The Official Selection for the 55th Cannes Festival was announced Wednesday April 24, during the customary pre-Cannes press conference. This year, 22 films are in the running for the Palme d'Or, including 4 from France and 11 French co-productions.
Films in Official Competition
French Selection:
- "L'Adversaire" by Nicole Garcia
- "Marie-Jo Et Ses Deux Amours" by Robert Guédiguian
- "Demonlover" by Olivier Assayas
- "Irreversible" by Gaspar Noé
French co-productions:
- "10" by Abbas Kiarostami (Iran/France)
- "Kedma" by Amos Gitai (Israel/Italy/France)
- "Le Fils" by Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgium/France)
- "The Man Without A Past" ("Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä") by Aki Kaurismaki (Finland/Germany/France)
- "The Principle Of Indecision" ("O Principio Da Incerteza") by Manoel de Oliveira (Portugal/France)
- "Spider" by David Cronenberg (Canada/France)
- "The Pianist" by Roman Polanski (France/G.B./Germany/Poland)
- "Divine Intervention" by Elia Suleiman (France/Israel)
- "Unknown Pleasures" ("Ren Xiao Yao") by Jia Zhang Ke
- "All Or Nothing" by Mike Leigh
Other feature films selected:
- "24 Hour Party People" by Michael Winterbottom
- "About Schmidt" by Alexander Payne
- "Bowling for Columbine," a documentary by Michael Moore
- "Stroke Of Fire" ("Chihwaseon") by Im Kwon-taek
- "Punch Drunk Love" by Paul Thomas Anderson
- "The Russian Ark" by Alexandre Sokurov
- "Sweet Sixteen" by Ken Loach
