Cannes Film Festival 2015 line-up announced

• Gary Green


• 16 Apr 2015

It’s that time of year again when Cannes rolls around, and gears begin to whirr as the world’s most prestigious film festival gets ready for another outing. The festival’s website reveals the line-up for its 2015 edition, and it sees some much-hyped movies in the form of the completely crazy (The Lobster), the operatically dramatic (Macbeth), the poetically beautiful (Youth), and the straight-forwardly awesome (Mad Max: Fury Road). Here’s the line-up in full:

 

Opening:

• La Tête Haute (Dir: Emmanuelle Bercot)

In Competition:

• Sicario (Dir: Denis Villeneuve)
• The Sea of Trees (Dir: Gus Van Sant)
• Louder than Bombs (Dir: Joachim Trier)
• Youth (Dir: Paolo Sorrentino)
• Saul Fia (Son of Saul) (Dir: László Nemes)
• Mia Madre (Dir: Nanni Moretti)
• Mon Roi (Dir: Maiwenn)
• The Lobster (Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos)
• Macbeth (Dir: Justin Kurzel)
• Umimachi Diary (Our Little Sister) (Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda Hirokazu)
• Shan He Gu Ren (Mountains May Depart) (Dir: Jia Zhang-Ke)
• Nie Yinniang (The Assassin) (Dir: Hou Hsiao Hsien)
• Carol (Dir: Todd Haynes)
• Il Racconto dei Racconti (The Tale of Tales) (Dir: Matteo Garrone)
• Marguerite et Julien (Marguerite and Julien) (Dir: Valérie Donzelli)
• La Loi du Marche (A Simple Man) (Dir: Stéphane Brize)
• Dheepan, (Dir: Jacques Audiard)

Un Certain Regard:

• Madonna (Dir: Shin Suwon)
• Maryland (Dir: Anna Winocour)
• The Fourth Direction (Dir: Gurvinder Singh)
• Masaan (Fly Away Solo) (Dir: Neeraj Ghaywan)
• Hruter (Rams) (Dir: Grimur Hakonarson)
• Kishibe No Tabi (Journey to the Shore) (Dir: Kurosawa Kiyoshi)
• Je Suis Un Soldat (I Am a Soldier) (Dir: Laurent Larivere)
• Zvizdan (The High Sun) (Dir: Dalibor Matanic)
• The Other Side (Dir: Roberto Minervini)
• One Floor Below (Dir: Radu Muntean)
• Shameless (Dir: Oh Seung-Uk)
• The Chosen Ones (Dir: David Pablos)
• Nahid (Dir: Ida Panahandeh)
• The Treasure (Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu)

Out of Competition:

• Mad Max: Fury Road (Dir: George Miller)
• Irrational Man (Dir: Woody Allen)
• Inside Out (Dir: Pete Docter and Ronaldo del Carmen)
• Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) (Dir: Mark Osborne)

 

The Cannes Film Festival takes place 13 to 24 May.