The 2024 Directors’ Fortnight lineup
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THIS LIFE OF MINE by Sophie Fillières Opening Film
IN HIS OWN IMAGE by Thierry de Peretti
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT by Tyler Taormina
DESERT OF NAMBIA by Yôko Yamanaka
EAST OF NOON by Hala Elkoussy
EAT THE NIGHT by Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
EPHUS by Carson Lund
GAZER by Ryan J. Sloan
GHOST CAT ANZU by Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita
GOOD ONE by India Donaldson
MONGREL by Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin
VISITING HOURS by Patricia Mazuy
SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN by Paulo Carneiro (Portugal)
SISTER MIDNIGHT by Karan Kandhari
SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED by Hernán Rosselli
THE FALLING SKY by Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
THE HYPERBOREANS by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
TO A LAND UNKNOWN by Mahdi Fleifel
THE OTHER WAY AROUND by Jonás Trueba (Spain)
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE by Matthew Rankin
PLASTIC GUNS by Jean-Christophe Meurisse [Closing Film]The old symbol for the series used the word "réalizateurs" for directors; the new image for this year uses the word "cinéastes".
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25.The Directors’ Fortnight creative director Julien Rejl announced the program on Tuesday. (Directors’ Fortnight, or Quinzaine des Cinéastes, is the big independent sidebar that presents 'adventurous' works simultaneously with Cannes.)
The 21 Directors' Fortnight feature selections come from 14 different countries including four American films (Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Carson Lund’s Eephus, Ryan J. Sloan’s Gazer and India Donaldson’s Good One). There are five French films, two Japanese, one Palestinian, and films from Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Chile (eight films from the Americas). There will be a special screening of Chantal Akerman’s Histoires d’Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy.
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