A fost anuntata selectia oficiala de filme din cadrul Festivalului de Film de la Cannes 2011. Terrence Malick, cu noul sau film The Tree of Life, se va afla in competitie cu alti regizori preferati de la Cannes, precum Pedro Almodovar, Aki Kaurismaki, Takashi Miike, Nanni Moretti, Lynne Ramsay, Nicolas Winding Refn si Lars Von Trier. Days Of Heaven, filmul lui Malick din 1979, i-a adus acestuia premiul pentru cel mai bun regizor la Cannes. The Beaver, noul film regizat de celebra Jodie Foster, va fi proiectat de asemenea in cadrul Festivalului, in afara competitiei.

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In deschidere:
Midnight In Paris, Woody Allen (in afara competitiei)

In competitie:
The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar
House of Tolerance (L’apollonide – Souvenirs de la maison close), Bertrand Bonello
Pater,  Alain Cavalier
Footnote, Joseph Cedarhttp
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu ), Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The Kid With A Bike (Le Gamin Au Velo), Jean-Pierre
si Luc Dardenne
Le Havre, Aki Kaurismaki
Hanezu No Tsuki, Naomi Kawase
Sleeping Beauty, Julia Leigh
Poliss, Maiwenn
The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
La Source des Femmes, Radu Mihaileanu
Hara-kiri: Death Of A Samurai, Takashi Miike
We Have a Pope (Habemus Papum), Nanni Moretti
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay
Michael, Markus Schleinzer
This Must Be The Place, Paolo Sorrentino
Melancholia, Lars Von Trier
Drive, Nicolas Winding Refn

In Afara Competitiei:
The Conquest, Xavier Durringer
The Beaver, Jodie Foster
The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rob Marshall

Un Certain Regard:
Restless, Gus Van Sant [in deschidere]
The Hunter, Bakur Bakuradeze
Halt auf freier Strecke, Andreas Dresen
Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont
Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin
The Snows of Kilamanjaro, Robert Guedeguian
Skoonheid, Oliver Hermanus
The Day He Arrives, Hong Sang-soo
Bonsai, Cristian Jimenez
Tatsumi,  Eric Koo
Arirang,  Kim Ki-duk
Where Do We Go Now?, Nadine Labaki
Loverboy, Catalin Mitulescu
Yellow Sea, Na Hong-jin
Miss Bala, Gerardo Naranjo
Trabalhar Cansa, Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra
L’exercice de l’etat, Pierre Schoeller
Toomelah, Ivan Sen
Oslo, August 31, Joachim Trier


Midnight Screenings:
Wu Xia, Chan Peter Ho-Sun
Dias De Gracia, Everardo Gout

Special Screenings:
Labrador, Frederikke Aspock
Le Maitre Des Forges De L’Enfer, Rithy Panh
Michel Petrucciani, Michael Radford
Tous Au Larzac, Christian Rouaud

Avand in vedere filmele de anul acesta, in perioada 11-22 mai Riviera Franceza va fi plina de vedete importante ale cinematografiei daca, bineinteles, vor veni cele din distributiile filmelor Festivalului de Film de la Cannes 2011: Brad Pitt (The Tree of Life); Sean Penn (This Must Be the Place): Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz si Keith Richards (Pirates of the Caribbean); Ryan Gosling (Drive); Antonio Banderas (The Skin I Live In), Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin) si toata distributia impresionanta a noului film regizat de Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris.