In competition
Megalpolis, by Francis Ford Coppola
The most anticipated film in the competition, with a budget of more than 100 million dollars, revolves around the destruction and reconstruction of a megalopolis. Among the long list of stars who participate in the story are Adam Driver and Forest Whitaker. Coppola has won two Palme d’Ors: for The conversation, in 1974, and by Apocalypse Nowin 1979.
The Apprenticeby Ali Abbasi
After Border y Holy Spiderthe Danish director of Iranian origin tells the story of a young Donald Trump, in the midst of creating his real estate empire in the 1970s-1980s.
Destination Motelby Karim Anouz
After the British historical drama Firebrandin competition last year in Cannes, the Brazilian returns to film in his country and presents this sexual comedy that explores the question of desire in 2024, according to the organizers.
Birdby Andrea Arnold
The British filmmaker, known for exploring the margins of society, tells the story of a teenager in an English suburb, starring Barry Keoghan (Saltburn).
Emilia Prezby Jacques Audiard
Palme d’Or in 2015 with Deepan, the French filmmaker presents a film between a thriller and a musical set in Mexico, with a drug cartel boss who wants to change his sex to escape from the authorities. Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaa and Edgar Ramrez are in the cast.
Anorade Sean Baker
A prominent figure in independent cinema, the American director of The Florida Project Follow the steps of a sex worker between New York and Las Vegas.
The Shroudsby David Cronenberg
The Canadian, known for his gore universe, imagines a system that allows us to connect with the missing, in a film about the loss of loved ones, with Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger.
The substanceby Coralie Fargeat
The Frenchwoman, author of Revenge In 2018, it presents a gore film with a lot of blood on the screen, in the words of the organizers of the contest, and which marks the return to the foreground of Demi Moore.
Grand tourby Miguel Gomes
The Portuguese filmmaker, known for Tab (2012), tells the story of a British civil servant, settled in Burma in 1917, who abandons his fiancée to take a great trip through Asia.
Marcello Mioby Christophe Honor
Marcello Mastroianni, who died in 1996, is remembered by his daughter Chiara, along with his mother Catherine Deneuve and other close friends, such as Benjamin Biolay and Melvil Poupaud.
Caught by the tidesde Jia Zhang-Ke
The Chinese filmmaker presents a film epic that spans all his films and 25 years of history of a country in full mutation, with his muse and wife, Zhao Tao.
All we imagine as lightde Payal Kapadia
The director films two women who share a flat in India and the intimate desires that emerge during a trip to a coastal city.
Kinds of Kindnessde Yorgos Lanthimos
The Greek director returns to work with his favorite actress Emma Stone, winner of an Oscar for poor creatures, in this film that tells three stories. Willem Defoe and Margaret Qualley also return to the cast.
phew loveby Gilles Lellouche
After the success of The big bathroompresented out of competition a few years ago, the French actor follows the unlikely relationship of a couple through time, played by Franois Civil and Adle Exarchopoulos, among many other well-known names in French cinema.
Rough diamondby Agathe Riedinger
The first film of this French director, about the dreams and utopias of a teenager and social networks in the south of France.
Oh, Canadthe Paul Schrader
The American filmmaker returns to work with Richard Gere, whom he directed in American Gigolo (1980), in this adaptation of a book by Russell Banks. A famous documentary filmmaker at death’s door grants a last interview to one of his disciples, a confession filmed before the eyes of his wife.
The Most Precious of Cargoesby Michel Hazanavicius
First competitive animation film since Vals con Bashir (2008), tells the story of a baby who is thrown from the train transporting his Jewish parents to Auschwitz and discovered by a Polish couple. It is directed by the Frenchman Hazanavicius, winner of the Oscar for The Artist.
The seed of the sacred figde Muhammad Rasoulof
This Iranian filmmaker announced on Monday that he fled his country after being sentenced to five years in prison and lashing for collusion against national security.
Rasoulof intends to go to Cannes to present his film, his lawyer told AFP. This filmmaker, harassed for years by the regime, describes an Iran subjected to the yoke of the ayatollahs. Several of his films have already received awards in the parallel section of Un Certain Regard.
Limonov, the ballad of Eddie, de Kirill Serebrennikov
After Tchaikovsky’s wifethe Russian director in exile focuses on dissident Russian writer Eduard Limonov, played by Ben Whishaw, in this adaptation of Emmanuel Carrre’s novel.
Three kilometres to the end of the worldby Emanuel Parvu
The story of a homosexual teenager in a conservative town in Romania.
Parthenopeby Paolo Sorrentino
Director of The great beauty films the impossible loves of a young woman, in a story set in Naples.
The girl with the Needlede Magnus Von Horn
A period film about the story of Dagmar Overbye, who murdered dozens of newborns in Copenhagen in the 1910s and was sentenced to life in prison.
Movies out of competition
Furiosa: A Mad Max Sagaby George Miller
The prequel to the famous science-fiction saga, also directed by Miller, stars the American actress of Argentine origins Anya Taylor-Joy, alongside Chris Hemsworth.
Horizon, An American Sagade Kevin Costner
The author of Dance with wolves presents a western in several chapters starring himself and Sienna Miller.
Lulade Oliver Stone
The veteran American filmmaker premieres a documentary about Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, his imprisonment between 2018 and 2019 and his return to power.
The Count of Monte Cristoby Alexandre de la Patelliere and Matthieu Delaporte
A new adaptation of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas with Pierre Niney in the lead role.
Rumoursde Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson y Guy Maddin
Alicia Vikander and Cate Blanchett play two of the leaders participating in a G7 summit.
The Invasionde Sergei Loznitsa
The Ukrainian director wonders about the consequences of the invasion of a country.
FUENTE: AFP
