These are the movies that might be shown at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

The 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to take place in May. The typical hullabaloo surrounds what may or might not be included in the event. Known as the “Queen of Festivals,” it is held annually in May in the south of France, which used to be the playground of the affluent and well-known. With some of the biggest stars in the world walking the renowned red carpet, some refer to it as the Mecca of film.

Scarlett Johansson, Harrison Ford, and Leonardo DiCaprio all walked the red carpet for the premieres of their most recent films the previous year. Hollywood could be less present this time around as a result of the strikes by writers and performers that delayed filming and the weakening economy that made people’s budgets tighter. Apart from Greta Gerwig, whose Barbie caused a box office storm, there will be stars this year, of course. The primary international jury will be led by her.

What films would she and the other jurors see and award several Palm d’Or honors for? According to the grape wine, the festival will probably include movies like Jacques Audiard’s musical melodrama “Emilia Perez,” which stars Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; Kirill Serebrennikov’s “Limonov, The Ballad of Eddie,” which stars Ben Whishaw; Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump film “The Apprentice,” which stars Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong; Paolo Sorrentino’s untitled film with Gary Oldman; David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds,” starring Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger; Audrey Diwan’s “Emmanuelle,” which stars Noemie Merlant and Noemie Watts; Gilles Lellouche’s “L’Amour Ouf,” which stars Adele Exarchopoulos and Francois Civil; and Nabil Ayouch’s “Everybody Loves Touda” are likely to be included in the festival.

The film “Kinds of Kindness” by Yorgos Lanthimos, “Bird” by Andrea Arnold, starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski, and Francis Ford Coppola’s self-produced epic “Megalopolis,” starring Adam Driver and Forest Whitaker, are reportedly among films that the Festival is considering showing.

This may be a huge return for Coppola. Forty-five years ago, in Cannes, his masterpiece Apocalypse Now debuted. He also happily exclaimed, “We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane,” just before the screening.There has been no response from India yet. My film is about Vietnam, not about Vietnam. Cannes has not been kind to us.

And what about the streaming behemoths like Netflix and Amazon, who have just emerged as major contenders on the global movie scene? Unfortunately, Venice, which takes place in August–September, has greatly benefited from Cannes’ strict policy of not allowing streaming movies to premiere in competition.

Cannes is scheduled for May 14–25.