Cannes Film Fes­ti­val 2024: the full line-up

It’s the most won­der­ful time of the year… the day where two old­er peo­ple sat behind a lit­tle table on a stage and serve up the delec­table morsels of world cin­e­ma that we’re all set to enjoy in the com­ing months. Film fes­ti­vals have so far this year not exact­ly bathed them­selves in glo­ry, with issues of cen­sor­ship and polit­i­cal sup­pres­sion present at both Sun­dance and Berlin. But can Cannes take up the man­tle and offer up a tru­ly open and free fes­ti­val, where film­mak­ers are able to present their work with­out fear of vio­lent rebuttal?

We already know that George Miller’s new addi­tion to his Mad Max saga, Furiosa, will be in atten­dance, and that Kevin Cost­ner will be sidling into down with the first (three hour) seg­ment of his Hori­zon opus. But else­where the line-up offers the usu­al high, high lev­els of antic­i­pa­tion and excite­ment, and along­side new films from Yor­gos Lan­thi­mos (Kinds of Kind­ness), Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la (Megaplopo­lis), Leos Carax (C’est Pas Moi) and David Cro­nen­berg (The Shrouds), we’re real­ly excit­ed to see Rungano Nyoni’s fol­low-up to I am Not a Witch (On Becom­ing a Guinea Fowl), Pay­al Kapadia’s fol­low-up to The Night of Know­ing Noth­ing (All We Imag­ine as Light) and the new film by Por­tuguese mae­stro Miguel Gomes (Grand Tour). So here’s every­thing we have so far…

Spe­cial Screenings

La Belle de Gaza by Yolande Zauber­man
Appren­dre by Claire Simon
The Inva­sion by Sergei Loznit­sa
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found by Raoul Peck
Le Fil – Daniel Auteuil

Cannes Prémiere

C’est Pas Moi by Leos Carax
Mis­éri­corde by Alain Guiraudie
Every­body Loves Tou­da by Nabil Ayouch
The Match­ing Bang by Emmanuel Cour­col
Ren­dez-vous Avec Pol Pot by Rithy Panh
Le Roman De Jim by Arnaud Lar­rieu, Jean-marie Larrieu

Mid­night Screenings

Twi­light of the War­rior Walled in by Soi Cheang
I, the Exe­cu­tion­er by Seung Wan Ryoo

Out of Competition

Furiosa: a Mad Max Saga by George Miller
Hori­zon, an Amer­i­can Saga by Kevin Cost­ner
She’s Got No Name by Chan Peter Ho-sun
Rumours by Evan John­son, Galen John­son, Guy Maddin
The Surfer by Lor­can Finnegan
The Bal­conettes by Noémie Merlant

Un Cer­tain Regard

Norah by Taw­fik Alzai­di
The Shame­less by Kon­stan­tin Bojanov
Le Roy­aume by Julien Colon­na (First Film)
Vingt Dieux! By Louise Cour­voisi­er
Who Let the Dog Bite? By Læti­tia Dosch (First Film)
Black Dog by Guan Hu
The Vil­lage Next to Par­adise by Mo Harawe
Sep­tem­ber Says by Ari­ane Labed
L’histoire De Souley­mane by Boris Lojkine
The Damned by Rober­to Min­ervi­ni
On Becom­ing a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni
My Sun­shine by Hiroshi Okuya­ma
San­tosh by Sand­hya Suri
Viet and Nam by Truong Minh Quý
Armand by Half­dan Ull­mann Tøndel

Com­pe­ti­tion

The Appren­tice by Ali Abbasi
Motel Des­ti­no by Karim aïnouz
Bird by Andrea Arnold
Emil­ia Perez by Jacques Audi­ard
Ano­ra by Sean Bak­er
Mega­lopo­lis by Fran­cis Ford Cop­po­la
The Shrouds by David Cro­nen­berg
The Sub­stance by Coralie Fargeat
Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes
Mar­cel­lo Mio by Christophe Hon­oré
Caught by the Tides by Jia Zhang-ke
All We Imag­ine as Light by Pay­al Kapa­dia
Kinds of Kind­ness by Yór­gos Lán­thi­mos
L’amour Ouf by Gilles Lel­louche
Wild Dia­mond by Agathe Riedinger
Oh Cana­da by Paul Schrad­er
Limonov – the Bal­lad by Kir­ill Sere­bren­nikov
Parthenope by Pao­lo Sor­renti­no
The Girl With the Nee­dle by Mag­nus Von Horn

Open­ing film

The Sec­ond Act by Quentin Dupieux 

The 2024 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val stars on 14 May