Cannes: The 2011 Cannes film festival closes on Sunday with the awards ceremony. The selection this year included around 50 feature films from 33 countries including 44 world premieres and a 20-film main competition.
Following is the list of the films in competition, listed by the nationality of the director:
Australia:
* Sleeping Beauty/Julia Leigh - Starring Emily Browning, the film is about a student drawn into a hidden world where old wealthy men have their way with her while she sleeps under heavy sedation.
Austria:
* Michael/Markus Schleinzer - A debut film about the problematic relationship between a 10-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man.
Belgium:
* The Kid With A Bike/Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - The Boy with the bike is about a child who turns to a young woman after being abandoned by his father.
Britain:
* We Need To Talk About Kevin/Lynne Ramsay - Starring Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly. A film about parents whose son carried out killings in a school.
Denmark:
* Melancholia/Lars Von Trier - Starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland, this is an end-of-the-world sci-fi drama about a planet that appears to be on a collision course with Earth.
* Drive/Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive stars Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan in a film about a stunt driver moonlighting as a criminal getaway driver. FINLAND: * Le Havre/Aki Kaurismaki - A comedy drama about a shoe shiner who saves an immigrant child in Le Havre.
France:
* L'Apollonide/Bertrand Bonello - A movie about a brothel where a prostitute has been disfigured with a "permanent grin".
* Pater/Alain Cavalier - Vincent and Alain decide to play men of power in a film in which truth and fiction are blurred.
* Polisse/Maiwenn Le Besco - A photographer on assignment at a police unit that deals with juvenile sex crimes has an affair with a tough cop.
* La Source des Femmes/Radu Mihaileanu (born in Romania) - A battle of the sexes comedy set in a Moroccan village
* The Artist/Michel Hazanavicius - A silent movie star faces oblivion as the "talkies" take over in Hollywood
Israel:
* Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)/Joseph Cedar - Cedar will premiere his film about two competing professors who are father and son.
Italy:
* Habemus Papam/Nanni Moretti - Starring Michel Piccoli as a Pope struggling with his responsibilities.
* This Must Be The Place/Paolo Sorrentino - Starring Sean Penn as a retired rock star seeking out his father's tormentor.
Japan:
* Hanezu No Tsuki/Naomi Kawase - A film about the Asuka area from ancient to modern times.
* Ichimei (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai)/Takashi Miike - A 3-D remake of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film "Seppuku," also known as "Harakiri."
Spain:
* La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live In)/Pedro Almodovar - With Antonio Banderas, who plays a surgeon out for revenge.
Turkey:
* Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)/Nuri Bilge Ceylan - About a doctor in Anatolia who contemplates death and betrayal on a long night searching for a missing body.
United States:
* The Tree of Life/Terrence Malick - Starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn in a tale of a family with three sons set in the 1950s.
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