Cannes Film Festival: the complete selection of the 21 films in competition

From the American Wes Anderson to the British Ken Loach via the Frenchwoman Catherine Breillat... Here are the 21 films in the running for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Noticed in 2019 with Little Joe, the Austrian filmmaker made a film about youth, with Mia Wasikowska in the role of a teacher, who forges very strong bonds with five of her students.

Based on a book by Briton Martin Amis, the director of Under the skin enters the competition with a story set in Auschwitz. That of a Nazi officer who fell in love with the wife of the commandant of the extermination camp.

The Finnish filmmaker of The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix in 2002 at Cannes), master of melancholy, returns with his 19th film, a tragicomedy about the meeting between two loners, by chance, one night in Helsinki.

The Tunisian director (The Beast and the Pack) will enter the competition with this documentary, a film "on the edge of the essay" according to Thierry Frémaux, about a Tunisian woman confronted with the disappearance of two of her four daughters.

Two years after The French Dispatch and its cast of stars, the American director brings together Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton and Margot Robbie in a fictional American town bringing together parents and students for scholarly competitions.

After Sibyl in 2019, the Frenchwoman Justine Triet is back in competition. Her 4th feature film tells the story of a woman accused of the murder of her husband, with in the title role the German Sandra Hüller who had conquered the Croisette in 2016 with Toni Erdmann.

Return to Japan for the filmmaker, Palme d'or in 2018 with A family affair, after breakaways in France and Korea (The good stars, in competition last year), for a film which takes place in the school environment .

Shot at the Cinecitta studios in Rome, the Italian's new opus, after Tre piani, promises to talk about "cinema, circus and the 50s". With his favorite actress Margherita Buy and the French Mathieu Amalric.

The Italian, used to the competition, returns with La Chimera, on a young archaeologist mixed with a group of grave robbers in Italy in the 80s.

The Turkish filmmaker, winner of the 2014 Palme d'or with Winter Sleep, returns with a drama set in Anatolia at the center of which a teacher faces accusations of harassment.

Ten years after her last film Abuse of weakness, and serious health problems, the sulphurous director looks at a mother whose life changes following an affair with her stepson.

French of Vietnamese origin who had signed The Smell of Green Papaya in the 90s, Tran Anh Hung adapts a novel on gastronomy, with Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.

The year of the Palme d'or for the Italian giant, Palme d'honneur in 2021? At 83, he returns to the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a 6-year-old Jewish child kidnapped by the Catholic Church and forcibly converted in the 19th century.

The American reconnects with one of his favorite actresses, Julianne Moore (Safe, Far from Heaven), and enlists Natalie Portman for a drama around a couple with a significant age difference.

The Brazilian director of The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (Un certain regard prize in 2019) enters the competition with a period film at the court of the Tudors. Alicia Vikander plays the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, played by Jude Law.

"Are you sure?" asked the British veteran (86) when he learned of his new entry in competition for a social drama, filmed in the northeast of England. The film recounts the meeting of a pub owner and a Syrian refugee.

Young Senegalese director, Ramata-Toulaye Sy enters directly into competition with this first film, which tells a story of absolute love, confronted with social conventions, in a remote village in northern Senegal.

Also present out of competition with a documentary on visual artist Anselm Kiefer, Wim Wenders (Les Ailes du Désir, Paris, Texas, Buena Vista Social Club) promises to surprise with a film on Japanese public toilets.

The great Chinese documentary filmmaker, accustomed to river films on the marginalized of his country, is doubly present at Cannes (competition and special screening with Man in black). In Youth, he depicts in 03:30 the life of textile workers in a city 150 km from Shanghai.

The French director, present on the Croisette in 2021 with La Fracture, returns with a feature film shot in Corsica on a woman working for a Parisian family who offers her to take care of children during a vacation on the island of Beauty.

Adapted from the novel 911 by American writer Shannon Burke, this thriller, starring Sean Penn in particular, follows two doctors confronted with violence in New York.