Cannes completes official line-up, with 19 films competing for the Golden Palm
The 2015 Cannes Film Festival completes its selection including an entry from Ethiopia.
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The official line-up for the Cannes Film Festival is complete.
In competition is a fifth French film, Valley of Love directed by Guillaume Nicloux and starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Dépardieu, and from Goya award-winning Mexican Michel Franco, Cronic. That makes a total of 19 films competing for the Golden Palm awards.
In the Un Certain Regard section, Lamb is the first feature film directed by Yared Zeleke and the first film ever in the official competition from Ethiopia.
Four more films have been added to the sort of window-on-the-world section: Alias Maria by José Luis Rugeles Gracia from Colombia; Taklub, a film by Philippines director Brillante Mendoza; Cemetery of Splendour by Thailand’s Golden Palm Winner in 2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul; and AN from another Cannes regular, Naomi Kawase whose film opens Un Certain Regard this year.
The Un Certain Regard Jury is chaired by actress-director Isabella Rossellini, while the main competition jury is chaired by directors Joel and Ethan Coen, who are assisted in the decision-making by actress Rossy de Palma; actress-director Sophie Marceau; actress Sienna Miller; songwriter, composer and singer Rokia Traoré; director, screenwriter and producer Guillermo del Toro; man of nearly all cinema job titles, Xavier Dolan; and actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
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