Cannes competition lineup includes “The Beguiled,” “Wonderstruck” April 15, 2017 - 11:47 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Fremaux and president Pierre Lescure on Thursday, April 13 unveiled the lineup for the iconic Côte d'Azur event's 70th anniversary edition, to be held May 17-28, The Hollywood Reporter said. Bringing some Hollywood presence to the Croisette this year will be Todd Haynes' period drama Wonderstruck, starring Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams, and Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, with Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. Cannes veterans Michael Haneke, who won the Palme d'Or twice before, and Michel Hazanavicius also are returning with Happy End and Le Redoutable, respectively. Fremaux and Lescure took to the stage just after 11 a.m. local time, kicking off the traditional lineup press conference at Paris' UGC Cinema on the French capital's Champs Elysees. Lescure opened the press event by mentioning the upcoming French election and U.S. President Donald Trump. "We are in a suspenseful moment for the world," he said, adding, "Since we have a new surprise every day from Donald Trump, I hope North Korea, Syria will not cast a shadow" over Cannes. The festival will include 19 competition titles, four out-of-competition titles, three midnight screenings, one special screening and nine first films from 1,930 submitted movies. Fremaux said 12 female directors will be featured in the official selection, up from nine last year. Benny and Josh Safdie's Good Time, a crime drama starring Robert Pattinson, and Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here, toplined by Joaquin Phoenix, will be among the titles bringing extra star power to the Cannes red carpet. And speaking of star power, Nicole Kidman will feature in four competition and other section entries, having the biggest presence of all the bold names at the fest next month. The first competition title unveiled was Andrei Zvyagintsev's new film Loveless. After his success with Leviathan, the Russian culture ministry had said Zvyagintsev would get no more state money for his productions, so the film was made without official Russian support and instead put together as a co-production with Germany, France and Belgium, with Eurimages support. Fremaux spoke about a revival of Russian filmmaking in discussing the lineup. Also in the Cannes lineup is Al Gore's An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which follows Gore as he travels the world raising awareness of climate change and trying to push people and governments to embrace renewable energy. Additional political edge comes from a Vanessa Redgrave documentary about refugees called Sea Sorrow. Adding high-profile TV projects for the first time, Cannes will also screen two episodes of David Lynch's Twin Peaks revival for Showtime and show Jane Campion's Top of the Lake 2 as special events. As previously announced, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar will oversee the main competition jury that will award the Palme d'Or and other top prizes. Palme d'Or winner Cristian Mungiu will head up the student and short films jury, and Cesar-winning French actress Sandrine Kiberlain will head the Camera d'Or jury, which selects the best first film from across all sections and sidebars. Among Thursday's first announcements was that a short virtual reality project from Alejandro G. Inarritu will be part of the festival, as will Kristen Stewart's short film Come Swim. Inarritu's VR short was produced and financed by Legendary Entertainment and Fondazione Prada, while ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm’s recently established immersive entertainment division, built the virtual world and characters. It explores the experience of a group of immigrants as they cross over the border between Mexico and the U.S. Inarritu, who spent four years developing the project, partnered with his frequent collaborator and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on it. The poster for this year's festival, which shows an exuberant Claudia Cardinale dancing, has been a source of controversy, with fans expressing outrage that the actress appeared to be slimmed down and retouched. The full Cannes lineup is below. Competition Loveless, Andrei Zvyagintsev Good Time, Benny and Josh Safdie You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay L'Amant Double, Francois Ozon A Gentle Creature, Sergei Loznitsa The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos Hikari (Radiance), Naomi Kawase The Day After, Hong Sangsoo Le Redoutable, Michel Hazanavicius Wonderstruck, Todd Haynes Happy End, Michael Haneke The Beguiled, Sofia Coppola 120 Battements par Minute, Robin Campillo Okja, Bong Joon-Ho Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade), Fatih Akin Les Fantomes D’Ismael, Arnaud Desplechin The Meyerowitz Stories, Noah Baumbach Out-of-Competition How to Talk to Girls at Parties, John Cameron Mitchell Visages, Villages, Agnes Varda & JR Mugen Non Junin (Blade of the Immortal), Takashi Miike Un Certain Regard Barbara, Mathieu Amalric A Novia Del Desierto (The Desert Bride) by Cecilia Atan &Valeria Pivato Tesnota (Closeness) by Kantemir Balagov Aala Kaf Ifrit (Beauty and the Dogs), Kaouther Ben Hania L’Atelier, Laurent Cantet Fortunata (Lucky), Sergio Castellito Las Hijas de Abril (April's Daughter), Michel Franco Western, Valeska Grisebach Posoki (Directions), Stephan Komandarev Out, Gyorgy Kristof Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha (Before We Vanish), Kiyoshi Kurosawa En Attendant Les Hirondelles (The Nature of Time), Karim Moussaoui Lerd (Dregs), Mohammad Rasoulof Jeune Femme, Leonor Serrraille Wind River, Taylor Sheridan Apres La Guerre (After the War), Annarita Zambrano Special Screenings Claire’s Camera, Hong Sangsoo 12 Jours, Raymond Depardon They, Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Promised Land, Eugene Jarecki Napalm, Claude Lanzmann Demons in Paradise, Jude Ratman Sea Sorrow, Vanessa Redgrave An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk Midnight Screenings The Villainess, Jung Byung-Gil The Merciless, Byun Sung-Hyun Prayer Before Dawn, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire Virtual Reality Film Carne y Arena, Alejandro G. 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