Cannes Film Festival Announces 2012 Lineup

The prestigious Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 16 to 26 on the French Riviera, announced its complete lineup at a press conference early Thursday. Joining Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, previously announced as the Opening Night Film, are the following hotly anticipated films spanning 26 different countries:

 In Competition:

• Amour (Michael Haneke)
• The Angels’ Share (Ken Loach)
• Baad El Mawekeaa (Apres la Bataille) (Yousry Nasrallah)
• Beyond the Hills (Cristian Mungiu)
• Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
• Holy Motors (Leos Carax)
• In Another Country (Sangsoo Hong)
• In the Fog (Sergei Loznitsa)
• Jagten (The Hunt) (Thomas Vinterberg)
• Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik)
• Lawless (John Hillcoat)
• Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
• 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 & Bone (Jacques Audiard)
• Taste of Money (Sangsoo Im)
• Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Alain Resnais)

Un Certain Regard:

• 7 Dias en la Habana  (B. Del Toro, P. Trapero, J. Medem, E. Suleiman, J.C. Tabio, G. Noe, and L. Cantet)
• 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate (Koji Wakamatsu)
• Antiviral (Brandon Cronenberg)
• Beats of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
• Les Chevaux de Dieu (Nabil Ayouch)
• Confession of a Child of the Century (Sylvie Verheyde)
• Despues de Lucia (Michael Franco)
• Elefante Blanco (Pablo Trapero)
• Le Grand Soir (Benoit Delepine & Gustave Kervern)
• Laurence Anyways (Xavier Dolan)
• Miss Lovely (Ashim Ahluwalia)
• Mystery (Lou Ye)
• La Pirogue (Moussa Toure)
• La Playa (Juan Andrés Arango)
• Trois Mondes (Catherine Corsini)
• Student (Darezhan Omirbayev)

Special Screenings:

• The Central Park Five (Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, & David McMahon)
• Garbage in the Garden of Eden (Faith Akin)
• Les Invisibles (Sébastien Lifshitz)
• Journal de France (Claudine Nougaret)
• Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• A Musica Segundo Tom Jobin (Nelson Pereira Dos Santos)
• Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (Laurent Bozereau)
• Villegas (Gonzalo Tobal)

Out of Competition Screenings

• Ai To Makoto (Takashi Miike)
• Dracula (Dario Argento)
• Hemingway & Gellhorn (Philip Kaufman)
• Io E Te (Bernardo Bertolucci)
• Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath)
• Therese Desqueyroux (Claude Miller)