Thanks to early official announcements a number of the movies debuting at this year’s 77th edition of the Festival de Cannes are already known. Quentin Dupieux’s “The Second Act” will open the festival. George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga” will premiere out of competition. And Frances Ford Coppola leaked himself that his latest opus, “Megalopolis” will screen in competition. This morning, Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate and Iris Knobloch, President of the Festival de Cannes, announced the rest of the lineup and it features a stellar lineup including new films from Andrea Arnold, Yorgos Lanthimos, Leos Carax, Sean Baker, Paul Schrader, Paolo Sorrentino, Jacques Audiard, and David Cronenberg.
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Some of the recognizable actors in new films this Cannes include Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Margaret Qualley, Nicholas Cage, Selena Gomez, and Richard Gere, among others.
Fresh off the global success of “Barbie,” Greta Gerwig is this year’s competition jury president. The rest of the competition jury will be revealed in the weeks to come. Moreover, Xavier Dolan is the jury president for Un Certain Regard, Lukas Dhont is the jury president for the Queer Palm, and Rodrigo Sorogoyen is the jury president for Critics’s Week.
The festival recently announced that George Lucas will receive an honorary Palm d’Or. It also revealed a new Immersive Competition for works that move beyond the two-dimensional screen.
Frémaux says at least 10 films will be added to the program in the weeks ahead. And three of them should be In Competition.
The complete list of films announced so far are as follows:
IN COMPETITION
THE APPRENTICE – Ali ABBASI
MOTEL DESTINO – Karim AÏNOUZ
BIRD – Andrea ARNOLD
EMILIA PEREZ – Jacques AUDIARD
ANORA – Sean BAKER
MEGALOPOLIS – Francis Ford COPPOLA
THE SHROUDS – David CRONENBERG
THE SUBSTANCE – Coralie FARGEAT
GRAND TOUR – Miguel GOMES
MARCELLO MIO – Christophe HONORÉ
FENG LIU YI DAI (CAUGHT BY THE TIDES) – JIA Zhang-Ke
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT – Payal KAPADIA
KINDS OF KINDNESS – Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS
L’AMOUR OUF – Gilles LELLOUCHE
DIAMANT BRUT (WILD DIAMOND) – Agathe RIEDINGER (First film)
OH CANADA – Paul SCHRADER
LIMONOV – THE BALLAD – Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
PARTHENOPE – Paolo SORRENTINO
PIGEN MED NÅLEN (THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE) –Magnus VON HORN
UN CERTAIN REGARD
NORAH – Tawfik ALZAIDI
THE SHAMELESS – Konstantin BOJANOV
LE ROYAUME – Julien COLONNA (First film)
VINGT DIEUX ! – Louise COURVOISIER (First film)
LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN (WHO LET THE DOG BITE?) – Lætitia DOSCH (First film)
GOU ZHEN (BLACK DOG) – GUAN Hu
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE – Mo HARAWE (First film)
SEPTEMBER SAYS – Ariane LABED (First film)
L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE – Boris LOJKINE
LES DAMNÉS (THE DAMNED) – Roberto MINERVINI
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL – Rungano NYONI
BOKU NO OHISAMA (MY SUNSHINE) – Hiroshi OKUYAMA
SANTOSH – Sandhya SURI
VIET AND NAM – TRUONG Minh Quý
ARMAND – Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL (First film)
OUT OF COMPETITION
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA – George MILLER
HORIZON, AN AMERICAN SAGA – Kevin COSTNER
SHE’S GOT NO NAME – CHAN Peter Ho-Sun
RUMOURS – Evan JOHNSON, Galen JOHNSON, Guy MADDIN
MIDNIGHT
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN – Soi CHEANG
I, THE EXECUTIONER – Seung Wan RYOO
THE SURFER – Lorcan FINNEGAN
LES FEMMES AU BALCON (THE BALCONETTES) – Noémie MERLANT
CANNES PREMIERE
MISÉRICORDE – Alain GUIRAUDIE
C’EST PAS MOI – Leos CARAX
EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA – Nabil AYOUCH
EN FANFARE (THE MATCHING BANG) – Emmanuel COURCOL
RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT – Rithy PANH
LE ROMAN DE JIM – Arnaud LARRIEU, Jean-Marie LARRIEU
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
LA BELLE DE GAZA – Yolande ZAUBERMAN
APPRENDRE –Claire SIMON
L’INVASION (THE INVASION) – Sergei LOZNITSA
ERNEST COLE, PHOTOGRAPHE (ERNEST COLE, LOST AND FOUND) – Raoul PECK
LE FIL – Daniel AUTEUIL
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival will screen from Tuesday, May 14 to Saturday, May 25. Look for complete coverage on The Playlist.