Familiar faces abound in this year's competition lineup for the Festival de Cannes. Almodovar. Miike. von Trier. Refn. Malick.
The Skin I Live In (Spain) - Pedro Almodovar
L'Apollonide (France) - Bertrand Bonello
Footnote (Israel) - Joseph Cedar
Pater (France) - Alain Cavalier
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Turkey) - Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Hanezu no Tsuki (Japan) - Naomi Kawase
The Kid With a Bike (Belgium) - Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Le Havre (Finland) - Aki Kaurismäki
Sleeping Beauty (Australia) - Julie Leigh
Tree of Life (US) - Terrence Malick
Polisse (France) - Maïwen
The Source (Romania) - Radu Mihaileanu
We Have a Pope (Italy) - Nanni Moretti
Ishimei (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai) (Japan) - Takashi Miike
Michael (Austria) - Markus Schleinzer
We Need to Talk About Kevin (UK) - Lynne Ramsey
Melancholia (Denmark) - Lars von Trier
This Must Be the Place (Italy) - Paolo Sorrentino
Drive (US) - Nicolas Winding Refn
Other than some of the regulars the competition lineup includes 8 newcomers as well. And Out of Competition films are after the break!
Out of Competition
Opening Film
Midnight in Paris (Spain/US) - Woody Allen
The Conquest (France) - Xavier Durringer
The Beaver (US) - Jodie Foster
The Artist (France) - Michel Hazanavicius
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (US) - Rob Marshall
Midnight Screenings
Wu Xia (China) - Chan Peter
Day of Grace - Everardo Gout (Mexico)
Labrador (Denmark) - Frederikke Aspöck
Le Maître des Forges de l'Enfer (France) - Rithy Panh
Michel Petrucciani (US) - Michael Radford
Tous au Larzac (France) - Christian Rouaud