The 64th Cannes Film Festival, to run from May 11 to 22, will screen 49 features from 33 countries. Forty-four of them will be world premieres, and 19 will compete for the top Palm d’Or, the festival’s most coveted prize.
India is conspicuous by its absence after a showing last year with
Vikramaditya Motwane’s
Udaan in Hindi. This movie came after an uncomfortably long dry patch of several years when the world’s largest producer of films was not to be seen at Cannes at all.
The festival’s official lineup was announced on Thursday noon in Paris by the General Delegate, Thierry Fremaux. “Great filmmakers make great films and the Festival de Cannes welcomes them with open arms,” he told a press conference in Paris before announcing the selections.
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The legendary American actor, Robert De Niro, will preside over the jury, whose other members will be announced next week.
Woody Allen’s
Midnight in Paris, starring the French First Lady, Carla Bruni, Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates and Adrien Brody will kickstart the festival on the French Riviera on May 11.
In the days to come, there could be a few additions to this list -- as has been the trend in recent years.
The complete list of movies in the various official sections announced on Thursday follows:
Opening film:Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen
Competition:Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn
Footnote, Josef Cedar
Hanezu no Tsuki, Naomi Kawase
Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai, Takashi Miike
The Kid With a Bike, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close), Bertrand Bonello
Le Havre, Aki Kaurismaki
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Melancholia, Lars von Trier
Michael, Markus Schleinzer
Pater, Alain Cavalier
Polisse, Maiwenn
The Skin That I Inhabit, Pedro Almodovar
Sleeping Beauty, Julia Leigh
La Source des femmes, Radu Mihaileanu
This Must Be the Place, Paolo Sorrentino
The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
We Have a Pope, Nanni Moretti
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay
Un Certain Regard:
Arirang Kim Ki-duk
Bonsai," Cristian Jimenez
The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo
Et maintenant on va ou?, Nadine Labaki
Halt auf freier Strecke, Andreas Dresen
Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont
The Hunter, Bakur Bakuradze
Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro, Robert Guediguian
L'exercisce de l'etat, Pierre Schoeller
Loverboy, Catalin Mitulescu
Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin
Miss Bala, Gerardo Naranjo
Restless, U.S., Gus Van Sant
Oslo, August 31st, Joachim Trier
Skoonheid, Oliver Hermanus
Tatsumi, Eric Khoo
Trabalhar cansa, Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Toomelah, Ivan Sen
The Yellow Sea, Na Hong-jin
Out of Competition:The Beaver, Jodie Foster
The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius
The Conquest, Xavier Durringer
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rob Marshall
Midnight Screenings:Wu Xia, Peter Chan Ho-sun
Dias de gracia, Everardo Gout
Special Screenings:Labrador, Frederikke Aspock
Le maitre des forges de l'enfer, Rithy Panh
Michel Petrucciani, Michael Radford
Tous au Larzac, Christian Rouaud