Gilles Jacob (R), president of the 64th Cannes Film Festival, and Thierry Fremaux (L), general delegate of the festival, pose in front of the official poster after a news conference to announce the selection of competing films in Paris April 14, 2011. The festival will run from May 11- 22. [Photo/Agencies]

The Cannes Film Festival opens on May 11 with a showing of Woody Allen's film, "Midnight in Paris". 

Following is the list of competition films and a selection of movies that will be screened during the event outside the main line-up. They are listed by title, director and director's nationality.

IN COMPETITION:

- La Piel Que Habito (The Skin That I Inhabit)/Pedro Almodovar/Spain

- L'Apollonide/Bertrand Bonello/France

- Pater/Alain Cavailer/France

- Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)/Joseph Cedar/Israel

- Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)/Nuri Bilge Ceylan/Turkey

- Le Gamin Au Velo/Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne/Belgium

- Le Havre/Aki Kaurismaki/Finland

- Hanezu No Tsuki/Naomi Kawase/Japan

- Sleeping Beauty/Julia Leigh/Australia

- Polisse/Maiwenn Le Besco/France

- The Tree of Life/Terrence Malick/United States

- La Source des Femmes/Radu Mihaileanu/France

- Ishimei (Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai)/Takashi Miike/Japan

- Habemus Papam/Nanni Moretti/Italy

- We Need To Talk About Kevin/Lynne Ramsay/Scotland

- Michael/Markus Schleinzer/Austria

- This Must Be The Place/Paolo Sorrentino/Italy

- Melancholia/Lars von Trier/Denmark

- Drive/Nicolas Winding Refn/Denmark Out of Competition

- Midnight in Paris/Woody Allen/United States

- L'Exercise de l'Etat/Pierre Schoeller/France

- La Conquete/Xavier Durringer/France

- The Beaver/Jodie Foster/United States

- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides/Rob Marshall/United States