Cannes Film Festival Competition Includes Coppola, Audiard, Cronenberg, Arnold, Lanthimos & Abbasi’s Trump Movie — Full List

The Official Selection lineup for the 76th Cannes Film Festival has been revealed, with 19 movies in Competition (see full lists below).

Familiar names who will launch new works in the Competition include Ali Abbasi, who brings The Apprenticea feature pic about the early life of Donald Trump. Andrea Arnold returns with Birdstarring Barry Keoghan and Jacques Audiard’s latest, Emilia Pereza musical with Selena Gomez will also debut in competition. Elsewhere, American filmmaker Sean Baker brings Anora to the Croisette. Poor Things filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos will launch Kings Of Kindnesshis latest collab with Emma Stone, David Cronenberg returns with The Shroudsand Paul Schrader will debut Oh Canadastarring Jacob Elordi, Uma Thurman, and Richard Gere.

Already announced big-ticket titles confirmed today include Megalopolistwo-time Palme d’Or winner Francis Coppola’s latest, which has locked a gala premiere slot at the Palais on Friday evening May 17. The film will screen in competition. Out of Competition, Kevin Costner will debut the first part of Horizon: An American Saga as a world premiere. And George Miller’s anticipated sequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has been confirmed for an out-of-comp slot. The new installment will be released theatrically in France on May 22, two days ahead of its U.S. launch.

Cannes will open this year with Quentin Dupieux‘s French-language comedy road movie The Second Act (The Second Act). Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphaël Quenard star and will be in attendance. Presented Out of Competition as a world premiere on the Croisette on Tuesday, May 14, the four-part feature will be released in French cinemas on the same day.

The official synopsis reads: “Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.” Following the success of last year’s billionaire dollar BarbieGreta Gerwig will preside over this year’s main jury.

The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14-25.

CANNES 2024 OFFICIAL SELECTION

COMPETITION

THE APPRENTICE -Ali ABBASI

DESTINATION MOTEL – 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 – Miguel GOMES

MY MARCELLO – Christophe HONORÉ

FENG LIU YI DAI (CAUGHT BY THE TIDES) –JIA Zhang-Ke

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT – Payal KAPADIA

KINDS OF KINDNESS – Yórgos LÁNTHIMOS

WOW LOVE – Gilles LELLOUCHE

DIAMANT BRUT (WILD DIAMOND) – Agathe RIEDINGER (First film)

OH CANADA – Paul SCHRADER

LIMONOV – THE BALLAD – Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV

PARTHENOPE – Paolo SORRENTINO

PIGEN MED NÅLEN (THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE) – Magnus VON HORN

IN SOME PERSPECTIVE

NORAH -Tawfik ALZAIDI

THE SHAMELESS – Konstantin BOJANOV

THE KINGDOM – Julien COLONNA (First film)

TWENTY GODS! – Louise COURVOISIER (First film)

THE DOG’S TRIAL (WHO LET THE DOG BITE?) – Lætitia DOSCH (First film)

GOU ZHEN (BLACK DOG) –GUAN Hu

THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE – Mo HARAWE (First film)

SEPTEMBER SAYS – Ariane LABED (First film)

THE STORY OF SOULEYMANE – Boris LOJKINE

THE DAMNED – Roberto MINERVINI

ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL – The story BIRD

BOKU NO OHISAMA (MY SUNSHINE) – Hiroshi OKUYAMA

SANTOSH – Sandhya Suri

VIET AND NAM – TRUONG Minh Quy

OUT OF COMPETITION

MAD MAX (FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA) – George MILLER

HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA — Kevin COSTNER

SHE’S GOT NO NAME – CHAN Peter Ho-Sun

RUMOURS – Evan JOHNSON, Galen JOHNSON, Guy MADDIN

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIOR WALLED IN – Soi CHANG

I, THE EXECUTIONER – Seung Wan RYOO

THE SURFER – Lorcan FINNEGAN

WOMEN ON THE BALCONY (THE BALCONETTES) – Noémie MERLANT

CANNES PREMIERE

MERCY – Alain GUIRAUDIE

IT’S NOT ME – Leos CARAX

EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA – Nabil Ayouch

EN FANFARE (THE MATCHING BANG) – Emmanuel COURCOL

MEETING WITH POL POT – Rithy PANH

JIM’S NOVEL – Arnaud LARRIEU, Jean-Marie LARRIEU

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

The Beauty of Gaza — Yolande Zauberman

Learn — Claire Simon

The Invasion — Sergei Loznitsa

ERNEST COLE, PHOTOGRAPHER — Raoul Peck

THREAD – Daniel Auteuil