The 55th edition of the Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, the parallel section of the main Cannes Film Festival, has announced its 2024 line-up. Running from May 15 to 23, the Fortnight, or the Quinzaine Des Cinéastes, in French, will debut 21 feature films and ten short films.
This year’s selection is the second line-up curated by delegate General Julien Rejl, who assumed his role in 2023. The opening night film is “This Life Of Mine,” by French filmmaker Sophie Fillières, known for “If You Don’t, I Will,” also an actress who had a part in the Academy Award-winning drama “Anatomy Of A Fall.” The film stars Agnès Jaoui, portraying a woman at the age of 55 facing an identity crisis.
The closing night film is the dark comedy “Plastic Guns,” directed by Jean-Christophe Meurisse which is Inspired by a true story of mistaken identity and a drama unfolds around the case of a Frenchman wrongfully arrested by police.
The line-up is also highlighted by four films from emerging or debut American filmmakers, including Tyler Taormina’s “Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point,” featuring Michael Cera, Sawyer Speilberg, Elsie Fisher, Francesa Scorsese, and Gregg Turkington, Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” Ryan J. Sloan’s “Gazer,” and India Donaldson’s “Good One,” which was one of the breakout indies from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year (read our review).
Also part of the 2024 line-up Patricia Mazuy’s “Visiting Hours” starring Isabelle Huppert and Hafsia Herzi as women who form a bond while visiting their husbands in prison.
Established in 1969, the Directors’ Fortnight is an independent sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival. Check out the full line-up and the press announcement video below.
Directors’ Fortnight 2024 Line-Up
Feature Films
This Life Of Mine (Ma Vie Ma Gueule) OPENING FILM
Dir.Sophie Fillières
(France)
In His Own Image (A Son Image)
Dir. Thierry de Peretti
(France)
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point
Dir. de Tyler Taormina
(U.S)
Desert of Namibia (Namibia no sabaku)
Dir. Yôko Yamanaka
(Japan)
East of Noon (Sharq 12)
Dir. Hala Elkoussy
(Egypt)
Eat The Night
Dir. Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel
(France)
Eephus *
Dir. Carson Lund
(U.S.)
Gazer *
Dir. Ryan J. Sloan
(U.S)
Ghost cat anzu (Bakeneko Anzu-chan / Anzu, chat-fantôme)
Dir. Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita
(Japan)
Good One *
Dir. India Donaldson
(U.S.)
Mongrel (白衣蒼狗) *
Dir. Chiang Wei Liang & You Qiao Yin
(Taiwan)
Visiting Hours (La Prisonnière De bordeaux)
Dir.Patricia Mazuy
(France)
Savanna and the Mountain (A savana e a montanha)
Dir. Paulo Carneiro (Portugal)
Sister Midnight
Dir.Karan Kandhari
(U.K.)
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed (Algo viejo, algo nuevo, algo prestado)
Dir. Hernán Rosselli
(Argentina)
The Falling Sky (A queda do céu)
Dir. Eryk Rocha & Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha
(Brazil)
The Hyperboreans (Los hiperbóreos)
Dir. Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña
(Chile)
To A Land Unknown
Dir.Mahdi Fleifel
(Palestine, Denmark)
The Other Way Around
Dir. de Jonás Trueba (Spain)
Universal Language (Une Langue Universelle)
Dir. Matthew Rankin (Canada)
Plastic Guns (Pistolets en Plastique) CLOSING FILM
Dir. Jean-Christophe Meurisse
(France)
Special Screening
American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy
Dir. Chantal Akerman
(Belgium)
Short Films
Après Le Soleil (After the Sun)
Dir. Rayane Mcirdi (France, Algérie / Algeria)
Extremely short (Totemo mijikai)
Dir. Maryam Tafakory (Japon / Japan)
Immaculata
Dir. Kim Lêa Sakkal (Liban / Lebanon)
Antoine, Élise and Léandre (Les Météos d’Antoine)
Dir. Jules Follet (France)
Mulberry Fields (Một lần dang dở)
Dir. Nguyễn Trung Nghĩa (Vietnam)
Our Own Shadow (Nuestra sombra)
Dir. Agustina Sánchez Gavier (Argentine / Argentina)
The Moving Garden (O jardim em movimento)
Dir. Inês Lima (Portugal)
Very Gentle Work (Travail très soigné)
Dir. Nate Lavey
(U.S.)
When The Land Runs Away (Quando a terra foge)
Dir. Frederico Lobo (Portugal)
