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Films running for Cannes festival top prize

Here is the list of the 19 films in competition for the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d’Or. The festival runs May 11-22 on the French Riviera. Dozens of other films are also showing out of competition, or in competition for other prizes:

- Pedro Almodovar: “La Piel que habito” (“The Skin I Live in”)

- Bertrand Bonello: “L’apollonide - Souvenirs de la maison close”

- Alain Cavalier: “Pater”

- Joseph Cedar: “Hearat Shulayim” (“Footnote”)

- Nuri Bilge Ceylan: “Bir Zamanlar Anadolu” (“Once upon a Time in Anatolia”)

- Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne: “Le gamin au velo” (“Set Me Free”)

- Aki Kaurismaki: “Le Havre”

- Naomi Kawase: “Hanezu no Tsuki”

- Julia Leigh: “Sleeping Beauty”

- Maiwenn: “Polisse”

- Terrence Malick: “The Tree of Life”

- Radu Mihaileanu: “La source des femmes” (“The Source”)

- Takashi Miike: “Ishimei” (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai)

- Nanni Moretti: “Habemus Papam”

- Lynne Ramsay: “We Need to Talk about Kevin”

- Markus Schleinzer: “Michael”

- Paolo Sorrentino: “This Must Be a Place”

- Lars Von Trier: “Melancholia”

- Nicolas Winding Refn: “Drive”

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