Cannes, France
May 14 — 25, 2024

MAY 14, 2024

CÉRÉMONIE D’OUVERTURE
OPENING CEREMONY

(19.15)

Main Competition Jury

Un Certain Regard JURY

Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition JURY

• Lubna Azabal, Belgian actress – Jury President
• Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, French filmmaker and producer
• Paolo Moretti, Italian programmer
• Claudine Nougaret, French producer
• Vladimir Perišić, Serbian filmmaker

Caméra d’Or JURY

• Baloji, Belgian-Congolese singer and filmmaker – Jury Co-President
• Emmanuelle Béart, French actress – Jury Co-President
• Pascal Buron, French TSF board member
• Nathalie Chifflet, French journalist
• Gilles Porte, French cinematographer and filmmaker
• Zoé Wittock, Belgian filmmaker

L’Œil d’Or JURY

• Nicolas Philibert, French filmmaker and actor – Jury President
• Dyana Gaye, French-Senegalese filmmaker
• Elise Jalladeau, French producer and executive director of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival
• Mina Kavani, Iranian-French actress
• Francis Legault, Canadian filmmaker and director at Ici Radio-Canada Première

Critics’ Week JURY

• Sylvie Pialat, French producer – Jury President
• Ben Croll, Canadian film critic and journalist
• Iris Kaltenbäck, French filmmaker
• Virginie Surdej, Belgian cinematographer
• Eliane Umuhire, Rwandan actress

Queer Palm JURY

• Lukas Dhont, Belgian filmmaker – Jury President
• Hugo Bardin, French singer and director
• Sophie Letourneur, French filmmaker
• Juliana Rojas, Brazilian filmmaker
• Jad Salfiti, British-Palestinian journalist

Florence wants to introduce David, the man with whom she is madly in love, to her father Guillaume. But David is not attracted to Florence and wants to get rid of it by throwing her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four characters find themselves in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere. Starring Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon, and Raphaël Quenard.

Quentin Dupieux’s previous films include “Rubber” (2010), “Wrong” (2012), “Wrong Cops” (2013), “Reality” (2014), and “Smoking Causes Coughing” (2022).

MAY 15, 2024

Cinéma de la Plage

After Hours	1985	Martin Scorsese	United States
Exils	2004	Tony Gatlif	France
Indigènes (Days of Glory)	2006	Rachid Bouchareb	France
Moi Aussi (Me Too) (short film)	2024	Judith Godrèche
My Way	2024	Lisa Azuelos & Thierry Teston	France
Les Neuf Reines (Nine Queens)	2000	Fabián Bielinsky	Argentina
Opération Condor	1991	Jackie Chan	China
Phantom of the Paradise	1974	Brian De Palma	United States
Porco Rosso	1992	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
Silex and the City	2024	Jean-Paul Guigue & Julien Berjeaut	France
Slocum Et Moi (A Boat in the Garden)	2024	Jean-François Laguionie	Luxemburg, France
Tales from Earthsea	2006	Gorô Miyazaki	Japan
Transmitzvah	2024	Daniel Burman	Argentina
Trainspotting	1995	Danny Boyle	United Kingdom

My Way is much more than a song; this major score has crossed eras, borders and generations. It’s an anthem that has become part of us and a permanent part of music history. My Way is also one of the most covered songs ever, from Sid Vicious to Tom Jones, not to mention Nina Simone or Pavarotti. However, many people are unaware that it was initially conceived in France, by the pool of Claude François’ mansion on a summer afternoon in 1967, and that a succession of fortuitous meetings and sleepless nights had guided her across the Atlantic towards the man who would make her a Legend. In a form of a biopic, the documentary MY WAY tells the story of the genesis of a mythical song and how it became part of the Hall of fame.

Seeking change, 21-year-old Simon finds purpose by befriending two disabled children who teach him to embrace life’s joys. Together, they navigate a world not designed for them, inventing their own rules for love and happiness.

RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC / WITH MERYL STREEP

(14.30)

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Liane, 19, reckless and incandescent, lives with her mother and her little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become someone, she sees reality television as the opportunity to be loved. Fate seems to smile at her when she casts “Miracle Island”. Starring Malou Khebizi, Idir Azougli, Andréa Bescond, Ashley Romano, Alexis Manenti, Kilia Fernane, Léa Gorla, and Alexandra Noisier.

Barbie will open this year’s Quinzaine! This Barbie, played
by Agnès Jaoui, is the protagonist of Sophie Fillières’ magnificent final film, This Life of Mine. A midlife crisis in three acts:
a comedy, a tragedy and an epiphany, delivered wholeheartedly, with the breaks in tone and the high-wire dialogue that
are the hallmark of Fillières’ cinema. The filmmaker has left us a self-portrait, as exquisite as it is intimate, to which Agnès Jaoui lends body and soul.

In a world in decline, the young Furiosa is torn from the Green Earth with the Innumerable Mothers and captured by a horde of motorcyclists led by the fearsome warlord, Dementus. As they cross the Devastated Lands, they discover the Citadel ruled by Immortan Joe. While the two tyrants compete for dominance, Furiosa faces many challenges in finding their way home. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Brown, and Elsa Pataky.

The day breaks over a long summer day in Iceland. From one sunset to the other, Una, a young art student, meets love, friendship, grief and beauty.

A single dad orchestrates a sailboat vacation for his twin adult children, secretly planning for them to meet their birth mom.

In FAYE, the first feature-length documentary on the film icon Faye Dunaway, the Oscar actress speaks with sincerity of the triumphs of her illustrious career, with prominent roles in Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown and Network, while reflecting on the film she even watches today as her fall, Mom Très dear. Through these reflections, she courageously explores new personal discoveries: her struggles against bipolar disorder, the history of her family and how the intensity of the characters she embodies always has an impact on who she is in her real life. Join Faye, his son Liam, colleagues and friends such as Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, James Gray and many others.

In the presence of Faye Dunaway and Laurent Bouzereau.

Copenhagen, 1919. Karoline, a young worker, struggles to survive. As she becomes pregnant, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman who runs a clandestine adoption agency. A strong bond is created between the two women and Karoline accepts a nanny role alongside her. Starring Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup, Tessa Hoder, and Ari Alexander.

Magnus von Horn’s previous films include “The Here After” (2015), which was a nominee for the Golden Camera award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and “Sweat” (2020).

MAY 16, 2024

In a working-class suburb of Buenos Aires, the Felpetos – the Sopranos next door – run a well-established underground betting business. Following the father’s death, the family business has become matriarchal. Hernán Rosselli’s real-life childhood neighbour, Maribel, entrusted the filmmaker with her old family videos and agreed, alongside her family, to become a bookmaker in his filmic universe. Game theory and the shape of the network are interwoven with both individual memories and a country’s history.

François Truffaut’s films “move like trains, you understand? Like trains in the night.” His life followed the same rhythm; he was 52 when the words The End appeared. A few months earlier, the director had started to share the story of his youth with his old friend Claude de Givray, delving deeply into his family history. But time ran short and he could not complete this autobiography, which he had planned to call “the Screenplay of My Life.” David Teboul’s film, brimming with never-before-seen letters and documents, reveals part of this last narrative.

Winter 1862. During the Civil War, the U.S. Army sent a volunteer company to the West to patrol unexplored areas. As their mission changes course, they question the meaning of their engagement. Starring René W. Solomon, Jeremiah Knupp, Cuyler Ballenger, Timothy Carlson, and Noah Carlson. Roberto Minervini previous directed “Stop The Pounding Heart” (2013).

Against the backdrop of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, Zhong-Han, a silent twenty-something in Taiwan, balances a day job at a family restaurant with nightly gang activities, until the restaurant’s ownership changes hands.

A dramedy exploring the redemptive bond between a lost Staten Island man and a young filmmaker

Can high school friendships last a lifetime? One thing is certain, in a short time Aurore, Nours, Jeanne, Diane and the others will say goodbye to their boarding room, to swimming in the Drôme, to the holidays in the mountains. Louison will cut his dreads and the small family will burst. For some of them, this is not the first time and it hurts even more…

An adaptation of a novel by Jérôme Ferrari, Thierry de Peretti takes a non-didactic look at the history of Corsica at the end of the 20th century: as embodied by Antonia, a young press photographer in love with an independence fighter. The film does not sidestep the impasses of nationalism, and nor does it deny the Corsican cause: rather, it delicately and quietly captures its singularity. It is, though, above all, a formidable portrait of a woman forging her own path.

On a deserted road in the middle of the night, Shula falls on her uncle’s body. As a funeral is being prepared, Shula and her cousins shed light on the secrets of their middle-class family. In this surreal and vibrant film, filmmaker Rungano Nyoni probes the lies we tell ourselves. Starring

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Following their first feature-length animated film The Wolf House (2018), the Chilean duo are back, mixing puppets, stop-motion and live-action, theatre, science fiction, and real and fabricated biopic. In the liminal space of a big studio, our only guide is a woman – by turns storyteller, actress and illusionist – who interacts with Méliès-style cardboard sets and effigies, following in the footsteps of a very real man: the Chilean neo-Nazi dandy Miguel Serrano (1917-2009), a writer and the originator of delirious esoteric theories. Should he be viewed as a fascinating anomaly or symbolic of a deeper evil?

Palme d’Or
In Competition
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BIRD

Andrea Arnold • United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States • 1h59
(15.30)

12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approaching puberty seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. Starring Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, James Nelson-Joyce, Sarah Beth Harber, Jasmine Jobson, Rhys Yatesm and Joanne Matthews.

Andrea Arnold’s previous films include “Red Road” (2005), which was a Palme d’Or nominee and won the Jury Prize at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, “Fish Tank” (2009), which was a Palme d’Or nominee and tied for the Jury Prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and “American Honey” (2016), which was a Palme d’Or nominee and won the Jury Prize at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. Arnold won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short film “Wasp” (2004) at the 77th Academy Awards.

January 2020. A film crew met at a hotel near Wuhan to resume production of a film interrupted ten years earlier. As rumors of a strange disease circulate, the team is confined with their screens as the only contact with the outside world.

In the Landes forest, a family passes down the secrets of fire from generation to generation. Under the eyes of animals, the days and the nights succeed one another. The father, Patrick, eats fat. The daughter, Margot, explodes. The child, Jean, codes firefly arrangements.

Megalopolis is a Roman epic in an imaginary modern America in full decline. The city of New Rome must absolutely change, creating a major conflict between Caesar Catilina, a genius artist with the power to stop time, and the arch-conservative mayor Franklyn Cicero. The first dream of an ideal utopian future, while the latter remains strongly attached to a regressive status quo that protects greed, privilege, and private militias. The daughter of the mayor and jet-setteuse Julia Cicero, in love with Caesar Catilina, is torn between the two men and will have to discover what seems best for the future of humanity. Starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Grace VanderWaal, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, and Dustin Hoffman.

Francis Ford Coppola’s previous films include “The Godfather” trilogy (1972-1990), “The Conversation” (1974), and “Apocalypse Now” (1979). He’s been nominated for 14 Academy Awards, winning 5 of them. Four of his films were in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, with “The Conversation” and “Apocalypse Now” both winning the Palme d’Or.

ELIABETH TAYLOR: THE PERDUS REGISTRATIONS offers an unprecedented exploration of the life of Elizabeth Taylor, the iconic Hollywood icon. With unprecedented access to Taylor’s personal archives and 70 hours of recently rediscovered intimate audio, the documentary unveils the facets of one of the most immutable icons in cinema, in disagreement with its public image and aspiring to respect. By renouncing traditional interviews, the film allows Elizabeth to narrate her story and challenges viewers to reconsider her legacy, presenting her not only as a film icon but also as a pioneer who has used her fame for humanitarian works, leading to real change in the world.

A production by zipper Bros Films, Gerber Pictures, Sutter Road Picture Company, Bad Robot. Thanks to access to Elizabeth Taylor’s personal archives, and 70 hours of recently discovered intimate recordings, Nanette Burstein’s film, hosted in Cannes a few years ago for The Kid Stays in the Picture, which she co-directed with Brett Morgen, lifted the veil on the star, revealing a woman away from her public image.

In the presence of Nanette Burstein.

Hamid is part of a secret group pursuing the Syrian regime’s fugitive leaders. His mission takes him to France, on the trail of his former torturer, whom he must confront. In this manhunt thriller inspired by true events, the past and present collide, exploring themes of justice and redemption.

10 years after the release of his epic film “Maidan”, Sergei Loznitsa continues his Ukrainian chronicles and documents his country’s struggle against the Russian invasion. Shot over a 2-year period, the film portrays the life of the civilian population all over Ukraine and presents a unique and ultimate statement of Ukrainian resilience in the face of a barbaric invasion. In the second part of his Ukrainian diptych, Loznitsa paints a monumental canvas of a nation determined to defend its right to exist.

For three years, Cambodia, now Democratic Kampuchea, has been under the yoke of Pol Pot and its Khmer Rouge. The country is economically devastated, and nearly two million Cambodians have died in genocide as you. Three Frenchmen accepted the regime’s invitation and hope to get an exclusive interview with Pol Pot: a country-famous journalist, a photographer, and a sympathizing intellectual of revolutionary ideology. But the reality they perceive under the propaganda and treatment that are reserved for them will gradually tip out everyone’s certainties.

Portrait of one of the main actors of Korean film branding: Kim Dong-ho, founder of the Busan International Film Festival. This documentary describes his commitment and creativity in the service of cinema, and wonders: How could a senior official fall in love with cinema? A co-production: Kookje Daily News, with the participation of Busan’s Committee for Local Press. Portrait of Kim Dong-ho, who contributed to the notoriety of Korean cinema and founded the Busan Film Festival or “How could a senior official fall in love with cinema like this?”

In the presence of Dong-ho Kim and Lyang Kim.

In the 1980s, the only place in Hong Kong where British law did not apply was the dreaded Kowloon Citadel, an enclave left to gangs and trafficking of all kinds. Fleeing the mighty boss of the Triads Mr. Big, the clandestine migrant Chan Lok-kwun takes refuge in Kowloon where he is caught under the protection of Cyclone, leader of the Citadel. Together with the other proscribed of his clan, they will have to face the invasion of Mr. Big and protect the refuge that the fortified city has become for them.

MAY 17, 2024

Yôko Yamanaka’s second feature follows a 21-year-old Japanese woman of vacillating and unpredictable humour as she swaps one boyfriend for another. A beautician with little commitment to her work and no real desire to achieve anything, she can sometimes be cruel and aggressive. A wild child? She is simply alive. Nevertheless, unconvincing doctors diagnose her with bipolar disorder. With its dry editing and zooms, the film conveys the disarray of a woman battling against a society that is still rigid and patriarchal.

Nadira (27) escapes from a brothel in Delhi after stabbing an abusive policeman to death. She takes temporary refuge in a community of Devadasi sex workers in southern India, where she takes the Indian name from Renuka. She falls in love with Devika, a 17-year-old emotionally fragile girl. His encounter with Renuka led Devika to confront his mother and rebel against the secular and oppressive institution of religious consecrations.

This documentary chronicles the lives of a group of young Egyptian girls from a very conservative small village in Upper Egypt who formed an all-female acting troupe despite family rejection.

Bogotá 1996. The city is frightened by rumours of the arrival of the Devil. Mila, 13, feels that she herself is changing.

An iridescent Christmas bauble, at once comforting and melancholic: for his third feature, Tyler Taormina films
a Christmas’s Eve get-together for the members of an eccentric Italian-American family. As the night wears on and generational tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friend to claim the wintry suburb for her own. Producer and actor Michael Cera plays an unlikely policeman straight out of Superbad or Twin Peaks. Francesca Scorsese
and Sawyer Spielberg will also be in attendance.

Totone, 18, spends most of her time drinking beers and skimming the Jura balls with his band of friends. But reality catches up with him: he has to take care of his seven-year-old sister and find a way to earn a living. He then took the lead in manufacturing the best county in the region, the one with which he would win the gold medal in the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.

Nour a 27-year-old emigrates illegally to Marseille and lives off petty crime with friends leading marginal lives, and partying hard.

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Adi, 17, spends the summer in his native village nestled in the Danube Delta. One evening, he is violently assaulted in the street. The next day, his world is completely upset. His parents no longer looked at him as before and the apparent tranquillity of the village began to crack.

Scenarios, directed by Jean-Luc Godard the day before his voluntary death, is composed in diptych: DNA, fundamental elements, and MRI, Odyssée. Between these two aspects, which evoke in a strictly materialistic fashion, genesis and decline, unfolds a story made of notes and images condensed in 18 minutes, a narrative haunted by death, because the film is also a farewell. The second part ends with a JLG self-portrait sitting on his bed, with a bare torso, putting his film to the end of his film – his latest images will be.

KINDS OF KINDNESS is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

They were a fleeting vision in the night. I was told that one of them had walked from Gaza to Tel Aviv. In my head I called her The belle from Gaza.

Touda only dreams of one thing: being a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan performer. She belts out songs about resistance, love and emancipation, passed down from generation to generation. Every evening, she performs in bars under the gaze of men in her tiny village while hoping for a better future for her and her son. Disrespected and shamed, she sets her sights on leaving for the bright lights of Casablanca…

A famed Canadian documentary filmmaker, gives a final interview to one of his former students to tell the whole truth about his life. A confession filmed right in front of his wife…

A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son, but is humiliated by a group of powerful locals and drawn into a conflict that rises with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him right to his breaking point.

MAY 18, 2024

In order to visit his ailing mother, the introverted Matthew leaves Montreal to return to his native Winnipeg. But time and space seem to have been inverted in this absurdist, deadpan comedy: strangely enough, everyone in the isolated Canadian metropolis speaks Farsi. And look: like in a Kiarostami’s film, two children are embarking on a quest that Matthew gets caught up in, too. Both a declaration of love to Iranian culture and a meditation on the curious geographical and mental space of the elusive giant that is Canada.

On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new journey together.

A player in a prestigious sports club, Julie dedicates herself fully to tennis, her sport, her training, and her career. When her coach is suspended, rumors start spreading and voices, other than Julie’s, are heard. Focused on her sports goals, Julie chooses to keep quiet as Belgian director, Leonardo van Dijl, follows her each step of the way, one ball after the next, respecting her decision, always choosing the right angle, keeping the right distance, that is to say the most accurate and – most importantly – the fairest.

Two women cross paths in the waiting room of a prison where each has come to visit “their man”. One is a wealthy bourgeois woman, the other, a mother of two children who has to work hard to put food on the table. The former, who lives much closer to the prison, offers the latter a room in her large house. Is this a friendship, a romance, a pact? The film follows the unlikely pair, their dreams of female emancipation, and the reverberations of the gulf that separates them. Nothing is black-and-white here, nor half-hearted.

David, a 30-year-old, overweight, homosexual and having a sick fear of the plane, reluctantly returns to his native Argentina to attend his uncle’s funeral. He will reconnect with his mother and Jewish family, while embarking on a quest through Buenos Aires to soothe his anxiety through driving lessons, cheap health care and trying to sleep with any man who pays some attention to him.

Julie is turning thirty and her life is an existential mess. Several of her talents have gone to waste and her older boyfriend, Aksel – a successful graphic novelist – is pushing for them to settle down. One night, she gatecrashes a party and meets the young and charming Eivind. Before long, she has broken up with Aksel and thrown herself into yet another new relationship, hoping for a new perspective on her life. But she will come to realize that some life choices are already behind her.

Pop diva Mimi Madamour’s career peaks in 2005 before spiraling downwards due to her tumultuous love affair with punk icon Billie Kohler, their passionate and rage-fueled relationship playing out on stage for half a century.

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Once upon a time, there was a revolution in Covas do Barroso, a village in northern Portugal. A hybrid documentary in which, between songs and Western imagery, the villagers stage their own struggle – which is still going on – against the industrial project that threatens their land. The British firm Savannah Resources hopes to develop and exploit what would become the largest open-cast lithium mine in Europe. It’s a ballad of resistance that at times evokes the cinema of Luc Moullet or Alain Guiraudie.

An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiaoqiao and Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s to the present day. Caught up in each other, Qiaoqiao and Bin enjoyed all that the city had to offer, singing and dancing. Until one day, Bin finds himself wanting to try his luck in a bigger place than Datong. He left without any notice. Some time later, Qiaoqiao decides to go on a journey to look for him. Traversing all of his past films, Jia Zhangke delivers an epic look at the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Qiaoqiao. Spanning 21 years of a country going through profound transformation, the film gives a new perspective to look into the contemporary China as well as the individual experiences under the turbulent emotional and social changes.

In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Kéria is given a baby orangutan that has been rescued from the oil palm plantation where her father works. At the same time, her young cousin Selaï has come to live with them, seeking refuge from the conflict between his nomadic family and the logging companies. Together, Kéria, Selaï and the little ape will battle the destruction of their ancestral forest home, now under greater threat than ever. But for Kéria, the fight will also allow her to discover the truth of her own origins.

Somewhere between late autumn and early winter, a man returns home to a small mountain town. With his fifties, still absent and late, having missed his brother’s funeral, he lingers on the threshold of the old house – what more can he hope to delay his arrival by one night?

Overqualified and undervalued, Rita is a lawyer at a large firm that is more interested in getting criminals off the hook than bringing them to justice. One day, she is given an unexpected way out, when cartel leader Manitas hires her to help him withdraw from his business and realize a plan he has been secretly preparing for years: to become the woman he has always dreamt of being.

Jim Henson Idea Man takes us into the mind of this singular creative visionary, from his early years puppeteering on local television to the worldwide success of Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and beyond. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard captures Henson’s restless creativity, ambition, and artistic evolution in the style and spirit of his complex subject, an artist who revolutionized television, inspired generations, and created some of the world’s most beloved characters. Featuring new interviews with Henson’s closest collaborators and children, as well as never-before-seen materials from his personal archives—including home movies, photographs, sketches, and diaries— Howard brings us an entertaining and insightful look at a man whose boundless imagination changed the world.

For an exhibition, that in the end never took place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to reply, in pictures, to the question:
Where are you at, Leos Carax?
He attempts an answer – full of questions.
About himself and “his” world:
I don’t know, but if I did, I’d reply that…
—Leos Carax

At their annual G7 summit, the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies get lost in the woods at night while attempting to draft their provisional statement.

“Once Upon a Time: Michel Legrand” is a captivating portrait of the famous jazz musician and film composer, Michel Legrand. Using exclusive personal archives captured in super 8 format, the film takes us through the last two years of his life, revealing public moments during major events in cities like Paris, Moscow, Lodz, and others. It also shows intimate moments with his collaborators, friends, and his wife, as well as solitary moments dedicated to his writing.

As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighbourhood to the boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbours from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.

MAY 19, 2024

Unity of time and action in a New England stadium, where an amateur baseball game is being played in front of empty stands, from morning until nightfall. It’s the team’s last match: tomorrow, the demolition of the stadium will begin. One doesn’t need to know the rules of baseball to grasp the finesse of Eephus’s mise-en-scène: a film that choreographs the end of a certain American, rural and masculinist world. The first feature by Carson Lund who forms part of the Omnes Films collective, which represents an American independent cinema that is breaking new ground.

April, an idealistic lawyer dedicated to lost causes, agrees to defend Cosmos, a dog that has bitten three people, leading to the first canine trial. She has no choice but to win the case, as otherwise, her unusual client will be put down.

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman in the Chinese community of Queens is disrupted by a sudden disappearance, thus cementing a new, unexpected bond. Rooting her story in a massage parlour staffed with Chinese migrants, Constance Tsang created a beautiful melodrama that explores the feelings of loss, displacement, and exile. With a touching cast, which includes the brilliant Ke-xi Wu, Lee Kang-sheng (Tsai Ming-liang’s favourite actor), and Haipeng Xu, this modern and personal reinterpretation of great tales of grief and loss moves us with its deep and potent tenderness.

Goutte d’Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.

An arranged marriage in Mumbai: the husband is limp and spineless and, once the wife arrives in the marital hovel, she assumes a particularly crude form of misanthropy. Trapped in the hell of coupledom, Uma is transformed into a disturbing and ruthless figure, giving free rein to her own feral impulses. A fantastical punk comedy, Sister Midnight is packed with American references, both formally, and in its inventive and surprising soundtrack that comprises country music and hard rock.

On a small Japanese island, life revolves around the changing seasons. Winter is time for ice hockey at school, but Takuya isn’t too thrilled about it. His real interest lies in Sakura, a figure skating rising star from Tokyo, for whom he starts to develop a genuine fascination. Coach and former champion Arakawa, spots potential in Takuya, and decides to mentor him to form a duo with Sakura for an upcoming competition. As winter persists, feelings grow, and the two children form an harmonious bond. But even the first snow eventually melts away.

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

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Shaman and leader in Brazil of the Amazonian Yanomami people, Davi Kopenawa was made famous by his book The Falling Sky, co-written with Bruce Albert. The filmmakers constantly vary the distances between landscapes and close-ups, individuals and groups, moments of stillness and beautiful vistas. Little by little, the cosmology of the Yanomani is revealed, as is their anger at the “commodity people” who are killing the forest and killing them.

In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.

As he pedals through the streets of Paris to deliver meals, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview, the key to obtaining papers. But Souleymane is not ready.

Jacques Rozier’s filmmaking stands out for its originality, innovation, and nonconformity. JACQUES ROZIER: FROM ONE WAVE TO ANOTHER delves into Rozier’s impromptu creativity and direct approach. This exploration offers a captivating look into his unique storytelling perspective, highlighting the enduring relevance and influence of his work in contemporary cinema.

An INA and mk2 Films production, with the participation of Ciné+ and the CNC. Jacques Rozier or the fierce, independent itinerary of a filmmaker in perpetual disarray, admired by his peers and pampered by the critics.

Screening in the presence of Emmanuel Barnault and Laurent Vallet, president of INA.

With his film HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA, Oscar-winning director Kevin Costner chronicles the incredible epic journey of the expansion of the American West, before and after the Civil War. Between the Native Americans who saw their lands getting colonized and those who were determined to settle there, sometimes at any cost, history is being written. In a flamboyant fresco where multiple destinies intertwine, dreams and hopes face obstacles and cruelty to offer a cinematic spectacle of exceptional scope and emotional depth.

An intimate and revelatory portrait of one of the world’s most influential political figures, LULA explores the rise, fall and triumphant return of beloved Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, chronicling his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison.

With unprecedented access to Lula and his closest advisors, Oliver Stone sheds new light on the charismatic politician in a series of unfiltered interviews and reveals the inside story of “Operation Car Wash” with the hacker and the Snowden Files journalist whose reporting led to Lula’s release from prison.

Timely and compelling, the film is a cautionary tale of the increasing danger lawfare poses to democracies around the world and an examination of one of the great political comeback stories of our time.

Thibaut is an internationally renowned conductor who travels the world. When he learns he was adopted, he discovers the existence of a younger brother, Jimmy, who works in a school cafeteria and plays the trombone in a small marching band. Everything seems to set them apart, except their love of music. Sensing his brother’s exceptional talent, Thibaut decides to remedy the injustice of fate. Jimmy begins to dream of a different life…

CAMP DE THIAROYE represents a further development in Sembène’s approach to language. The film, written and directed with Thierno Faty Sow, is a forceful epic political drama, based on real events and on their own experiences. The story deals with injustice, hypocrisy, colonialism, and racism, culminating in a massacre. CAMP DE THIAROYE shows white oppression resuming as a regiment of West African Armed Forces soldiers return to an army post in Senegal from the European warfront where they faced death every day, only to now face indignities and racism from the French they helped liberate from fascism.

Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron is a two-hour documentary that chronicles the making of The Boy and the Heron, filmed with exclusive access to Studio Ghibli across an astonishing seven years. It is also a record of the collaboration between filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki and producer Toshio Suzuki as they perform an intricate dance of deception and friendship, mirroring that of Mahito and the Heron, as Suzuki pushes Miyazaki ever further into his creativity, ultimately delivering an unprecedented masterpiece.

Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?
You. Only better in every way.
Seriously.
You’ve got to try this new product. It’s called The Substance.
IT CHANGED MY LIFE.

It generates another you.
A new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect, you.
And there’s only one rule: You share time.
One week for you. One week for the new you.
Seven days each. A perfect balance.
Easy. Right?
If you respect the balance… what could possibly go wrong?

MAY 20, 2024

Like many Vietnamese, Filipinos, Indonesians and Thais, Oom is an illegal worker in a rough province of Taiwan. Under the thumb of an unscrupulous boss, he can’t refuse any of the jobs he’s given. There are menial tasks, but there are also more worthy vocations: he helps a sick old woman and a mentally handicapped man at home, with patience and gentleness, perhaps recognising in them his own imprisonment. A stark film, with bursts of intense light.

Corsica, 1995. It’s Lesia’s first summer as a teenager. One day a man bursts into her life and takes her to an isolated villa where she finds her father, in hiding, surrounded by his clan. An underworld war erupts. The noose is tightening around them. Death strikes. Forced to go on the run, father and daughter will learn to face one another, to understand and love each other…

Willy and Jojo are childhood friends who never leave each other’s side. Training at the motocross track is their way to beat boredom. One evening, Willy discovers Jojo’s secret.

Ale is a film director and Alex is an actor. After fifteen years together, they decide to go their separate ways and begin to act on an old joke made by Ale’s father, that separations – and not unions – are cause for celebration. They announce their break-up party to numerous members of friends and family, in a bid to try and convince themselves of the reality of their separation. Coupledom – whether getting together, staying together, making up, or breaking up – is synonymous with filmmaking.

A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.

In this calm yet tense debut feature, a 17-year-old girl agrees to go hiking in the forest with her father and an old friend of his. While apparently without revelation or great traumas, the impact of these men nevertheless becomes increasingly heavy as the film goes on. The girl, who has been regarded as the ‘good one’, the trouble-free child, takes it all in her stride until she can take no more. Good One’s brilliant actress is one to watch.

THE APPRENTICE is a dive into the underbelly of the American empire. It charts a young Donald Trump’s ascent to power through a Faustian deal with the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn.

Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.

Salomé, Lord Cigano and Andorinha are three itinerant artists who travel across the country together with the Rolidei Caravan, performing for the humblest sector of the Brazilian population who don’t have access to television. They are escorted on their journey by accordionist Ciço and his wife, Dasdô.

A presentation and restoration by Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto for Produções Cinematográficas LC Barreto, in association with Quanta, Alexandre Rocha and Marcelo Pedrazzi, financed by Rede D’Or.

Screening in the presence of Lucy and Luiz Carlos Barreto, Paula Barreto.

Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man’s widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie’s short stay in the village take an unexpected turn…

Karsh, 50, is a prominent businessman. Inconsolable since the death of his wife, he invents GraveTech, revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated. Karsh sets out to track down the perpetrators.

Detective Seo Do-cheol (HWANG Jung-min) and his Major Crime Investigation Division tirelessly track down criminals day and night, often at the expense of their personal lives. When the murder of a professor reveals links to past cases, suspicions of a serial killer arise, plunging the country into turmoil. As Major Crimes delves into the investigation, the killer taunts them by publicly releasing a teaser online, indicating the next victim, and intensifying the chaos. To tackle the escalating threat, the team brings in idealistic rookie officer Park Sun-woo (JUNG Hae-in), leading to unexpected twists in the case’s trajectory.

MAY 21, 2024

After the death of his wife, a Japanese bad boy entrusts his 11-year-old daughter, Karin, to his father, a monk who lives in a rural temple with Anzu, an oversized 37-year-old “ghost cat” who is as ingenious as he is sarcastic. Other spirits come to populate the local pantheon: a frog who is squatting a local golf course, a mushroom with a beard, a “god of misfortune”. An animated film that, in both its storytelling and the variety of its designs, will win over fans of Spirited Away and My Neighbors the Yamadas.

Captain Romain is co-owner with his nephew Jérôme of a boat called ‘The Rose of the Sea’. To scuttle the ship and defraud the insurance company, he hires a crew of high-seas thugs. But Jérôme disagrees and stands up to the rest of the crew.

A Pathé presentation. 4K restoration, based on the original nitrate negatives, an image negative and an optical sound negative, as well as a 1st generation standard brown. Work carried out by the L’Image Retrouvée laboratory (Paris-Bologna).

Screening in the presence of Sophie Seydoux, President of the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation.

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.

After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, without any contact from his parents and lacking the resources to rebuild his life. He encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving. Gradually, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion.

Pablo and his teenage sister, Apolline, have grown up together playing Darknoon, an online heroic fantasy video game. Darknoon announces the imminent disappearance of its universe, while Pablo’s relationship with a man called Night takes on increasing importance, and not just because they make and deal party drugs together. Part-thriller, part-romance, between digital and desiring bodies, a film about the loss of childhood innocence: Ready Player Love.

Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different -September is protective and distrustful of others, while July is open to and curious about the world. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure what to do with them. When September is suspended from their school, July is left to fend for herself and begins to assert her own independence – which does not go unnoticed by September. Tension among the three women builds when they take refuge in an old holiday home in Ireland, where July finds her bond with September shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand or control – and a series of surreal encounters test the family to their limit.

Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

The Costa-Gavras Century Episode 3 dedicated to “The Confession,” 1970. Edwy Plenel narrates, using archival footage, excerpts from the film, and present-day interviews with Costa-Gavras, how it was a political event: the first popular film to confront the issue of Stalinist trials and pave the way for the moral crisis of communism.

Michèle Ray-Gavras presents a KG Productions production with the support of INA, Gaumont Pathé Archives, ERT. Presentation of one of the ten episodes of the documentary series « Le Siècle de Costa-Gavras », dedicated to the history of the film L’Aveu.

Screening in the presence of Costa-Gavras, Edwy Plenel and Yannick Kergoat.

Set in an industrial wasteland in the middle of nowhere, East of Noon is a folktale somewhere between The Arabian Nights and Ubu roi, in which a bunch of brilliant youngsters find ways to survive the autocracy of a childish tyrant whose currency is lottery tickets and sugar cubes. The second feature film by an Egyptian artist, this baroque and excessive film stands out within African and Arab cinemas, invoking the spirits of the “new cinemas” of the sixties and seventies.

This is the story of a woman named Chiara. She is an actress, the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. During a summer that sees her reality fall into disarray, Chiara decides to live as her father. She dresses like him. She speaks like him. She breathes like him. Chiara’s impersonation is so convincing that people around her begin to believe. They call her “Marcello.”

Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence.
As his investigations kept him back to the night of the murder and the family dynamics, he also gets closer to his client, adding to the pressure to defend him.
What is such an ordinary case will put him to the test.

27 Olympic and Paralympic champions, aged 20 to 100, share their stories with us. As heirs to previous generations, they trace the incredible genealogy of French Olympism. OLYMPICS! THE FRENCH GAMES revisits over a century of French participation in the Olympics, from their inception in 1896 to the recent feats that have elevated our nation to the summit. It’s a human adventure, brimming with memories, acts of bravery, and epic emotions: the collective narrative of France winning.

Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film alongside an American superstar, her dreams are coming true. But what seems like a big breakthrough turns out to be the start of a living hell. That movie is THE LAST TANGO IN PARIS. The actress is Maria Schneider.

The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of love—all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves. The perfect Capri summer, the lightheartedness of youth. Which ends in ambush. And then all the others—the Neapolitans, men and women, observed and loved, disillusioned and vital, their waves of melancholy, their tragic ironies and dejected glances. Life, be it ordinary or memorable, knows how to be very long. The passing of time offers up a vast repertoire of emotions. And there in the background, so close and so very far, is Naples, this ineffable city that bewitches, enchants, screams, laughs, and always knows how to hurt you.

MAY 22, 2024

After fleeing a camp in Lebanon, two Palestinian cousins, are stranded in Athens, living in an underground limbo. Desperately seeking a way to reach Germany, they find themselves caught in an uncontrollable spiral. Nourished by New York cinema (notably Midnight Cowboy), To a Land Unknown races along like an edgy thriller, tragic but stripped back. A compelling, uncompromising and nuanced look at the living conditions of migrants.

In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Viêt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea. But the departure cannot happen as lying somewhere deep within the earth, in the far-off forest is Nam’s father, a soldier, whose remains they’re compelled to find. Together, following the mysteries of memories and dreams, they retrace the path to the past.

A young mother, contending with a rare brain condition and desperate to save money for her daughter’s future, takes a risky job from a mysterious woman with a dark past, and gets entangled in a web of revenge, deceit, and murder. Shot on a shoestring budget but in magnificent 16mm, and co-written with the magnetic lead actress, Ariella Mastroianni, Gazer gazes back on the masters of the paranoid thriller of the 70s and 80s.

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

On the occasion of its restoration, the Fortnight is delighted to present this major and yet still too-little-known film by Chantal Akerman. A cello performance by Sonia Wieder-Atherton – who created the film’s score which is inspired by the chants of Jewish prayer, blending with the voices of the characters in American Stories – will precede the screening.

An enduring but fragile love story shared by Qiaoqiao and Bin, set in China, from the early 2000s to the present day. Caught up in each other, Qiaoqiao and Bin enjoyed all that the city had to offer, singing and dancing. Until one day, Bin finds himself wanting to try his luck in a bigger place than Datong. He left without any notice. Some time later, Qiaoqiao decides to go on a journey to look for him. Traversing all of his past films, Jia Zhangke delivers an epic look at the romantic destiny of his perennial heroine, Qiaoqiao. Spanning 21 years of a country going through profound transformation, the film gives a new perspective to look into the contemporary China as well as the individual experiences under the turbulent emotional and social changes.

10-year-old Angelo, an aspiring explorer, hits the road with his family to visit his beloved granny. When his distracted parents leave him behind at a rest stop, he is left to his own devices and decides to cut through the forest in search of his family. He then enters a mysterious world inhabited by strange and wonderful creatures, some friendlier than others…

RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC / WITH VALERIA GOLINO

(16.00)

In the year 1815, within the confines of Marseille, Edmond Dantès finds himself incarcerated within the formidable walls of the Château d’If for a crime he did not commit. Enduring fourteen years of imprisonment, he eventually engineers his escape, embarking on a meticulously crafted quest for vengeance. Assuming multiple identitities – “the Count of Monte Cristo” among them – Dantès first courts his enemies, now highly placed dignitaries, the better to strike them down. But the price of revenge is heavy for one’s soul …

Celebrating movie theaters’ magic, a film enthusiast follows the footsteps of Paul Dédalus. Memories, fiction, and discoveries intertwine in a torrential flow of cinematic imagery.

Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim’s biological father, shows up… It could be the start of a melodrama, it’s also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.

On the eve of the elections, a news case provides the perfect pretext to divert the public’s attention from the real political issues. Bellocchio’s Milan is “a gloomy city, where the revolution has already failed and the strategy of tension is being prepared, between Feltrinelli’s funeral and Msi party’s rallies. And memorable characters and actors emerge: starting with Volonté, who flaunts a luciferous charm and is priceless when he does the semiological analysis of article titles.” (P. Mereghetti)

A Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna presentation. Restored in 4K by the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Surf Film and Kavac Film, under the supervision of Marco Bellocchio. The original camera and sound negatives have been scanned at Augustus Color and restored at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.

Screening in the presence of Marco Bellocchio and Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna.

Jacques Demy’s ability to enchant audiences was rooted in his personal struggles and doubts as a showman, establishing him as one of French cinema’s greatest artists. An Ex Nihilo, Ciné-Tamaris, ARTE France and INA production, with the participation of Ciné +, Cineventure 9, and the CNC. International distribution by mk2 Films.

Screening in the presence of Florence Platarets and Frédéric Bonnaud (screenwriter).

Camargue, France – Infamous for its traditional bull race, an exhilarating and graceful challenge of agility and respect between man and beast. Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming annual competition, but news of a rogue and violent bull on the loose terrifies the community. Young men are being murdered everywhere, and the beast is nowhere to be seen.

The neon-hued Motel Destino, a roadside sex hotel steaming under the burning blue skies of the northeastern coast of Brazil, is run by hot-headed Elias and his restless younger wife Dayana. The unexpected arrival of 21-year-old Heraldo, on the run after a botched hit, disrupts the established order. As the tropical noir plays out, loyalties and desires intertwine to reveal that destiny has its own enigmatic design.

MAY 23, 2024

Set in a small remote Saudi Arabian village, in the 90s when artistic expression was banned, NORAH is a story about the basic human need to communicate through art, in all its forms. Nader, a new schoolteacher and an artist in secret, arrives at the village and meets Norah, a young woman who ignites the creativity inside him and inspires him to paint again. At great risk, they develop a delicate connection and a quiet bond. Nader enlightens Norah on the wider world outside of her tiny community and she realises she must leave, to find a place where she can be free to express her artistic self.

Raoul rushes to Marseille where his daughter is dead, with nothing but a few names of people she hung out with and addresses of places they went to. Nothing matches: it’s all bullshit. Nothing seems real except for the album she recorded. By diving into the ruckus of Agnès’ life, is he rushing towards death or the beginning of something new?

Paris, 1952. Niki has recently moved from the US with her husband and daughter. Despite this newfound distance from a family and country that were suffocating her, disturbing flashbacks of her childhood continue to invade her thoughts. From the hell she is about to discover, Niki de Saint Phalle will find in her art a weapon to free herself.

CANNES CLASSICS

1980s. Northern France. Jackie and Clotaire grow up in the same town, at the same high school, around the same harbour docks. She studies, he bunks off. Then their paths cross and they fall madly in love. Life tries its best to keep them apart, but they are like two halves of the same beating heart…

PALMARÈS LA CINEF

(18.00)

Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know…

1972. Ilie Nastase wins his first US Open, while reaching both the Wimbledon and Davis Cup finals, and enters tennis history. NASTYexplores his highs and lows, the controversies that surrounded the 1973 world number one ranked player, and the enduring impact he has had on the world of tennis. Lovable, charming and generous, yet temperamental, arrogant and obscene – Nastase disrupted the sport’s antiquated etiquette with a great sense of showmanship on the court,and became its first rebel rock star.

Any resemblance to a suspected murderer is not accidental. A man kills his entire family, disappears into thin air and flees abroad, where he lives a life of leisure. Inspired by one of the most notorious French news stories of recent years, Plastic Guns is a highly amusing theatre of cruelty, carried by an energetic cast. There’s a criminal profiler, as admired as he is phlegmatic; a duo of amateur female web investigators who go wild during their pilgrimage to the scene of the crime; a misogynistic nobody who is mistaken for the murderer on his way to take part in a country dance competition… A certain tradition of French comedy enhanced by macabre humour.

Emma loves Sammy who loves Cyril who loves him too. What could have been a romantic love triangle at the end of the last century will be disrupted by the upcoming of AIDS. As they expected the worse, the destiny of each character will take an unexpected turn.

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.

MAY 24, 2024

RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC / WITH George Lucas

(14.30)

Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.

A gaunt man in a suit and a red baseball cap appears out of nowhere in the burning heat of the desert between the US and Mexico. The locals call this inhospitable area “The Devil’s Playground”. Travis might seem to be mute and amnesiac, but he’s driven by the desire to reconnect with his family. Wim Wenders’ iconic Cannes winner from 1984, exquisitely photographed by Dutch master Robby Müller, is a powerful statement on self-discovery, loss and redemption and the unbreakable bonds of love. Outstanding performances by Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski, a masterful screenplay by Sam Shepard and Ry Cooder’s haunting soundtrack have contributed to PARIS, TEXAS’ cult film status and its spell, even 40 years later. The new 4K restoration makes it shine more than ever.

A Wim Wenders Stiftung presentation. A 4K restoration commissioned by the Wim Wenders Stiftung under the supervision of Wim Wenders and with the kind collaboration of Argos Films. Distribution France Tamasa, release July 3, 2024.

Screening in the presence of Wim Wenders.

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter’s wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this “most precious of cargoes”, will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter’s wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross – including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.

CLOSING CEREMONY
(Un Certain Regard)

(20.00)

She’s Got No Name is based on one of the most famous unsolved murder cases in China. Taking place in a bustling alleyway during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 1940’s, the film centres on a wife, Zhan-Zhou (Zhang Ziyi), charged with the bloody dismemberment of her husband – a killing that seems impossible for her to have committed alone. The murder thrusts Zhan-Zhou into the spotlight and the court of public opinion, forcing her towards a fate intertwined with that of her own country.

MAY 25, 2024

CLOSING CEREMONY

(18.45)

WINNERS

Feature Films

Palme d’or

ANORA
Sean BAKER

Grand Prix

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Payal KAPADIA

Jury Prize

EMILIA PÉREZ
Jacques AUDIARD

Best Director

Miguel GOMES
for GRAND TOUR

Special Award

MOHAMMAD RASOULOF
for THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG

Best Performance By An Actor

Jesse PLEMONS
in KINDS OF KINDNESS directed by Yorgos LANTHIMOS

Best Performance By An Actress

Adriana PAZ
Zoe SALDAÑA
Karla Sofía GASCÓN
Selena GOMEZ
in EMILIA PÉREZ directed by Jacques AUDIARD

Best Screenplay

Coralie FARGEAT
for THE SUBSTANCE

Short Films

Palme d’or

THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT
Nebojša SLIJEPČEVIĆ

Special Mention

BAD FOR A MOMENT
Daniel SOARES

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard Prize

BLACK DOG
Guan Hu

Jury Prize

L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE
Boris Lojkine

Best Director
ex-aequo

ROBERTO MINERVINI
The Damned

RUNGANO NYONI
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Best Actress

ANASUYA SENGUPTA
The Shameless

Best Actor

ABOU SANGARÉ
L’Histoire de Souleymane

Youth Award

HOLY COW
Louise Courvoisier
1st film

Special mention

NORAH
Tawfik Alzaidi
1st film

Caméra d’or

Caméra d’or Prize

ARMAND
HALFDAN ULLMANN TØNDEL
Un Certain Regard

Special Mention

MONGREL
WEI LIANG CHIANG & YOU QIAO YIN
Quinzaine des Cinéastes

La Cinef

First Prize

SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW…
Chidananda S Naik
FTII, Pune, India

Joint Second Prize

OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL
Asya Segalovich
Columbia University, United States

THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND
Nikos Kolioukos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Third Prize

BUNNYHOOD
Mansi Maheshwari
NFTS, United Kingdom

Superior Technical Commission

The CST AWARD FOR BEST ARTIST-TECHNICIAN is granted to DARIA D’ANTONIO, Director of Photography on Paolo Sorrentino’s film PARTHENOPE

The 2024 CST award for best artist-technician is granted to Daria d’Antonio, director of photography on Paolo Sorrentino’s film, “Parthenope”. Daria’s images offer the perfect cinematography to Parthenope with grace and beauty.

The CST AWARD FOR BEST YOUNG FEMALE FILM TECHNICIAN is granted to EVGENIA ALEXANDROVA, Director of photography on THE BALCONETTES by Noémie Merlant

The jury of the 2024 CST award for best young female film technician is proud to grant this year’s prize to Evgenia Alexandrova, director of photography on Noémie Merlant’s film “The Balconettes” for the quality of her saturated colours and her assertive management of the lighting which transports us from comedy to genre.

FIPRESCI Prizes

In Competition

The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof

Un Certain Regard

The Story of Souleymane
Boris Lojkine

Parallel Section (1st films)

Desert of Namibia
Yôko Yamanaka

Critics’ Week

Grand Prize

Simon of the Mountain
Federico Luis

French Touch Prize of the Jury

Blue Sun Palace
Constance Tsang

Leitz Cine Discovery Prize for Short Film

Montsouris Park
Guil Sela

Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award

Ricardo Teodoro
Baby

Gan Foundation Award for Distribution

Julie Keeps Quiet
Leonardo Van Dijl

Canal+ Award for Short Film

Absent
Cem Demirer

SACD Award

Julie Keeps Quiet
Leonardo Van Dijl

Directors’ Fortnight

Audience Award

Universal Language
Matthew Rankin

Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film

The Other Way Around
Jonás Trueba

SACD Prize for Best French Film

This Life of Mine
Sophie Fillières

Golden Coach

Andrea Arnold

L’Œil d’or

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Raoul Peck

The Brink of Dreams
Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir

Queer Palm

Three Kilometres to the End of the World
Emanuel Pârvu

Best Short Film

Southern Brides
Elena López Riera

Prix de la Citoyenneté

Citizenship Prize

Bird
Andrea Arnold

Prix des Cinémas Art et Essai

AFCAE Art House Cinema Award

The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof

PALM DOG

Kodi
Dog on Trial

Grand Jury Prize

Xin
Black Dog

Mutt Moment

Bird
Kinds of Kindness
Megalopolis

Trophée Chopard

Mike Faist
Sophie Wilde