Catherine Deneuve in a still from La Tete Haute.
Paris:
The Cannes Film Festival's organisers on April 16 unveiled the list of 17 movies to be shown next month in the Palme d'Or competition line-up.
The rundown is not yet complete, with a couple of movies yet to be added before the 11-day festival opens on May 13.
Here are the movies announced, with nationality assigned according to its director:
Opening film
A French movie starring Catherine Deneuve and directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, La Tete Haute, will open the festival out of competition.
Competition
Dheepan by French director Jacques Audiard
A Simple Man by French director Stephane Brize
Marguerite and Julien by French director Valerie Donzelli
The Tale of Tales by Italian director Matteo Garrone
Carol by US director Todd Haynes, is a lesbian love story set in New York in the 1950s starring Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara
The Assassin, a martial arts film by Taiwanese director Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Mountains May Depart by Chinese director Zhangke Jia, is a story about lovers who separate in China, with the son of one exiled to Australia
Umimachi Diary by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, is about sisters living in the home of their grandmother
Macbeth by Australian director Justin Kurzel, is a movie version of Shakespeare's classic starring "X-Men" actor Michael Fassbender and French Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and mostly shot in Britain
The Lobster by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. The film, starring Colin Farrel and with Rachel Weisz, this is a love story set in a dystopian future where single people need to find a mate quickly or be transformed into animals
Mon Roi (My King) by French director Maiwenn and starring Vincent Cassel
Mia Madre (My Mother) by Italian director -- and Cannes favourite -- Nanni Moretti
Son of Saul by Hungarian film director Laszlo Nemes, about an Auschwitz prisoner in World War II
Youth by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, starring Rachel Weisz and featuring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda and Harvey Keitel
Louder Than Bombs by Norwegian director Joachim Trier and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert in a drama about the husband and son of a female war photographer discovering a secret about her after her death
The Sea of Trees by US director Gus Van Sant and starring Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts: about a suicidal American who meets and befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest
Sicario by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve and starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro in a story about a CIA operation to bring down a Mexican cartel boss
The rundown is not yet complete, with a couple of movies yet to be added before the 11-day festival opens on May 13.
Here are the movies announced, with nationality assigned according to its director:
Opening film
A French movie starring Catherine Deneuve and directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, La Tete Haute, will open the festival out of competition.
Competition
Dheepan by French director Jacques Audiard
A Simple Man by French director Stephane Brize
Marguerite and Julien by French director Valerie Donzelli
The Tale of Tales by Italian director Matteo Garrone
Carol by US director Todd Haynes, is a lesbian love story set in New York in the 1950s starring Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara
The Assassin, a martial arts film by Taiwanese director Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Mountains May Depart by Chinese director Zhangke Jia, is a story about lovers who separate in China, with the son of one exiled to Australia
Umimachi Diary by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, is about sisters living in the home of their grandmother
Macbeth by Australian director Justin Kurzel, is a movie version of Shakespeare's classic starring "X-Men" actor Michael Fassbender and French Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and mostly shot in Britain
The Lobster by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. The film, starring Colin Farrel and with Rachel Weisz, this is a love story set in a dystopian future where single people need to find a mate quickly or be transformed into animals
Mon Roi (My King) by French director Maiwenn and starring Vincent Cassel
Mia Madre (My Mother) by Italian director -- and Cannes favourite -- Nanni Moretti
Son of Saul by Hungarian film director Laszlo Nemes, about an Auschwitz prisoner in World War II
Youth by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, starring Rachel Weisz and featuring Michael Caine, Jane Fonda and Harvey Keitel
Louder Than Bombs by Norwegian director Joachim Trier and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert in a drama about the husband and son of a female war photographer discovering a secret about her after her death
The Sea of Trees by US director Gus Van Sant and starring Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts: about a suicidal American who meets and befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest
Sicario by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve and starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro in a story about a CIA operation to bring down a Mexican cartel boss
