The Apprentice directed by Ali Abbasi
The Apprentice (APPRENTICE PRODUCTIONS ONTARIO INC. / PROFILE PRODUCTIONS 2 APS / TAILORED FILMS LTD. 2023)

The 77th Cannes Film Festival set to take place May 14-25, 2024, unveiled the Official Selection films in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings.

Films in the coveted In Competition include Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, a biopic film on Donald Trump‘s career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 80s; Andrea Arnold’s Bird starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski; Emilia Perez, Jacques Audiard’s musical crime thriller film starring Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldaña; Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic science fiction drama film starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman; Kinds of Kindness, Poor Things filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos latest collab with Emma Stone; The Shroud, David Cronenberg’s horror film starring Diane Kruger, Vincent Cassel and Guy Pearce; Oh, Canada, Paul Schrader’s drama based on the novel Foregone starring Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, Jacob Elordi; and Parthenope, Paolo Sorrentino’s drama starring Gary Oldman.

The world premiere of The Second Act (Le Deuxième Acte) the latest film from French director and screenwriter Quentin Dupieux, who is also a musician, will open the 77th edition of Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, May 14.

2024 Cannes Film Festival official lineup

IN COMPETITION

Opening Film
THE SECOND ACT (LE DEUXIÈME ACTE) by Quentin Dupieux – Out of Competition

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
MARCELLO MIO by Christophe Honoré
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (FENG LIU YI DAI) by Jia Zhang-Ke
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT by Payal Kapadia
KINDS OF KINDNESS by Yórgos Lánthimos
L’AMOUR OUF by Gilles Lellouche
WILD DIAMOND (DIAMANT BRUT) by Agathe Riedinger | 1st film
OH CANADA by Paul Schrader
LIMONOV – THE BALLAD by Kirill Serebrennikov
PARTHENOPE by Paolo Sorrentino
THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (PIGEN MED NÅLEN) by Magnus Von Horn

UN CERTAIN REGARD

 NORAH by Tawfik Alzaidi
THE SHAMELESS by Konstantin Bojanov
LE ROYAUME by Julien Colonna | 1st film
VINGT DIEUX ! by Louise Courvoisier | 1st film
WHO LET THE DOG BITE? (LE PROCÈS DU CHIEN) by Laetitia Dosch | 1st film
BLACK DOG (GOU ZHEN) by Guan Hu
THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE by Mo Harawe | 1st film
SEPTEMBER SAYS by Ariane Labed | 1st film
L’HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE by Boris Lojkine
THE DAMNED by Roberto Minervini
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL by Rungano Nyoni
MY SUNSHINE (BOKU NO OHISAMA) by Hiroshi Okuyama
SANTOSH by Sandhya Suri
VIET AND NAM by Truong Minh Quý
ARMAND by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | 1st film

OUT OF COMPETITION

 SHE’S GOT NO NAME by Chan Peter Ho-Sun
HORIZON, AN AMERICAN SAGA by Kevin Costner
RUMOURS by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA by George Miller

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

 TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN by Soi Cheang
THE SURFER by Lorcan Finnegan
THE BALCONETTES (LES FEMMES AU BALCON) by Noémie Merlant
I, THE EXECUTIONER by Ryoo Seung Wan

CANNES PREMIÈRE

 EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA by Nabil Ayouch
C’EST PAS MOI by Leos Carax
THE MATCHING BANG (EN FANFARE) by Emmanuel Courcol
MISÉRICORDE by Alain GUIRAUDIE
LE ROMAN DE JIM by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu
RENDEZ-VOUS AVEC POL POT by Rithy Panh

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

 LE FIL by Daniel Auteuil
ERNEST COLE, LOST AND FOUND by Raoul Peck
THE INVASION by Sergei Loznitsa
APPRENDRE by Claire Simon
LA BELLE DE GAZA by Yolande Zauberman

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