Twenty films are competing for the Palme d'Or award at this year's Cannes film festival, which opens on Wednesday.
PARIS: Twenty films are competing for the Palme d'Or award at this year's Cannes film festival, which opens on Wednesday.
The contenders, their directors and countries
Volver by Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
Red Road by Andrea Arnold (Britain)
La Raison de Plus Faible (The Weakest Reason) by Lucas Belvaux (Belgium)
Indigenes (Natives) by Rachid Bouchareb (Algeria)
Cronica de una fuga (Chronicle of an Escape) by Israel Adrian Caetano, (Argentina)
Iklimler (The Climates) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)
Marie-Antoinette by Sofia Coppola (United States)
Juventud em Marcha (Youth Marching) by Pedro Costa (Portugal)
Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro (Mexico)
Babel by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Mexico)
Laitakaupungin Valot (The Lights on the Outskirts) by Aki Kaurismaki (Finland)
Southland Tales by Richard Kelly (US)
Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater (US)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach (Britain)
Summer Palace by Lou Ye (China)
Il Caimano (The Cayman) by Nanni Moretti (Italy)
L'Amico di Famiglia (The Family Friend) by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
Flandres by Bruno Dumont (France)
Selon Charlie (According to Charlie) by Nicole Garcia (France)
Quand J'Etais Chanteur (When I Was a Singer) by Xavier Giannoli (France)
Out of competition
The Da Vinci Code, by Ron Howard (US)
X-Men 3: The Last Stand by Brett Ratner (US)
United 93, by Paul Greengrass (US) -- a film recounting what was believed to have happened on a plane hijacked during the September 11, 2001 attacks that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, by Douglas Gordon, Philippe Parreno, (France) -- a documentary about the star French soccer player Zinedine Zidane.
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