Cannes Announces Line-Up for 65th Annual Festival

From director Wes Anderson comes this story of a young boy and girl who run off together, igniting a town-wide search. Starring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward.

The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival has announced its full slate, and it's loaded with films we've been dying to see, from a host of world-class directors. That said, we shouldn't expect anything less from the planet's premiere film festival, should we?

It's been known for some time that Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom," about a New England town looking for two missing kids, will kick off the festivities. This year will also feature screenings of "The Paperboy," a crime thriller from Lee Daniels starring Zac Efron, John Cusack, Matthew McConaughey and Nicole Kidman; "Lawless," starring Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy as Depression Era bootleggers; "Mud," from writer-director Jeff Nichols, about an escaped con (McConaughey) who enlists the help of two boys in an effort to get back to the woman he loves, played by Reese Witherspoon; and David Cronenberg's adaptation of Don DeLillo's "Cosmopolis," starring Robert Pattinson as a billionaire who spends a day in a limo in New York City. And that's just the films in competition.

This year's festival starts May 16 and runs through the 27th, find the complete line-up below, and click here for more information from Cannes' offical website..

COMPETITION:
Moonrise Kingdom, dir: Wes Anderson
Rust & Bone, dir: Jacques Audiard
Holly Motors, dir: Léos Carax
Cosmopolis, dir: David Cronenberg
The Paperboy, dir: Lee Daniels
Killing Them Softly, dir: Andrew Dominik
Reality, dir: Matteo Garrone
Amour, dir: Michael Haneke
Lawless, dir: John Hillcoat
In Another Country, dir: Hong Sangsoo
Taste Of Money, dir: Im Sangsoo
Like Someone In Love, dir: Abbas Kiarostami
The Angel’s Share, dir: Ken Loach
Im Nebel, dir: Sergei Loznitsa
Beyond The Hills, dir: Cristian Mungiu
Baad El Mawkeaa, dir: Yousry Nasrallah
Mud, dir: Jeff Nichols
You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, dir: Alain Resnais
Post Tenebras Lux, dir: Carlos Reygadas
On The Road, dir: Walter Salles
Paradis: Amour, dir: Ulrich Seidl
The Hunt, dir: Thomas Vinterberg
Thérèse Desqueyroux, dir: Claude Miller (closing film, out of competition)

UN CERTAIN REGARD:
Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia
La Playa, dir: Juan Andrés Arango
God’s Horses, dir: Nabil Ayouch
Trois Monde, dir: Catherine Corsini
Antiviral, dir: Brandon Cronenberg
7 Days In Havana, dirs: Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspard Noé, Laurent Cantet
Le Grand Soir, dirs: Benoit Delépine, Gustave Kervern
Laurence Anyways, dir: Xavier Dolan
Después De Lucia, dir: Michel Franco
Aimer A Perdre La Raison, dir: Joachim Lafosse
Student, dir: Darezhan Omirbayev
La Pirogue, dir: Moussa Toure
Elefante Blanco, dir: Pablo Trapero
Confessions Of A Chile Of The Century, dir: Sylvie Verheyde
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, dir: Koji Wakamatsu
Mystery, dir: Lou Ye
Beasts Of The Southern Wild, dir: Behn Zeitlin

OUT OF COMPETITION
Io E Te, dir: Bernardo Bertolucci
Madagascar 3, Europe’s Most Wanted, dirs: Eric Darnelle, Tom McGrath
Hemingway & Gelhorn, dir: Philip Kaufman

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Dario Argento’s Dracula, dir: Dario Argento
Ai To Makoto, dir: Takashi Miike

65th BIRTHDAY FILM
Une Journée Particulière, dirs: Gilles Jacob, Samuel Faure

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Polluting Paradise, dir: Fatih Akin
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, dir: Laurent Bouzereau
The Central Park Five, dirs: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Les Invisibles, Sébastien Lifshitz
Journal De France, dirs: Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim, dir: Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
Villegas, dir: Gonzalo Tobal
Mekong Hotel, dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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