Cannes Film Festival 2013 News Update: Official Lineup Revealed; Roman Polanski, Joel and Ethan Coen and Nicolas Winding Refn Among Filmmakers to Screen Films At Festival

The Cannes Film Festival announced its official selections on Thursday April 18th at the Champs Elysees Theater.

Among the films that will be screened in competition are Steven Soderbergh's last film "Behind the Candelabra" with Matt Damon and Michale Douglass. Joel and Ethan Coen's CBS release "Inside Llewyn Davis," starring Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isscas and Justin Timberlak, will also be showcased. 

The highly anticpated "Only God Forgives" will also makes it world premiere. The film, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, reunites him with Ryan Gosling and also stars Kristen Scott Thomas. Alexander Payne's followup to "The Descendants", entitled "Nebraska," will also be featured in competition. The film stars Will Forte and Bruce Dern. James Gray's "The Immigrant" starring Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner will also premiere alongside Asghar Farhadi's new film "The Past." The film marks the Iranian director's first French film and stars Berenice Bejo and Tahar Rahim.

Roman Polanski's new film "Venus in Fur" will also be part of the competition slate. It will mark the director's first film in competition since he won the Palm d'Or in 2002 for "The Pianist." Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, who will screen "Un Chateau en Italie,"is the only female director in the Competition.

In the Un Certain Regard competition Sofia Coppola's new film "The Bling Ring," starring Emma Watson, will compete against Sundance winner "Fruitvale Station" and James Franco's "As I Lay Dying."

Two Out of Competition films will be screened; Guillame Canet's "Blood Ties," starring Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Clive Owen, Zoe Saldana, and Matthias Schoenaerts, and J.C Chandor's second feature "All is Lost" with Robert Redford. 

In the special screening series Polanski will also screen his new documentary "Weekend of a Champion;" the HBO series "Muhammed Ali's Greatest Fight" by Stephen Frears will also premiere.

As previously announced, "The Great Gatsby," starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire and Mulligan, will open the festival while "Zulu" starring Orlando Bloom and Forest Whitaker will be the closing night entry. 

Steven Spielberg will be president of the jury while Palme d'Or winner Jane Campion will oversee the short film competition category. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg will lead the jury for the popular Un Certain Regard sidebar of the festival.

At the end of the conference, artistic director Theiry Fremaux hinted that he would most likely add a last minute film to the lineup. The remaining jurors have yet to be announced; the news is now expected next week. 

The Cannes Film Festival May 15-26. 

Opening Film
"The Great Gatsby" (dir. Baz Luhrmann)

Official Selection
"Behind The Candelabra" (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
"Borgman" (dir. Alex Van Warmerdam)
"Un Chateau En Italie" (dir. Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi)
"La Grande Bellezza" (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
"Grisgris" (dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
"Heli" (dir. Amat Escalante)
"The Immigrant" (dir. James Gray)
"Inside Llewyn Davis" (dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)
"Jeune Et Jolie" (dir. Francois Ozon)
"Jimmy P" (dir. Arnaud Desplechin)
"Michael Kohlhaas" (dir. Arnaud Despallieres)
"Nebraska" (dir. Alexander Payne) 
"Only God Forgives" (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
"The Past" (dir. Asghar Farhadi")
"Soshite Chichi Ni Naru" (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)
"Tian Zhu Ding" (dir. Zhangke Jia)
"Venus In Fur" (dir. Roman Polanski)
"La Vie D'Adele" (dir. Abdellatif Kechiche)
"Wara No Tate" (dir. Takashi Miike)

Out Of Competition
"All Is Lost" (dir. J.C Chandor)
"Blood Ties" (dir. Guillaume Canet)

Un Certain Regard 
"Anonymous" (dir. Mohammad Rasoulof)
"As I Lay Dying" (dir. James Franco)
"Bends" (dir. Flora Lau)
"The Bling Ring" (dir. Sofia Coppola)
"Death March" (dir. Adolfo Alix Jr)
"Fruitvale Station" (dir. Ryan Coogler)
"Grand Central" (dir. Rebecca Zlotowski)
"L'Image Manquante" (Rithy Panh)
"L'Inconnu Du Lac" (dir. Alain Guiraudie)
"La Jaula De Oro" (dir. Diego Quemada)
"Miele" (dir. Valeria Golino)
"Norte, Hangganana Ng Kasaysayan" (dir. Lav Diaz)
"Omar" (dir. Hany Abu-Assad)
"Les Salauds" (dir. Claire Denis)
"Sarah Prefere La Course" (dir. Chloe Robichaud)

Midnight 
"Blind Detective" (dir. Johnnie To)
"Monsoon Shootout" (dir. Amit Kumar)

Special Screening
"Max Rose" (dir. Daniel Noah) 
"Weekend Of A Champion" (dir. Roman Polanski) 
"Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight" (dir. Stephen Frears)
"Stop The Pounding Heart" (dir. Roberto Minervini)
"Seduced & Abandoned" (dir. James Toback)
"Otdat Konci" (dir. Taisia Igumentseva)
"Bombay Talkies" (dir. Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar)

Closing Film
"Zulu" (dir. Jérôme Salle)