The line-up for the Cannes Film Festival 2014 has been announced, and it's a selection that includes some Festival regulars as well as some less familiar faces. So don your beret, strike up a Gauloise and peruse the full list of films in competition, screening out of competition and in the Un Certain Regard categories below.
It's a strong selection, albeit mainly from directors who have appeared at the Festival multiple times before. Ken Loach (Jimmy's Hall), Mike Leigh (Mr Turner, pictured), Jean-Luc Godard (Goodbye To Language), the Dardennes brothers (Two Days, One Night), David Cronenberg (Maps To The Stars) and Atom Egoyan (The Captive) are all regulars. In fact, Damian Szifron and Bennett Miller are the only directors in the competition who are at the Festival for the first time.
Screening out of competition is How To Train Your Dragon 2, occupying the traditional big-animated-film-screening-at-Cannes spot. The Un Certain Regard section will see the bow of Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, now called Lost River and not How To Catch A Monster anymore. Fellow actors Mathieu Amalric and Asia Argento also have directorial efforts screening in that strand.
The Festival runs from May 14 to 25 this year, and as ever we'll be covering all the news as it happens.
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Opening night film: Grace of Monaco, Olivier Dahan
Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas
Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello
Kış Uykusu,Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Deux Jours, Une Nuit, Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Mommy, Xavier Dolan
The Captive, 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
Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako
Relatos Salvajes, Damián Szifron
Leviafan, Andrey Zvyagintsev
OUT OF COMPETITION
Coming Home, Zhang Yimou
How to Train Your Dragon 2, Dean DeBlois
Les Gens du Monde, Yves Jeuland
UN CERTAIN REGARD
OPENER: Party Girl, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
Amour fou, Jessica Hausner
Bird People, Pascale Ferran
The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric
Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer
A Girl at My Door, July Jung
Eleanor Rigby, Ned Benson
Fantasia, Wang Chao
Force Majeure, Ruben Ostlund
Harcheck mi headro, Keren Yedaya
Hermosa juventud, Jaime Rosales
Incompresa, Asia Argento
Jauja, Lisandro Alonso
Lost River, Ryan Gosling
Run, Philippe Lacote
Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Snow in Paradise, Andrew Hulme
Titli, Kanu Behl
Xenia, Panos Koutras
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Rover, David Michod
The Salvation, Kristian Levring
The Target, Yoon Hong-seung
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
The Bridges of Sarajevo, various directors
**Maidan, **Sergei Loznitsa
Red Army, Polsky Gabe
Silvered Water, Mohammed Ossama and Wiam Bedirxan
Caricaturistes – Fantassins de la democratie, Stephanie Valloatto