The 2012 Cannes Film Festival kicks off in less than a month’s time, and the full line-up has been revealed!
We already knew that Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom would open the festival , but there’s plenty more besides that one to be excited about.
David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis is one of the highest profile titles on the schedule, and, frankly, we never thought we'd be so excited about a film starring Robert Pattinson. The trailer has hinted at shades of some of Cronenberg's greatest works, including Crash and Videodrome , so this is one that we'll start queuing early for.
There are also new ones from Bernardo Bertolucci and Takeshi Miike, whilst Cronenberg's son Brandon will also be at the festival with his debut film, Antiviral . Meanwhile, Apichatpong Weerasethakul returns with Mekong Hotel , having seen ghost tragedy Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives scoop the top prize in 2010.
Here’s the full line-up:
In Competition
Amour , Michael Haneke
The Angels' Share , Ken Loach
Baad el mawkeaa , Yousry Nasrallah
Beyond The Hills , Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis , David Cronenberg
Holy Motors , Leos Carax
The Hunt , Thomas Vinterberg
Killing Them Softly , Andrew Dominik
In Another Country , Hong Sang-soo
In the Fog , Sergei Loznitsa
Lawless , John Hillcoat
Like Someone in Love , Abbas Kiarostami
Moonrise Kingdom , Wes Anderson (opening night film)
Mud , Jeff Nichols
On the Road , Walter Salles
The Paperboy , Lee Daniels
Paradies: Liebe , Ulrich Seidl
Post Tenebras Lux , Carlos Reygadas
Reality , Matteo Garrone
Rust And Bone , Jacques Audiard
Taste Of Money , Im Sang-soo
You Haven't Seen Anything Yet , Alain Resnais
Closing Night Film
Therese Desqueyroux , Claude Miller
Out of Competition
Hemingway & Gellhorn , Philip Kaufman
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted , Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Me And You , Bernardo Bertolucci
Un Certain Regard
7 Days in Havana , Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noe, Laurent Cantet
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate , Koji Wakamatsu
Antiviral , Brandon Cronenberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild , Benh Zeitlin
Confession Of A Child Of The Century , Sylvie Verheyde
Despues De Lucia , Michel Franco
La Pirogue , Moussa Toure
La Playa , Juan Andres Arango
Laurence Anyways , Xavier Dolan
Le Grand Soir , Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Les Chevaux De Dieu , Nabil Ayouch
Loving Without Reason , Joachim Lafosse
Miss Lovely , Ashim Ahluwalia
Mystery , Lou Ye
Student , Darezhan Omirbayev
Trois Mondes , Catherine Corsini
White Elephant , Pablo Trapero
Midnight Screenings
Dracula 3D , Dario Argento
The Legend Of Love & Sincerity , Takashi Miike
Special Screenings
A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim , Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
The Central Park Five , Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Der Mull Im Garten Eden , Fatih Akin
Journal De France , Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
Les Invisibles , Sebastien Lifshitz
Mekong Hotel , Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir , Laurent Bouzereau
Villegas , Gonzalo Tobal
This year, Italian director Nanni Moretti ( The Son’s Room ) will head up the Jury for the main competition, while Tim Roth is presiding over the Un Certain Regard Jury.
The 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival runs from 16 May to 27 May 2012.
