70th Cannes Film Festival: Here’s the full list of films in (and out of) competition

Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, starring Nicole Kidman, Michael Haneke’s Happy End and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories are among the films selected to compete at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

A Civil War film by Sofia Coppola, a Ukrainian road movie and a film about AIDS activism are among 18 films competing for the top prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which organizers hope can help counter nationalist sentiment.

The official poster for the 70th Cannes Film Festival.

The festival is embracing virtual reality and cell phone video as it marks its 70th birthday this year. Festival general delegate Thierry Fremaux and President Pierre Lescure announced in Paris on Thursday the dozens of films competing and showing at the May 17-28 festival.

This file photo taken on May 17, 2014 shows US director and member of the Feature films Jury Sofia Coppola posing as she arrives for the screening of the film Saint-Laurent at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. Sofia Coppola's Civil War thriller The Beguiled starring Nicole Kidman is among the 18 films picked to compete in Cannes, organisers said on April 13, 2017.

Contenders for the Palme d’Or include Coppola’s The Beguiled, starring Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst, and American director Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories, starring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler.

Here’s the full list of films:

OPENING NIGHT FILM

Ismael’s Ghosts, dir: Arnaud Desplechin (Out of Competition)

70th ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

Top of the Lake: China Girl, dirs: Jane Campion & Ariel Kleiman24 Frames, dir: Abbas KiarostamiTwin Peaks, dir: David LynchCome Swim, dir: Kristen Stewart

VIRTUAL REALITY FILM

Carne Y Arena (Flesh And Sand), dir: Alejandro G Inarritu

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

An Inconvenient Sequel, dirs: Ronni Cohen & Jon Shenk12 Jours, dir: Raymond DepardonThey, dir: Anahita GhazinizadehKeul-Le-Eo-Ui-Ka-Me-La (Clair’s Camera), dir: Hong SangsooPromised Land, dir: Eugene JareckiNapalm, dir: Claude LanzmannDemons In Paradise, dir: Jude RatmanSea Sorrow, dir: Vanessa Redgrave

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

AK-Nyeo (The Villainess), dir: Jung Byung-gilBulhandang (The Merciless), dir: Byun Sung-hyunPrayer Before Dawn, dir: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire

OUT OF COMPETITION

Mugen Non Junin, (Blade Of The Immortal), dir: Takashi MiikeHow To Talk To Girls At Parties, dir: John Cameron MitchellVisages, Villages, dir: Agnes Varda & JR

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Barbara, dir: Mathieu Amalric (Opening Film)La Novia Del Desierto (The Desert Bride), dirs: Cecilia Atan & Valeria PivatoTesnota (Closeness), dir: Kantemir BalagovAala Kaf Ifrit (Beauty And The Dogs), dir: Kaouther Ben HaniaL’Atélier, dir: Laurent CantetFortunata (Lucky), dir: Sergio CastellittoLas Hijas De Abril (April’s Daughter), dir: Michel FrancoSanpo Suru Shinryakusha (Before We Vanish), dir: Kiyoshi KurosawaLerd (Dregs), dir: Mohammad RasoulofEn Attendant Les Hirondelles (The Nature of Time), dir: Karim MoussaouiApres La Guerre (After The War), dir: Annarita ZambranoWind River, dir: Taylor SheridanJeune Femme, dir: Leonor SerrailleWestern, dir: Valeska GrisebachPosoki (Directions), dir: Stephan KomandarevOut, dir: Gyorgy Kristof

COMPETITION

Loveless, dir: Andrey ZvyagintsevGood Time, dirs: Benny and Josh SafdieYou Were Never Really Here, dir: Lynne RamsayL’Amant Double, dir: Francois OzonJupiter’s Moon, dir: Kornel MundruczoThe Killing Of A Sacred Deer, dir: Yorgos LanthimosThe Day After, dir: Hang SangsooRedoubtable, dir: Michel HazanaviciusWonderstruck, dir: Todd HaynesHappy End, dir: Michael HanekeRodin, dir: Jacques DoillonThe Beguiled, dir: Sofia CoppolaIn the Fade, dir: Fatih AkinThe Meyerowitz Stories, dir: Noah BaumbachOkja, dir: Bong Joon-ho120 Battements Par Minute, dir: Robin CampilloHikari (Radiance), dir: Naomi KawaseA Gentle Creature, dir: Sergei Loznitsa

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