Anderson, Loach and Wenders in Cannes line-up

Jeanne du Barry (Maïwenn) and Johnny Depp (Louis XV) in Jeanne du Barry, which opened Cannes Photo: © Stéphanie Branchu / Why Not Productions/Courtesy Cannes Film Festival

With only five weeks to go before the action moves to the South of France, the organisers of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival revealed today in the UGC Normandie cinema on the Champs-Elysées in Paris the full line-up with, as is traditional, a few latecomers still to be announced.

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux with Iris Knobloch, the newly appointed President of the Festival Photo: Richard Mowe

Thierry Frémaux, the Festival’s director, (on stage next to Iris Knobloch, the newly appointed President) promised a selection that was being given “a renewal” with established directors such as Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Hirozaku Kore-Eda , Nanni Moretti, Catherine Breillat, Aki Kaurismäki, Todd Haynes, and Marco Bellocchio vying for the coveted Palme d’Or alongside a sprinkling of less established names (Karim Aïnouz, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Kaouther Ben Hania, among them) and a first entry from Mongolia. Another innovation for the selection is the return of documentary to the competition with Wang Bing’s Youth. Knobloch described the diverse array as a way of Cannes “going back to the future of cinema”.

One of the starriest titles will be Asteroid City from Cannes favourite Wes Anderson, which stars Adrien Brody, Tom Hanks and Tilda Swinton. As previously announced out of competition is Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, with Leonardo DiCaprio, but Frémaux declared that he hopes to persuade the filmmaker and his associates to come in to the Competition. A special homage will be paid to Harrison Ford in his presencence for the latest Indiana Jones, the fifth saga in the franchise.

The Festival opens on 16 May with Jeanne du Barry, a costume epic directed by and starring Maïwenn alongside Johnny Depp.

Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux promises “a renewal” for the 76th edition Photo: Richard Mowe

When the veteran Loach was told only last night that his film had been chosen for the Competition he asked with typical modesty of Frémaux: “Are you sure?” Following I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You - both set in Newcastle - The Old Oak tells the story of Syrian refugees arriving in a former pit village in County Durham.

The parallel sections the Critics’ Week and the Directors’ Fortnight will reveal their programmes next week.

Opening Film

• Jeanne Du Barry (Maïwenn, Out Of Competition)

Competition

• Club Zero (Jessica Hausner)
• The Zone Of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
• Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki)
• Four Daughters/Les Filles D'olfa (Kaouther Ben Hania)
• Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)
• Anatomie D'une Chute (Justine Triet)
• Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda)
• Il Sol Dell'avvenire (Nanni Moretti)
• Last Summer / L’été Dernier (Catherine Breillat)
• About Dry Grasses / Kuru Otlar Ustune (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, First Film)
• Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)
• Firebrand (Karim Aïnouz)

Un Certain Regard

• Le Règne Animal (Thomas Cailley, Opening Film)
• The Delinquents/Los Delincuentes (Rodrigo Moreno)
• How To Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker, First Film)
• Goodbye Julia (Mohamed Kordofani, First Film)
• The Mother Of All Lies / Kadib Abyad (Asmae El Moudir)
• Simple Comme Sylvain (Monia Chokri)
• The Buriti Flower / Crowrã (João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora)
• The Settlers / Los Colonos (Felipe Gálvez, First Film)
• Omen (Baloji Tshiani, First Film)
• The Breaking Ice (Anthony Chen)
• Rosalie (Stéphanie Di Giusto)
• The New Boy (Warwick Thornton)
• If Only I Could Hibernate (Zoljargal Purevdash, First Film)
• Hopeless (Kim Chang-Hoon, First Film)
• Terrestrial Verses (Ali Asgari, Alireza Khatami)
• Rien À Perdre (Delphine Deloget, First Film)
• Les Meutes (Kamal Lazraq, First 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)
• Close Your Eyes/Cerrar Los Ojos (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)
• Pictures Of Ghosts/Retratos Fantasmas (Kleber Mendonça Filho)