Festival de Cannes

An immersive 2024 Festival

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The Festival de Cannes announces eight projects as a part of the Immersive Competition including collective location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, and projection mapping and holographic works. These carefully selected immersive works showcase the cutting edge of this new era in storytelling, challenging convention, embracing new technologies, and above all celebrating new artists as well as old.

IMMERSIVE COMPETITION

EN AMOUR (France)

 © Adrien M & Claire B
Claire Bardainne, Adrien Mondot, Laurent Bardainne
Casting Claire Bardainne (voice over), November Ultra (singer)
Production Adrien M & Claire B, Musée de la musique — Philharmonie de Paris, Ekleroshock records
© Adrien M & Claire B

EVOLVER

United Kingdom, France, United States
French Premiere

 © DR

Barnaby Steel, Ersin Han Ersin, Robin McNicholas
Casting Cate Blanchett (voice)
Production Marshmallow Laser Feast, Atlas V, Pressman Film, Orange, Bia-Echo Foundation, Dirty Films
© DR

HUMAN VIOLINS: PRELUDE (MULTI-USER VERSION)

Romania, France

World Premiere

 © Alexandru Pop
Ioana Mischie
Casting Cabiria Morgenstern (English Voice)
Produced by Storyscapes, Da Prod, Studioset

© Alexandru Pop

MAYA: THE BIRTH OF A SUPERHERO
United Kingdom, France, United States
European Premiere

 © Poulomi Basu, CJ Clarke

Poulomi Basu, CJ Clarke
Casting Indira Varma, Kathy Packianathan (French voices) Indira Varma, Charithra Chandran (English voices), Florrie Antoniou (voice)
Production Just Another Production Company, Floréal, France Télévisions, Meta
© Poulomi Basu, CJ Clarke

COLORED
France, Taïwan

 © Novaya

Tania de Montaigne, Stéphane Foenkinos, Pierre-Alain Giraud
Casting Tania de Montaigne, Rebecca Naluyange, Keril Daniel Elombe, Véronique Bailey, Jona Kraft, Sergei Laev, Mbongiseni Kunene, Craig Thomas Crawford, John Harve Jackson, Gwei Lun-mei (Mandarin voice), Susanna Dimitri (Italian voice).
Production Novaya, Flash Forward Entertainment, Centre Pompidou
© Novaya

TELOS I
Canada, Sweden, Denmark
WORLD PREMIERE

 © Kristoffer Engholm Aabo

Dorotea Saykaly, Emil Dam Seidel
Casting Dorotea Saykaly
Production Dorotea Saykaly, Emil Dam Seidel
© Kristoffer Engholm Aabo

THE ROAMING
France, Luxembourg, Canada

 © La prairie productions

Mathieu Pradat
Casting Axel Beaumont, Pierre Tallaron, Tony Sanial, Mila Pousséo, Chloé Froget, Anne Klein, Marianne Bourg
Production La prairie productions, Wild Fang Films, Normal Studio, Small Creative
© La prairie productions

TRAVERSING THE MIST
Taïwan

 © Very Theatre
Tung-Yen Chou
Casting Jing-Yan Lin
Production Very Theatre
© Very Theatre
Part of the Immersive Selection, six non-competitive works will be featured at the exhibition exploring the evolution of the medium and drawing parallels between virtual reality, virtual production, cinema and collective storytelling.

SÉLECTION IMMERSIVE
Non-competitive works

BATTLESCAR France, United States

 © Atlas V, Albyon, 1stAveMachine

Martin Allais, Nico Casavecchia
Casting Rosario Dawson (English voice), Jehnny Beth (French voice), Lo Rivera (German voice)
Production Atlas V, Albyon, 1STAveMachine, ARTE France, Oculus, Ryot
© Atlas V, Albyon, 1stAveMachine

EMPEREUR
France, Germany

 © Atlas V, Reynard films

Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen
Casting Olivia Cooke (English voice), Vimala Pons (French voice)
Production Atlas V, Reynard Films, France Télévisions
© Atlas V, Reynard films

GLOOMY EYES
Argentina, France, United States

 © ATLAS V, 3DAR, RYOT, ARTE

Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso
Casting Tahar Rahim (French voice), Collin Farrell (English voice), Max Riemelt (German voice), Jorge Drexler (Sapanish voice), Jam Hsiao (Mandarin voice)
Production Atlas V, 3dar, ARTE France, HTC, Ryot
© ATLAS V, 3DAR, RYOT, ARTE

MISSING PICTURES: NAOMI KAWASE
France, United Kingdom, Taïwan, Luxembourg, South Korea

 © Atlas V, Arte France, BBC, Serendipity, PTS Taiwan, Wild Fang Films, GIIOII

Clément Deneux
Casting Naomi Kawase
Production Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, PTS, Serendipity Films, Wild Fang Films, Giioii
© Atlas V, Arte France, BBC, Serendipity, PTS Taiwan, Wild Fang Films, GIIOII

NOTES ON BLINDNESS
France, United Kingdom

 © Ex Nihilo, ARTE France, Archer’s Mark, Novelab, Atlas V

Arnaud Colinart, Amaury La Burthe, Peter Middleton, James Spinney
Casting John Hull (English voice), Lambert Wilson (French voice)
Production Ex Nihilo, ARTE France, Archer’s Mark, Novelab
© Ex Nihilo, ARTE France, Archer’s Mark, Novelab, Atlas V

SPHERES
United States, France

 © Protozoa Pictures, Citylights, Atlas V, Novelab, Crimes of Curiosity, Kaleidoscope
Eliza Mcnitt
Casting Jessica Chastain, Millie Bobby Brown, Patti Smith
Production Protozoa Pictures, City Lights, Crime of Curiosity, Atlas V
© Protozoa Pictures, Citylights, Atlas V, Novelab, Crimes of Curiosity, Kaleidoscope
The Best Immersive Work Award will be presented by the President of the Jury at the Closing Ceremony on May 23. The Compétition Immersive of the Festival de Cannes is a new competition dedicated to immersive works, the first edition of which will be held from May 15-24, 2024 at the Cannes Cineum and the Université Côte d’Azur, Georges Méliès Campus.

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