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Cannes Directors’ Fortnight Unveils 2024 Line-Up: U.S. Directors Tyler Taormina, Carson Lund, Ryan J. Sloan & India Donaldson Make Cut
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Cannes parallel section Directors’ Fortnight has unveiled the line-up for its 56th edition running from May 15 to 23, at a press conference in Paris’s Forum des Images cultural center.
The section, launched in 1969 and overseen by the French Directors Guild, will present 21 feature films and 10 short films.
It is the second line-up overseen by Delegate General Julien Rejl, who took up the role last year.
Discoveries of his inaugural edition included Georgian director Elene Naveriani’s late coming-of-age drama Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry; U.S. indie film Riddle Of Fire by Weston Razooli, as well as Vietnamese filmmaker Phạm Thiên Ân’s 2023 Cannes Caméra d’Or winner Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell.
The 2024 edition will open with late director Sophie Fillières’ final feature This Life of Mine, starring Agnès Jaoui as a woman whose sense of self starts to unravel as she turns 55.
Fillières died shortly after completing the shoot and her children have dedicated themselves to finishing post-production.
“It follows three moments from a woman’s life. It’s a comedy, a tragedy and an epiphany with a brisk pace, changes in tone and heartening dialogue that gives spice to the cinema of Sophie Fillière,” said Rejl.
“It’s a very moving work because it’s also a very intimate self-portrait, a portrait to which Agnes Jaoui gives a soul and body.”
French director Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s dark comedy Plastic Guns will close the selection. Inspired by a true story, the mistaken identity tale follows the case of Frenchman who is arrested by police in the belief that he is a man wanted for the murder of wife and children.
This year’s line-up features a quartet of films by emerging U.S. directors: Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve In
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