22/04/2024 - Michel Hazanavicius, Mohammad Rasoulof and Emanuel Pârvu join the competition; Runar Rusnarsson, Giants Zilbalodis and Céline Sallette are in Un Certain Regard

As expected, the official selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival (14-25 May) was rounded off today by 13 feature films. The films competing for the Palme d’Or (read the article) are now 22 (including eight new entries and four directed by women). Joining the race are Michel Hazanavicius (4th participation in competition in Cannes and winner of the Best Actor Award in 2011) with his first animated film, The Most Precious of Cargoes, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof (Golden Bear at Berlin in 2020 and selected three times in Un Certain Regard resulting in the Best Directing Award in 2011 and Best Film in 2017) with The Seed of the Sacred Fig, and Romanian filmmaker Emanuel Pârvu with Three Kilometers to the End of the World (his third feature after, amongst others, Mikado [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Emanuel Pârvu
film profile] which was in San Sebastián New Directors in 2021).

The Cannes Premiere programme is enriched by Vivre, mourir et renaître by French director Gaël Morel and Maria (read the article) by his compatriot Jessica Palud (awarded at Venice Orizzonti in 2019 with Back Home [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]).

Added to the 15 titles already announced in the Un Certain Regard selection (read the news) are When the Light Breaks by Icelandic filmmaker Runar Runarsson (revealed in Directors’ Fortnight in 2011 with Volcano [+see also:
trailer
film profile], winner in 2015 San Sebastián with Sparrows [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Atli Óskar Fjalarsson
interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson
film profile] and in competition in Locarno in 2019 with Echo [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Rúnar Rúnarsson
film profile]) which will open the programme, the animated film Flow (read news) by Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis (Contrechamp award in Annecy in 2019 with Away [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Gints Zilbalodis
film profile]), and Niki, the first feature as director by French actress Céline Sallette.

Also worth mentioning out of competition are The Count of Monte-Cristo by French filmmakers Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthier Delaporte, as well as special screenings for Arnaud Desplechin (with Spectators!) and documentaries Nasty by Romanian directors Tudor Giurgiu, Tudor D Popescu and Cristian Pascariu, An Unfinished Film by Chinese filmmaker Lou Ye and Lula by US director Oliver Stone.

Only missing still are the film of the “last screening” during the awards ceremony, but also the make-up of the juries.

The full list of selected films:

Competition

The Apprentice - Ali Abbasi
Motel Destino - Karim Aïnouz
Bird - Andrea Arnold
Emilia Perez - Jacques Audiard
Anora - Sean Baker
Megalopolis - Francis Ford Coppola
The Shrouds - David Cronenberg
The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
Grand Tour [+see also:
trailer
interview: Marta Donzelli, Gregorio Pa…
film profile] - Miguel Gomes
The Most Precious of Cargoes - Michel Hazanavicius
Marcello Mio [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Christophe Honoré
Caught by the Tides - Jia Zhang-Ke
All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia
Kinds of Kindness [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Yorgos Lanthimos
Beating Hearts - Gilles Lellouche
Three Kilometers to the End of the World - Emanuel Pârvu
The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Mohammad Rasoulof
Wild Diamond - Agathe Riedinger
Oh Canada - Paul Schrader
Limonov: The Ballad - Kirill Serebrennikov
Parthenope - Paolo Sorrentino
The Girl with the Needle - Magnus von Horn

Un Certain Regard

When the Light Breaks - Runar Runarsson (opening film)
Norah - Tawfik Alzaidi
The Shameless - Konstantin Bojanov
Le Royaume - Julien Colonna (France)
Holy Cow – Louise Courvoisier (France)
Dog on Trial - Laetitia Dosch (Switzerland/France)
Black Dog – Guan Hu
The Village Next to Paradise – Mo Harawe
September Says – Ariane Labed
L’histoire de Souleymane – Boris Lojkine (France)
The Damned – Roberto Minervini (Italy/USA/Belgium/Canada)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl – Rungano Nyoni
My Sunshine - Hiroshi Okuyama
Niki - Céline Sallette
Santosh - Sandhya Suri
Viet and Nam - Minh Quý Truong
Armand - Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
Flow - Gints Zilbalodis

Cannes Première

Everybody Loves Touda - Nabil Ayouch
C'est pas moi - Leos Carax (medium-length film)
En fanfare - Emmanuel Courcol
Miséricorde - Alain Guiraudie
Le Roman de Jim - Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
Vivre, mourir et renaître - Gaël Morel
Maria - Jessica Palud
Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot - Rithy Panh

Out of Competition

The Second Act [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Quentin Dupieux (opening film)
Horizon: An American Saga (Chapter 1) - Kevin Costner
She's Got No Name - Chan Peter Ho-Sun
Rumours - Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo - Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - George Miller

Midnight Screenings

Twilight of the Warrior Walled in - Soi Cheang
The Surfer - Lorcan Finnegan
Les femmes au balcon - Noémie Merlant
I, The Executioner - Seung Wan Ryoo

Special Screenings

Le Fil - Daniel Auteuil
Spectateurs ! - Arnaud Desplechin
Nasty - Tudor Giurgiu, Tudor D Popescu and Cristian Pascariu
The Invasion - Sergei Loznitsa
Ernest Cole, Lost and Found - Raoul Peck
Apprendre - Claire Simon
Lula - Oliver Stone
An Unfinished Film - Lou Ye
La belle de Gaza - Yolande Zauberman

(Translated from French)