Cannes Film Festival Unveils It’s 2015 Line Up

It’s seen as the premiere film festival, Cannes Film Festivals has unveiled it’s official line up for 68th edition a line that includes the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road. Todd Haynes Carol, and Gus Van Sant’s Sea Of Trees.

Emmanuelle Bercot’s comedy La Tête Haute will open the festival on 13th May.

The Coen Brothers will be heading the jury this year with Isabella Rossellini heading up the Un Certain Regard category. 2015 Cannes Film Festival will take place between 13th and 24th May.

Competition

Dheepan, d. Jacques Audiard
La Loi du marché (A Simple Man), d. Stéphane Brizé
Marguerite et Julien (Marguerite and Julien), d. Valérie Donzelli
Il racconto dei racconti (The Tale of Tales), d. Matteo Garrone
Carol, d. Todd Haynes
The Assassin (Nie Yinniang), d. Hou Hsiao Hsien
Mountains May Depart (Shan He Gu Ren), d. Jia Zhang-ke
Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary), d. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Macbeth, d. Justin Kurzel
The Lobster, d. Yorgos Lanthimos
Mon roi, d. Maïwenn
Mia madre, d. Nanni Moretti
Son of Saul (Saul Fia), d. László Nemes
Youth, d. Paolo Sorrentino
Louder than Bombs, d. Joachim Trier
Sea of Trees, d. Gus Van Sant
Sicario, d. Denis Villeneuve

More competition titles will be added at a later date, to make total up to a maximum of 20. The jury chairs are Cannes favourites The Coen Brothers who won the Palme D’or for Barton Fink along with best director 3 times and mostly recently The Grand Jury prize for Inside Llewyn Davis .

Out of competition

Opening film: Standing Tall (La Tête haute), d. Emmanuelle Bercot

Mad Max: Fury Road, d. George Miller
Irrational Man, d. Woody Allen
Inside Out, d. Peter Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), d. Mark Osborne

Un certain regard

Masaan (Fly Away Solo), d. Neeraj Ghaywan
Hrútar (Rams), d. Grímur Hákonarson
Kishibe No Tabi (Journey to the Shore), d. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Je suis un soldat (I Am a Soldier), d. Laurent Larivière
Zvizdan (The High Sun), d. Dalibor Matanic
The Other Side, d. Roberto Minervini
Un etaj mai jos (One Floor Below), d. Radu Muntean
Mu-roe-han (The Shameless), d. Oh Seung-uk
Las elegidas (The Chosen Ones), d. David Pablos
Nahid, d. Ida Panahandeh
Comoara (The Treasure), d. Corneliu Porumboiu
Chauthi Koot (The Fourth Direction), d. Gurvinder Singh
Madonna, d. Shin Suwon
Maryland, d. Alice Winocour

Midnight Screenings

Amy, d. Asif Kapadia
Office (O Piseu), d. Hong Won-Chan

Special screenings

Oka, d. Souleymane Cissé
Hayored Lema’ala, d. Elad Keidan
Sipur Al Ahava ve Choshech (A Tale of Love and Darkness), d. Natalie Portman
Amnesia, d. Barbet Schroeder
Panama, d. Pavle Vuckovic
Asphalte, d. Samuel Benchetrit