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Cannes 2015 Competition Gallery

by Amber Wilkinson, © 2015 – LPPTV – ON ENTERTAINMENT – ORANGE STUDIO – M6 FILMS , ©2014 Disney•Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

Films competing for Palm d'Or at Cannes, won last year by Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. Films not competing are listed Out of Competition.

  • The Assassin

    The Assassin

  • Youth

    A composer and a film director staying in an Alpine hotel find themselves under unexpected pressure in Youth.

  • Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert in Valley Of Love

    Two estranged parents (Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert) are brought together by a request from their son who committed suicide in Valley Of Love.

  • Tale Of Tales

    Salma Hayek stars as a jealous queen in Tale of Tales.

  • Son Of Saul

    In the horror of Auschwitz, a prisoner (Géza Röhrig) forced to burn the corpses of his own people, tries to save a body he thinks is his son's from the flames in Son Of Saul.

  • A Simple Man

    A supermarket guard (Vincent Lindon) faces a moral quandry in A Simple Man (La Loi Du Marché).

  • Sea Of Trees

    A suicidal American (Matthew McConaughey) befriends a Japanese man (Ken Wantabe) lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out in Sea Of Trees.

  • Sicario

    A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit in Sicario.

  • Our Little Sister

    Three siblings who live in their grandma's home have to cope with the arrive of their 13-year-old half sister in Our Little Sister (Umimachi Diary)

  • My Mother

    Tragicomedy My Mother (Mia Madre).

  • My King

    An injured woman in a rehabilitation centre recalls a destructive passionate love affair in My King (Mon Roi).

  • Mountains May Depart

    Tao Zhao in Mountains May Depart

  • Marguerite And Julien

    Jérémie Elkaïm and Anaïs Demoustier star in tale of incest Marguerite And Julien.

  • Macbeth

    Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard star in Shakespeare's tale of treachery and murder.

  • Louder Than Bombs

    Three years after the death of a war photographer, secrets begin to emerge in Louder Than Bombs.

  • The Lobster

    Future dystopia The Lobster.

  • Dheepan

    Dheephan, the story of a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France.

  • Chronic

    Chronic, which tells the story of a home care nurse who works with the terminally ill.

  • Carol

    Todd Haynes’s Patricia Highsmith adaptation, Carol, stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

  • Mad Max: Fury Road

    In a post-Apocalyptic world, a survivor hooks up with a mysterious woman to face off against murderous gangs in Mad Max: Fury Road, which is screening Out Of Competition in Cannes.

  • The Little Prince — photo by © 2015 – LPPTV – ON ENTERTAINMENT – ORANGE STUDIO – M6 FILMS

    A pilot crashes in the desert and meets a little boy from a distant planet in The Little Prince. Out of Competition in Cannes.

  • Inside Out — photo by ©2014 Disney•Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

    A little girl's emotions vie for control of her mind in Disney Pixar's Inside Out. Joy (voice of Amy Poehler) and Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith) catch a ride on the Train of Thought.

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