Cannes 2012 Film Festival

The 2012 Cannes Film Festival is around the corner which means much anticipation surronding which films will be entered for the competition and which director's will be taking part. David Cronenberg has entered Cosmopolis starring Robert Pattinson and from the small trailer I saw it looks intriguing and hopefully sees Cronenberg back to doing what he does best after A Dangerous Method. Wes Anderson's new film Moonrise Kingdom opens the festival but is also entered for the competition, first time that has happened since 2008. The Paperboy directed by Lee Daniels is another intriguing prospect which sees Zac Braff go back to big screen. But with so many films in the competition it is almost impossible to predict any early favourites.

Away from the competition there is the second sequel in the Madagascar franchise that has been so popular as well as some interesting special screenings especially a film memoir about Roman Polanski who has had a fascinating life to say the least.

Cannes Film Festival Poster

Full list

Opening night
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson

Competition
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

Out of competition
Hemingway & Gellhorn, Philip Kaufman
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Me and You, Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Midnight screenings
Dario Argento's Dracula, Dario Argento
The Legend of Love & Sincerity, Japan, Takashi Miike

Special screenings
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

Closing night film
Therese D, Claude Miller