Cannes Film Festival's 2011 schedule announced

BEIJING. April 15. KAZINFORM The nineteen films competing for this year's Cannes festival top prize have been announced.

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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

According to Xinhuanet, 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.

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