The Cannes Film Festival revealed details about its Competition, Un Certain Regard, Midnight, and Special Screenings lineup Thursday in Paris. As previously announced, Olivier Dahan's Grace of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, will open the 67th edition and Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, and Samuel Theis's Party Girl will launch the Un Certain Regard section. Highlights from this year's lineup include new work from veterans including Olivier Assayas, Jean-Luc Godard, the Dardenne Brothers, Naomi Kawase, Mike Leigh, and Ken Loach.

Bennett Miller (Capote) will make his first showing in Cannes' main lineup with Foxcatcher, while Québécois filmmaker Xavier Dolan makes his third showing on the Croisette with his latest, Mommy, though it will be his first in the Competition. Ryan Gosling, meanwhile, will screen his directorial debut, Lost River, in the Un Certain Regard section.

The 67th Cannes Film Festival takes place May 14-25.

In 

Competition:


Olivier Dahan — Grace of Monaco (Opening Film, previously announced)

The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.

Olivier Assayas — Clouds of Sils Maria

Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) has a successful acting career and a loyal assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart) but when a young actress (Chloe Grace Moretz) interpreted a role in a new movie – the same role which had made Enders famous – her world starts to crumble. Haunted by her past life, she withdraws herself along with her assistant in Swiss town of Sils Maria.

Bertrand Bonello — Saint Laurent

Centered on the life of Yves Saint Laurent from 1965 to 1976, the film stars Gaspard Ulliel as the famed French fashion designer.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan — Kis Uykusu (Winter Sleep)

David Cronenberg — Maps to the Stars

 A complex look at Hollywood and what it reveals about Western culture.

Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne — Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night)

The film follows Sandra, a young woman assisted by her husband, who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job.

Xavier Dolan — Mommy

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.

Atom Egoyan — The Captive

In the thriller, a father tries to track down his kidnapped daughter.

Jean-Luc Godard — Adieu Au Langage (Goodbye to Language)

Michel Hazanavicius — The Search

A woman who works for a non-governmental organization (NGO) forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.

Tommy Lee Jones — The Homesman

A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa.

Naomi Kawase — Still the Water

Mike Leigh — Mr. Turner

A look at the life of British artist J.M.W Turner.

Ken Loach — Jimmy's Hall

Political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the country's 'Red Scare' of the 1930s.

Bennett Miller — Foxcatcher

The story of Olympic Wrestling Champion Mark Schultz and how paranoid schizophrenic John duPont killed his brother, Olympic Champion Dave Schultz.

Alice Rohrwacher — Le Meraviglie

Abderrahmane Sissako — Timbuktu

Damian Szifron — Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales)

Andrey Zvyagintsev — Leviathan

A present day social drama spanning multiple characters about the human insecurity in a “new country” which gradually unwinds to a mythological scale concerning the human condition on earth entirely.

Out of Competition
 
Dean Deblois — How to Train Your Dragon 2

It's been five years since Hiccup and Toothless successfully united dragons and vikings on the island of Berk. While Astrid, Snotlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island's new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace. Now, Hiccup and Toothless must unite to stand up for what they believe while recognizing that only together do they have the power to change the future of both men and dragons.

Zhang Yimou — Gui Lai (Coming Home)

A Chinese man is forced into marriage and flees to America, but when he returns home, he is sent to a labor camp.

 
Un Certain Regard


Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger & Samuel Theis — Party Girl – (Previously announced Opening Film) – 1st film

Lisandro Alonso — Sin Titulo (Untitled)

A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.

Mathieu Amalric — La Chambre Bleue (The Blue Room)

Asia Argento — Incompresa

Kanu Behl — Titli – 1st film

Ned Benson — The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

A New York couple's relationship starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy.

Pascale Ferran — Bird People

An American arrives in Paris, checks into a hotel, turns off his cell phone and starts his life anew.

Ryan Gosling — Lost River – 1st film

A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

Jessica Hausner — Amour Fou

Rolf de Heer — Charlie's Country

Andrew Hulme — Snow In Paradise – 1st film

Hard-hitting character study that's based on the real story of one man's journey to control his violence through religion. It takes us from the blood soaked East End of London to the world of the Islamic whirling dervishes.

July Jung — Dohee-Ya (A Girl at My Door) – 1st film

Panos Koutras — Xenia

Philippe LacĂ´te — Run

Ruben Ă–stlund — Tourist

Jaime Rosales — Hermosa Juventud

Wang Chao — Fantasia

Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado — The Salt of the Earth

Keren Yedaya — Harcheck mi headro (Away from His Absence)

Special Screenings

Les Ponts de Sarajevo (Bridges of Sarajevo) by Aida Begic, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec & Teresa Villaverde

Gabe Polsky — Red Army

Sergei Loznitsa — Maidan

Mohammed Ossama — Eau argentĂ©e

StĂ©phanie Valloatto — Cartoonists – Foot Soldiers of Democracy

 

Midnight Screenings
 
Chang — The Target

Kristian Levring — The Salvation

David MichĂ´d — The Rover