Last week, the official competition lineup for the 67th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 14 to May 25, was announced.

The grand opener of the event is Olivier Dahan’s Grace of Monaco with Nicole Kidman, and the list of competitors includes such well-known directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Xavier Dolan, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and Tommy Lee Jones among others.

We bring you the list of films that will be shown this year to keep an eye on for the future (except if you’re one of the lucky ones to be watching them straight on the sunny spot), because they will probably hit the local cinemas at umn…some point, and there are some highly anticipated highlights such as Ryan Gosling’s debut as a director – Lost River and Ned Benson’s Eleanor Rigby which consists of two parts Him and Her.

IN COMPETITION – 18 films competing for the Palme d’Or:

Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard)

Le Meraviglie (Alice Rohrwacher)

The Captive (Atom Egoyan)

Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)

Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)

The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones)

Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach)

Leviathan (Andrei Zvyaginstev)

Mommy (Xavier Dolan)

Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh)

Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello)

The Search (Michel Hazanavicius)

Still the Water (Naomi Kawase)

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)

Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron)

Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg)

OUT OF COMPETITION – films that don’t compete for the main prize:

Coming Home (Zhang Yimou)

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Dean DeBlois)

Les Gens du Monde (Yves Jeuland)

UN CERTAIN REGARD – original and different works seeking for international recognition:

Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis)

Amour fou (Jessica Hausner)

Bird People (Pascale Ferran)

The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric)

Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer)

Dohee-ya (July Jung)

Eleanor Rigby (Ned Benson)

Fantasia (Wang Chao)

Xenia (Panos Koutras)

Harcheck mi headro (Keren Yedaya)

Hermosa juventud (Jaime Rosales)

Incompresa (Asia Argento)

Jauja (Lisandro Alonso)

Lost River (Ryan Gosling)

Run (Philippe Lacote)

The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)

Snow in Paradise (Andrew Hulme)

Titli (Kanu Behl)

Tourist (Ruben Ostlund)

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

The Rover (David Michod)

The Salvation (Kristian Levring)

The Target (Yoon Hong-seung)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS – The selection committee chooses a special environment adapted to the identity of the films.

The Bridges of Sarajevo (various directors)

Eau argentee (Mohammed Ossama)

Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa)

Red Army (Gabe Polsky)

Caricaturistes – Fantassins de la democratie” (Stephanie Valloatto)

This news is based on the article first published on Indiewire.