Cercamon Cannes 2024 Line up
After the birth of her first child, Diane disappears in an unknown city, but her body reawakens her memories and what she is fleeing from.
Market Screenings:
Th 16 I 11 AM I Online 5
Fri 17 at 3:30 PM I Online 6
From Japan, the US, and across the world - they were drawn to a remote lake in the highlands of Scotland. WW2 veterans, mad scientists and hippies - all competed in a search for what they passionately believed would be - the Natural History Discovery of the Century. But the deeper they looked... the darker it got. Monster egos, fakes and frustrations, rivalries and ridicule mean that Loch Ness quickly became home to a very different type of monster.
Online Market Screenings:
Th 16 I 3 PM I Online
Fri 17 at 5 PM I Online
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Directed by Pham Thien An
On Release
In a world where time changes arbitrarily, a couple’s relationship is tested as their individual and shared recollections of the past, present and future change unremittingly.
Online Market Screenings:
Sun 19 11 AM I Online
Mon 20 at 3 PM I Online
Embryo Larva Butterfly
A man returns to his hometown, where he's haunted by past memories and desires.
Online Market Screenings:
Fri17 I 3 PM I Online
Sun 19 at 3 PM I Online
Directed by Kyros Papavassiliou
Loch Ness: They Created a Monster
Directed by John MacLaverty
Paradises of Diane (Les Paradis de Diane)
Directed by Carmen Jaquier & Jan Gassmann
Guardians of the Formula
Directed by Dragan Bjelogrlic
In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.
Online Market Screenings:
Sat18 I 3 PM I Online
Sun 19 at 5 PM I Online
Karen and Markus live with their kids in Karen’s childhood home, nestled in the countryside. On Markus’s birthday, Karen’s sister Jule arrives with her family. The sisters are complete opposites. Haunted by memories of their late mother, Jule feels driven to challenge Karen’s authority. As the house fills up, Karen’s tension grows until everything explodes into a fiery inferno. An inferno that destroys the old to make way for the new.
The Sparrow In The Chimney
Directed by Ramon Zürcher
Set in a small remote Saudi Arabian village, in the 90s when artistic expression was banned, NORAH is a story about the basic human need to communicate through art, in all its forms. Nader, a new schoolteacher and an artist in secret, arrives at the village and meets Norah, a young woman who ignites the creativity inside him and inspires him to paint again. At great risk, they develop a delicate connection and a quiet bond. Nader enlightens Norah on the wider world outside of her tiny community and she realises she must leave, to find a place where she can be free to express her artistic self.
Official Screenings
To Be Announced
Market Screenings:
Fri 17 I 12 PM I Palais C (Market Screening - Priority Badge)
Sat 18 I 4 PM I Lerins 1 (Market Screening - Priority Badge)
Norah
Directed by Tawfik Alzaidi
In Cannes
In Post Production Delivery Q3 2024
25-year-old Merey lives in Almaty where she meets Nurlan. He invites her to his friend Bakyt’s birthday party in the mountains and a very long night ensues.
Crickets, It’s Your Turn
Directed by Olga Korotko
In December 20th, 1989, Romania is boiling but no one talks about it. Life seems to go on as usual: censored theatre plays, demolished houses, proletarians gathered for a huge demonstration, students’ artistic moments mocking communism at the same time with New Year’s glorifying shows for Ceausescu. But in the discomfort of their unheated homes, people still struggle with the world’s ancient problems like the father-son difference of opinions, sweet nostalgia after an ex-lover or the hate towards the mother-in-law. And above all – Secret Police is watching with vigilance.
Six apparently parallel life stories meet along in some invisible points of this tragicomedy, and at a boom of a firecracker they all drive to a common resolution: the end of a world, the fall of the communist regime in Romania.
The New Year That Never Came
Directed by Bogdan Muresanu
Over the course of a week boomerang is unfolding as a sociological snapshot of modern Tehran with manhood in crisis, a crumbling marriage and a teenage couple falling in love under the eyes of the public.
Boomerang
Directed by Shahab Fotouhi
Johan, on the cusp of manhood, lives alone with his Mama on a crocodile farm in West Java. Mother and son live in voluntary exile with only a white crocodile as their confidant. Their life of isolation is disrupted when Johan falls for a girl in town, Arumi, setting off a chain of events that threatens the delicate balance of their lives. As the fabric of their world unravels, Mama’s opposition manifests in increasingly bizarre ways...
Crocodile Tears
Directed by Tumpal Tampubolon