Cannes Film Festival 2014: Line-up announced officially

Today at a press conference in a movie theatre on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, Cannes Film Festival’s director Thierry Fremaux has announced the picks for the fest’s 67th competition. The list includes 49 films while the main competition for the most coveted Palme d'Or award is set to feature 18 films.

The jury will be announced next week. The festival, which will take place from May 14 to May 25, will screen all the selected 49 films. The traditional red-carpet at Cannes will reportedly open with the Nicole Kidman starrer Grace of Monaco. Here is the complete list of the Cannes Film Festival lineup for 2014:
OPENER: Grace of Monaco, Olivier Dahan
COMPETITION:
• Goodbye to Language, Jean-Luc Godard
• The Captive, Atom Egoyan
• Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas
• Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller
• The Homesman, Tommy Lee Jones
• Jimmy’s Hall, Ken Loach
• La Meraviglie, Alice Rohrwacher
• Leviathan, Andrei Zvyagintsev
• Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg
• Mommy, Xavier Dolan
• Mr. Turner, Mike Leigh
• Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello
• The Search, Michel Hazanavicius
• Still the Water, Naomi Kawase
• Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako
• Two Days, One Night, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
• Wild Tales, Damian Szifron
• Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
OUT OF COMPETITION:
• Coming Home, Zhang Yimou
• How to Train Your Dragon 2, Dean DeBlois
• Les Gens du Monde, Yves Jeuland
UN CERTAIN REGARD:
• Amour fou, Jessica Hausner
• Bird People, Pascale Ferran
• The Blue Room, Mathieu Amalric
• Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer
• Dohee-ya, July Jung
• Eleanor Rigby, Ned Benson
• Fantasia, Wang Chao
• Harcheck mi headro, Keren Yedaya
• Hermosa Juventud, Jaime Rosales
• Incompresa, Asia Argento
• Jauja, Lisandro Alonso
• Lost River, Ryan Gosling
• Party Girl, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis (OPENER)
• Run, Philippe Lacote
• The Salt of the Earth, Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
• Snow in Paradise, Andrew Hulme
• Titli, Kanu Behl
• Tourist, Ruben Ostlund
MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS:
• The Rover, David Michod
• The Salvation, Kristian Levring
• The Target, Yoon Hong-seung
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
• The Bridges of Sarajevo, Various
• Eau argentee, Mohammed Ossama
• Maidan, Sergei Loznitsa
• Red Army, Polsky Gabe
• Caricaturistes – Fantassins de la democratie, Stephanie Valloatto