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Cannes Film Festival · 2024

Cannes Film Festival 2024

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9 films · 1 review

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Ce n'est qu'un au revoir

A group of friends near the end of high school

(Director: Guillaume Brac)

Château Rouge

Secondary school docmentary.

(Year: 2024; Director: Hélène Milano)

Fotogenico

Unable to cope with grief, Raoul arrives in Marseille, the city of his lost daughter.

(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Marcia Romano, Benoît Sabatier; Stars: Christophe Paou , Roxane Mesquida , Angèle Metzger et John Arnold)

In Retreat

Somewhere between the end of autumn and the start of winter, the absent one returns home to a small town in the mountains. Now in his 50s, always away and late, having missed his brother’s funeral, he lingers at the threshold of the old home - what else can he attain other than delaying one more night of his arrival.

(Year: 2024; Director: Maisam Ali; Stars: Harish Khanna)

It Doesn't Matter

Follows the cross country wanderings of Alvaro, a man from Staten Island, and his fortuitous relationship with a young filmmaker.

(Country: US, France; Year: 2024; Director: Josh Mond; Writer: Josh Mond; Stars: Christopher Abbott, Jay Will)

Kyuka Before Summer's End

Review preview for Kyuka Before Summer's End

Between fragments of formal experimentation, the relationship between the two siblings and their father's struggle with melancholia deliver a muddled but tender summer chronicle.

Sergiu Inizian · 3 out of 5
A dad and his twin kids go on a boat holiday filled with unexpected encounters.

(Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Kostis Charamountanis; Writer: Kostis Charamountanis; Stars: Simeon Tsakiris, Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Elsa Lekakou, Elena Topalidou, Stathis Apostolou)

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Mi Bestia

Bogotá, 1996. The population is frightened: the devil is coming for the approaching lunar eclipse. Mila, 13, feels the gaze of others on her becoming more oppressive. She wonders if the transformation of her body has anything to do with this prophecy.

(Country: Colombia, France; Year: 2024; Director: Camila Beltrán; Stars: Stella Martinez, Mallerly Murillo, Marcela Mar, Héctor Sánchez)

Most People Die on Sundays (Los domingos mueren más personas)

A young man returns to Buenos Aires only to discover his mum is about to turn off the life support of his father, who has been in a persitent vegetative state for two years.

(Country: Argentina, Italy, Switzerland; Year: 2024; Director: Iair Said; Stars: Antonia Zegers, Iair Said, Rita Cortese)

Un Pays en flammes

In the Landes forest, a family passes down the secrets of fire from generation to generation. Under the eyes of animals, the days and the nights succeed one another. The father, Patrick, eats grass. The daughter, Margot, explodes. The child, Jean, codes firefly arrangements.

(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Mona Convert)