Springtime means we’re less than a month away from watching celebrities head down to the French Riviera in their finest avant-garde outfits: Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13 to 24, has announced its 2015 lineup. Todd Haynes and Gus Van Sant are both in competition, as is Australian Justin Kurzel with his rendition of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard. (More populist fare like George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road and Woody Allen’s Irrational Man will screen out of competition.) There are special screenings of Natalie Portman’s directing debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, and Asif Kapadia’s documentary on Amy Winehouse. Below is the list of screenings, and more will be added in the coming weeks.
Competition
Dheepan (working title), Jacques Audiard
A Simple Man, Stephane Brize
Marguerite and Julien, Valerie Donzelli
The Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone
Carol, Todd Haynes
The Assassin, Hou Hsiao Hsien
Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhang-Ke
Our Little Sister, Hirokazu Koreeda
Macbeth, Justin Kurzel
The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos
Mon Roi, Maïwenn
Mia Madre, Nanni Moretti
Son of Saul, László  Nemes
Youth, Paolo Sorrentino
Louder Than Bombs, Joachim Trier
The Sea of Trees, Gus Van Sant
Sicario, Denis Villeneuve
Un Certain Regard
Madonna, Shin Su-won
Maryland, Anna Winocour
The Fourth Direction, Gurvinder Singh
Masaan (Fly Away Solo), Neeraj Ghaywan
Hruter (Rams), Grimur Hakonarson
Kishibe No Tabi (Journey to the Shore), Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Je Suis Un Soldat (I Am a Soldier), Laurent Larivere
Zvizdan (The High Sun), Dalibor Matanic
The Other Side, Roberto Minervini
One Floor Below, Radu Muntean
Shameless, Oh Seung-Uk
The Chosen Ones, David Pablos
Nahid, Ida Panahandeh
The Treasure, Corneliu Porumboiu
Out of Competition
Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller
Irrational Man, Woody Allen
Inside Out, Pete Docter and Ronaldo del Carmen
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), Mark Osborne
Special Screenings
Oka, Souleymane Cissé
Sipur Al Ahava Ve Choshech (A Tale of Love and Darkness), Natalie Portman
Hayored Lema’ala, Elad Keidan
Amnesia, Barbet Schroeder
Panama, Pavle VuÄković
Asphalte, Samuel Benchétrit
L’esprit de l’escalier, Pabla Lucavic
Midnight Screenings
O Piseu (Office), Hong Won-Chan
Amy, Asif Kapadia