The nineteen films competing for this year's Cannes festival top prize have been announced.

HTML clipboard Poster for the upcoming 64th edition of the festival featuring US actress Faye Dunaway photographed in 1970, The festival will run from May 11 to 22, 2011. (Xinhua/Agencies)

Here is the list:

COMPETITION FILMS:

Pedro Almodovar: La piel que habito

Bertrand Bonello: L'Appollonide--Souvenirs de la Maison Close

Alain Cavalier: Pater

Joseph Cedar: Footnote

Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne: Le Gamin au Velo

Aki Kaurismaki: Le Havre

Naomi Kawase: Hanezu no tsuki

Julia Leigh: Sleeping Beauty

Maiwenn: Pousse

Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life

Radu Mihaileanu: La Source des femme

Mike Takashi: Hara-Kiri, Death of a Samurai

Nanny Moretti: Habemus Papam

Lynne Ramsay: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Markus Schleinzer: Michael

Paolo Sorrentino: This Must Be the Place

Lars Von Trier: Melancholia

Nicolas Winding Refn: Drive

Woody Allen's film Midnight will open the festival. Gus Van Sant's Restless will open The Certain Regard. The out-of-competition special films will include films by Jodie Foster, Xavier Durringer, Michel Hazabavicus and a 3-D Pirates of the Caribbean movie by Rob Marshall, and Bernardo Bertolluci will be honored with an honorary Palme d'Or. (Agencies)

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