Cannes Film Festival
CANNES 2012 Line-Up
The full line-up for the 2012 Cannes Film Festival which will run from May 16 – 25th has been announced.
Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom will open the festival and Therese Desqueyroux, the last film from director Claude Miller, starring Audrey Tautou, will close it.
As we expected, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis confirmed earlier this morning, Walter Salles’ On The Road starring Garett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Jacques Audiard’s latest drama, Rust & Bone starring Marion Cotillard, Michael Haneke’s Amour and Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love will premiere in Cannes. They all will compete for Palme D’Or.
John Hillcoat’s Lawless starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain and many others, Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy with Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron and Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, previously known as Cogan’s Trade, starring Brad Pitt are in the same Cannes’ In Competition category.
When it comes to the Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard selections, Philip Kaufman’s Hemingway & Gellhorn, Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways and 7 Days In Havana will have that honor to be presented at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
Now, check out the full line-up.
In Competition
Moonrise Kingdom (dir. Wes Anderson) Opening Film
Amour (dir. Michael Haneke)
The Angel’s Share (dir. Ken Loach)
Baad EL Mawkeaa (After the Battle) (dir. Yousry Nasrallah)
Beyond The Hills (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Cosmopolis (dir. David Cronenberg)
Holy Motors (dir. Leos Carax)
The Hunt (Jagten) (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)
In Another Country (dir. Hong Sang-Soo)
V tumane (In the Fog) (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)
Killing Them Softly (dir. Andrew Dominik)
Lawless (dir. John Hillcoat)
Like Someone In Love (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
Mud (dir. Jeff Nichols)
On the Road (dir. Walter Salles)
Paradies: Liebe (dir. Ulrich Seidl)
The Paperboy (dir. Lee Daniels)
Post Tenebras Lux (dir. Carlos Reygadas)
Reality (dir. Matteo Garrone)
Rust & Bone (dir. Jacques Audiard)
The Taste of Money /Do-nui mat (dir. Im Sang-Soo)
Vous N’Avez Encoure Rien Vu (dir. Alain Resnais)
Un Certain Regard
Miss Lovely (dir. Ashim Ahluwalia)
La Playa (dir. Juan Andres Arango)
Les Chevaus De Dieu (dir. Nabil Ayouch)
Trois Mondes (dir. Catheron Corsini)
Antiviral (dir. Brandon Cronenberg)
7 Days In Havana (dir. Benicio Del Toro, Laurent Cantet, Gaspar Noe etc)
Le Grand Soir (dir. Benoit Delepine & Gustave Kervern)
Laurence Anyways (dir. Xavier Dolan)
Despues De Lucia (dir. Michel Franco)
A Perdre La Raison (dir. Joachim Lafosse)
Mystery (dir. Lou Ye)
Student (dir. Darezhan Omirbayev)
La Pirogue (dir. Moussa Toure)
Elefante Blanco (dir. Pablo Trapero)
Confession Of A Child Of The Century (dir. Sylvie Verheyde)
11.25: The Day He Chose His Own Fate (dir. Koji Wakamatsu)
Beasts Of The Southern Wild (dir. Benh Zeitlin)
Djeca (dir. Aida Begic) (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Gimme the Loot (dir. Adam Leon) (US)
Renoir (dir. Gilles Bourdos) (France) (closing film)
Out of Competition
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (dir. Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath)
Io E Te (dir. Bernardo Berolucci)
Hemingway & Gellhorn (Dir. Philip Kaufman)
Midnight Screenings
Dracula 3D (dir. Dario Argento)
Ai To Makoto (dir. Takashi Miike)
The Sapphires (dir. Wayne Blair) (Australia)
Maniac (dir. Franck Khalfoun) (US/France)
65th Anniversary
Une Journee Particuliere (dir. Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure)
Special Screening
Der Mull Im Garten Eden (dir. Faith Akin)
Mekong Hotel (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Villegas (dir. Gonzalo Tobal)
A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim (dir. Nelson Pereira Do Santos)
Journal De France (dir. Claudine Nougaret & Raymond Depardon)
Les Invisbles (dir. Sebastien Lifshitz)
The Central Park Five (dir. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon)
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (dir. Laurent Bouzereau)
Trashed (dir. Candida Brady) (UK)
Directors’ Fortnight
The We and the I (Michel Gondry)
No (Pablo Larrain)
Short
Wrong Cops (Quentin Dupieux)
Closing Film (Out of Competition)
Therese Desqueyroux (dir. Claude Miller) 
