The 2024 edition of the Cannes International Film Festival, which runs from May 15 through 25, offers another magnificent portrait of contemporary French cinema, with six French films vying for the Palme d'Or.
And as is the case every year, France, the home of cinema and the cradle of numerous international co-productions, will be present in all sections, with a total of almost 100 titles produced or co-produced by France, including minority-French productions and shorts.
The festival will open with a tribute to cinema with Quentin Dupieux's latest film, The Second Act, set against the backdrop of a film shoot, featuring a quartet of characters, and whose cast Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Raphaël Quenard, and Louis Garrel will walk the red carpet to launch proceedings.
This year, six films will represent French cinema in Competition, including a first feature (Wild Diamond by Agathe Riedinger) about the world of influencers, and an animated film (The Most Precious of Cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius). New films by Christophe Honoré (Marcello Mio), Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), Gilles Lellouche (Beating Hearts), and Payal Kapadia (All We Imagine as Light) round out the majority-French films.
Karim Aïnouz, David Cronenberg, Miguel Gomes, Paolo Sorrentino, and Kirill Serebrennikov will also present their films, all French-minority productions.
Three French documentaries (directed by Raoul Peck, Claire Simon, and Yolande Zauberman) will be presented in Special Screenings, accompanied, in this same section, by films by Arnaud Desplechin and Daniel Auteuil. And, as in recent editions, the Cannes Première sidebar will showcase a dozen eagerly-awaited French films, including Leos Carax's medium-length feature and new films by Gaël Morel, Alain Guiraudie, and the Larrieu brothers.
Un certain regard will feature new films by Boris Lojkine and three filmmakers' debut productions: Louise Courvoisier (Holy Cow), Céline Sallette (Niki), and Julien Colonna (The Kingdom). Noémie Merlant will present her second feature, The Balconettes, in a Midnight Screening.
Cannes Immersive
For its first competitive selection in the field of immersive creation, the Cannes Film Festival has chosen to focus on exploring the many existing hybrid forms and formats, and on works that are already recognized, rather than on world premieres. This choice will enable us to (re)discover many French creations, since six of the eight works selected are national productions or co-productions, as are the six out-of-competition works that complete the program.
The bridges between cinema and innovative immersive technologies are particularly evident in the presence of the actors and actresses who lend their voices to the works: Cate Blanchett for Evolver, Rosario Dawson and Jehnny Beth for BattleScar, Olivia Cooke and Vimala Pons for Emperor, Tahar Rahim and Collin Farrell for Gloomy Eyes, Naomi Kawase for Missing Pictures : Naomi Kawase, Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, Patty Smith, Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Jane Birkin for Spheres, and the writer Tania De Montaigne for the adaptation of her novel Colored in augmented reality.
Parallel sections
Quinzaine des Cinéastes (Directors' Fortnight) will open with a homage to Sophie Fillières, whose posthumous film This Life of Mine will be presented. This year's selection reveals new films by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Patricia Mazuy, and Thierry De Peretti.
Semaine de la Critique (Critics' Week) will open and close with two French films (Jonathan Millet's debut feature is opening night, while Emma Benestan's second feature closes the section). The selection also highlights two debut features, one of which will receive a Special Screening, by young filmmakers Alexis Langlois and Antoine Chevrollier.
Last but not least, Acid Cannes, true to its policy of showcasing explorative and independent cinema, will present new works by Guillaume Brac, Hélène Milano, Marcia Romano, and Benoît Sabatier, and Mona Convert.
All the French films and co-productions at the 77th Cannes Film Festival
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Opening film
Competition
- The Most Precious of Cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius
- All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
- Wild Diamond by Agathe Riedinger
- Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
- Beating Hearts by Gilles Lellouche
- Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré
- Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes (minority-French co-production)
- The Shrouds by David Cronenberg (minority-French co-production)
- Limonov. The Ballad of Eddie by Kirill Serebrennikov (French co-production shares not specified)
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof (French co-production shares not specified)
- Motel Destino by Karim Aïnouz (minority-French co-production)
- Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino (minority-French co-production)
Out-of-Competition
Special Screenings
- Ernest Cole, Lost and Found by Raoul Peck
- Elementary by Claire Simon
- The Belle from Gaza by Yolande Zauberman
- An Ordinary Case by Daniel Auteuil
- Filmlovers! by Arnaud Desplechin
- The Invasion by Sergei Loznitsa (minority-French co-production)
Un certain regard
- The Story of Souleymane by Boris Lojkine
- Holy Cow by Louise Courvoisier
- The Kingdom by Julien Colonna
- Niki by Céline Sallette
- Dog on Trial by Laetitia Dosch (minority-French co-production)
- Flow by Gints Zilbalodis (minority-French co-production)
- My Sunshine by Hiroshi Okuyama (minority-French co-production)
- Santosh by Sandhya Suri (minority-French co-production)
- The Shameless by Konstantin Bojanov (French co-production shares not specified)
- The Village Next to Paradise by Mo Harawe (minority-French co-production)
- Viet and Nam by Minh Quý Trương (minority-French co-production)
- When the Light Breaks by Rúnar Rúnarsson (minority-French co-production) OPENING FILM
Midnight Screenings
Cannes Première
- Being Maria by Jessica Palud
- To Live, to Die, to Live Again by Gaël Morel
- It's Not Me by Leos Carax
- The Marching Band by Emmanuel Courcol
- Everybody Loves Touda by Nabil Ayouch
- Jim's Story by Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu
- Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie
- Meeting with Pol Pot by Rithy Panh
Screenings for young audiences
Cannes Classics
- Jacques Rozier, From One Wave to Another by Emmanuel Barnault
- Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir by Florence Platarets
- François Truffaut: My Life a Screenplay by David Teboul
- Once Upon a Time Michel Legrand by David Hertzog Dessites
- Scénarios by Jean-Luc Godard
- "La vérité est révolutionnaire - L'aveu" (an episode from the series Le siècle de Costa-Gavras) by Yannick Kergoat
Short films - Competition
- The Man Who Couldn't Remain Silent by Nebojša Slijepčević
- Scars We Love by Raphaël Jouzeau
- Volcelest by Éric Briche
- Sanki Yoxsan by Azer Guliev
- Across the Waters by Viv Li
Short films - Immersive Competition
- Evolver by Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin, and Robin Mcnicholas
- Maya: The Birth of a Superhero by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke
- The Roaming - Wetlands by Mathieu Pradat
- Human Violins by Iona Mischie
- Colored by Pierre-Alain Giraud and Stéphane Foenkinos
Short films - Immersive section Out-of-Competition
- BattleScar by Martin Allais and Nico Casavecchia
- Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness by James Spinney and Peter Middleton
- Gloomy Eyes by Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado
- Spheres by Eliza Mcnitt
- Emperor by Marion Burger and Ilan Cohen
- Missing Pictures : Naomi Kawase by Clément Deneux
Short films - Cinef
Cinéma de la plage
- My Way by Thierry Teston, with the collaboration of Lisa Azuelos
- The Darwinners by Guigue & Jul
- A Boat In The Garden by Jean-François Laguionie (minority-French co-production)
56th QUINZAINE DES CINEASTES
Opening film
Official Selection
- Eat the Night by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel
- Visiting Hours by Patricia Mazuy
- In His Own Image by Thierry De Peretti
- The Falling Sky by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha (minority-French co-production)
- Ghost Cat Anzu by Yoko Kuno and Nobushiro Yamashita (French co-production shares not specified)
- To a Land Unknown by Mahdi Fleifel (minority-French co-production)
- Eephus by Carson Lund (minority-French co-production)
- The Other Way Around by Jonás Trueba (French co-production shares not specified)
- Mongrel by Chiang Wei Liang (minority-French co-production)
Closing film
Short films - Official Selection
63th SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
Opening film
Competition
- Block Pass by Antoine Chevrollier
- The Brink of Dreams by Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir (French co-production shares not specified)
- Locust de Keff (minority-French co-production)
- Baby de Marcelo Caetano (French co-production shares not specified)
Closing film
Special screenings
Short films - Selection
- Radikals by Arvin Belarmino
- Supersilly by Veronica Martiradonna
- Montsouris Park by Guil Sela
- Alazar by Beza Hailu Lemma
- What we ask of a statue is that it doesn’t move by Daphné Hérétakis
Short films - Special Screenings
ACID CANNES 2024
Selection
- Ce n'est qu'un au revoir by Guillaume Brac
- Château Rouge by Hélène Milano
- Fotogenico by Marcia Romano and Benoît Sabatier
- Un pays en flammes by Mona Convert
- Mi bestia by Camila Beltrán
- It Doesn't Matter by Josh Mond (minority-French co-production)
- In Retreat by Maisam Ali (minority-French co-production)
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