Together with president Greta Gerwig, the jury of the official competition of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival is made up of a select group: Omar Sy, Eva Green, Lily Gladstone, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Ebru Ceylan, Nadine Labaki, Juan Antonio Bayona and Pierfrancesco Favino.
In the Un certain regard section, Xavier Dolan will also have the support of Maïmouna Doucouré, Asmae El Moudir, Vicky Krieps and Todd McCarthy.
This is an image from Rhapsody in August, the film by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. The official announcement of the Cannes Festival recalls that this film, which was presented Out of Competition in 1991, shows how “a grandmother, victim of the bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, transmits to her grandchildren and her American nephew her faith in love and integrity as a bulwark against war.” This feature film, the penultimate film by the filmmaker who died in 2010, is an ode to “the importance of coming together and seeking harmony in all things”: “A reflection of cinema, this poster celebrates the Seventh Art with amazement. By giving everyone a voice, cinema makes emancipation possible. By remembering the wounds, he fights against forgetting. Bearing witness to the dangers on the horizon, he calls for unity. By alleviating trauma, she helps heal the living.”
The 19 films competing (of which only four have been directed by a woman…) will compete for the Palme d’Or, after Anatomy of a Fall, by Justine Triet.
- Megalopolis – Francis Ford Coppola
- The Apprentice – Ali Abbasi
- Motel Destino – Karim Aïnouz
- Bird – Andrea Arnold
- Emilia Perez – Jacques Audiard
- Anora – Sean Baker
- Les Linceuls – David Cronenberg
- The Substance – Coralie Fargeat
- Grand Tour – Miguel Gomes
- Marcello Mio – Christophe Honoré
- 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 – Agathe Riedinger
- Oh Canada – Paul Schrader
- Limonov – The Ballad – Kirill Serebrennikov
- Parthenope – Paolo Sorrentino
- The Girl with the needle – Magnus Von Horn
Who are the stars expected at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival?
Despite fears of delays due to the now settled Hollywood strike, American headliners will be present on the Croisette. There will be no shortage of glamor on the red carpet and everyone from the cast of Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth) to that of Megalopolis (Adam Driver, Dustin Hoffman, Shia Labeouf, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza) will be present.
And, sweeping home, the cast of L’Amour ouf, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, François Civil and director Gilles Lellouche, will also be present.
The most anticipated stars of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival: Jacob Elordi, Selena Gomez, Catherine Deneuve, Richard Gere…
This year’s edition will be full of winners: three stars will receive it throughout the fortnight. George Lucas, Meryl Streep and Studio Ghibli will be awarded throughout different moments of the Festival.
Rumors persist, but still without confirmation: for a few weeks, the French cinematic microcosm has been full of questions about the possible publication of investigations into industry figures, in a context of harassment or even sexual assault. The Cannes Film Festival is said to be prepared to manage a crisis in case accusations are made against any artist involved in the Festival.
In the Lumière Institute bulletin last Sunday, Thierry Frémaux addressed the issue head-on, making public his response to journalist Antoine Pecqueur, who, after publishing an article at the opening of last year’s Lumière Festival, “is preparing to do the same at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.” The director of the Lumière Institute and general delegate of the Cannes Festival condemned “the questionable methods of said editor,” while promising his “unconditional support for investigative journalism.”
But those are not the only tensions that hover over the festival: a week before the opening, the collective Sous les écrans la dèche (“Behind the screens”), which defines itself as “the collective of precarious workers at film festivals ”, called all employees of the Festival and its parallel selections to strike, denouncing the “extreme fragility and absolute urgency of protecting our savoir-faire.”
