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Cannes 2024: What’s In The Mix? (Part 2)


Check out part two of our deep-dive into movies that could be Cannes-bound.

Other movies produced out of France that are ready and submitted include exiled Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s Joseph Mengele thriller Disappearance, starring German actor August Diehl as the notorious Nazi doctor, and South African filmmaker Pia Marais’s Amazon Forest-set contemporary missionary and illegal logging drama Transamazonia. Spanish titles generating buzz include Fernando Trueba’s love triangle tale Haunted Heart, starring Juan Pablo Urrego, Matt Dillon and Aida Folch, and Goya winner Pilar Palomero’s second film Glimmers, a literary adaptation co-starring 20,000 Species of Bees lead Patricia López Arnaiz and Antonio de la Torre ( The Movie Teller). Buzzy submissions out of Egypt include Mohamed Siam’s father and son tale Colonia, in which secrets are uncovered in a long night of settling old scores; Khaled Mansour’s Seeking Haven for Mr Rambo, in which a man battles to save his beloved dog, and Omar Brakry’s intriguing silent black and white film Abdo & Saneya, about an Egyptian peasant couple which emigrates to New York without any notion of American life in search of a cure for their infertility.

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