Among those selected were China’s Lou Ye, Canada’s Xavier Dolan and Argentina’s Pablo Trapero as well as the Cuban portmanteau 7 Days In Havana, one segment of which is directed by Trapero.

17 films were named in the Un Certain Regard sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival by festival director Thierry Fremaux in Paris this morning.

Sundance favourite Beasts Of The Southern Wild directed by Benh Zeitlin was included in the lineup, as was the debut film by Brandon Cronenberg, the son of David Cronenberg whose Cosmopolis is in the main competition.

UN CERTAIN REGARD SELECTION

Miss Lovely, dir. Ashim Ahluwalia

La Playa, dir. Juan Andrés Arango

Le Chevaux De Dieu, dir. Nabil Ayouch

Trois Mondes, dir. Catherine Corsini

Antiviral, dir. Brandon Cronenberg

7 Dias en la Habana, Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noé, Laurent Cantet.

Le Grand Soir, dir. Gustave de Kervern, Benoît Deléphine

Laurence Anyways, Xavier Dolan

Después de Lucia, dir. Michel Franco

Aimer a Perdre la raison, dir. Joachim Lafosse

Mystery, dir. Lou Ye

Student, dir. Darezhan Omirbayev

Le Pirogue, dir, Moussa Toure

White Elephant, dir. Pablo Trapero

Confessions Of a Child of the Century, dir. Sylvie Verheyde

11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, dir. Koji Wakamatsu

Beasts of the Southern Wild, dir. Benh Zeitlin.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Der Mull Im Garten Eden, dir. Fatih Akin

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, dir. Laurent Bouzereau

The Central Park Five, dir. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David Mcmahon

Les Invisibles, dir. Sebastien Lifshitz

Journal de France, dir. Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon

A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim, dir. Nelson Pereira Dos Santos

Villegas, dir. Gonzalo Tobal

Mekong Hotel, dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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