What Buyers Want : Inside Cannes 2024

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What Buyers Want : Inside Cannes 2024

What Buyers Want : Inside Cannes 2024

Tracking Buyer Trends: Highlights from the 77th Cannes Film Festival

In this edition, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the trade activity that took place during the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which concluded in May 2024.

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Content Demand – Cannes 2024

The 77th Cannes Film Festival presented a diverse range of compelling narratives and innovative storytelling, engaging both audiences and industry professionals. This year’s festival underscored several key themes some of which included –

  • Human Experience and Personal Identity themes exploring individual journeys, self-discovery, relationships, and personal challenges.
  • Societal Challenges and Resilience based narratives encompassing survival, conflict, political contexts, and societal struggles, reflecting resilience in the face of adversity.
  • Imagination, Exploration, and Artistic Expression themes including themes of fantasy, adventure, mystery, nature, and the arts, highlighting human creativity and the exploration of the unknown.

On the trade front, we have observed a significant decline in overall trade activity in recent years, with this year’s activity dropping nearly 50% compared to 2023. We invite you to attend our upcoming live sessions for an in-depth analysis. Notably, pre-sales and pre-buy transactions have decreased by nearly 80%, reflecting a globally recognised slowdown in production commissioning due to factors largely beyond the industry’s control.

Continue reading to discover the titles that captured the attention of both audiences and industry professionals.

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High Value Deals at Cannes 2024
megapolis

Genius artist Cesar Catilina aims to transform New Rome into a utopia, while Mayor Franklyn Cicero clings to a greedy, divisive status quo. Socialite Julia Cicero, torn between her father and her love for Cesar, must decide what future humanity deserves.

Parthenope

The long journey of Parthenope’s life, from her birth in 1950 till today. A feminine epic, devoid of heroism but brimming with an inexorable passion for freedom, Naples, and the faces of loveβ€”all those true, pointless, and unspeakable loves.

The Substance

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

The last showgirl

After the closure of the dancing show in which Hannah has been working for more than thirty-five years, she tries to find a new calling in life, simultaneously improving relationship with her daughter.

The Girl with the Needle

Karoline, a young factory worker, finds herself abandoned and pregnant while striving to climb out of poverty in post WW1 Copenhagen. Amidst her struggles, she meets Dagmar, a charismatic woman running a hidden adoption agency within a candy store, helping poor mothers in finding foster homes for their unwanted children.

Soundtrack to a Coup dEtat

In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.

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Popular Amongst Audiences
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Most Deals & Transactions at Cannes 2024
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Pre-Buys and Pre-Sales deals at Cannes 2024
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It is a period musical drama about the true story of Ethel Stark, the groundbreaking conductor who founded the first all-female orchestra in Montreal.

Also, Pre-Bought by HBO Eastern Europe

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A falsely accused war hero with nothing to lose leads police on an epic televised cross-country car chase, helped by members of his former Special Forces Army battalion and closely monitored by a fascinated public rooting for his safe getaway.

Also, Pre-Bought by Prime Video.

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The twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, leading to a series of mysterious deaths. They throw it away and grow apart, but when the deaths begin again, they must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey before it takes their lives.

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Widely Distributed titles featured at Cannes 2024
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Countries Represented at Cannes 2024
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Award Winners at Cannes 2024
anora

Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

All We Imagine as Light

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.

Emilia Perez

Rita, an underrated lawyer working for a large law firm more interested in getting criminals out of jail than bringing them to justice, is hired by the leader of a criminal organization.

The Seed of the sacred fig

Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, grapples with mistrust and paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears. Suspecting the involvement of his wife Najmeh and his daughters Rezvan and Sana, he imposes drastic measures at home, causing tensions to rise. Step by step, social norms and the rules of family life are being suspended.

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Languages Represented at Cannes 2024
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Popular Foreign Language Films at Cannes 2024
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