The international film community and cinephiles everywhere set their clocks by the Cannes Film Festival. Acclaimed international auteurs anchor the lineup for the annual festival and then there are less familiar names that round out the prestigious roster each year.
These are the films that fans of cinema will be talking about for the next year or so.
For the 64th edition of the French festival organizers have invited new films from Pedro Almodovar, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the Dardenne Brothers, Bruno Dumont, Robert Guediguian, Hong Sang-Soo, Aki Kaurismaki, Eric Khoo, Kim Ki-Duk, Terrence Malick, Takashi Miike, Nanni Moretti, Gerardo Naranjo, Lynne Ramsay, Paolo Sorrentino, Lars Von Trier.
Notably, a pair of first-timers are in competition: Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty and Markus Schleinzer's Michael. While in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, two more directorial debuts will be showcased: Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene (a hit from this year's Sundance Film Festival), and Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra's Hard Labor.
The festival will open with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris on May 11th and continue through May 22nd in the South of France.
The Official Selection for the 64th Cannes Film Festival follows:
Opening Film:
Midnight in Paris, directed by Woody Allen
Competition:
The Skin I Live In (La Piel Que Habito), directed by Pedro Almodovar
House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide), directed by Bertrand Bonello
Pater, directed by Alain Cavalier
Footnote (Hearat Shulayim), directed by Joseph Cedar
Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da), directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Boy With The Bike (Le Gamin au VĂ©lo), directed by Dardenne Brothers
Le Havre, directed by Aki Kaurismaki
Hanezu No Tsuki, directed by Naomi Kawase
Sleeping Beauty, directed by Julia Leigh
Polisse, directed by Maiwenn
The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick
The Source (La source des femmes), directed by Radu Mihaileanu
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei), directed by Takashi Miike
Habemus Papam, directed by Nanni Moretti
We Need To Talk About Kevin, directed by Lynne Ramsay
Michael, directed by Markus Schleinzer
This Must Be The Place, directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Melancholia, directed by Lars Von Trier
Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Un Certain Regard:
Restless, directed by Gus Van Sant
The Hunter, Bakur Bakuradze
Halt auf freier Strecke, directed Andreas Dresen
Hors Satan, directed by Bruno Dumont
Martha Marcy May Marlene, directed by Sean Durkin
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro, directed by Robert Guediguian
Skoonheid, directed by Oliver Hermanus
The Day He Arrives, directed by Hong Sang-Soo
Bonsai, directed by Christian Jimenez
Tatsumi, directed by Eric Khoo
Arirang, directed by Kim Ki-Duk
Et maintenant, on va ou?, directed by Nadine Labaki
Loverboy, directed by Catalin Mitulescu
Yellow Sea, directed by Na Hong-jin
Miss Bala, directed by Gerardo Naranjo
Hard Labor (Trabalhar Cansa), directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra
The Minister (L'Exercice de L'Etat), directed by Pierre Schoeller
Toomelah, directed by Ivan Sen
Oslo, August 31st, directed by Joachim Trier
Out of Competition:
La conquete, directed by Xavier Durringer
The Beaver, directed by Jodie Foster
The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavicius
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, directed by Rob Marshall
Midnight Films:
Wu Xia, directed by Chan Peter Ho-Sun
Days of Grace (Dias de Gracia), directed by Everado Gout
Special Screenings:
Labrador, directed by Frederikke Aspock
Le maitre des forges de l'enfer, directed by Rithy Panh
Michel Petrucciani, directed by Michael Radford
Tous au Larzac, directed by ChristianRouaud
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