Here's your run-down of the most-hyped films, Australian offerings and potential controversies at the 77th annual Festival de Cannes.
Held from May 14 to 25, the 2024 edition of the prestigious film festival in the south of France features Francis Ford Coppola's long-awaited epic Megalopolis ; a drama where Sebastian Stan plays a young Donald Trump; plus new films by Yorgos Lanthimos , Andrea Arnold and Kevin Costner .
Emma Stone and Joe Alwyn star in Kinds of Kindness, which is made up of three distinct but loosely connected stories.George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Sweet As, a coming-of-age drama by Nyul Nyul and Yawuru director-writer Jub Clerc will play Cannes Écrans Juniors, a section of films screening for young adults.Indigenous filmmaker Jub Clerc's heartfelt debut feature Sweet As, about a group of misfit teenagers on a supervised road trip through the Pilbara, is filled with a warm optimism.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig director Mohammad Rasoulof said in an Instagram post that he was in a "safe place" after people "risked their lives" to help him flee Iran.While a short isn't usually among the most-hyped films, the last-minute inclusion of Moi Aussi by actor Judith Godrèche is noteworthy.
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