by Marla Lewin

The Opening night film already announced  is Ridley Scot's ROBIN HOOD. 20th Century Fox will have an Out of Competition screening of Oliver Stone's WALL STREET - MONEY NEVER SLEEPS. Additional Out of Competition screenings are YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER from Woody Allen (Sony Classics) and TAMARA DREWE from Stephen Frears.

This years line up is a virtual Boy's Club with not  a single female director represented so far in the main competition. Although there are still probably 5-7 more films to be announced over all.

The Competition screenings are:

Mathieu AMALRIC TOURNÉE

Xavier BEAUVOIS DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX

Rachid BOUCHAREB HORS LA LOI

Alejandro GONZÁLEZ IÑÁRRITU BIUTIFUL

Mahamat-Saleh HAROUN UN HOMME QUI CRIE (A Screaming Man)

IM Sangsoo THE HOUSEMAID

Abbas KIAROSTAMI COPIE CONFORME

Takeshi KITANO OUTRAGE

LEE Chang-dong POETRY

Mike LEIGH ANOTHER YEAR

Doug LIMAN FAIR GAME

Sergei LOZNITSA YOU. MY JOY

Daniele LUCHETTI LA NOSTRA VITA

Nikita MIKHALKOV UTOMLYONNYE SOLNTSEM 2

Bertrand TAVERNIER LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER

The Competition will feature 16 films from 13 countries.  A total of 46 features have already been chosen to screen at the festival. Notable films that the festival is still waiting for completion dates include Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" starring former jury president Sean Penn.

FEATURE FILM JURY

Tim BURTON, President - Director / USA

Kate BECKINSALE - Actress / United Kingdom

Giovanna MEZZOGIORNO - Actress / Italy

Alberto BARBERA - Director National Museum of Cinema / Italy

Emmanuel CARRERE - Writer - Scripwriter - Director / France

Benicio DEL TORO - Actor / Puerto Rico

Victor ERICE - Director / Spain

Shekhar KAPUR - Director - Actor - Producer / India

UN CERTAIN REGARD Screenings

Derek CIANFRANCE BLUE VALENTINE 1st film

Manoel DE OLIVEIRA O ESTRANHO CASO DE ANGÉLICA (Angelica)

Xavier DOLAN LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES (Heartbeats)

Ivan FUND, Santiago LOZA LOS LABIOS

Fabrice GOBERT SIMON WERNER A DISPARU…

Jean-Luc GODARD FILM SOCIALISME

Christoph HOCHHÄUSLER UNTER DIR DIE STADT (The City Below)

Lodge KERRIGAN REBECCA H. (RETURN TO THE DOGS)

Ágnes KOCSIS PÁL ADRIENN (Adrienn Pál)

Vikramaditya MOTWANE UDAAN 1st film

Radu MUNTEAN MARTI, DUPA CRACIUN (Tuesday, After Christmas)

Hideo NAKATA CHATROOM

Cristi PUIU AURORA (Aurora)

HONG Sangsoo HA HA HA

Oliver SCHMITZ LIFE ABOVE ALL

Daniel VEGA, Diego VEGA OCTUBRE

David VERBEEK R U THERE

Xiaoshuai WANG RIZHAO CHONGQING (Chongqing Blues)

Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL LOONG BOONMEE RALEUK CHAAT

(Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)