The films competing at the Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival returns from May 14 to 25, bringing a host of film stars and celebrated filmmakers to France's Cote d'Azur.

Here is a list of the 19 films competing for the top prize, the Palme d'Or, as well as a selection of other movies premiering out of competition.

  In competition 

 "The Apprentice" by Ali Abbasi

 "Motel Destino" by Karim Ainouz

 "Bird" by Andrea Arnold

 "Emilia Perez" by Jacques Audiard

 "Anora" by Sean Baker

 "Megalopolis" by Francis Ford Coppola

 "The Shrouds" by David Cronenberg

 "The Substance" by Coralie Fargeat

 "Grand Tour" by Miguel Gomes

 "Marcello Mio" by Christophe Honore

 "Caught By The Tides" by Jia Zhang-Ke

 "All We Imagine As Light" by Payal Kapadia

 "Kinds of Kindness" by Yorgos Lanthimos

 "L'Amour Ouf" (lit. "Crazy Love") by Gilles Lellouche

 "Wild Diamond" by Agathe Riedinger

 "Oh Canada" by Paul Schrader

 "Liminov: The Ballad of Eddie" by Kirill Serebrennikov

 "Parthenope" by Paolo Sorrentino

 "The Girl With The Needle" by Magnus von Horn

 Out of competition 

 These films will have their premiere at Cannes but are not competing for the Palme d'Or:

- "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" by George Miller

- "Horizon, An American Saga" by Kevin Costner

- "A Second Act" by Quentin Dupieux

- "She's Got No Name" by Peter Ho-Sun Chan

- "Rumours" by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson and Guy Maddin