Oliver Stone presents his long-awaited documentary “Lula” at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Stone filmed the documentary about Brazil’s three-time president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which covers the leader’s imprisonment between 2018 and 2019 and his return to power. Stone was in production on the feature film in 2021, at which point Lula da Silva contracted COVID while filming in Cuba.
Stone teased “Lula” at Jacobin earlier this year, the film would be released “hopefully before the end of the year. “
Stone recently released the documentary “Nuclear Now,” a task he says fostered the “muddled” discourse around “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006.
“I don’t pretend to lead a debating society; I intend to do a fact-oriented science, where we say that this is what scientists say. That’s not what the protesters are saying,” Stone said of the report. “I hope they understand that there is also a question of timing and clarity. I had a lot of ground to cover; I couldn’t cover everything. But I had to go back in time, what is nuclear power?Through its history, from its inception, through the protest movements of the ’70s, which are components of it, after what happened in the ’80s and ’90s, then I got into the Al Gore debate on renewable energy, there’s a long way to pass—and the long term of nuclear power. It took an hour and forty-four [minutes], and that’s at the limit of people’s maximum attention span. I wanted this film to be shown to ninth and eighth graders. I tried not to let it wobble too much.
Newly announced additions to the Una Certain Regard program include the opening night variety of “When the Light Breaks” directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, “Niki” by Céline Sallette, “Flow” by Gints Zilbalodis, “Live, Die, Be Reborn” by Gael Morel and “Maria” directed by Jessica Palud.
Among the off-festival titles are “The Count of Monte Cristo” directed by Alexandre De La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte. The latest novelties of the festival are “The Most Precious of Goods” directed by Michel Hazanavicius, “Trei Kilometri Pana La Capatul Lumii” through Emanuel Parvu, and the long-awaited return to the festival through Mohammad Rasoulof with “The Seed of the Sacred Fig. “