After two intense weeks of preview broadcasts and red carpets, the 2024 Cannes Film Festival ends this Saturday, May 25. Like every year, the closing ceremony will reveal the winners awarded by the International Jury. Which film in competition will win the famous Palme d’Or? Answer this evening.
Presented by Camille Cottin, who had already hosted the opening ceremony on May 14, the closing ceremony will be broadcast live on France 2 . For the occasion, the public service channel is offering a somewhat special arrangement.
Laurent Delahousse live before the ceremony
From 6:10 p.m., Laurent Delahousse will be live for an edition dedicated to the festival just before joining Camille Cottin. He will be in duplex with the host Louise Ekland, at the foot of the Marches and Charlotte Lipinska and Augustin Trapenard, inside the room, of the Palais des Festivals. The singer Zaho de Sagazan, who made an impression during the opening ceremony with her interpretation of Modern Love by David Bowie, will be on set with Laurent Delahousse.
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Then, from 6:40 p.m., France 2 will broadcast the highly anticipated closing ceremony live. This year the time has been brought forward by almost two hours compared to last year (8:30 p.m.) and the ceremony will last one hour and eleven minutes, compared to only one hour in 2023. A major change due to the final of the French Football Cup, which will pit Olympique Lyonnais against Paris Saint-Germain, and will also be broadcast on France 2from 8:40 p.m.
The Palme d’Or awarded during the closing ceremony
After climbing the steps, the closing ceremony will reveal the winners of this 77th edition of the festival. The Jury will have the honor of awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition (the complete list of films below). Chaired by Greta Gerwig (director of barbie), the 2024 jury is made up of Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director, producer and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, by Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
In addition to the Palme d’Or, other awards will be awarded during this evening, such as the Grand Prize, the Director’s Prize, the Screenplay Prize, the Jury Prize, and the female and male interpretation. The evening will also be an opportunity to reward George Lucas, director of the saga Star Wars. He will receive an honorary Palme d’Or, as Meryl Streep received one on May 14 during the opening ceremony.
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The ceremony will also be broadcast live on Brut’s social networks. As a reminder, France Télévisions and Brut. were the official partners of this 77th edition.
Here is the complete list of the 22 films in competition:
The Apprentice by Ali Abbasi
Motel Destino by Karim Aïnouz
Bird by Andrea Arnold
Emilia Perez by Jacques Audiard
Anora by Sean Baker
Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola
The Shrouds by David Cronenberg
The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes
Marcello Mio by Christophe Honoré
Caught By the Tides by Jia Zhang-Ke
All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
Kinds of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos
Love phew by Gilles Lellouche
Rough diamond by Agathe Riedinger
Oh Canada by Paul Schrader
Limonov by Kirill Serebrennikov
Partenope by Paolo Sorrentino
The Girl With the Needle by Magnus Von Horn
The most valuable commodity by Michel Hazanavicius
Three kilometers to the end of the world by Emanuel Parvu
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
