Cannes Film Festival 2024: ‘All We Imagine As Light’ to ‘Santosh’, check top entries from India
The Cannes Film Festival is an annual event that takes place in the French Riviera, France and brings together the industry’s biggest luminaries to celebrate cinema. The festival is held to preview films of all genres from across the world. (Image: Reuters)It’s one of the most prestigious film festivals and showcases a wide variety of films, from art-house to big-budget productions. The festival also attracts a lot of attention for its glamorous red-carpet events and parties, where celebrities and filmmakers gather to celebrate cinema. (Image: Reuters)The official poster for the festival was designed by Hartland Villa, and it features a still from Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s Rhapsody in August (1991), which was chosen for the 1991 edition. (Images: Cannes Film Festival Official Website)Indian cinema has a rich history of producing acclaimed films and there are several noteworthy entries at Cannes 2024 for the Palme d’Or.‘All We Imagine As Light’ by Payal Kapadia | All We Imagine As Light, directed by Payal Kapadia, has been selected for the main competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. The movie is an Indo-France co-production about two Kerala nurses working in a Mumbai nursing home. (Images: Cannes Film Festival Official Website)‘Santosh’ by Sandhya Suri | Santosh is directed by Sandhya Suri and is selected in the Un Certain Regard section. The movie is about a newly widowed Santosh, who inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in rural northern India. (Images: Cannes Film Festival Official Website)‘Shameless’ by Konstantin Bojanov | Shameless was made by Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov, but it was shot in India and selected for the Un Certain Regard category. (Images: Cannes Film Festival Official Website)‘Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know’ by Chidananda S Naik | Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know, a film by FTII student Chidanand Naik, has been selected in the Cinéfondation or La Cinef section of the Cannes Film Festival. (Images: Cannes Film Festival Official Website)‘Manthan’ by Shyam Benegal | The film Manthan was released in 1976 under the translated title The Churning. The movie, directed by Shyam Benegal, will be screened at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. (Images: Cannes Film Festival Official Website)‘Sister Midnight’ by Karan Kandhari | Sister Midnight is selected under the Directors’ Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes) category at the film festival. (Image: Radhika Apte/Instagram)‘In Retreat’ by Maisam Ali | In Retreat, directed by Maisam Ali, will be screened under the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) section at Cannes 2024. (Image: ACID/X)
