Cannes announces the 2009 lineup

The 2009 lineup for the Cannes International Film Festival has been announced in Paris with one feature film from Iran's Bahman Qobadi. Qobadi's latest production Nobody Knows about Persian Cats will be screened at the event's 'Un Certain Regard' sidebar, a section for movies that are often considered as 'discoveries'. This year's 'In Competition' section includes 20 films that will vie for the Palme d'Or of the 62nd edition of the prestigious event. Quentin Tarantino will be one of the notable figures in this section, whose World War II action movie Inglourious Basterds will compete with films by such renowned directors as Ken Loach. President of the 2009 main panel of jury is French actress Isabelle Huppert, supported by actresses Robin Wright Penn, Asia Argento and Shu Qi, and filmmakers Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Lee Chang-dong, Hanif Kureishi and James Gray. The 2009 Cannes Film Festival will open with animation Up on May 13 and will close with French filmmaker Jan Kounen's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky on May 24. The lineup for the 62nd edition of Cannes Film Festival is as follows: In Competition Bright Star, Jane Campion (Australia, UK, France) Spring Fever, Lou Ye (China, France) Antichrist, Lars von Trier (Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy) Enter the Void, Gaspar Noe (France) Face, Tsai Ming-liang (France, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Belgium) Les Herbes folles, Alain Resnais (France, Italy) In the Beginning, Xavier Giannoli (France) A Prophet, Jacques Audiard (France) The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke (Germany, Austria, France) Vengeance, Johnnie To, (Hong Kong, France, US) The Time That Remains, Elia Suleiman, (Israel, France, Belgium, Italy) Vincere, Marco Bellocchio, (Italy, France) Kinatay, Brillante Mendoza, (Philippines) Thirst, Park Chan-wook, (South Korea, US) Broken Embraces, Pedro Almodovar, (Spain) Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Isabel Coixet, (Spain) Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, (UK, Netherlands) Looking for Eric, Ken Loach, (UK, France, Belgium, Italy) Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino, US Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee, US Out of Competition The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Terry Gilliam, (Canada, France) The Army of Crime, Robert Guediguian, (France) Agora, Alejandro Amenabar, (Spain) Midnight Screenings A Town Called Panic, Vincent Patar and Stephane Aubier (Belgium) Ne te retourne pas, Marina de Van, (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy) Drag Me to Hell, Sam Raimi, US Special Screenings Petition, Zhao Liang, (China) L'epine dans le Coeur, Michel Gondry, (France) Min ye, Souleyumane Cisse, (France, Mali) Jaffa, Keren Yedaya, (Israel, France, Germany) Manila, Adolfo Alix Jr. and Raya Martin, (Philippines) My Neighbor, My Killer, Anne Aghion, (US) Un Certain Regard Samson & Delilah, Warwick Thornton, (Australia) Adrift, Heitor Dhalia, (Brazil) The Wind Journeys, Ciro Guerra, (Colombia) Demain des l'aube, Denis Dercourt, (France) Irene, Alain Cavalier, (France) Air Doll, Hirokazu Kore-eda, (Japan) Independence, Raya Martin, (Philippines, France, Germany) Le Pere de mes enfants, Mia Hansen-Love, (France, Germany) Dogtooth, Yorgos Lanthimos, (Greece) Nobody Knows About Persian Cats, Bahman Qobadi, (Iran) Eyes Wide Open, Haim Tabakman, (Israel) Mother, Bong Joon-ho, (South Korea) The Silent Army, Jean van de Velde, (The Netherlands) To Die Like a Man, Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Portugal Police, Adjective, Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania Tales from the Golden Age, Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru, (Romania) Tale in the Darkness, Nikolay Khomeriki, (Russia) Tzar, Pavel Lounguine, (Russia, France) Nymph, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, (Thailand) Precious, Lee Daniels, US Directors' Fortnight Ajami, Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani (Israel) Amreeka, Cherien Dabis (USA) Les Beaux gosses, Riad Sattouf, (France) Carcasses, Denis Cote (Canada) Daniel y Ana de, Michel Franco (Mexico) Eastern Plays, Kamen Kalev (Bulgaria) La Famille Wolberg, Axelle Ropert (France) Go Get Some Rosemary, Benny and Josh Safdie (US) De Helaasheid der dingen, Felix Van Groeningen (Belgium) Here, Tzu-Nyen Ho (Singapore) Humpday, Lynn Shelton (US) I Love You Philip Morris, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (US) Jai tue ma mere, Xavier Dolan (Canada) Like You Know It All, Hong Sangsoo (Korea) Karaoke, Chan Fui Chong (Malaysia) Navidad, Sebastian Lelio (Chili) Ne change rien, Pedro Costa (Portugal) Oxhide II, Liu Jia Yin, (China) La Pivellina, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, (Austria) Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve, (Canada) Le Roi de levasion, Alain Guiraudie (France) La Terre de la folie, Luc Moullet (France) Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola (US) Yuki & Nina, Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Girardot (France, Japan) Short Films The History of Aviation, Balint Kenyeres (Hungary) American Minor, Charlie White (US) Anna, Runar Runarsson (Denmark) The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5, Chema Garcia Ibarra (Spain) Song of Love and Health, Joao Nicolau (Portugal, France) Cicada, Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Australia) Drommar Fran Skogen, Johannes Nyholm (Sweden) Dust Kid, Yumi Jung (Korea) The Fugitives, Guillaume Leiter (France) Jagdfieber, Alessandro Comodin (Belgium) John Wayne Hated Horses, Andrew Betzer (US) Nice, Maud Alpi, (France) Superbarroco, Renata Pinheiro (Brazil) Thermidor, Virgil Vernier (France) Special Screening Montparnasse, Mikhael Hers, (France) Critics' Week: Competition Better Things, Duane Hopkins, (UK) The Stranger in Me, Emily Atef, (Germany) Everybody Dies But Me, Valeria Gaia Germanica, (Russia) Grown Ups, Anna Novion, (France, Sweden) Moscow, Belgium, Christophe van Rompaey, (Belgium) Blood Appears, Pablo Fendrik (Argentina, France, Germany) Snow, Aida Begic, (Iran, Bosnia, Germany, France) Competition Shorts Next Floor, Denis Villeneuve, (Canada) Skhizein, Jeremy Clapin, (France) I Hear Your Scream, Pablo Lamar, (Argentina, Paraguay) A Espera, Fernanda Teixeira, (Brazil) Ergo, Geza M. Toth, (Hungary) La copie de Coralie, Nicolas Engel, (France) Noseblood, Jeff Vespa, (US) Special Screenings Desierto adentro, Rodrigo Pla, (Mexico) Rumba, Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy (Belgium, France), Les Sept jours, Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, (Israel, France)