Clint Eastwood's latest film will get top billing at the 61st Cannes International Film Festival next month. Clintwood directed The Changeling, a 1920s thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a woman whose son is kidnapped. John Malkovich and Amy Ryan also star.
The film festival will run from May 14-25 in southern France and will also include Wim Wenders' The Palermo Shooting and Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
The new Indiana Jones movie, Woody Allen's new romance and the animated Jack Black film Kung Fu Panda will be screened out of competition.
Stars rumored to be attending include Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen, Benicio Del Toro and the cast of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The jury includes Sean Penn, Natalie Portman and former Harry Potter director Alfonso Cuaron. They will select the winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or prize.
Nineteen directors, including Eastwood, Soderbergh and Wenders, will be vying for the award.
Last year the Romanian abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was the winner.
A complete list of the films competing for the prize follows:
FILMS IN COMPETITION:
• Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France / Italy)
• Le Silence De Lorna (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, France / Belgium)
• A Christmas Story (Arnaud Desplechin, France)
• Changeling (Clint Eastwood, USA)
• Adoration (Atom Egoyan, Canada)
• Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, Israel)
• La Frontiere De L'Aube (Philippe Garrel, France)
• Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, Italy)
• Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, USA / France)
• My Magic (Eric Khoo, Singapore)
• La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Lucretia Martel, Argentina / Spain)
• Serbis (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines)
• Delta (Kornel Mondruczo, Hungary / Germany)
• Linha De Passe (Walter Salles, Brazil)
• Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)
• Leonera (Pablo Trapero, Argentina / South Korea)
• The Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders, Germany)
• 24 City (Jia Zhangke, China)
• Che (Steven Soderbergh, USA / Spain / France)
