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2024 Cannes Film Festival Additions: Valeria Golino Returns to the Croisette, Animated Films Join Official Selections

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After announcing the official lineup, Critics’ Week, Directors Fortnight, Cannes Classics and other sections, the Cannes Film Festival has revealed more additions to the 77th edition of the fest, which will take place from May 14-25, 2024.

Added will be a Rendez-vous…with Valeria Golino. The actress/director has twice appeared in the Official Selection with her films Miele (2013) and Euforia (2018). She returns with an adaptation of Goliarda Sapienza’s novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy) for the screen, starring Jasmine Trinca, Tecla Insolia and Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. Initially shot as a TV series, The Art of Joy will be released in movie theaters in Italy. The first episode of the series will be previewed, followed by a dialogue between Valeria Golino and the audience.

While the full reveal of the Cinéma de la Plage will be announced soon, four films were revealed today: Daniel Burman’s Transmitzvah, Jul’s Silex and the City, Jean-François Laguionie’s Slocum et Moi and My Way from Lisa Azuelos and Thierry Teston.

With the tribute to Studio Ghibli, the 2024 Official Selection will feature 6 animated films: La plus précieuse des marchandises (The Most Precious of Cargoes) in Competition in addition to Flow (Un Certain Regard), Silex and the CitySlocum et moiSauvages, and Angelo, dans la forêt mystérieuse.

CINÉMA DE LA PLAGE

Before the full program is unveiled, four contemporary films will be shown as part of Cinéma de la Plage:
TRANSMITZVAH
Daniel Burman
SILEX AND THE CITY
Jul
SLOCUM ET MOI
Jean-François Laguionie
MY WAY
Lisa Azuelos and Thierry Teston

SCREENING FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

Two animated films will be on the program for young (and not so young) audiences at Cannes 2024:
SAUVAGES
Claude Barras
ANGELO, DANS LA FORÊT MYSTÉRIEUSE
Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord
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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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