The 2024 Cannes Film Festival unveils its Official Selection: 4 female directors, together with Gilles Lellouche and Francis Ford Coppola

This Thursday, April 13, the world of cinema vibrates to the rhythm of the Cannes festival. Few weeks before the start of the prestigious festival which will take place on the Croisette du from 14 to 25 May and which will open with a feature film by Quentin Dupieuxthe general delegate Thierry Fremaux and the new president of the festival Iris Knobloch announced the list of contenders for the coveted Palme d’Or.

Four directors in competition

Both came together at the UGC Normandie, located on the Champs-Elysées in Paris. They announced that they had seen more than 2,000 films before making a decision. “ That this year women are at the top of the list makes me particularly happy. », Iris Knoblauch immediately announced. And for good reason, the director Greta Gerwig will be the president of the jury, while the actress Camille Cotton will be the host of the opening and closing ceremonies.

And in the selection? For the moment, parity is not in good condition. Currently only four directors are selected for the official competition. Among these, the Belgian Agathe Riedinger and the Indian Payal Kapadia. They appear together with Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg and Gilles Lellouche. More films should be added to the official selection within a few weeks. So, which feature film will be successful Anatomy of a fall From Justine Triet and will he win the Palme d’Or?

Films from the Official Selection May 14-25I

• The apprentice –Ali Abbasi
• Motel Destiny – Karim Ainouz
• Bird –Andrea Arnold
• Emilia Perez – Jacques Audiard
• Anora –Sean Baker
• Megalopolis –Francis Ford Coppola
• The fraud –David Cronenberg
• The substance – Coralie Fargeat
• Fantastic trip –Miguel Gomes
• Marcello Mio – Christophe Honoré
• Caught by the tides –Jia Zhang-Ke
• Everything we imagine as light – Payal Kapadia
• Types of kindness – Yorgos Lanthimos
• ugh love – Gilles Lellouche
• Rough diamond – Agata Riedinger
• Oh Canada –Paul Schrader
• Limonov – The ballad – Kirill Serebrennikov
• Partenope – Paolo Sorrentino
• The girl with the needle –Magnus Von Horn

In a certain perspective

• Will be – Tawfik Alzaidi
• The shameless one – Konstantin BOJANOV
• The kingdom –Giuliano Colonna
• Twenty Gods – Louise COURVOISIER
• The dog test – Laetitia Dosch
• Black Dog – GUAN Hu
• The Village near paradise – Mo HARAWE
• September sayings – Ariane Labed
• Souleymane’s story – Boris Lojkine
• The damned –Roberto MINERVINI
• Home Becoming a Guinea Fool – Rungano Nyoni
• My ray of sunshine –Hiroshu Okuyama

Midnight sessions

• Twilight of the Walled Warrior – Soi Cheng
• I, the executioner –Seung Wan Ryoo
• Out of competition:
• Mad Max 5: Furiosa –George Miller
• Horizon, an American saga –Kevin Cosner
• Has No Name: Chan Peter Ho-Sun
• Voices – Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
• Women on the balcony – Noémie Merlant
• The surfer–Lorcan Finnegan

Before Cannes

• Mercy – Alain Guiraudie
• It’s not me – Leo Carax

• Everyone loves Touda – Nabil Ayouch
• With fanfare – Emmanuel Courcol
• Meeting with Pol Pot –Rithy Pahn
• Jim’s novel – Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu

Special sessions

• The beauty of Gaza – Yolande Zauberman
• Learn – Claire Simon (on education, teachers and children)
• The invasion – Sergei Loznitsa
• Ernest Cole, photographer –Raoul Peck
• Row -Daniel Auteuil

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