2011 Cannes Film Festival Lineup Announced

This morning the Cannes Film Festival announced the line-up for the 64th edition of the fest, which will run from May 11-22. Before getting to the films, managing director of the festival, Thierry FrÃ©maux, announced that 1715 films were submitted for consideration, representing 33 countries. Of those films 19 were included in competition, and of those 19, four were directed by female directors, a record for the fest.

As for the films included in the festival, the competition looks fierce. Just a few names you might recognize among the competition crowd include Terrence Malick, Pedro Almodovar, Takashi Miike, Nicolas Winding Refn, Lars Von Trier and Lynne Ramsay. Beyond that many of the names are new to me, but that’s the number one reason I go to Cannes, the international flavor of this festival surpasses any of the major fests you’ll find in North America.

The Out of Competition selections for the time being are a little dry as we already knew Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides would be at the fest and the other recognizable inclusion is Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, which I have already seen and will in fact be interviewing Foster next week… I guess this means we’ll have one more thing to talk about.

The Un Certain Regard selection is also filled with names primarily unknown to me though I do recognize the inclusion of the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene from Sean Durkin.

So who does this mean may be in attendance as far as stars go? Try Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kirsten Dunst, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, Alexander Skarsgard, Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd, Udo Kier, John Hurt, Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen, Tom Hiddleston, Kurt Fuller, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Adrien Brody, Alison Pill, LÃ©a Seydoux, CÃ©cile de France, JÃ©rÃ©mie Renier, Mia Wasikowska and … maybe… Mel Gibson on the Croistette? Kung Fu Panda 2 is also set to junket during the festival, which means that while it won’t be playing in the fest, Angelina Jolie is likely to be in town on the arm of Mr. Pitt.

For now, I am tired and need to get some sleep. It is 3 AM and I will look over the list in the morning as I begin searching for the hidden gems I wasn’t previously aware of. Share your input on the list so far and I look forward to discussing it further once I am refreshed.

FEATURE FILM JURY

Robert De Niro, President â€“ Actor, Director / USA
Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina)
Nansun Shi (producer, China)
Uma Thurman (actress, script writer, producer, USA)
Linn Ullmann (critic and writer, Norway)
Olivier Assayas (director, France)
Jude Law (actor, UK)
Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Tchad)
Johnnie To (director, producer, China/Hong-Kong)

THE SHORT FILM AND CINEFONDATION JURY

Michel Gondry, President â€“ Director / France

UN CERTAIN REGARD JURY

Emir Kusturica, President â€“ Director / Serbia
Elodie Bouchez, actress (France)
Peter Bradshaw, critic The Guardian (United Kingdom)
Geoffrey Gilmore, Chief Creative Office Tribeca Enterprises (USA)
Daniela Michel, Director of the Morelia Festival (Mexico)

THE CAMERA Dâ€™OR JURY

Bong Joon-Ho, President â€“ Director / Korea
DaniÃ¨le Heymann, critic (France)
Eva Vezer, Head of Magyar Filmunio (Hungary)
Robert Alazraki, Cinematographer – AFC
Daniel Colland, manager Cinedia laboratory (FICAM)
Jacques Maillot, director (SRF)
Alex Masson, critic (Syndicat FranÃ§ais de la Critique de CinÃ©ma)

OPENING FILM

Midnight in Paris (Out of Competition)

CLOSING FILM

Les Bien-aimÃ©s (The Beloved) (dir. Christophe Honore)

IN COMPETITION

The Skin I Live In (dir. Pedro Almodovar)
House of Tolerance (L’Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close) (dir. Bertrand Bonello)
Footnote (Hearat Shulayim) (dir. Joseph Cedar)
Pater (dir. Alain Cavalier)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da) (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Kid with a Bike (Le gamin au vÃ©lo) (dir. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Le Havre (dir. Aki KaurismÃ¤ki)
Hanezu no Tsuki (dir. Naomi Kawase)
Sleeping Beauty (dir. Julia Leigh)
Polisse (dir. MaÃ¯wenn)
Michael (dir. Markus Schleinzer)
This Must be the Place (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
The Tree of Life (dir. Terrence Malick)
The Source (La source des femmes) (dir. Radu Mihaileanu)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei) (dir. Takashi Miike)
We Have a Pope (Habemus Papam) (dir. Nanni Moretti)
We Need to Talk about Kevin (dir. Lynne Ramsay)
Melancholia (dir. Lars Von Trier)
Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
The Artist (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Restless (dir. Gus Van Sant)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (dir. Sean Durkin)
The Hunter (dir. Bakur Bakuradze)
Halt auf freier Strecke (dir. Andreas Dresen)
Hors Satan (dir. Bruno Dumont)
Les neiges du Kilimandjaro (dir. Robert GuÃ©diguian)
Skoonheid (dir. Oliver Hermanus)
The Day He Arrives (dir. Hong Sangsoo)
Bonsai (dir. CristiÃ¡n JimÃ©nez)
Tatsumi (dir. Eric Khoo)
Arirang (dir. Kim Ki-duk)
Et maintenant on va oÃ¹? (dir. Nadine Labaki)
Loverboy (dir. Catalin Mitulescu)
Yellow Sea (dir. Na Hong-jin)
Miss Bala (dir. Gerardo Naranjo)
Hard Labor (Trabalhar cansa) (dir. Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra)
The Minister (Lâ€™exercice de lâ€™Etat) (dir. Pierre Schoeller)
Toomelah (dir. Ivan Sen)
Oslo, August 31st (dir. Joachim Trier)
Elena (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)

OUT OF COMPETITION

The Beaver (dir. Jodie Foster)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (dir. Rob Marshall)
The Conquest (dir. Xavier Durringer)
Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (dir. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Jeff Zimbalist)

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

Days of Grace (dir. Everardo Gout)
Wu Xia (dir. Chan Peter Ho-Sun)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Labrador (dir. Frederikke AspÃ¶ck)
Le Maitre des Forges de L’enfer (dir. Rithy Panh)
Michel Petrucciani (dir. Michael Radford)
Tous au Larzac (dir. Christian Rouaud)

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT

AprÃ¨s le sud (dir. Jean-Jacques Jauffret) – France
Atmen (Breathing) (dir. Karl Markovics) – Austria
Blue Bird (dir. Gust Van den Berghe) – Belgium
Busong (Palawan Destin) (dir. Auraeus Solito) – Philippines
Chatrak (dir. Vimukthi Jayasundara) – France, India
Code Blue (dir. Urszula Antoniak) – Netherlands, Denmark
Corpo celeste (dir. Alice Rohrwacher) – Italy, Swiss, France
Eldfjall (dir. RÃºnar RÃºnarsson) – Denmark, Iceland
Jeanne captive (dir. Philippe Ramos) – France
La Fin du silence (dir. Roland Edzard) – France
Play (dir. Ruben Ã–stlund) – Sweden, France, Denmark
Porfirio (dir. Alejandro Landes) – Colombia, Spain, Uruguay, Argentina, France
Return (dir. Liza Johnson) – U.S.A.
Sur la planche (dir. LeÃ¯la Kilani) – Morocco, France, Germany
The Island (dir. Kamen Kalev) – Bulgaria, Sweden
The Other Side Of Sleep (dir. Rebecca Daly) – Netherlands, Hungary, Irland

SHORT FILMS

Boro In The Box (dir. Bertrand Mandico) – France
Cigarette at Night (dir. Duane Hopkins) – United Kingdom
Csicska (dir. Attila Till) – Hungary
Demain, Ã§a sera bien (dir. Pauline Gay) – France
Fourplay: Tampa (dir. Kyle Henry) – U.S.A.
Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys (dir. Jens Assur) – Sweden, Thailand
La Conduite de la Raison (dir. Aliocha) – France
Las Palmas (dir. Johannes Nyholm) – Sweden
Le Songe de Poliphile (dir. Camille Henrot) – France
Mila Caos (dir. Simon Paetau) – Germany, Cuba
Nuvem (dir. Basil da Cunha) – Swiss, Portugal
Vice Versa One (dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat) – Afghanistan