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Twenty-two films from some of the world\u2019s most celebrated directors are vying for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, which will be handed out on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The award will be decided by a jury headed by South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, which includes Hollywood star Demi Moore and Oscar-winning \u201cHamnet\u201d and \u201cNomadland\u201d director Chloe Zhao.<\/p>\n
The first film in nine years from the acclaimed and exiled Russian filmmaker is one of the frontrunners, with its intimate plot\u00a0of an unhappy couple set against the ominous background of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n
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The clear favourite with French critics, this story of an ambitious local official during the Nazi occupation features a memorable dance scene and a virtuoso performance by lead actor Swann Arlaud.<\/p>\n
This big-budget, sprawling Spanish historical film exploring gay lives stars Penelope Cruz, and got a 20-minute standing ovation at its premiere, the longest this year.<\/p>\n
The American director of \u201cThe Yards\u201d and \u201cLittle Odessa\u201d returns to familiar territory, his Queens neighbourhood in New York, for this atmospheric crime drama about two brothers tangling with the Russian mafia, with Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller.<\/p>\n
An arty critics\u2019 darling, the black-and-white movie from the Polish director features a searing performance from German actress Sandra Huller as the conflicted daughter of German writer Thomas Mann as they return to their war-shattered homeland in 1949.<\/p>\n
The Romanian winner of the 2007 Palme d\u2019Or has made one of the most hotly debated films of the festival, casting a critical lens on well-meaning left-wingers and their prejudices through a story about a devout Christian family in Norway.<\/p>\n
Hailed by some as Javier Bardem\u2019s best-ever performance, he plays a film director who tries to rekindle his relationship with his estranged actress daughter on a troubled shoot.<\/p>\n
After the worldwide success of \u201cDrive My Car\u201d, the Japanese filmmaker returns with a slow but touching film about a nursing home worker, played by Virginie Efira, who befriends a dying Japanese playwright.<\/p>\n
A wild ride for audiences, this relentless blood-splattered action thriller \u2014 the most expensive movie in South Korean history \u2014 features terrifying aliens, a lot of automatic gunfire and a surprising number of jokes.<\/p>\n
One of several historical dramas, Hungarian Oscar winner Nemes\u2019s film focuses on the final days of French Resistance hero Jean Moulin, who was tortured to death by Nazi interrogators, its chilling story revealing \u201cthe best and worst\u201d of humanity.<\/p>\n
\u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d star Rami Malek returns as another gay musician in this melancholy story about a performer in New York in the 1980s, based on the memories of director Sachs, who lived through the AIDS pandemic in the city.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t convince everyone, but this tale of a man who wakes up in the body of a woman he has had sex with \u2014 from the writer of the Oscar winner \u201cAnatomy of a Fall\u201d \u2014 has one of the most ambitious and quirky plotlines in Cannes.<\/p>\n
There were high hopes for this drama about a couple in mourning who welcome an AI-powered humanoid robot into their home, but the Japanese auteur \u2014 who won the Palme d\u2019Or in 2018 for \u201cShoplifters\u201d \u2014 got mixed reviews this time.<\/p>\n
Lea Drucker \u2014 one of France\u2019s most accomplished actresses \u2014 drew praise for her portrayal of a stressed-out surgeon whose life is transformed by an encounter with a novelist in this tale about female desire in middle age.<\/p>\n
Another gay romance story from the highly-rated young Belgian director of \u201cGirl\u201d and \u201cClose\u201d, it tells of two soldiers in the trenches of World War I who find passion and love amid the horror.<\/p>\n
The veteran Spanish director looks unlikely to win the Palme d\u2019Or at his seventh attempt with this movie about a filmmaker who is out of ideas with such strong competition this year.<\/p>\n
Directing a French-language movie for the first time, the Oscar-winning Iranian director assembled a stellar cast of local stars but lost many viewers with a convoluted plot about voyeurism and art in Paris.<\/p>\n
Cannes favourite Adele Exarchopoulos plays a gifted but hard-partying actress in this French story about alcohol addiction that loses momentum for some viewers in its second half.<\/p>\n
A gentle and slow-moving story \u2014 too slow for many critics \u2014 about an architect who visits a sculptor in the Japanese countryside, spotlights the difficulties for LGBTQ+ people in rural areas.<\/p>\n
The Austrian director brings together French actors Lea Seydoux and Catherine Deneuve \u2014 who feature in two films in competition \u2014 in a story about child abuse allegations that tear a marriage apart.<\/p>\n
A well-made but conventional thriller from a rising French director, featuring Italy\u2019s Monica Bellucci alongside French stars Bastien Bouillon and Hafsia Herzi.<\/p>\n
The German director of \u201cWestern\u201d makes her main competition debut with the story of a woman in the border region between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey who agrees to a deal to help a friend.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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