Cannes Film Festival 2024: the official selection for the 77th edition
After a long wait for big screen aficionados, the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has just revealed its official selection.
We already knew that French actress Camille Cottin will be the mistress of the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 77th Cannes Film Festival , and that Greta Gerwig will chair the Jury. The long-awaited event, which will be held from May 14 to 25, 2024, is now revealing its official selection – and it is delightful. Among the big films expected, big names in French cinema such as Audiard, Coppola, Lellouche , but also the new comedy by Quentin Dupieux at the opening.
In competition
- Opening film: “The Second Act” by Quentin Dupieux
- “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
- “Caught By the Tides” by Jia Zhang-Ke
- “All we imagine as light” by Payal Kapadia
- “Kinds of Kindness” by Yorgos Lanthimos
- “L’Amour Ouf” by Gilles Lelouche
- “Rough Diamond” by Agathe Riedinger
- “Oh, Canada” by Paul Schrader
- “Liminov” by Kirill Serebrennikov
- “Parthenope” by Paolo Sorrentino
- “The Girl With The Needle” by Magnus Von Horn
In some perspective
- Norah” by Tawfik Alzaidi
- “The Shamless” by Konstantin Bojanov
- “The Kingdom” by Julien Colonna
- “Twenty Gods!” by Louise Courvoisier
- “The Trial of the Dog” by Lætitia Dosch
- “Black Dog” by Guan Hu
- “The Village Next To Paradise” by Mo Harawe
- “September says” by Ariane Labed
- “The Story of Souleymane
- “The Damned” by Roberto Minervini
- “On Becoming a Guinean Fowl” by Rungano Nyoni
- “My Sunshine” by Hiroshi Yokoyama
- “Santosh” by Sandhya Suri
- “Viet and nam” by Truong Minh Quý
- “Armand” by Halfdan Ullmann Tondel (first film)
Out of competition
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga by George Miller
- “Horizon, An American Saga” by Kevin Costner
- “Shes got no name” by Peter Chan
- “Rumor” by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
Midnight sessions
- “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In” by Soi Cheang
- “I, The Executioner” by Seung Wan Ryoo
- “The Surfer” by Lorcan Finnegan
- “Women on the Balcony” by Noémie Merlant
Cannes Premiere
- “Mercy” by Alain Guiraudie
- “It’s not me” by Léos Carax
- “Everybody loves Touda” by Léo Carax
- “In fanfare” by Emmanuel Courcol
- “Rendezvous with Pol Pot” by Rithy Panh
- “Le Roman de Jim” by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
Special sessions
- “The Beauty of Gaza” by Yolande Zoberman
- “Learn” by Claire Simon
- “The Invasion” by Sergei Loznitsa
- “Ernst Cole” by Raoul Peck
- “The Wire” by Daniel Auteuil