Distribution Watch: Cannes 2024

Tracking which titles from Cannes have North American distribution

Grand Tour (dir. Miguel Gomes)

Last updated: November 1, 2024

Another year, another Cannes.

At the time of writing, we’re still awaiting the Director’s Fortnight, International Critics’ Week, and ACID programmes, along with any additional titles that get added to Cannes’ Official Selection. I’ll update here as they get announced, but you should bookmark the page as I won’t be sending out other emails as I update.

Titles in bold will have a North American distributor, which I’ll include with a source linked to the distributor’s name. I may announce updates on my Twitter account if you’re not following me there already.

And if I’m missing anything, please comment or reach out to let me know so the list can stay up to date.

Competition

• All We Imagine as Light (dir. Payal Kapadia) [Sideshow/Janus Films]

• Anora (dir. Sean Baker) [NEON for US; Elevation Pictures for Canada]

• The Apprentice (dir. Ali Abbasi) [Mongrel Media for Canada; Briarcliff Entertainment for US]

• Beating Hearts (dir. Gilles Lellouche)

• Bird (dir. Andrea Arnold) [MUBI]

• Caught by the Tides (dir. Jia Zhang-Ke) [Films We Like for Canada; Sideshow/Janus Films for US]

• Emilia Pérez (dir. Jacques Audiard) [Netflix]

• The Girl with the Needle (dir. Magnus Von Horn) [MUBI]

• Grand Tour (dir. Miguel Gomes) [MUBI]

• Kinds of Kindness (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos) [Searchlight Pictures]

• Limonov - The Ballad (dir. Kirill Serebrennikov)

• Marcello Mio (dir. Christophe Honoré)

• Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola) [Lionsgate]

• The Most Precious of Cargoes (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)

• Motel Destino (dir. Karim Aïnouz)

• Oh, Canada (dir. Paul Schrader) [Kino Lorber]

• Parthenope (dir. Paolo Sorrentino) [A24]

• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof) [NEON]

• The Shrouds (dir. David Cronenberg) [Sphere Films for Canada; Sideshow/Janus Films for US]

• The Substance (dir. Coralie Fargeat) [MUBI]

• Three Kilometres to the End of the World (dir. Emanuel Parvu)

• Wild Diamond (dir. Agathe Riedinger) [Strand Releasing]

Un Certain Regard

• Armand (dir. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel) [IFC Films]

• Black Dog (dir. Guan Hu) [The Forge]

• The Damned (dir. Roberto Minervini) [Grasshopper Film]

• Dog on Trial (dir. Laetitia Dosch)

• Flow (dir. Gints Zilbalodis) [Sideshow/Janus Films]

• Holy Cow (dir. Louise Courvoisier) [Kino Lorber/Zeitgeist Films]

• The Kingdom (dir. Julien Colonna) [Metrograph Pictures]

• My Sunshine (dir. Hiroshi Okuyama) [Film Movement]

• Niki (dir. Céline Sallette) [Axia Films for Canada; no US distribution]

• Norah (dir. Tawfik Alzaidi)

• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (dir. Rungano Nyoni) [A24]

• Santosh (dir. Sandhya Suri) [Metrograph Pictures]

• September Says (dir. Ariane Labed)

• The Shameless (dir. Konstantin Bojanov)

• Souleymane’s Story (dir. Boris Lojkine)

• The Village Next to Paradise (dir. Mo Harawe)

• Viet and Nam (dir. Truong Minh Quý) [Strand Releasing]

• When the Light Breaks (dir. Rúnar Rúnarsson)

Out of Competition

• The Count of Monte-Cristo (dirs. Alexandre De La Patellière & Matthieu Delaporte) [Samuel Goldwyn Films]

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (dir. George Miller) [Warner Bros]

• Horizon: An American Saga (Chapter 1) (dir. Kevin Costner) [Warner Bros]

• Rumours (dirs. Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson & Guy Maddin) [Elevation Pictures for Canada; Bleecker Street for US]

• The Second Act (dir. Quentin Dupieux)

• She’s Got No Name (dir. Chan Peter Ho-Sun)

Midnight Screenings

• The Balconettes (dir. Noémie Merlant)

• I, The Executioner (dir. Ryoo Seung Wan) [Capelight Pictures International]

• The Surfer (dir. Lorcan Finnegan) [Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions]

• Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (dir. Soi Cheang) [Well Go USA]

Cannes Premiere

• Being Maria (dir. Jessica Palud) [Kino Lorber]

• Everybody Loves Touda (dir. Nabil Ayouch)

• It’s Not Me (dir. Leos Carax) [Sideshow/Janus Films]

• Jim’s Story (dirs. Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu)

• The Marching Band (dir. Emmanuel Courcol)

• Meeting With Pol Pot (dir. Rithy Panh)

• Misericordia (dir. Alain Guiraudie) [Sideshow/Janus Films]

• To Live, To Die, To Live Again (dir. Gaël Morel)

Special Screenings

• An Unfinished Film (dir. Lou Ye) [Film Movement]

• The Belle from Gaza (dir. Yolande Zauberman)

• Elementary (dir. Claire Simon)

• Ernest Cole, Lost and Found (dir. Raoul Peck) [Magnolia]

• Filmlovers! (dir. Arnaud Desplechin)

• In the Wonderwoods (dirs. Vincent Paronnaud & Alexis Ducord)

• The Invasion (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)

• Le fil (dir. Daniel Auteuil)

• Lula (dir. Oliver Stone)

• Nasty (dir. Tudor Giurgiu)

• Savages (dir. Claude Barras)

Cannes Classics

• Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (dir. Nanette Burstein) [HBO]

• Faye (dir. Laurent Bouzereau) [HBO]

• François Truffaut, My Life, A Screenplay (dir. David Teboul)

• Il était une fois Michel Legrand (dir. David Hertzog Dessites)

• Jacques Demy, le rose et le noir (dir. Florence Platarets)

• Jacques Rozier: From One Wave to Another (dir. Emmanuel Barnault)

• Jim Henson Idea Man (dir. Ron Howard) [Disney+]

• Walking in the Movies (dir. Kim Lyang)

Cinéma de la plage

• My Way (dirs. Thierry Teston & Lisa Azuelos)

• Silex and the City (dirs. Jean-Paul Guigue & Julien Berjeaut)

• Slocum et moi (dir. Jean-François Laguionie)

• Transmitzvah (dir. Daniel Burman)

Directors’ Fortnight

• Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (dir. Tyler Taormina) [IFC Films]

• Desert of Namibia (dir. Yôko Yamanaka)

• East of Noon (dir. Hala Elkoussy)

• Eat the Night (dirs. Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel) [Altered Innocence]

• Eephus (dir. Carson Lund) [Music Box Films]

• The Falling Sky (dirs. Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha) [KimStim]

• Gazer (dir. Ryan J. Sloan) [Metrograph Pictures]

• Ghost Cat Anzu (dirs. Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita) [GKIDS]

• Good One (dir. India Donaldson) [LevelFilm for Canada; Metrograph Pictures for US]

• The Hyperboreans (dirs. Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña)

• In His Own Image (dir. Thierry de Peretti)

• Mongrel (dirs. Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin)

• The Other Way Around (dir. Jonás Trueba)

• Plastic Guns (dir. Jean-Christophe Meurisse)

• Savanna and the Mountain (dir. Paulo Carneiro)

• Sister Midnight (dir. Karan Kandhari) [Magnet Releasing]

• Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (dir. Hernán Rosselli)

• This Life of Mine (dir. Sophie Fillières)

• To a Land Unknown (dir. Mahdi Fleifel) [Watermelon Pictures]

• Universal Language (dir. Matthew Rankin) [Oscilloscope Laboratories]

• Visiting Hours (dir. Patricia Mazuy)

International Critics’ Week

• Across the Sea (dir. Saïd Hamich Benlarbi)

• Animale (dir. Emma Benestan)

• Baby (dir. Marcelo Caetano) [Dark Star Pictures/Uncork’d Entertainment]

• Block Pass (dir. Antoine Chevrollier)

• Blue Sun Palace (dir. Constance Tsang)

• The Brink of Dreams (dirs. Nada Riyadh & Ayman El Amir)

• Ghost Trail (dir. Jonathan Millet) [Music Box Films]

• Julie Keeps Quiet (dir. Leonardo Van Dijl) [Film Movement]

• Locust (dir. KEFF)

• Queens of Drama (dir. Alexis Langlois) [Altered Innocence]

• Simon of the Mountain (dir. Federico Luis)

ACID

• Château rouge (dir. Hélène Milano)

• Fotogenico (dirs. Marcia Romano & Benoit Sabatier)

• In Retreat (dir. Maisam Ali)

• It Doesn’t Matter (dir. Josh Mond)

• Kyuka - Before Summer’s End (dir. Kostis Charamountanis)

• Mi Bestia (dir. Camila Beltrán)

• Most People Die on Sundays (dir. Iair Said) [Big World Pictures]

• So Long (dir. Guillaume Brac)

• Un pays en flammes (dir. Mona Convert)