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Cannes Film Festival 2024

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American Stories: Food, Family And Philosophy (Country: Belgium, France; Year: 1989; Director: Chantal Akerman; Writer: Chantal Akerman; Stars: Mark Amitin, Eszter Balint, Kirk Baltz, George Bartenieff, Billy Bastiani, Isha Manna Beck, Jacob Becker, Max Brandt, Maurice Brenner, David Buntzman, István Bálint, Marilyn Chris, Sharon Diskin, Carl Don, Dean Zeth Jackson)
Documentary offering tales of Jewish immigrants to New York.
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Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Tyler Taormina; Writer: Eric Berger, Tyler Taormina; Stars: Michael Cera, Elsie Fisher, Maria Dizzia, Sawyer Spielberg, Ben Shenkman, Francesca Scorsese, Gregg Turkington, Lev Cameron, Gregory Falatek, Courtney Warner, Caveh Zahedi, Matilda Fleming, Leo Chan, Laura Wernette, Julianna Wohlrab)
A clan gathers for what could be their last Christmas together at their family home.
Desert of Namibia (Namibia No Sabaku) (Country: Japan; Year: 2024; Director: Yôko Yamanaka)
Drama centred on a woman who is bipolar.
East Of Noon (Sharq 12) (Country: Egypt, Netherlands, Qatar; Year: 2024; Director: Hala Elkoussy; Writer: Hala Elkoussy; Stars: Ahmed Kamal, Menha Batraoui, Fayza Shama, Omar Rozek)
Drama about a rebellious musician.
Eat The Night (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel; Writer: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel; Stars: Erwan Kepoa Falé, Théo Cholbi, Mahamat Amine Benrachid, Lilia Gueneau)
A brother and sister who share the love of a video game but trouble brews when a real life gang enters the equation.
Eephus (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Carson Lund; Writer: Michael Basta, Nate Fisher, Carson Lund; Stars: Frederick Wiseman, Wayne Diamond, Keith William Richards, Conner Marx, Gregory Falatek, Keith Poulson, David Torres Jr., Paul Kandarian, Theodore Bouloukos, Stephen Radochia, John R. Smith Jnr, Jeff Saint-Dic, Annie Tisdale, Chris Goodwin, Cliff Blake)
A pair of New England baseball teams face off for the last time as plans are underway to redevelop their field.
The Falling Sky (Country: Brazil; Year: 2024; Director: Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, Eryk Rocha)
Documentary about the Yanomami people.
Gazer (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Ryan J Sloan; Writer: Ariella Mastroianni, Ryan J Sloan; Stars: Marcia DeBonis, Ariella Mastroianni, Emma Pearson, LeJon Woods, Grant Schumacher, Jack Alberts, Frank Huerta, Laris Macario, Sheilagh Weymouth, Annie Pisapia, Renee Gagner, Jarrett Austin Brown, Luis Arroyo Jr., Tommy Kang, Jeremy Cohen)
A young mum with a rare degenerative condition that affects the way she perceives time takes a job from a mysterious woman.
Ghost Cat Anzu (Bakeneko Anzu-Chan) (Country: Japan, France; Year: 2024; Director: Yôko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita; Writer: Takashi Imashiro; Stars: Mirai Moriyama, Noa Gotô)
When a youngster is left at her grandad's house in the countryside, the old man asks his ghost cat to look after her.
Good One (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: India Donaldson; Writer: India Donaldson; Stars: James Le Gros, Danny McCarthy, Sumaya Bouhbal, Lily Collias)
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
The Hyperboreans (Country: Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León; Writer: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña, Alejandra Moffat; Stars: Antonia Giesen, Francisco Visceral Rivera)
Actress and psychologist Antonia Giesen decides to film a script revealed by a voice within the mind of one of her patients. Seeking collaboration with the filmmaking duo León & Cociña, they craft a crossroads of theatre, science fiction, animation and fabulated biopic, populated by parallel worlds and haunted by the shadow of a Chilean Nazi writer as a demonic figure.
In His Own Image (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Thierry de Peretti; Writer: Jeanne Aptekman, Jérôme Ferrari, Thierry de Peretti; Stars: Victoire Du Bois, Alexis Manenti, Thierry de Peretti, Cédric Appietto, Andrea Cossu, Antonia Buresi, Marc-Antonu Mozziconacci, Louis Starace, Paul Garatte, Clara-Maria Laredo, Harold Orsoni, Pierre-Jean Straboni, Barbara Sbraggia, Saveria Giorgi)
Historic drama set on Corsica from the point of view of a young press photographer who has embarked on an affair.
Mongrel (Country: Taiwan, Singapore, France; Year: 2024; Director: Chiang Wei Liang, You Qiao Yin; Writer: Chiang Wei Liang; Stars: Lu Yi-ching, Yu-hong Hong, Wanlop Rungkumjad, Kuo Shu-wei, Achtara Suwan)
Drama about an undocumented migrant working as a caregiver.
The Other Way Around (Volveréis) (Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Jonás Trueba; Writer: Jonás Trueba; Stars: Itsaso Arana, Vito Sanz)
Relationship comedy sees a couple through a gathering to celebrate their break-up.
Plastic Guns (Les pistolets en plastique) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Jean-Christophe Meurisse; Writer: Jean-Christophe Meurisse; Stars: Jonathan Cohen, Laurent Stocker, Charlotte Laemmel, Delphine Baril)
Crime comedy.
Savanna And The Mountain (A savana e a montanha) (Country: Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Paulo Carneiro)
Documentary about villagers protesting against lithium extraction.
Sister Midnight (Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Karan Kandhari; Writer: Karan Kandhari; Stars: Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Dev Raaz)
Black comedy about a woman trying to navigate a newly arranged marriage.
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (Algo viejo, algo nuevo, algo prestado) (Country: Argentina; Year: 2024; Director: Hernán Rosselli)
After the death of their patriarch, a mother and daughter take over the family bookmaking business.
This Life Of Mine (Ma Vie Ma Guelle) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Sophie Fillières; Writer: Sophie Fillières; Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Valérie Donzelli, Emmanuel Salinger, Philippe Katerine, Édouard Sulpice, Angelina Woreth)
A woman travels to Scotland in a bid to reinvigorate her life.
To A Land Unknown (Country: Greece, Denmark, United Kingdom, Netherlands; Year: 2024; Director: Mahdi Fleifel; Writer: Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Jason McColgan; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Mahmood Bakri, Manal Awad, Mohammad Ghassan, Monzer Reyahnah, Aram Sabbah, Mouataz Alshaltouh, Mohammad Alsurafa)
Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan, which involves them posing as smugglers and taking hostages.
Universal Language (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Matthew Rankin; Writer: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin; Stars: Matthew Rankin, Mani Soleymanlou, Danielle Fichaud, Pirouz Nemati, Sobhan Javadi, Saba Vahedyousefi, Rojina Esmaeili)
Multilayered film that interweaves a story about a group of people trying to get frozen money out of the ice, a tale of a tour guide and a man who quits his job to visit his mother.
Visiting Hours (La Prisionnaire de Bordeaux) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Patricia Mazuy; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hafsia Herzi)
Two women visiting their husbands embark on a friendship.
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