Cannes 2024: UK films and co-productions
Cannes Film Festival returns to the Riviera from 14 - 25 May, and the 77th edition of the festival features another strong showing for the UK. 12 UK works feature across the selection including the world premieres of eight feature films.
Andrea Arnold’s Bird (starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski) will screen in competition on Thursday 16 May marking the filmmakers fifth feature film to premiere at the Festival. In competition are two UK-US co-productions; Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest work Kinds of Kindness (starring Emma Stone) and Coralie Fargeat's The Substance.
Three UK co-productions feature in Un Certain Regard; Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, Ariane Labed’s September Says and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.
Screening in the Directors’ Fortnight are Sister Midnight from writer-director Karan Kandhari and To A Land Unknown, a co-production between UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Palestine.
Bird, Santosh and Sister Midnight are all by the BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund whilst September Says has been supported by the UK Global Screen Fund managed by the BFI on behalf of the DCMS.
In the Immersive Selection the UK will be showing Evolver (voiced by Cate Blanchett) and Maya: The Birth of a Superhero and out of competition will be showing Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase and Notes On Blindness.
Kinds of Kindness
List of UK films and co-productions in selection
In competition
BIRD | Wri-dir. Andrea Arnold
World Premiere | UK
Supported by the BBC Film and the BFI
KINDS OF KINDNESS | Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos | Wri. EfthimisFilippou
World Premiere | US-UK
Supported by Film4
THE SUBSTANCE | Wri-dir. Coralie Fargeat
World Premiere | US-UK
Un Certain Regard
SANTOSH | Wri-dir. Sandhya Suri
World Premiere | UK-India-France-Germany
Supported by the BFI and BBC Film
SEPTEMBER SAYS | Wri-dir. Ariane Labed
World Premiere | Ireland-UK-Germany
Supported by BBC Film and the UK Global Screen Fund
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL| Wri-dir. Rungano Nyonii
World Premiere | Zambia-Ireland-UK
Supported by BBC Film
September Says
Directors' Fortnight
SISTER MIDNIGHT | Wri-dir. Karan Kandhari
World Premiere | UK
Supported by the BFI and Film4
TO A LAND UNKNOWN | Wri-dir. Mahdi Fleifel
Wri. Jason McGolgan
World Premiere
UK-France-Germany-The Netherlands-Greece-Qatar-Saudi Arabia-Palestine
Sister Midnight
To A Land Unknown
Immersive Competition
EVOLVER | Marshmallow Laser Feast
French Premiere | UK-France-US
MAYA: THE BIRTH OF A SUPERHERO | Poulomi Basu | CJ Clarke
European Premiere | UK-France-US
Immersive out of Competition
MISSING PICTURES: NAOMI KAWASE | Clément Deneux
France-UK-Taiwan-Luxembourg-South Korea
NOTES ON BLINDNESS | Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney
France-UK
