Interview with Thierry Frémaux

Meryl Streep Guest of honour at the opening ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes

Meryl Streep will be the guest of honour at the opening ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes which will take place on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière on Tuesday, May 14. A celebrated figure in American cinema, the American actress will kick-off the upcoming edition which will draw to a close on Saturday, May 25th with the awards’ list given by the President of the Jury, Greta Gerwig.

George Lucas Honorary Palme d’or of the 77th Festival de Cannes

A Hollywood legend, the director, screenwriter and producer George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’or on Saturday, May 25, at the Closing Ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes, to be broadcast live on French TV channel France 2.

Studio Ghibli Honorary Palme d’or of the 77th Festival de Cannes

The Festival de Cannes is honoring a cinema legend, awarding its Honorary Palme d’or for the first time to a group: Studio Ghibli. 

Alongside the Hollywood greats, the Japanese studio embodied by two superb storytellers, Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and a host of cult characters, has unleashed a fresh wind on animated film over the past four decades.

Greta Gerwig

Jury President of the 77th Cannes Film Festival

·    GRETA GERWIG – United States – Director, screenwriter, actress (PRESIDENT)

·    EBRU CEYLAN - Screenwriter, photographer - Turkey

·    LILY GLADSTONE – Actress - United States

·    EVA GREEN – Actress - France

·    NADINE LABAKI - Director, screenwriter - Lebanon

·    JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA - Director, producer, screenwriter - Spain

·    PIERFRANCESCO FAVINO – Actor - Italy

·    KORE-EDA HIROKAZU – Director - Japan

·    OMAR SY - Actor, producer - France

Xavier Dolan

President of the Un Certain Regard Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes

·    XAVIER DOLAN - Actor, director, screenwriter, producer – Canada (PRÉSIDENT)

·    MAÏMOUNA DOUCOURÉ - Screenwriter, director - France, Senegal

·    ASMAE EL MOUDIR - Director, screenwriter, producer - Morocco

·    VICKY KRIEPS - Actress - Luxembourg, Germany

·    TODD MCCARTHY - Film critic, director, writer - United States

LUBNA AZABAL

President of the SHORT FILM AND LA CINEF

·    LUBNA AZABAL – Actress – Belgium (PRESIDENT)

·    MARIE-CASTILLE MENTION-SCHAAR - Director, screenwriter, producer - France

·    PAOLO MORETTI - Film programmer - Italy

·    CLAUDINE NOUGARET - Producer, director - France

·    VLADIMIR PERIŠIĆ - Director, screenwriter - Serbia

Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart

will co-preside over the Caméra d’or Jury of the 77th Festival de Cannes

·    BALOJI - Director, songwriter, artistic director (CO-PRESIDENT)

·    EMMANUELLE BÉART - Actress, director, producer (CO-PRESIDENT)

·    GILLES PORTE (AFC) - Director of photography

·    PASCAL BURON (FICAM) - DGM HR & Support at TSF

·    ZOÉ WITTOCK (SRF) - Screenwriter, director

·    NATHALIE CHIFFLET (SFCC) - Cinema and culture section editor (EBRA), Treasurer of SFCC

The jury

·    Marcelo Janot (Brazil) President

·    Max Borg (Switzerland)

·    Hossein Eidizadeh (Iran)

·    Patrick Fey (Germany)

·    Barbara Gasser (Austria)

·    Sadia Khalid (Bangladesh)

·    Chih-Yuan Liang (France)

·    Laura Pertuy (France)

·    Han Tien (Taiwan)

Awarded films

·    The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof (Allemagne, France, Iran, 2024, 168 min)

·    The Story of Souleymane by Boris Lojkine (France, 2024, 92 min)

·    Desert of Namibia by Yoko Yamanaka (Japan, 2024, 137 min)

Cannes, May 2024. This year’s Critics’ Jury has been invited to the Red Carpet, at the occasion of Karim Aïnouz’ Film Motel Destino in competition. The jury presented three prizes: to a film in (or out of) competition; to a film in the “Un Certain Regard” section; and to a film in the parallel sections of “Directors Fortnight” or “Critics Week”.

Quentin Dupieux’s new comedy to open the 77th Festival de Cannes

Quentin Dupieux’s Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act), the latest film from the prolific French director and screenwriter, who is also a musician, will open the forthcoming Festival de Cannes. Presented Out of Competition as a world premiere on the Croisette on Tuesday, May 14, this four-part comedy will be released in all French cinemas on the same day.

1. THE APPRENTICE by Ali ABBASI

2. MOTEL DESTINO by Karim AÏNOUZ

3. BIRD by Andrea ARNOLD

4. EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques AUDIARD

5. ANORA by Sean BAKER

6. MEGALOPOLIS by Francis Ford COPPOLA

7. THE SHROUDS by David CRONENBERG

8. THE SUBSTANCE by Coralie FARGEAT

9. GRAND TOUR by Miguel GOMES

10.    MARCELLO MIO by Christophe HONORÉ

11.    FENG LIU YI DAI by JIA Zhang-Ke (CAUGHT BY THE TIDES)

12.    ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal KAPADIA

13.    KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS

14.    L’AMOUR OUF by Gilles LELLOUCHE

15.    DIAMANT BRUT by Agathe RIEDINGER (WILD DIAMOND)

16.    OH CANADA by Paul SCHRADER

17.    LIMONOV – THE BALLAD by Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV

18.    PARTHENOPE by Paolo SORRENTINO

19.    PIGEN MED NÅLEN by Magnus VON HORN (THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE)

20.    LA PLUS PRÉCIEUSE DES MARCHANDISES by Michel Hazanavicius

21.    TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII by Emanuel Parvu (Trois kilomètres jusqu’à la fin du monde)

22.    THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad Rasoulof

When the light breaks 

by Rúnar Rúnarsson

1. NORAH  by Tawfik ALZAIDI

2. THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin BOJANOV

3. LE ROYAUME by Julien COLONNA

4. VINGT DIEUX! by Louise COURVOISIER

5. LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN by Laetitia DOSCH (WHO LET THE DOG BITE?)

6. GOU ZHEN by GUAN Hu (BLACK DOG)

7. THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo HARAWE

8. SEPTEMBER SAYS by Ariane LABED

9. L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE by Boris LOJKINE

10.    THE DAMNED by Roberto MINERVINI

11.    ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano NYONI

12.    BOKU NO OHISAMA by Hiroshi OKUYAMA (MY SUNSHINE)

13.    SANTOSH by Sandhya SURI

14.    VIET AND NAM by TRUONG Minh Quý

15.    ARMAND by Halfdan ULLMANN TØNDEL

16.    WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS by Rúnar Rúnarsson

17.    NIKI by Céline Sallette

18.    FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis

1. SHE’S GOT NO NAME by CHAN Peter Ho-Sun

2. HORIZON, AN AMERICAN SAGA by Kevin COSTNER

3. RUMOURS by Evan JOHNSON, Galen JOHNSON, Guy MADDIN

4. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA by George MILLER

5. LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO by Alexandre De La Patellière et Matthieu Delaporte

1. TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN by Soi CHEANG

2. THE SURFER by Lorcan FINNEGAN

3. LES FEMMES AU BALCON by Noémie MERLANT (THE BALCONETTES)

4. I, THE EXECUTIONER by RYOO Seung Wan

1. EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA by Nabil AYOUCH

2. C’EST PAS MOI by Leos  CARAX

3. EN FANFARE by Emmanuel COURCOL (THE MATCHING BANG)

4. MISÉRICORDE by Alain GUIRAUDIE

5. LE ROMAN DE JIM by Arnaud LARRIEU and Jean-Marie LARRIEU

6. RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT by Rithy PANH

7. VIVRE, MOURIR, RENAITRE by Gaël Morel

8. MARIA by Jessica Palud

1. LE FIL by Daniel AUTEUIL

2. ERNEST COLE, LOST AND FOUND by Raoul PECK

3. THE INVASION  by Sergei LOZNITSA

4. APPRENDRE by Claire SIMON

5. LA BELLE DE GAZA by Yolande ZAUBERMAN

6. SPECTATEURS by Arnaud Desplechin

7. NASTY by Tudor Giurgiu

8. LULA by Oliver Stone

9. AN UNFINISHED FILM by Lou Ye

1. VOLCELEST by Éric Briche - France

2. OOTIDĖ (Ootid) by Razumaitė Eglė - Lithuania

3. SANKI YOXSAN by Azer Guliev - Azerbaijan

4. LES BELLES CICATRICES by Raphaël Jouzeau - France

5. RRUGËS (On The Way) by Samir Karahoda - Kosovo

6. ACROSS THE WATERS by Viv Li - China

7. PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS by Alison McAlpine - Canada

8. TEA by Blake Rice - United States

9. AMARELA (Yellow) by André Hayato Saito - Brazil

10.    THE MAN WHO COULD NOT REMAIN SILENT by Nebojša Slijepčević - Croatia

11.    BAD FOR A MOMENT (Mau Por Um Momento) by Daniel Soares - Portugal

1. CROW MAN by Yohann Abdelnour - ALBA – Lebanon

2. BANISHED LOVE by Xiwen Cong - Beijing Film Academy – China

3. PRAEIS (IT’LL PASS) by Dovydas Drakšas - London Film School – United Kingdom

4. ECHOES by Robinson Drossos - ENSAD – France

5. MAUVAIS COTON (US AND THEM) by Nicolas Dumaret - La Fémis – France

6. TERMINAL by East Elliott - NYU – United States of America

7. ELEVACIÓN by Gabriel Esdras - Universidad de Guadalajara – Mexico

8. IN SPIRITO by Nicolò Folin - Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Italy

9. THE DEER’S TOOTH by Saif Hammash - Dar Al-Kalima University – Palestine

10.    PLEVEL (WEEDS) by Pola Kazak - FAMO – Czech Republic

11.    THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND by Nikos Kolioukos - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – Greece

12.    FOREST OF ECHOES by Yoori Lim - Korea National University of Arts – South Korea

13.    BUNNYHOOD by Mansi Maheshwari - NFTS – United Kingdom

14.    SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW… by Chidananda S Naik - FTII, Pune – India

15.    WITHERED BLOSSOMS by Lionel Seah - AFTRS – Australia

16.    OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL by Asya Segalovich - Columbia University – United States of America

17.    THREE by Amie Song - Columbia University – United States of America

18.    IT’S NOT TIME FOR POP by Amit Vaknin - Tel Aviv University – Israel

The Cannes Classics selection, created twenty years ago, once again features celebrations, restored prints and documentaries. It will be marked by the presence of great artists: Faye Dunaway, Wim Wenders, Sylvia Chang, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Marco Bellocchio, Ron Howard, Frederick Wiseman, Dong-ho Kim, Montxo Armendáriz and more, to visit the history of cinema with those who preserve and restore our heritage, those who distribute and show films, film librarians and laboratories, festivals from all over the world, public institutions, 2024 festival-goers, loyal Cannes Cinéphiles accredited members and young 3 Three Days in Cannes spectators. Welcome!

EVENTS

100 years of Columbia Pictures

·      GILDA Charles Vidor - 1946, 1h50, United States

The 40th anniversary of Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders, Palme d’or 1984

·      PARIS, TEXAS Wim Wenders - 1984, 2h28, West Germany/France

Le siècle de Costa-Gavras

·      LA VÉRITÉ EST RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE – L’AVEU Directed by Yannick Kergoat, written by Edwy Plenel - 2024, 52mins, France

The ultimate film of Jean-Luc Godard

·      SCÉNARIOS Jean-Luc Godard - 2024, 18mn et 34mn, France/Japan

The 70th birthday of the Seven Samourai

·      THE SEVEN SAMOURAI (Les Sept Samouraïs) Akira Kurosawa - 1954, 3h27, Japan

The complete works of Frederick Wiseman

·      LAW AND ORDER Frederick Wiseman - 1969, 1h21, United States

Raymond Depardon Photographer

·      LES ANNÉES DÉCLIC (The Declic Years) Raymond Depardon - 1984, 1h07, France

Lucy Barreto, a producer in Brasil

·      BYE BYE BRASIL (Bye bye Brésil) Carlos Diegues - 1970, 1h42, Brazil

The 60th anniversary of Jacques Demy’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Palme d’or 1964

·      THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG Jacques Demy - 1964, 1h32, France

JACQUES DEMY, LE ROSE ET LE NOIR

·      Florence Platarets - 2024, 1h28, France

Every day at 9:30PM, the Festival de Cannes reinvents itself as night falls, transforming the Croisette’s Plage Macé, opposite the Majestic hotel, into an open-air cinema.

In addition to the screenings, meetings and Official Selection events held at the Palais des Festivals, this is another way for everyone to get involved to the great cinema party.

On the programme for the 77th Festival: teams on stage, world premieres, suspense, action, Jackie Chan, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, Rachid Bouchareb, Tony Gatlif, Danny Boyle, the continuation of the tribute to Studio Ghibli, and much more…

This now traditional rendezvous is open to festival-goers and all audiences, with a choice “warm-up” act every evening: the duo TwinSelecter. Rock, pop, soul, funk, punk, mambo, electro, film soundtracks, jazz, disco, psychedelic, hiphop, garage, to get you going before the screening!

كل يوم في تمام الساعة 9:30 مساءً، يعيد مهرجان كان ابتكار نفسه مع حلول الليل، ليتحول شاطئ Croisette’s Plage Macé، مقابل فندق Majestic، إلى سينما في الهواء الطلق.

بالإضافة إلى العروض والاجتماعات وفعاليات الاختيار الرسمية التي تقام في قصر المهرجانات، فهذه طريقة أخرى للجميع للمشاركة في حفلة السينما الرائعة.

في برنامج المهرجان الـ77: فرق على المسرح، عروض عالمية أولى، تشويق، أكشن، جاكي شان، بريان دي بالما، مارتن سكورسيزي، رشيد بوشارب، توني جاتليف، داني بويل، استمرار التكريم لاستوديو جيبلي، وأكثر من ذلك بكثير …

هذا الموعد التقليدي الآن مفتوح لرواد المهرجان وجميع الجماهير، مع خيار "الإحماء" كل مساء: الثنائي TwinSelecter. موسيقى الروك، البوب، الروح، الفانك، البانك، المامبو، الكهربائية، الموسيقى التصويرية للأفلام، الجاز، الديسكو، المخدر، الهيب هوب، المرآب، لتنطلق قبل العرض!

NORAH  by Tawfik ALZAIDI

Eureka, a spiritual journey with Lisandro Alonso

Kevin Costner and Horizon, An American Saga at the 77th Festival de Cannes

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga World Premiere at the 77th Festival de Cannes