Producer: Mehak Pal Editor: Sujata Singh
The 77th Cannes Film Festival is starting on May 14, 2024. Many films from India have been selected for different sections. Here are a few of them.
Directed by Payal Kapadia, this is the first Indian film to compete for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival after around 30 years.
Written and directed by Suri, this film is shrouded in mystery. Shahana Goswami portrays Santosh, a young widow who inherits her husband's role as a police constable in the rural region of North India.
Sunflowers Were The First Ones To Know is by FTII students and has been selected for the prestigious La Cinef Competitive section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Shyam Benegal returns to Cannes in 2024 with Manthan. Featuring Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, and Amrish Puri, it was inspired by the pioneering milk cooperative movement led by Verghese Kurien.
Directed by Karan Kandhari, Sister Midnight is the only Indian film selected for the Cannes sidebar.
Konstantin Bojanov’s romantic drama might be a Bulgarian film but was shot in India and has Indian actors in the cast.
Maisam Ali is the first-ever Indian filmmaker whose film will be screened under the ACID (Association for the Distribution of Independent Cinema) section in Cannes.
Indian filmmaker Mansi Maheshwari earned her place at Cannes with her film 'Bunnyhood,' which she made as her graduation project at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in London.