Cannes Film Festival's line-up announced, three films to come

The Cannes Film Festival?s organizers on April 16 unveiled the list of 17 movies to be shown next month in the Palme d?Or competition line-up. Turkish director Ziya Demirel?s film ?Sal?? (Tuesday) is set to compete in the short film category of the festival. 

The rundown is not yet complete, with a couple of movies yet to be added before the 11-day festival opens on May 13.

A French movie starring Catherine Deneuve and directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, ?Standing Tall,? will open the festival out of competition.

Other films to be shown include ?Dheepan? by France?s Jacques Audiard; ?A Simple Man? by France?s Stephane Brize; ?Marguerite and Julien? by France?s Valerie Donzelli; ?The Tale of Tales? by Italy?s Matteo Garrone; ?Carol? by U.S. director Todd Haynes, a lesbian love story set in New York in the 1950s starring Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara; ?The Assassin,? a martial arts film by Taiwanese director Hsiao-Hsien Hou; ?Mountains May Depart? by China?s Zhangke Jia, a story about lovers who separate in China, with the son of one exiled to Australia; ?Umimachi Diary? by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, about sisters living in the home of their grandmother; ?Macbeth? by Australian director Justin Kurzel, a movie version of Shakespeare?s classic starring ?X-Men? actor Michael Fassbender and French Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and mostly shot in Britain; ?The Lobster? by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, a love story set in a dystopian future where single people need to find a mate quickly or be transformed into animals; ?Mon Roi? (My King) by French director Maiwenn and starring Vincent Cassel; ?Mia Madre? (My Mother) by Italian director Nanni Moretti; ?Son of Saul? by Hungarian Laszlo Nemes, about an Auschwitz prisoner in World...