Cannes Film Festival 2011 Official Selection

Posted April 14, 2011 by Max in Featured

Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director Thierry Frémaux announced the official selection of the 64th Cannes Film Festival at the Grand Hôtel in Paris today.

The list includes Pedro Almodóvar, the Dardenne brothers, Lars Von Trier, Nanni Moretti, Radu Mihaileanu and Aki Kaurismäki. Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life will certainly be the main event. Tree of Life stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn and Cannes will home to it’s worldwide premier.

The highlights that I would check out would be Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, Julie Leigh’s Sleeeping Beauty, and of course Tree of Life.

The full list of films appearing below:

Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen (opening)

La piel que habito (The Skin I Live In) – Pedro Almodóvar

L’Apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close (House of Tolerance) – Bertrand Bonello

Hearat Shulayim (Footnote) by Joseph Cedar

Pater by Alain Cavalier

Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) – Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Le Gamin au Vélo (Boy With a Bike) – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Le Havre – Aki Kaurismäki

Hanezu no Tsuki – Naomi Kawase

Sleeping Beauty – Julia Leigh

Polisse – Maïwenn

The Tree of Life – Terrence Malick

La Source des femmes (The Source) – Radu Mihaileanu

Ishimei (Hara-Kiri : Death of a Samurai) – Takashi Miike

Habemus Papam – Nanni Moretti

We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lynne Ramsay

Michael – Markus Schleinzer

This Must Be the Place – Paolo Sorrentino

Melancholia – Lars Von Trier

Drive – Nicolas Winding Refn

UN CERTAIN REGARD selection

Restless – Gus Van Sant (opening)

The Hunter – Bakur Bakuradze

Halt Auf Freier Strecke – Andreas Dresen

Hors Satan – Bruno Dumont

Martha Marcy May Merlene – Sean Durkin

Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro – Robert Guédiguian

Skoonheid – Oliver Hermanus

The Day He Arrives – Hong Sangsoo

Bonsai – Cristián Jimenez

Tatsumi – Eric Khoo

Arirang – Kim Ki-duk

Et Maintenant On Va Où? – Nadine Labaki

Loverboy – Catalin Mitulescu

Yellow Sea – Na Hong-jin

Miss Bala – Gerardo Naranjo

Trabalhar Cansa (Hard Labor) – Julina Rojas and Marco Dutra

L’Exercice de L’Etat (The Minister) – Pierre Schoeller

Toomelah Oslo, August 31st – Joachim Trier

Out-of-competition premiers include Pirates of the Caribbean: Stranger Tides,The Prodigies,Kung Fu Panda: The Kaboom of Doom and Jodie Foster’s The Beaver. It should be interesting to see how The Beaver does at Cannes after mostly positive reviews at SXSW.

Woody Allen’s new film Midnight in Paris will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 11.

Source: Collider