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The film industry is soon to descend upon the Côte d’Azur for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which is one of the world's most widely publicised events and certainly the most important film festival in terms of worldwide impact.
The 2024 event takes place between Tuesday 14th - Saturday 25th May at Le Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes.
The films are screened in world preview showings, meaning it’s often the first time they come under the watchful gaze of a demanding audience made up of professionals and film lovers.
These are our top picks vying for the prestigious Palme d’Or.
Bird
Director: Andrea Arnold
Production country: United Kingdom
Starring: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Jasmine Jobson
Synopsis: Bailey lives with his brother Hunter and his father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere.
Parthenope
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Production country: Italy
Starring: Gary Oldman, Isabella Ferrari, Stefania Sandrelli
Synopsis: Partenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth?
Oh Canada
Director: Paul Schrader
Production country: United States
Starring: Uma Thurman, Jacob Elordi, Richard Gere
Synopsis: Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life.
Miséricorde
Director: Alain Guiraudie
Production country: France
Starring: Félix Kysyl, Catherine Frot, Jacques Develay
Synopsis: Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions.
Grand Tour
Director: Miguel Gomes
Production country: Portugal
Starring: Jani Zhao, Lang Khê Tran, Gonçalo Waddington
Synopsis: Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.
Megalopolis
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Production country: United States
Starring: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Laurence Fishburne, Dustin Hoffman
Synopsis: An architect wants to rebuild New York City as a utopia following a devastating disaster.
The Balconettes
Director: Noémie Merlant
Production country: France
Starring: Souheila Yacoub, Noémie Merlant, Sanda Codreanu
Synopsis: Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom.
Kinds of Kindness
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Production country: United States
Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe
Synopsis: A man seeks to break free from his predetermined path, a cop questions his wife's demeanor after her return from a supposed drowning and a woman's quest to locate an extraordinary individual prophesied to become a renowned spiritual guide.
Marcello Mio
Director: Christophe Honoré
Production country: France
Starring: Benjamin Biolay, Wilfried Capet, Catherine Deneuve
Synopsis: Chiara is an actress and daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. One summer, she decides to live like her father. She dresses, speaks, and breathes like him with such conviction that others start calling her "Marcello".
The Shrouds
Director: David Cronenberg
Production country: Canada
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger, Guy Pearce
Synopsis: Karsh, an innovative businessman and grieving widower, builds a device to connect with the dead inside a burial shroud.
