The Festival de Cannes has announced their official selections for their 64th edition of the annual festival.

Films selected for competition include Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, the Dardenne Brothers’ The Kid With a Bike, Pedro Almodovar The Skin That I Inhabit, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope, and Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin. Films in the Un Certain Regard section include Kim Ki-duk’s Arirang, Hong Sang-soo’s The Day He Arrives, Gus Van Sant’s Restless, and Hors Satan by Bruno Dumont. Among the Out of Competition titles are Rob Marshall’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and the controversial film The Beaver by Jodie Foster which stars Mel Gibson.

As announced in February, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris opens the festival on May 11. The film’s all-star cast of Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates, Gad Elmaleh, Léa Seydoux and Adrien Brody are expected to attend the Croisette to launch the festival. The film is being screened out of competition.

Although the juries have not yet been finalized, the Presidents for the juries have previously been announced. Robert De Niro will head the Feature Films jury, Michel Gondry will preside over the Short Film and Cinéfondation juries, Emir Kusturica will lead the Un Certain Regard jury and Bong Joon-ho heads the Camera d’Or jury.

Titles for La Semaine de la Critique (Critics’ Week) and short film selections will be announced on Monday. The 64th annual Festival de Cannes runs from May 11-22.

64TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL DE CANNES OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

IN COMPETITION

Jury President: Robert De Niro, Actor/Director, USA

BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU’DA (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia), Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
DRIVE, Nicolas Winding Refn, USA
HABEMUS PAPAM, Nanni Moretti, Italy and France
朱花の月 HANEZU NO TSUKI, Naomi Kawase, Japan
HEARAT SHULAYIM (Footnote), Joseph Cedar, Israel
切腹 ICHIMEI aka SEPPUKU (Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai), Takashi Miike, Japan
L’APOLLONIDE – SOUVENIRS DE LA MAISON CLOSE (House of Tolerance), Bertrand Bonello, France
LA PIEL QUE HABITO (The Skin That I Inhabit), Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
LA SOURCE DES FEMMES (The Source), Radu Mihaileanu, Belgium, Italy and France
LE GAMIN AU VÉLO (Boy with a Bike), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium, France and Italy
LE HARVE, Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, France and Germany
MELANCHOLIA, Lars Von Trier, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany and Italy
MICHAEL, Markus Schleinzer, Austria
PATER, Alain Cavalier, France
SLEEPING BEAUTY, Julia Leigh, Australia
POLISSE, Maïwenn, France
THE TREE OF LIFE, Terrence Malick, USA
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, Paolo Sorrentino, Italy, France and Ireland
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, Lynne Ramsay, UK

UN CERTAIN REGARD

Jury President: Emir Kusturica, Director, Serbia

Opening Film: RESTLESS, Gus Van Sant

BÉ OMID É DIDAR (Good Bye), Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran
Охотника THE HUNTER, Bakur Bakuradze, Russia
HALT AUF FREIER STRECKE, Andreas Dresen, Germany
HORS SATAN, Bruno Dumont, France and Belgium
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, Sean Durkin, USA
LES NEIGES DU KILIMANDJARO, Robert Guédiguian, France
SKOONHEID, Olivier Hermanus, South Africa, France and Germany
북촌방향 THE DAY HE ARRIVES (Book-chon-bang-hyang), Sangsoo Hong, South Korea
BONSÁI, Cristián Jiménez, Chile
TATSUMI, Eric Khoo, Singapore and Japan
아리랑 ARIRANG, Kim ki-duk, South Korea
WO HALLAH LA WEN? (Where Do We Go Now?), Nadine Labaki, Lebanon and France
LOVERBOY, Cătălin Mitulescu, Romania
황해 HWANG HAE (Yellow Sea), Hong-jin Na, South Korea
MISS BALA, Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico
TRABALHAR CANSA (Hard Labor), Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, Brazil
L’EXERCICE DE L’ETAT (The Minister), Pierre Schoeller, France
TOOMELAH, Ivan Sen, Australia
OSLO 31.AUGUST (Oslo, August 31st), Joachim Trier, Norway
ELENA, Andrei Zvyagintsev, Russia

OUT OF COMPETITION

Opening Film: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, Woody Allen, Spain and USA

LA CONQUÊTE, Xavier Durringer, France
PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, Rob Marshall, USA
THE ARTIST, Michel Hazanavicius, France
THE BEAVER, Jodie Foster, USA

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

DÍAS DE GRACIA (Days of Grace), Everardo Valerio Gout, Mexico
武俠 WU XIA (Swordsmen), Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Hong Kong and China

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

LABRADOR (aka Out of Bounds), Frederikke Aspöck, Denmark
LE MAÎTRES DES FORGES DE L’ENFER, Rithy Panh, France (Documentary)
MICHEL PETRUCCIANI, Michael Radford, France, Italy, and Germany (Documentary)
TOUS AU LARZAC, Christian Rouaud, France (Documentary)

CINÉFONDATION – OFFICIAL SELECTIONS 2011

Jury President: Michel Gondry, Director, Serbia

CAGEY TIGERS, Aramisova Famu, Czech Republic
SUU ET UCHIKAWA (Suu and Uchikawa), Nathaniel Carton, Singapore
A VIAGEM (The Trip), Simao Cayatte, USA
BEFETACH BEITY (On My Doorstep), Anat Costi, Israel
THE AGONY AND SWEAT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, D. Jesse Damazo & Joe Bookman, USA
BENTO MONOGATARI (Lunchbox Story), Pieter Dirkx, Belgium
DER BRIEF (The Letter), Doroteya Droumeva, Germany
DUELO ANTES DA NOITE (Duel Before Nightfall), Alice Furtado, Brazil
DRARI, Kamal Lazraq, France
SALSIPUEDES, Mariano Luque, Argentina
LA FIESTA DE CASAMIENTO (The Wedding Party), Gastón Margolin &, Martín Morgenfeld, Argentina
L’ESTATE CHE NON VIENE (Till Summer Comes), Pasquale Marino, Italy
BIG MUDDY, Jefferson Moneo, USA
AL MARTHA LAUF (Martha Must Fly), Ma’ayan Rypp, Israel
YA-GAN-BI-HANG (Fly by Night), Son Tae-gyum, South Korea
DER WECHSELBALG (Changeling), Maria Steinmetz, Germany

CINÉFONDATION – THE ATELIER 2011

ESCAFANDRA, Pablo Reyero, Argentina
NOW ISTHE FUTURE OF THE PAST, Huang Weikai, China
AUGUSTINE, Alice Winocour, France
KHIBULA, George Ovashvili, Georgia
LUTON, Michalis Konstantatos, Greece
HIER, Bálint Kenyeres, Hungary
THE TRAIN STATION, Mohamed Al Daradji, Iraq
OF OUR ECONOMICAL SITUATION, Elad Keidan, Israel
IL SUD È NIENTE, Fabio Mollo, Italy
LA DELGADA LÍNEA AMARILLA, Celso García, Mexico
FULL CONTACT, David Verbeek, Netherlands
EL MUDO, Daniel & Diego Vega, Peru
WOLF, Bogdan Mustata, Romania
KINGS, Deniz Ergüven, Turkey
MR. KAPLAN, Alvaro Brechner, Uruguay

Remember our post on the nominees of the 13th British Independent Film Awards a while ago. Here’s list of the winners which was announced on Dec 5, 2010.

BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM WINNER

THE KING’S SPEECH, Director: Tom Hooper, UK and Australia

BEST FOREIGN FILM WINNER

UN PROPHÈTE (A PROPHETE), Director: Jacques Audiard, France

BEST BRITISH DOCUMENTARY WINNER

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, Directors: Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath

BEST DIRECTOR WINNER

Gareth Edwards – Monsters

THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] WINNER

Clio Barnard – The Arbor

BEST SCREENPLAY WINNER

David Seidler – The King’s Speech

BEST ACTRESS WINNER

Carey Mulligan – Never Let Me Go

BEST ACTOR WINNER

Colin Firth – The King’s Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR WINNER

Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech

MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER WINNER

Joanne Froggatt – In Our Name

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION WINNER

Monsters

RAINDANCE AWARD WINNER

Son Of Babylon

BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT WINNER

Monsters – Visual Effects – Gareth Edwards

Here to read the official announcement at the official site.