In de hoofdcompetitie zijn 22 films opgenomen, van gerenommeerde makers als Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, David Cronenberg, Thomas Vinterberg, Abbas Kiarostami en Jacques Audiard.
Openingsfilm Moonrise Kingdom van Wes Anderson dingt eveneens mee naar de Gouden Palm. De nieuwe films van de Amerikaanse Cannes- lievelingen Paul Thomas Anderson en Terrence Malick waren niet op tijd af, maakte festivalbaas Thierry Frémaux bekend.
Buiten de officiële competities draait ook voldoende boeiends, met nieuw werk van onder meer Philip Kaufman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Fatih Akin, Takashi Miike en Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Hieronder de complete line-up.
Hoofdcompetitie
Amour, Michael Haneke
The Angels'
Share, Ken Loach
Baad el mawkeaa, Yousry Nasrallah
Beyond the Hills, Cristian Mungiu
Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg
Holy Motors, Leos Carax
The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
Killing Them Softly, Andrew Dominik
In Another Country, Hong Sang-soo
In the Fog, Sergei Loznitsa
Lawless, John Hillcoat
Like Someone in Love, Abbas Kiarostami
Mud, Jeff Nichols
On the Road, Walter Salles
The Paperboy, Lee Daniels
Paradies: Liebe, Ulrich Seidl
Post tenebras lux Carlos Reygadas
Reality, Matteo Garrone
Rust and Bone , Jacques Audiard
Taste of Money, Im Sang-soo
You Haven't Seen Anything Yet, Alain Resnais
Un Certain Regard
7 Days in Havana, Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noe, Laurent Cantet
11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, Koji Wakamatsu
Antiviral, Brandon Cronenberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Benh Zeitlin
Confession of a Child of the Century, Sylvie Verheyde
Despues de Lucia, Michel Franco
La Pirogue, Moussa Toure
La Playa, Juan Andres Arango
Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan
Le grand soir, Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
Les Chevaux de Dieu, Nabil Ayouch
Loving Without Reason, Joachim Lafosse
Miss Lovely, Ashim Ahluwalia
Mystery, Lou Ye
Student, Darezhan Omirbayev
Trois mondes, Catherine Corsini
White Elephant, Pablo Trapero
Buiten competitie en speciale
screenings
Hemingway & Gellhorn, Philip Kaufman
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Me and You, Bernardo Bertolucci
The Legend of Love & Sincerity, Japan , Takashi Miike
A musica segundo Tom Jobim, Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
The Central Park Five, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Der Mull im Garten Eden, Fatih Akin
Journal de France, Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
Les Invisibles, Sebastien Lifshitz
Mekong Hotel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, Laurent Bouzereau
Villegas, Gonzalo Tobal