Jodie Foster's financial thriller Money Monster, Steven Spielberg's live-action fantasy The BFG and The Nice Guys starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe lead the impressive slate of film's premiering at Cannes Film Festival next month.
The 69th edition of the annual festival announced its main slate this morning – and what a year in film it's going to be.
We already knew that Woody Allen's Café Society, with Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg, would open the festival, but a whole rafter of great films from acclaimed Hollywood directors and indie breakout stars make up the billing.
Sean Penn's The Last Face, Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, and Paterson directed by Jim Jarmusch are all competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or prize, last year won by Jacques Audiard for Dheepan.
Captain Fantastic, starring Viggo Mortensen, is also set to screen, as is Jeff Nichols'-directed Loving.
Loving sees Michael Shannon and his Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols pair up again in a drama about an interracial couple - Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton - sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married.
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Gimme Danger is the Jim Jarmusch doc on Iggy & the Stooges, while American Honey features Shia Le Bouf and newbie Sasha Lane.
It is directed by Andrea Arnold, who won an Oscar in 2005 for her short fim, Wasp, and a BAFTA in 2010 for Fish Tank, starring Michael Fassbender.
Some blurb about this one:
"A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits."
Cannes Film Festival runs from May 11-22 . Check out the full line-up below:
Competition
Toni Erdman, directed by Maren Ade
Julieta, directed by Pedro Almodovar
Personal Shopper, directed by Olivier Assayas
American Honey, directed by Andrea Arnold
The Unknown Girl, directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
It's Only the End of the World, directed by Xavier Dolan
Slack Bay, directed by Bruno Dumont
Paterson, directed by Jim Jarmusch
Rester Vertical, directed by Alain Guiraudie
Aquarius, directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho
From the Land of the Moon, directed by Nicole Garcia
I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach
Ma'Rosa, directed by Brillante Mendoza
Bacalaureat, directed by Cristian Mungiu
Loving, directed by Jeff Nichols
Agassi, directed by Park Chan-Wook
The Last Face, directed by Sean Penn
Sieranevada, directed by Cristi Puiu
Elle, directed by Paul Verhoeven
The Neon Demon, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
Un Certain Regard
Varoonegi, directed by Behnam Behzadi
Apprentice, directed by Boo Junking
Voir du Pays, directed by Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin
La Danseuse, directed by Stephanie di Giusto
Clash, directed by Mohamed Diab
La Tortue Rouge, directed by Michael Dubok de Wit
Fuchi Bi Tatsu, directed by Fukada Koji
Omar Shakhsiya, directed by Maha Haj
Me'Ever Laharim Vehagvaot, directed by Eran Kolirin
After The Storm, directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu Hymyileva Mies, directed by Juho Kuosmanen
La Large Noche de Francisco Sanctis, directed by Francisco Marquez and Andrea Testa
Caini, directed by Bogdan Mirica
Pericle Il Nero, directed by Stefano Mordini
Captain Fantastic, directed by Matt Ross
The Transfiguration, directed by Michael O'Shea
Uchenik, directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Out of Competition
The BFG, directed by Steven Spielberg
Goksung, directed by Na Hong-Jin
Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster
The Nice Guys, directed by Shane Black
Special Screenings L'ultima Spiaggia, directed by Thanos Anastopoulous and Davide del Degan, A Chad Tragedy, directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, The Death of Louis XIV, directed by Albert Serra, Le Cancre, directed by Paul Vecchiali
Midnight Screenings
Gimme Danger, directed by Jim Jarmusch
The Train to Busan, directed by Yeon Sang-Ho
