The Cannes Film Festival’s prize-giving ceremony takes place this evening, Saturday 23 May 2024, with 22 films competing to win the coveted Palme D’Or, an award (with a golden palm) which guarantees its winner worldwide release and inevitable success. UPDATE: Cannes Film Festival 2024 Winners here.
Over the past 10 days thousands of film-makers and journalists have gathered in Cannes to watch the feature films selected for the official competition, as well as hundreds of other screenings in different side competitions. Tonight the Cannes Jury, under the presidency this year of Barbie director Greta Gerwig, will announce the winners of the official competition. So who will win?
Many of this year’s films have had a common theme of highlighting women – from ‘Emelia Perez’ (where a drug baron becomes a better person when he becomes a she) to Substance (much of which was filmed in the south of France), where the self-loathing that society piles on women, is manifested by a brilliant Demi Moore in grotesque (and sometimes humorous!) acts of violence. There was also a lot of nudity this year.
The Cannes Film Festival 2024’s offerings have been an interesting mix from around the globe, although journalists have complained that many of them have stretched to almost three hours, with some – like Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ – coming in at over three hours.
These are the contenders. Riviera Edition will provide updates this evening with the winners, live from Cannes’ famous Palais (which has been called The Temple of Film by many of the stars at this year’s festival): (See the Cannes Film Festival 2024 Winners here.)
Full List of Official Films in the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or Competition 2024
THE APPRENTICE by Ali ABBASI:
MOTEL DESTINO by Karim AÏNOUZ
BIRD by Andrea ARNOLD:
EMILIA PEREZ by Jacques AUDIARD:
ANORA by Sean BAKER
MEGALOPOLIS by Francis Ford COPPOLA
THE SHROUDS by David CRONENBERG
THE SUBSTANCE by Coralie FARGEAT
GRAND TOUR by Miguel GOMES
LA PLUS PRÉCIEUSE DES MARCHANDISES by Michel HAZANAVICIUS
MARCELLO MIO by Christophe HONORÉ
FENG LIU YI DAI by JIA Zhang-Ke
(CAUGHT BY THE TIDES)
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal KAPADIA
KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS
L’AMOUR OUF by Gilles LELLOUCHE
TREI KILOMETRI PANA LA CAPATUL LUMII by Emanuel PARVU
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG by Mohammad RASOULOF
DIAMANT BRUT by Agathe RIEDINGER | 1er film
(WILD DIAMOND)
OH CANADA by Paul SCHRADER
LIMONOV – THE BALLAD by Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV
PARTHENOPE by Paolo SORRENTINO
PIGEN MED NÅLEN by Magnus VON HORN
(THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE)
