin Costner
In the great tradition of Warner Bros. Pictures’ iconic Westerns, Horizon: An American Saga explores the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning the four years of the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865, Costner’s ambitious cinematic adventure will take audiences on an emotional journey across a country at war with itself, experienced through the lens of families, friends and foes all attempting to discover what it truly means to be the United States of America.
She’s Got No Name, Peter Chan
She’s Got No Name tells the story of a woman whose suffering becomes the catalyst for a revolution in women’s social rights in China. This ambitious film, the biggest Chinese production of the year, required the streets of Shanghai to be blocked for several months to capture the magnitude of this historic moment.
Rumours, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
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LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO
Alexandre De La Patellière et Matthieu Delaporte
The film follows Edmond Dantès, a young sailor who is unjustly imprisoned on his wedding day because of a plot orchestrated by his so-called friends. After fourteen years ofincarceration in the sinister Château d’If, heescapes with the help of another prisoner who reveals the location of a hidden treasure.
Cannes Classics
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Napoléon by Abel Gance (1st period) |
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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.
Midnight Screenings
Twilight Of The Warrior Walled In, Soi Cheang
Set in British colonial Hong Kong in the 1980s, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In follows a troubled youth as he accidentally enters the infamous Kowloon Walled City – a dangerous Chinese enclave ripe with gang crime and corruption.
I, The Executioner, Seung Wan Ryoo
Follows detective Seo Do-cheol and the Violent Crimes Investigation Division as they face a crisis.
The Surfer, Lorcan Finnegan – Nicholas Cage
A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point.
The Balconettes, Noémie Merlant – Les Femmes au Balcon
Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom.
Cannes Première
Miséricorde, Alain Guiraudie
Thirty-year-old Jérémie returns to Saint-Martial to attend an old friend’s funeral. In this village full of things left unsaid, he finds himself the target of rumour and suspicion, to the point he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.
C’est Pas Moi, Leos Carax
It’s a free-format film, a self-portrait, that revisits over 40 years of Leos Carax’s filmography and questions the great stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time. “It’s an autobiographical essay – maybe it’s not him, it’s him.”
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
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VIVRE, MOURIR, RENAITRE A potential love triangle between Emma, Sammy, and Cyril is shattered by the emergence of the AIDS crisis. Expecting the worst, each character’s destiny takes an unexpected path. A potential love triangle between Emma, Sammy, and Cyril is shattered by the emergence of the AIDS crisis. |
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BEING MARIA Maria Schneider’s rise to fame after Last Tango in Paris and its controversial production’s impact on her life and career. |
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
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NASTY |
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LULA |
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AN UNFINISHED FILM
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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.
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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
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.
Santosh Sandhya Suri
A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
September Says, Ariane Labed
Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different -September is protective and distrustful of others, while July is open to and curious about the world. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure what to do with them. When September is suspended from their school, July is left to fend for herself and begins to assert her own independence – which does not go unnoticed by September. Tension among the three women builds when they take refuge in an old holiday home in Ireland, where July finds her bond with September shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand or control – and a series of surreal encounters test the family to their limit.
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
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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 77thedition (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
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Find all information about the selected films online on
www.semainedelacritique.com
Competition
Babe Baby – Marcelo Caetano (Brésil-France-Pays-Bas)
After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. He encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion
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)
Simon is 21 years old. He introduces himself as a mover’s helper. He claims not to know how to cook or clean the bathroom, but he does know how to make a bed. Recently, he seems to have become a different person…
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Les Fantômes (Across the Sea) – Jonathan Millet (France-Allemagne-Belgique)
Nour, 27, immigrated illegally to Marseille. With his friends, he makes a living as a small-time dealer, leading an unconventional, festive life… Meeting Serge – an unpredictable, charismatic cop – and his wife Noémie, turns his life upside down. From 1990 to 2000, Nour loves, matures, and clings to his dreams.
Les Reines du drame – Alexis Langlois (France-Belgique)
Spanish writer-director-producer Rodrigo Sorogoyen will preside over the festival’s Critics’ Week.
13 short films, 10 in competition and 3 in special screening, selected among 2150 submitted films
In competition
Alazar
Ethiopia – France – Canada / 35’
A menina e o pote (The Girl and the Pot) Brazil / 12’
As minhas sensac?o?es sa?o tudo o que tenho para oferecer
(My Senses Are All I Have to Offer)
Portugal / 20’
(What we Ask of a Statue is That it Doesn’t Move
/ Ce qu’on demande a? une statue, c’est qu’elle ne bouge pas)
Greece – France / 32’
Ella se queda (She Stays) Mexico / 10’
Montsouris (Montsouris Park) France / 14’
Noksan (Absent) Turkey / 23’
Radikals
Philippines – USA – Bangladesh – France / 20’
Supersilly
France / 9’
Taniec w Naroz?niku (Dancing in the corner) Poland / 13’
Beza Hailu Lemma Valentina Homem Isadora Neves Marques
Daphne? He?re?takis
Marinthia Gutie?rrez Velazco Guil Sela
Cem Demirer
Arvin Belarmino
Veronica Martiradonna Jan Bujnowski
Directors’ Fortnight
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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)
Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the fresco of a generation.
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point, Tyler Taormina (USA)
Christmas Eve with an Italian-American Family in Small-Town Long Island.
Desert of Namibia, Yôko Yamanaka (Japan)
East of Noon, Hala Elkoussy (Egypt)
Set in a confined world outside time, East of Noon is the fable of prodigy ABDO (19) who uses music to rebel against his elders: showman SHAWKY (70), an eccentric showman who rules with a mix of performance and fear, and storyteller JALALA (75), who provides relief with stories of the Sea, which no one else has seen. East of Noon is a satire on the inner workings of an ailing autocracy and its inherent vulnerability to youth’s unchained vision of a better world.
Eat The Night, Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel (France)
Eephus, Carson Lund (USA)
Gazer, Ryan J. Sloan (USA)
Frankie, a young mother with dyschronometria, struggles to perceive time. Using cassette tapes for guidance, she takes a risky job from a mysterious woman to support her family, unaware of the dark consequences that await.
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)
The lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection.
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)
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Studio Ghibli Honorary Palme d’or of the 77th Festival de Cannes |
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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.
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George Lucas – Honorary Palme d’or
