Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Set to Premiere In-Competition at 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Set to Premiere In-Competition at 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Searchlight Pictures has announced that the upcoming film Yorgos Lanthimos‘ ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ is set to premiere in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

The 77th Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 14th to May 25th, 2024.

The anthology film, directed by Lanthimos from a screenplay he co-wrote with Efthimis Filippou, also stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, and Hunter Schafer.

Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons and Hong Chau in Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Kinds of Kindness'Image: Willem Dafoe, Jesse Plemons and Hong Chau in Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’

Kinds of Kindness is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing at sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

‘Kinds of Kindness’ will hit theaters on June 21, 2024, by Searchlight Pictures. (Watch the trailer)

Cannes Film Festival 2024: Official Selections

In Competition – Opening Film:


  • Le Deuxième Acte by Quentin Dupieux

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
  • Feng Liu Yi Dai by Jia Zhang-Ke
  • All We Imagine as Light by Payal Kapadia
  • Kinds of Kindness by Yórgos Lánthimos
  • L’Amour Ouf by Gilles Lellouche
  • Diamant Brut by Agathe Riedinger
  • Oh Canada by Paul Schrader
  • Limonov – The Ballad by Kirill Serebrennikov
  • Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino
  • The Girl with the Needle by Magnus von Horn

Un Certain Regard:


  • Norah by Tawfik Alzaidi
  • The Shameless by Konstantin Bojanov
  • Le Royaume by Julien Colonna
  • Vingt Dieux! by Louise Courvoisier
  • Le Procès du Chien by Laetitia Dosch
  • Gou Zhen by Guan Hu
  • The Village Next to Paradise by Mo Harawe
  • September Says by Ariane Labed
  • L’Histoire de Souleymane by Boris Lojkine
  • The Damned by Roberto Minervini
  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni
  • Boku No Ohisama by Hiroshi Okuyama
  • Santosh by Sandhya Suri
  • Viet and Nam by Truong Minh Quý
  • Armand by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel

Out of Competition:


  • She’s Got No Name by Chan Peter Ho-Sun
  • Horizon, an American Saga by Kevin Costner
  • Rumours by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga by George Miller

Midnight Screenings:


  • Twilight of the Warrior Walled In by Soi Cheang
  • The Surfer by Lorcan Finnegan
  • Les Femmes au Balcon by Noémie Merlant
  • I, the Executioner by Ryoo Seung Wan

Cannes Premiere:


  • Everybody Loves Touda by Nabil Ayouch
  • C’est Pas Moi by Leos Carax
  • En Fanfare by Emmanuel Courcol
  • Miséricorde by Alain Guiraudie
  • Le Roman de Jim by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu
  • Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot by Rithy Panh

Special Screenings:


  • Le Fil by Daniel Auteuil
  • Ernest Cole, Lost and Found by Raoul Peck
  • The Invasion by Sergei Loznitsa
  • Apprendre by Claire Simon
  • La Belle de Gaza by Yolande Zauberman

Source: Festival de Cannes