The Palme d’Or is the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious award. Here are this year’s contenders.
Sicario
A thriller set on the Mexican border – starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin – about a CIA operation to bring down a drug lord.
Carol
Cate Blanchett stars with Rooney Mara in this unconventional love story set in New York in the 1950s, adapted by Todd Haynes from a novel by Patricia Highsmith.
Sea of Trees
Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts star. An American meets a Japanese man in a mysterious suicide forest.
Macbeth
Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard lead the cast in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy by Australian director Justin Kurzel.
The Lobster
Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz star in a sci-fi flick about single people confined to a hotel and given 45 days to find a partner or face consequences.
Youth
Michael Caine, Rachel Weisz, Jane Fonda and Harvey Keitel star in this tale about two old friends, a filmmaker and a music composer.
Louder Than Bombs
Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne and Isabelle Huppert star in this English-language movie from Norway’s Joachim Trier.
The Tale of Tales
Starring Salma Hayek and Vincent Cassel and directed by Matteo Garrone, this special-effects-driven fantasy is inspired by a collection of Italian fairy tales.
My King
Vincent Cassel stars in a French story about a passionate but complicated couple. The film is directed by Maiwenn, who won Cannes' Jury Prize in 2011 for Polisse.
The Valley of Love
Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert play an estranged couple who lose their son to suicide but honour his request to meet in Death Valley.
The Assassin
A new period martial-arts film by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. His movies have been nominated six times for the Palme d’Or.
My Mother
Nanni Moretti stars alongside John Turturro in this film about a director suffering personal and professional crises.
Chronic
Tim Roth plays a nurse confronting his guilt as he helps terminally ill patients to die in a film from Mexican director Michel Franco.
Marguerite and Julien
France’s Valerie Donzelli presents a story about forbidden love.
Our Little Sister
A Japanese manga adapted by Hirokazu Koreeda. Three sisters who live together invite an orphaned stepsister to stay with them.
The Measure of a Man
This French movie by Stephane Brize is about a newly hired supermarket security guard who is asked to spy on his colleagues.
Dheepan
French director Jacques Audiard presents a drama about a Sri Lankan refugee, and former freedom fighter, struggling to start a new life in a tough Paris suburb.
Son of Saul
A Holocaust drama about an Auschwitz prisoner who tries to save from incineration the corpse of a boy he believes to be his son.
