Cannes Film Festival 2017 line-up

Which stars will we see on the red carpet this year?

featured in News & reviews Author Pam Williamson, Cannes Editor Updated 13 April 2017

After a lengthy press conference in Paris this morning (Thursday 11th April 2017) the films chosen for the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival 2017 have been announced.

The 2017 Cannes Film Festival will include four out-of-competition titles, three midnight screenings, one special screening and nine first films from the incredible 1930 films that were submitted. Festival director Thierry Fremaux said that 12 female directors would be featured in the official selection, an increase on the nine in 2016.

Visitors to the red carpet, via their films being selected, will include Australian actress Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Julianne Moore, Joaquin Pheonix and Adam Sandler who will be making his first trip to the Croisette since 2002 when he was among the cast of Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love.

The eighteen films selected to be 'in competition' including Yorgos Lanthimos's follow-up to The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck, The Beguiled directed by Sofia Coppola (starring Nicole Kidman), Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, along with new films by François Ozon, Bong Joon-ho and Michael Haneke.

With Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal among the cast of Bong Joon-ho's Okja, we are sure to see them on the red carpet as the film marks the first Netflix production to premiere in-competition at the festival.

In addition to the selected films there will be some special screening which will include two episodes of David Lynch's eagerly anticipated Twin Peaks reboot will be screened, along with two episodes of Jane Campion's mystery TV drama series, Top of the Lake (again starring Nicole Kidman), which is about to return for a second season.

As previously announced, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar will oversee the main competition jury that will award the Palme d'Or and other top prizes. The other jury member have yet to be announced.

The 2017 Cannes Film Festival is due to take place from 17th to 28th May on the infamous Croisette.

Special screenings

An Inconvenient Sequel, by Al Gore and directed by Ronni Cohen & Jon Shenk
12 Jours, a documentary directed by Raymond Depardon
They, a film by Anahita Ghazinizadeh
Keul-Le-Eo-UI-Ka-Me-La (Clair’s Camera), a film directed by Hong Sangsoo
Promised Land, documentary by Eugene Jarecki
Napalm, film directed by Claude Lanzmann
Demons in Paradise, a film by Jude Ratman
Sea Sorrow, documentary film directed by Vanessa Redgrave

70th Anniversary Events

Top of the Lake: China Girl, TV series directed by Jane Campion & Ariel Kleiman
Come Swim, a short film directed by Kristen Stewart
24 Frames, a film by Abbas Kiarostami
Twin Peaks, a continuation of the cult 1990s TV series directed by David Lynch

Midnight screenings

AK-Nyeo (The Villainess), director: Jung Byung Gil
Bulhandang (The Merciless), director: Byun Sung-Hyun
Prayer Before Dawn, director: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire

Out of Competition

Mugen Non Junin, Blade of the Immortal, directed by Miike Takashi
How to Talk to Girls at Parties, directed by John Cameron Mitchell
Visages, Villages, directed by Agnes Varda & JR

Un Certain Regard

Barbara By Mathieu Amalric
A Novia Del Desierto (La Fiancée Du Desert / The Desert Bride) By Cecilia Atan &Valeria Pivato
Tesnota (Étroitesse / Closeness) By Kantemir Balagov
Aala Kaf Ifrit (La Belle Et La Meute / Beauty And The Dogs) By Kaouther Ben Hania
L’atelier By Laurent Cantet
Fortunata (Lucky) By Sergio Castellitto
Las Hijas De Abril (Les Filles D’avril / April’s Daughter) By Michel Franco
Western By Valeska Grisebach
Posoki (Directions) By Stephan Komandarev
Out By Gyorgy Kristof
Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha (Before We Vanish) By Kurosawa Kiyoshi
En Attendant Les Hirondelles (The Nature Of Time) By Karim Moussaoui
Lerd (Dregs) By Mohammad Rasoulof
Jeune Femme By Léonor Serraille
Wind River By Taylor Sheridan
Après La Guerre (After The War) By Annarita Zambrano