Titles mentioned below are now in post-production and should be completed by Cannes; of course some will not be ready in time but the list is an indication of the likeliest titles up for selection. It’s a very exciting list with some of my favorite directors and few surprises.

Asia: Tran Anh Hung, Norwegian Wood (Japan), Johnnie To, Death Of A Hostage (Hong Kong)Lee Chang-dong, Poetry(Korea), Takashi Miike, Thirteen Assassins (Japan), Im Kwon-taek, 101st film (Untitled) (Korea), Im Sang-soo, The Housemaid (Korea)

Canada:  Xavier Dolan, Love, Imagined

France: Bartabas, Zingaro Revisited, Xavier Beauvois, Of Gods & Men, Julie Bertucelli, The Tree, Bertrand Blier, The Clink Of Ice, Rachid Bouchareb, Hors-La-Loi, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Des Filles En Noir, Isabelle Czajka, Living On Love Alone, Lola Doillon, Sous Ton Emprise, Jean-Luc Godard, Film Socialism, Otar Iosseliani, Chantrapas, Abdellatif Kechiche, Black Venus, Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Cop, Gilles Marchand, Black Heaven, Laure Charpentier, Gigola, Julian Schnabel, Miral, Bertrand Tavernier, The Princess Of Montpensier

Germany: Benedek Fliegauf, Womb(Germany-Hungary-France), Lars Kraume, The Days To Come, Chris Kraus, Poll, Pia Marais, Im Alter Von Ellen, Sophie Schoukens, Marieke, Marieke, Oliver Stoltz, Chanda’s Secrets, Tom Tykwer, Three

Italy: Gabriele Salvatores, Happy Family

Latin America: Patricio Guzman, Nostalgia De La Luz (Chile), Pablo Larrain, Post Mortem (Chile), Michael Rowe, Ano Bisiesto(Mexico), Pablo Trapero, Carancho (Argentina)

Middle East: Maryam Keshavarz, Circumstance(Iran), Dover Kosashvili, The Duel (US-Israel)

Eastern Europe: Marian Crisan, Morgen(France-Romania-Hungary), Kornel Mundruczo, Untitled (Hungary), Cristi Puiu, Aurora(Romania), Danis Tanovic, Cirkus Columbia(Bosnia & Herzegovina), Bela Tarr, The Turin Horse (Hungary)

Russia: Nikita Mikhalkov, The Exodus — The Fortress: Burnt By The Sun 2

Scandinavia: Susanne Bier, The Revenge (Denmark, in post-production, may not be ready) Per Fly, The Woman Who Dreamed Of A Man(Denmark-Sweden-Norway), Bent Hamer, Home For Christmas (Norway)

Spain: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Biutiful, Julio Medem, Room In Rome

UK: Stephen Frears, Tamara Drewe, Mike Leigh, (Untitled), Kevin Macdonald, Eagle Of The Ninth, David Mackenzie, The Last Word, Peter Mullan, Neds

US: Woody Allen, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan, Gela Babluani, 13, John Cameron Mitchell, Rabbit Hole, Sofia Coppola, Somewhere, Jodie Foster, The Beaver, Terrence Malick, The Tree Of Life, Oren Peli, Area 5, Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary, Robert Rodriguez, Machete, David O Russell, The Fighter,  Sylvester Stallone, The Expendables, Julie Taymor, The Tempest, Peter Weir, The Way Back