The Cannes Film Festival opens on Wednesday with a mix of big names and new faces going head-to-head in the race for the top Palme d'Or prize.
(AFP) The Cannes Film Festival opens on Wednesday with a mix of big names and new faces going head-to-head in the race for the top Palme d'Or prize.
Here are the 18 films chosen to compete before the jury headed by New Zealand film-maker Jane Campion:
- "Clouds of Sils Maria", Olivier Assayas
- "Saint Laurent", Bertrand Bonello
- "Winter Sleep", Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- "Maps to the Stars", David Cronenberg
- "Two Days, One Night", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
- "Mommy", Xavier Dolan
- "Captives", Atom Egoyan
- "Goodbye to Language", Jean-Luc Godard
- "The Search", Michel Hazanavicius
- "The Homesman", Tommy Lee Jones
- "Still the Water", Naomi Kawase
- "Mr Turner", Mike Leigh
- "Jimmy's Hall", Ken Loach
- "Foxcatcher", Bennett Miller
- "The Wonders", Alice Rohrwacher
- "Wild Tales", Damian Szifron
- "Timbuktu", Abderrahmane Sissako
- "Leviathan", Andrei Zvyagintsev
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