#Cannes2024: The official selection

The second act by Quentin Dupieux

With: Raphaël Quenard, Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon

Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to get rid of her by throwing her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four characters end up in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

The apprentice by Ali Abbasi

With: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Patch Darragh, Stuart Hughes, Eoin Duffy, Chloe Madison

The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real estate business in New York during the 1970s and ’80s.

Motel Destino by Karim Aïnouz

With: Iago Xavier, Nataly Rocha, Fábio Assunção

Dayana lives an abusive marriage with former police officer Elias, owner of Motel Destino. When 21-year-old Heraldo finds himself at the motel after messing up a hit and going on the run, Dayana finds herself intrigued and lets him stay. As the two navigate a dance of power, desire and liberation, a dangerous plan for freedom emerges.

Bird by Andrea Arnold

With: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, James Nelson-Joyce, Jasmine Jobson, Rhys Yates, Joanne Matthews

At the age of 12, 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 and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, is looking for attention and adventure elsewhere.

Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard

With: Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramírez, Adriana Paz, James Gerard, Eric Geynes, Agathe Bokja, Eduardo Aladro, Chun-Ting Lin

Overqualified and overexploited, Rita employs her skills as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more prone to clear criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected way out opens up to her: helping cartel leader Manitas retire from business and execute the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he has always dreamed of being.

Anora by Sean Baker

With: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelstein, Yuriy Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, Ivy Wolk, Ross Brodar, Lindsey Normington

A comedy following sex workers.

Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola

With: Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf, Giancarlo Esposito, Talia Shire, Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman

An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.

The shrouds by David Cronenberg

With: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce, Sandrine Holt, Elizabeth Saunders, Jennifer Dale, Steve Switzman, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Jeff Yung, Eric Weinthal

An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.

The substance by Coralie Fargeat

With: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, Hugo Diego Garcia, Olivier Raynal, Tiffany Hofstetter, Tom Morton, Jiselle Burkhalter, Axel Baille

Coralie Fargeat’s ambition is for this film to become an “explosive, feminist take on body horror”.

Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes

With: Gonçalo Waddington, Crista Alfaiate, Cláudio da Silva, Lang Khê Tran, Jorge Andrade, João Pedro Vaz, Teresa Madruga, Joana Bárcia, Jani Zhao, Manuela Couto

Rangoon, Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Contemplating the emptiness of his existence, the cowardly Edward wonders what has become of Molly…Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.

Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré

With: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Benjamin Biolay, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia, Fabrice Luchini, Hugh Skinner

Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. The people around her believe this to be a temporary joke, but Chiara is determined not to give up her new identity…

FENG LIU YI DAI (CAUGHT BY THE TIDES) by Jia Zhangke

With: Zhao Tao, Zhou You, Ren Ke, Mao Tao, Zhubin Li, Pan Jianlin, Zhou Lan

In early 2000s China, Qiao Qiao and Guao Bin share a passionate but fragile love. When Guao Bin disappears to try his luck in another province, Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him.

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia

With: Kani Kusruti

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.

Kinds of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos

With: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer

A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife’s demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning and a woman’s quest to locate an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.

Beating hearts by Gilles Lellouche

With: François Civil, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Mallory Wanecque, Malik Frikah, Alain Chabat, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Élodie Bouchez, Karim Leklou

Clotaire, a local rebellious teenager raised in a tough neighborhood, and his schoolmate, Jackie, see their powerful bond tested when Clotaire gets embroiled in gang violence and ends up in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Years later, he comes out of prison committed to reclaiming her heart, even though she has moved on.

Wild Diamant by Agathe Riedinger

With: Malou Khebizi, Idir Azougli, Andréa Bescond, Ashley Romano, Alexis Manenti, Kilia Fernane, Léa Gorla, Alexandra Noisier, Antonia Buresi, Francesca Giromella

Liane, 19, reckless and incandescent, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus. Obsessed by beauty and the need to be somebody, she sees in reality TV the possibility of being loved. Fate finally seems to smile on her when she is cast on “Miracle Island”.

Oh Canada by Paul Schrader

With: Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, Kristine Froseth, Penelope Mitchell, Victoria Hill, Aaron Roman Weiner, Ryan Woodle, John Way

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his late seventies, Fife is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets at last, to demythologize his mythologized life.

Limonov : the ballad by Kirill Serebrennikov

With: Ben Whishaw, Viktoriya Miroshnichenko, Sandrine Bonnaire, Tomas Arana, Maria Mashkova, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Corrado Invernizzi, Victor Solé, Ivan Ivashkin

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. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino

With: Dario Aita, Celeste Dalla Porta, Silvia Degrandi, Isabella Ferrari, Lorenzo Gleijeses, Biagio Izzo, Marlon Joubert, Peppe Lanzetta, Nello Mascia, Gary Oldman

The life of Parthenope – neither siren nor myth – from her birth in 1950 to the present day. Her long existence embodies the full repertoire of human existence: youth’s lightheartedness and its demise, classical beauty and its inexorable permutations, pointless and impossible loves, stale flirtations and dizzying passion, nighttime kisses on Capri, flashes of joy and persistent suffering, real and invented fathers, endings and new beginnings.

The Girl with the needle (PIGEN MED NÅLEN) by Magnus von Horn

With: Trine Dyrholm, Vic Carmen Sonne, Besir Zeciri, Anna Terpiłowska

Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post WW1 Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children. To escape poverty, Karoline takes on the role of a wet-nurse.

Norah by Tawfik Alzaidi

With: Yaqoub Al Farhan, Abdulla Alsadhan, Mariam Al Bahrawi, Aixa Kay

A young woman in a remote village embarks on a perilous journey after the arrival of the new teacher who also happens to be a painter

THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin Bojanov

With: Mita Vashisht, Tanmay Dhanania, Auroshika Dey, Rohit Kokate, Prakash Ghimire, Binita Thapa Magar

Devika (14), a devotee of the goddess Yellamma, is condemned to prostitution as a Devadasi. On the day her sister leaves for a brothel in Mumbai, she meets Renuka (17), a hothead from another city. 18 years later, Devika takes to the road to secretly find the woman she has loved most in the world. A Shakespearean love story in South India.

Le Royaume (First Film) by Julien Colonna

With: Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Saveriu Santucci, Anthony Morganti, Andrea Cossu, Thomas Bronzini de Caraffa, Eric Ettori, Régis Gomez, Pascale Mariani

The relationship between a father and his daughter, Lesia – a young girl with a strong character, very close to nature and not afraid of the cold. An initiatory journey along the Corsican roads.

VINGT DIEUX ! (First Film) by Louise Courvoisier

With: Clément Faveau, Luna Garret, Mathis Bernard, Dimitri Baudry, Maïwene Barthelemy

Totone and his band of friends, local barflies, spend most of their summer scouring the Jura dances. Following the sudden death of his cheese-making father, Totone suddenly finds himself responsible for his 7-year-old sister, and must find a way to earn a living. With his friends, he sets out to make the best Comté cheese, one that will win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.

WHO LET THE DOG BITE? (LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN) (First Film) by Laetitia Dosch

With: Laetitia Dosch, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Bouli Lanners, François Damiens, Anouk Grinberg, Anne Dorval, Pierre Deladonchamps, Anabela Moreira

Avril, a young lawyer specializing in the defense of animals, is ready to do anything to save her client, a recidivist dog, from capital punishment. Between belief in justice and growing difficulties to bear the contempt of humans for animals, it is this dog who will help Avril to accept her human complexity.

GOU ZHEN (BLACK DOG) by Guan Hu

With: Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yi, Yuan Hong, Yi Zhao, Vision Wei, Liang Jing

More than ten years ago, a small town in northwest China. Erlang, who has been wandering for ten years, returns to his hometown and prepares to spend the rest of his life with a cynical philosophy of survival. Erlang joins a private dog-fighting team and spends his days transporting stray dogs. During transfers he meets a dog names Mashing. This stray dog ​​has the blood of a wolf. Its courage to fight for survival moves Erlang, and the two souls who share the same disease gradually develop feelings for each other. Erlang’s compassion for life was slowly awakened, and the blood and courage that had been deliberately suppressed began to return.

THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE (First Film) by Mo Harawe

With: Axmen Cali Faarax, Canab Axmed Ibraahin, Ahmed Mohamoud Salleban, Cigaal Maxamuud Saleebaan

In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths.

SEPTEMBER SAYS (First Film) by Ariane Labed

With: Mia Tharia, Niamh Moriarty, Cal O’Driscoll, Pascale Kann, Rakhee Thakrar, Barry John Kinsella, Shane Connellan, Amelia Valentina Pankhania

When September is suspended from their school, her sister July begins to assert her own independence. Tension in the family builds on holiday Ireland as a series of surreal encounters test the them all to their limit.

L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE by Boris Lojkine

With: Nina Meurisse, Abou Sangare, Ghislain Mahan, Yaya Diallo, Mamadou Barry, Keita Diallo, Younoussa Diallo, Alpha Oumar Sow, Emmanuel Yovanie

Two days in the life of Souleymane, a Guinean bicycle delivery man, as he prepares for his asylum interview by telling a story that isn’t his own…

THE DAMNED by Roberto Minervini

With: René W. Solomon, Cuyler Ballenger, Jeremiah Knupp, Timothy Carlson, Noah Carlson, Judah Carlson

Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the western territories, with the task of patrolling the unchartered borderlands. As their mission ultimately changes course, the meaning behind their engagement begins to elude them.

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano Nyoni

A comedy-drama exploring human relationships in Zambia and Guinea.

BOKU NO OHISAMA (MY SUNSHINE) by Hiroshi Okuyama

With: Keitatsu Koshiyama, Nakanishi Kiara, Sosuke Ikematsu, Wakaba Ryuuya, Yunho, Maho Yamada

A drama with figure skating as a backdrop, in which two children who are completely opposites find each other. having to train and form an ice dance duo.

SANTOSH by Sandhya Suri

With: Shahana Goswami, Sanjay Bishnoi

In 2018, Santosh, aged 28, assumes her deceased husband’s role as a police officer in India following his tragic death.

VIET AND NAM by Truong Minh Quy

Nam and Việt love each other. They are coal miners, working 300 meters below ground, where danger awaits, and darkness prevails. Nam doesn’t want his future to continue with coal and hires someone to smuggle him to the Western world. Before leaving, Nam goes on a journey with Việt and his mother, who claims that Nam’s father (a northern Vietnamese soldier) calls out in her dreams to find his missing body. Ultimately, their journey is fruitless and Nam and Việt return to the mines which collapse due to a relentless rain, trapping them. Nam suddenly sees his soon-to-be future, smuggled in the container of a truck, locked in the dark, in the heat, suffocating just the same. Nam and Việt lie side by side, shirtless, it’s too hot. They breathe, slowly. The sea, endlessly.

ARMAND (first Film) by Halfdan Olav Ullmann Tøndel

With: Renate Reinsve, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Øystein Røger, Loke Nikolaisen, Vera Veljović-Jovanović, Endre Hellestveit, Thea Lambrechts Vaulen

Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. While no one knows what actually happened between the two boys, the incident triggers a series of events, forcing parents and school staff into a captivating battle of redemption where madness, desire and obsession arise.

SHE’S GOT NO NAME by Peter Chan

With: Zhang Ziyi, Lei Jiayin, Zhao Liying, Dong Chengpeng, Li Xian, Jackson Yee, Yang Mi, Fan Wei, Ci Sha, Eric Wang

One woman’s suffering gives rise to the revolution of women’s social rights in China.

HORIZON by Kevin Costner

With: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Luke Wilson, Isabelle Fuhrman

Explore 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, embark 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.

RUMOURS by Guy Maddin ,Evan Johnson ,Galen Johnson

With: Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander, Charles Dance, Roy Dupuis, Denis Ménochet, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Takehiro Hira, Zlatko Burić

En route to the annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA by George Miller

With: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Lachy Hulme, Angus Sampson, Nathan Jones, Quaden Bayles, Daniel Webber, Goran D. Kleut, CJ. Bloomfield

As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN by Soi Cheang

With: Louis Koo, Sammo Hung, Raymond Lam, Terrance Lau, Richie Jen, Philip Ng Wan-Lung, Tony Wu, Man Kit Cheung, Kenny Wong Tak-Ban, Fish Liew

Set in the 1980s, “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In” follows troubled youth Chan Lok-kwun as he accidentally enters the Walled City, discovers the order amidst its chaos, and learns important life lessons along the way. In the Walled City, he becomes close friends with Shin, Twelfth Master and AV. Under the leadership of Tornado, they resist against the invasion of villain Mr. Big in a series of fierce battles. Together, they vow to protect the safe haven that is Kowloon Walled City.

THE SURFER by Lorcan Finnegan

With: Nicolas Cage, Justin Rosniak, Alexander Bertrand, Rahel Romahn, Nicholas Cassim, Finn Little, Charlotte Maggi, Nina Young, James Bingham, Miranda Tapsell

When a man returns to his beachside hometown in Australia, many years since building a life for himself in the U.S., he is humiliated in front of his teenage son by a local gang of surfers who claim strict ownership over the secluded beach of his childhood. Wounded, he decides to remain at the beach, declaring war against those in control of the bay. But as the conflict escalates, the stakes spin wildly out of control, taking him to the edge of his sanity.

THE BALCONETTES by Noémie Merlant

With: Noémie Merlant, Souheila Yacoub, Sanda Codreanu, Annie Mercier, Henri Cohen

Three women in a Marseille apartment during a heat wave. Opposite them, their mysterious neighbour, the object of all their fantasies. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying and delirious affair, only wishing for freedom.

I, THE EXECUTIONER by Ryoo Seung-wan

With: Hwang Jung-min, Jung Hae-in, Oh Dal-su, Jang Yoon-ju, Oh Dae-hwan, Kim Shi-hoo, Hyun Bong-sik

The film centers on a crisis facing the violent crime investigation division headed by detective Seo Do-cheol.

EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA by Nabil Ayouch

With: Nisrin Erradi, Jalila Talemsi, Joud Chamihy, El Moustafa Boutankite, Lahcen Razzougui, Khalil Oubaaqa

Touda is a sheikha (traditional singer and dancer) who performs in dingy bars to make ends meet. But Touda has a passion. She struggles for her art to be recognized and to ensure a better future for her deaf-and-mute son Yassine.

THE MATCHING BANG by Emmanuel Courcol

With: Benjamin Lavernhe, Pierre Lottin, Sarah Suco, Clémence Massart-Weit, Ludmila Mikaël, Anne Loiret, Jacques Bonnaffé, Yvon Martin, Nathalie Desrumaux

Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.

It’s not me by Leos Carax

With: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Ekaterina Yuspina, Loreta Juodkaite, Anna-Isabel Siefken, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Petr Anevskii, Bianca Maddaluno

This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.

Miséricorde by Alain Guiraudie

With: Catherine Frot, Félix Kysyl, Jean-Baptiste Durand, Jacques Develay, David Ayala

This is about 31 year-old Jérémie who returns to Saint-Martial in the Massif Central region for an old friend’s funeral. In this village where so much goes unsaid, he must contend with rumours and suspicion, until he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.

LE ROMAN DE JIM by Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu

With: Sara Giraudeau, Karim Leklou, Bertrand Belin, Laetitia Dosch, Noée Abita, Andranic Manet, Suzanne De Baecque, Eol Personne

Aymeric, Jim’s stepfather, met Florence, his mother, when she was six months pregnant. All three lead a happy life in the Jura until the biological father, Christophe, returns following a personal tragedy. Aymeric no longer finds his place and, estranged from the child, he decides to leave to make his life elsewhere. But years later, Jim, 23, knocked on Aymeric’s door.

Meeting with Pol Pot by Rithy Panh

With: Irène Jacob, Grégoire Colin, Cyril Gueï

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems ideal. But behind the Potemkin village, the Khmer Rouge regime is declining and the war with Vietnam threatens to invade the country. The regime is looking for culprits, secretly carrying out a large scale genocide. Under the eyes of the journalists, the beautiful picture cracks, revealing the horror. Their journey progressively turns into a nightmare. Freely inspired by journalist Elizabeth Becker’s account in When the war was over.

LE FIL by Daniel Auteuil

With: Daniel Auteuil, Grégory Gadebois, Alice Belaïdi, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Gaëtan Roussel, Isabelle Candelier, Florence Janas, Aurore Auteuil, Nathalie Dodivers

Maître Jean Monier, a disenchanted lawyer, no longer takes on criminal cases. But when he meets Nicolas Milik, an unemployed family man accused of murdering his wife, and sees the evidence of his innocence abound, his world is turned upside down. From then on, he’ll do anything to get him out of pre-trial detention and win his trial, thus rediscovering the meaning of his vocation.

ERNEST COLE, LOST AND FOUND by Raoul Peck

With: LaKeith Stanfield

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

THE INVASION by Sergei Loznitsa

Sergei Loznitsa examines the consequences of one country invading another.

APPRENDRE by Claire Simon

A documentary about teachers.

LA BELLE DE GAZA by Yolande Zauberman

With: Talleen Abu Hanna, Israela, Nadine

They had a fleeting vision one night during the filming of Mr. Beautiful. One of them told Selim Nassib in Arabic that she had walked from Gaza to become a transsexual in Tel Aviv. I called her La Belle de Gaza. With my camera, I looked for her everywhere.