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Cannes 2015 Films Include Jacques Audiard, Natalie Portman & Pixar

by Alex Billington
April 16, 2015
Source: Cannes

Every year, as we head into spring, the Cannes Film Festival unveils it's lineup as cinephiles around the world wait anxiously to find out what films will be premiering at the prestigious festival. The 2015 line-up has been unveiled, with a rather interesting selection of films ranging from Mad Max: Fury Road to Pixar's Inside Out to Natalie Portman's first film A Tale of Love and Darkness to Justin Kurzel's Macbeth with Michael Fassbender, to filmmakers like Jacques Audiard (Rust & Bone, A Prophet), Garrone, Kore-Eda, Moretti, Sorrentino, Villeneuve, Gus Van Sant and Woody Allen. This is the day many diehard cinephiles have been waiting for, to find out what's showing up this year, so take a look at the selection in full below.

Here's the complete selection of 2015 films directly from Cannes, including the director for easy reference.

COMPETITION (19 FILMS):
Dheepan (working title) - dir. Jacques Audiard
A Simple Man - dir. Stephane Brize
Marguerite and Julien - dir. Valerie Donzelli
The Tale of Tales - dir. Matteo Garrone
Carol - dir. Todd Haynes
The Assassin (Nie yin niang) - dir. Hou Hsiao Hsien
Mountains May Depart - dir. Jia Zhang-Ke
Our Little Sister - dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Macbeth - dir. Justin Kurzel
The Lobster - dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
Mon Roi - dir. Maiwenn
Mia Madre - dir. Nanni Moretti
Son of Saul - dir. Laszlo Nemes
Youth - dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Louder Than Bombs - dir. Joachim Trier
The Sea of Trees - dir. Gus Van Sant
Sicario - dir. Denis Villeneuve
Cronic - dir. Michel Franco
The Valley of Love - dir. Guillaume Nicloux

OPENING NIGHT FILM:
La Tête Haute (Heads Up) - dir. Emmanuelle Bercot

OUT OF COMPETITION (4 FILMS):
Mad Max: Fury Road - dir. George Miller
Irrational Man - dir. Woody Allen
Inside Out - dir. Pete Docter & Ronaldo del Carmen
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) - dir. Mark Osborne

UN CERTAIN REGARD (19 FILMS):
Madonna - dir. Shin Suwon
Maryland - dir. Alice 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
Alias Maria - dir. José Luis Rugeles Gracia
Taklub - dir. Brillante Mendoza
Lamb - dir. Yared Zeleke
Cemetery of Splendour - dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
AN - dir. Naomi Kawase (Opening)

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS (3 FILMS):
O Piseu (Office) - dir. Hong Won-Chan
Amy - dir. Asif Kapadia
Love - dir. Gaspar Noé

SPECIAL SCREENINGS (8 FILMS):
Oka - dir. Souleymane Cisse
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Sipur Al Ahava Ve Choshech) - dir. Natalie Portman
Don’t Tell Me the Boy Was Mad (Une histoire de fou) - dir. Robert Guédiguian
Hayored Lema'ala - dir. Elad Keidan
Amnesia - dir. Barbet Schroeder
Panama - dir. Pavel Vuckovic
Asphalte - dir. Samuel Benchetrit
L'esprit de l'escalier - dir. Pabla Lucavic

The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13th to May 24th. For more on these films, visit their website.

That's the main line-up for Cannes 2015, with some great picks as always. I think it's pretty damn cool that Cannes is switching things up and going bold with selections like Mad Max and Pixar's Inside Out in the mix between the heavyweights in the competition category. As always, this is just an early look at what will be playing at the festival and the kind of films we may (or may not) be hearing about over the next year. See the official poster with Ingrid Bergman for Cannes 2015 here. Find more info about the festival and this year's selection on the official Cannes website, and stay tuned for more news from France coming up this May.

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