Cannes Film Festival unveils 2024 Official Selection
The final selection of films for 77th Cannes Film Festival has been released
The Cannes International Film Festival has announced the selection of films for the 77th Cannes Film Festival which opens May 14 and runs through May 25.
In a press statement, the organisers say that Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, which is about former President of United States Donald Trump’s early business career, Anora, the latest film from Sean Baker of The Florida Project and Red Rocket fame, and Andrea Arnold’s Bird, featuring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, are among the standout entries in this year’s Cannes Film Festival competition.
“2024 selection was not easy because of the strikes, but that American cinema would absolutely be present at this year’s festival. Three of the 19 movies in competition are by American directors,” says Thierry Frémaux, Director, Institut Lumière.
Thierry Frémaux
Other familiar names who will launch new works in the competition category include Yorgos Lanthimos maker of Poor Things who will launch Kinds Of Kindness, his latest collaboration with actress Emma Stone. David Cronenberg returns with The Shrouds and Paul Schrader will debut Oh Canada, starring Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman and Richard Gere. Emilia Perez, a musical with Selena Gomez will also debut in competition.
Indian director Payal Kapadia, winner of the festival’s best documentary prize in 2021, will premiere All We Imagine As Light, a feature shot in India and produced by Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff of the French Petit Chaos. Additionally, debut feature filmmaker Agathe Riedinger secured a competition spot with Wild Diamond, say the organisers.
All of the entries will be scrutinised by a jury led by Greta Gerwig, the director and screenwriter behind Barbie, and it will announce the Palme d’Or winner at a ceremony on May 25.
At the festival’s closing ceremony, George Lucas, the director of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies, will also receive an Honorary Palme d’Or for his contribution to cinema.
List of movies:
In Competition
L’Amour Ouf by Gilles Lellouche
All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia
Anora by Sean Baker
The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi
Bird by Andrea Arnold
Caught by the Tides by Jia Zhangke
Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard
The Girl With the Needle by Magnus von Horn
Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes
Limonov: The Ballad by Kirill Serebrennikov
Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré
Megalopolis Francis by Ford Coppola
Motel Destino by Karim Ainouz
Oh Canada by Paul Schrader
Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino
The Shrouds by David Cronenberg
The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
Wild Diamond by Agathe Riedinger
Kinds of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos
Out of Competition
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga by George Miller
Horizon, an American Saga by Kevin Costner
Rumours by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
She’s Got No Name by Chan Peter Ho-Sun
Un Certain Regard
Armand Halfdan by Ullmann Tondel
Black Dog by Guan Hu
The Damned by Roberto Minervini
L’Histoire de Souleymane by Boris Lojkine
Boku No Ohisama by Hiroshi Okuyama
Norah by Tawik Alzaidi
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni
Le Royaume by Julien Colonna
Santosh by Sandhya Suri
September Says by Ariane Labed
The Shameless by Konstantin Bojanov
Viet and Nam by Truong Minh Quý
The Village Next to Paradise by Mo Harawe
Vingt Deux! by Louise Courvoisier
Who Let the Dogs Bite? by Laetitia Dosch
Midnight Screenings
The Balconettes by Noémie Merlant
I, The Executioner by Seung Wan Ryoo
The Surfer by Lorcan Finnegan
Twilight of the Warrior Walled In by Soi Cheang
Cannes Premiere
C’est Pas Moi by Leos Carax
Everybody Loves Touda by Nabil Ayouch
The Matching Bang by Emmanuel Courcol
Misericorde by Alain Guiraudie
Rendez-Vous Avec Pol Pot by Rithy Panh
Le Roman de Jim by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Special Screenings
Apprendre by Claire Simon
La Belle de Gaza by Yolande Zauberman
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found by Raoul Peck
Le Fil by Daniel Auteuil
The Invasion by Sergei Loznitsa
