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AFP - A little less than a month before the opening festivities, the 64th Cannes Film Festival unveiled Thursday at 11:00 the selection of films that will compete for the prestigious Palme d'Or awarded by a jury chaired this year by the American Robert De Niro.
The official selection includes twenty films competing for the Palme, and the twenty works of the Un Certain Regard, chaired by Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica.
Among the possible present, the names rumored breath Danish director Lars Von Trier, the Italian Nani Moretti, the Dardenne brothers, and the French side, Marjan Satrapi, Zem Roschy Mathieu Kassowitz or ...
The selection also includes special screenings, midnight screenings of films shown out of competition.Some have already been released in dribs and drabs by the festival.
"Midnight in Paris", the latest Woody Allen with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, will be screened in the festival's opening on May 11
U.S. director Gus Van Sant's award at Cannes for "Elephant" and "Paranoid Park" will open Un Certain Regard with "Restless". This film explores the relationship of two teenagers, played by Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hooper.
The organizers also announced a special evening will be dedicated May 17 in Jean-Paul Belmondo, in the presence of the actor.The latter, which should be surrounded by his many friends in the cinema, including attending the premiere of the documentary and Jeff Vincent Perrot Domenech "Belmondo, Directions ...".
A Palme d'Honor - awarded to an important director, but never crowned by the festival - will be handed to the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci at the opening ceremony.
French actress Mélanie Laurent officiate as Master of Ceremonies for the evening and for the closing ceremony on May 22
