The Palme d’Or trophy. (Image courtesy: AFP)

The Cannes Film Festival returns from May 16 to 27, bringing an enormous variety of stars and celebrated filmmakers to the Cote d’Azur.

Here is an inventory of the 19 movies competing for the highest prize Palme d’Or, in addition to a number of different motion pictures premiering out of competitors.

– In competitors –

“Asteroid City” by Wes Anderson

“The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer

“May/December” by Todd Haynes

“Monster” by Hirokazu Kore-eda

“The Old Oak” by Ken Loach

“Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders

“About Dry Grasses” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

“Fallen Leaves” by Aki Kaurismaki

“Il sol dell’avvenire” by Nanni Moretti

“Four Daughters” by Kaouther Ben Hania

“Club Zero” by Jessica Hausner

“Anatomy of a Fall” by Justine Triet

“La Chimera” by Alice Rohrwacher

“Shanghai Youth” by Wang Bing

“Banel et Adama” by Ramata-Toulaye Sy

“Firebrand” by Karim Ainouz

“Rapito” by Marco Bellocchio

“The Pot au Feu” by Tran Anh Hung

“Last Summer” by Catherine Breillat 

– Out of competitors –

“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” by James Mangold

“Killers of the Flower Moon” by Martin Scorsese

“Occupied City” by Steve McQueen

“The Idol” by Sam Levinson

“Cobweb” by Kim Jee-woon

“Kennedy” by Anurag Kashyap

“Kubi” by Takeshi Kitano

“Anselm” by Wim Wenders

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