The Cannes film festival on Thursday unveiled the line-up of movies that will go head to head in the race for the Palme d'Or at the French Riviera festival on May 14-25.
Here are the 18 films chosen to compete before the jury headed by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion:
- "Sils Maria", Olivier Assayas
- "Saint Laurent", Bertrand Bonello
- "Kis Uykusu", Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- "Maps to the Stars", David Cronenberg
- "Deux Jours, Une Nuit", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
- "Mommy", Xavier Dolan
- "Captives", Atom Egoyan
- "Adieu au Langage", Jean-Luc Godard
- "The Search", Michel Hazanavicius
- "The Homesman", Tommy Lee Jones
- "Futatsume no mado", Naomi Kawase
- "Mr Turner", Mike Leigh
- "Jimmy's Hall", Ken Loach
- "Foxcatcher", Bennett Miller
- "Le Meraviglie" Alice Rohrwacher
- "Wild Tales", Damian Szifron
- "Timbuktu", Abderrahmane Sissako
- "Leviathan", Andrei Zvyagintsev
English titles given where supplied by festival organisers.
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