The official selection of the 70th Cannes Film Festival was unveiled Thursday with 18 films competing for the Palme d'Or, organizers said.

 

戛纳电影节组委会周四宣布了18部入围金棕榈奖的影片名单。

 

In the 2017 edition, the official selection includes 49 features out of 1,930 films.

 

Four French directors appeared among the list of this year's official selection. They are Francois Ozon with "L'Amant double," Michel Hazanavicius with "La Redoutable," Robin¹ Campillo with "120 Battement par² Minute" and Jacques Doillon with "Rodin."

 

Several U.S. filmmakers will also compete for the festival prizes with Sofia Coppola's "The Beguiled³", Todd Haynes's "Wonderstruck", "Good Time" by Benny and Josh Safdie, and "The Meyerowitz Stories" by Noah Baumbach.

 

Asian cinema will be represented by South Korean films "Okja" by director Bong Joon-Ho and "Geu-Hu" by Hong Sang-soo and Japanese's director Naomi Kawase's "Hikari."

 

The list of official selection includes also "Aus dem Nichts" by German director Fatih Akin⁴, "Happy End" by Austrian director Michael Haneke, "The Killing⁵ of a Sacred Deer" Yorgos Lanthimos, "A Gentle Creature" by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, "Jupiter's Moon" by Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo, "You Were Never Really Here" by Briton Lynne Ramsay and "Nelyubov" by Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev.

 

The 70th Cannes Film Festival will screen out-of-competition French film "Les fantomes d'Ismael" by Arnaud Desplechin.

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