Ken Loach among familiar faces returning to Cannes

The veteran British director, two-time Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach, is returning to the Cannes Film Festival next month with his fifteenth film in the official competition, The Old Oak, about Syrian refugees in a town in the northeast of England.

He’ll be joined by other former winners, Italy’s Nanni Moretti, Nuri Bilge Ceylan from Turkey and Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda alongside other directors who’ve been in the official competition before, including Jessica Hausner, Alice Rohrwacher, Catherine Breillat, Marco Bellocchio, Wes Anderson, Todd Haynes, Germany’s Wim Wenders, who’s up for a Palme d’Or for the tenth time and Finland’s Aki Kaurismaki, whose Fallen Leaves is his fifth film in contention for the top prize.

First timers on the Croisette will be few and far between, but the British director of Under the Skin and Sexy Beast director Jonathon Glazer, will make his Cannes debut with The Zone of Interest.

Johnny Depp stars in the opening film, Jeanne Du Barry

The 12 day festival will open – on 16th May – with Johnny Depp’s return to the big screen from the courtroom in French director Maïwenn’s historical drama Jeanne Du Barry, which is screening out of competition – as are a number of other high profile films, such as Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and James Mangold’s fifth film in the Indiana Jones franchise, The Dial of Destiny.

The BFI-backed How To Have Sex, by first-time film-maker Molly Manning Walker, is among the selection for the sidebar Un Certain Regard competition, which promotes newer talent and more arthouse films.

A Special Screening strand will include a second film from Wim Wenders and Steve McQueen’s Occupied City, a documentary about Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during the 1940s.

The festival often adds a handful of titles between the official launch of the programme and opening night, but for now, here is the full list of the Official Selection:

OPENING FILM

JEANNE DU BARRY – Maïwenn

COMPETITION

CLUB ZERO – Jessica Hausner
THE ZONE OF INTEREST – Jonathan Glazer
FALLEN LEAVES – Aki Kaurismaki
LES FILLES D’OLFA (FOUR DAUGHTERS) – Kaouther Ben Hania
ASTEROID CITY – Wes Anderson
ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE – Justine Triet
MONSTER – Kore-eda Hirokazu
IL SOL DELL’AVVENIRE – Nanni Moretti
L’ÉTÉ DERNIER – Catherine Breillat
KURU OTLAR USTUNE (ABOUT DRY GRASSES) – Nuri Bilge Ceylan
LA CHIMERA – Alice Rohrwacher
LA PASSION DE DODIN BOUFFANT – Tran Anh Hung
RAPITO – Marco Bellocchio
MAY DECEMBER – Todd Haynes
JEUNESSE – Wang Bing
THE OLD OAK – Ken Loach
BANEL ET ADAMA – Ramata-Toulaye Sy (1st film)
PERFECT DAYS – Wim Wenders
FIREBRAND – Karim Aïnouz

UN CERTAIN REGARD

LE RÈGNE ANIMAL – Thomas Cailley
LOS DELINCUENTES (THE DELINQUENTS) – Rodrigo Moreno
HOW TO HAVE SEX – Molly Manning Walker (1st film)
GOODBYE JULIA – Mohamed Kordofani (1st film)
KADIB ABYAD (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES) – Asmae El Moudir
SIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN – Monia Chokri
CROWRÃ (THE BURITI FLOWER) – João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
LOS COLONOS (THE SETTLERS) – Felipe Gálvez (1st film)
OMEN – Baloji Tshiani (1st film)
THE BREAKING ICE – Anthony Chen
ROSALIE – Stéphanie Di Giusto
THE NEW BOY – Warwick Thornton
IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE – Zoljargal Purevdash (1st film)
HOPELESS – Kim Chang-hoon (1st film)
TERRESTRIAL VERSES – Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami
RIEN À PERDRE – Delphine Deloget (1st film)
LES MEUTES – Kamal Lazraq (1st film)

OUT OF COMPETITION

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY – James Mangold
COBWEB – Kim Jee-woon
THE IDOL – Sam Levinson
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Martin Scorsese

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

KENNEDY – Anurag Kashyap
OMAR LA FRAISE – Elias Belkeddar
ACIDE – Just Philippot

CANNES PREMIERE

KUBI – Takeshi Kitano
BONNARD, PIERRE ET MARTHE – Martin Provost
CERRAR LOS OJOS (FERMER LES YEUX) – Victor Erice
LE TEMPS D’AIMER – Katell Quillévéré

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

MAN IN BLACK – Wang Bing
OCCUPIED CITY – Steve McQueen
ANSELM (DAS RAUSCHEN DER ZEIT) – Wim Wenders
RETRATOS FANTASMAS (PICTURES OF GHOSTS) – Kleber Mendonça Filho