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Cannes top prize: The nominees

Paris - Here is the list of the 19 films in competition for the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or.

The festival runs May 11-22 on the French Riviera.

Dozens of other films are also showing out of competition, or in competition for other prizes.

List of competitors for the top prize:

Pedro Almodovar: La Piel que habito (The Skin I Live in)

Bertrand Bonello: L'apollonide - Souvenirs de la maison close

Alain Cavalier: Pater

Joseph Cedar: Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Bir Zamanlar Anadolu (Once upon a Time in Anatolia)

Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne: Le gamin au velo (Set Me Free)

Aki Kaurismaki: Le Havre

Naomi Kawase: Hanezu no Tsuki

Julia Leigh: Sleeping Beauty

Maiwenn: Polisse

Terrence Malick: The Tree of Life

Radu Mihaileanu: La source des femmes (The Source)

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

Nanni Moretti: Habemus Papam

Lynne Ramsay: We Need to Talk about Kevin

Markus Schleinzer: Michael

Paolo Sorrentino: This Must Be a Place

Lars Von Trier: Melancholia

Nicolas Winding Refn: Drive

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