All of us may remember that last year's Palm d'Or winner 'The Square' was not in the original lineup announced at the press conference for the Festival de Cannes 2017. So a few more titles may come in the later days, like Sorrentino's 'Loro' -- a tricky release date for the first half of this six hour movie in Italy at the end of April is probably puzzling the festival organizers -- and the infamous Lars Von Trier. I mean, today with the kind of fascist governments that are in place all over the world, his words and behavior seem meek and subdued. And the visionary that is Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux I'm sure realizes that.

Personally, I'm proudest of the two Italian films in the Official Competition this year, Matteo Garrone's 'Dogman' and Alice Rohrwacher's 'Lazzaro Felice'. And of course, Nadine Labaki's 'Capernaum' and Jafar Panahi's 'Three Faces'. Not to mention the excitement at both Spike Lee and Jean-Luc Godard being in Cannes -- two grand Maestros of world cinema. 

For all the Cannes Classics, including a doc on Jane Fonda, one on Orson Welles and a few other gems check out the Festival de Cannes press release.

Following is the full line-up which was updated on the 21st of April. 

OPENING FILM

'Everybody Knows' (Asghar Farhadi) 

CLOSING FILM -- ADDED

'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' by the British Terry Gilliam, with Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce and Olga Kurylenko

COMPETITION

'Ash Is Purest White' (Jia Zhang-Ke)

'At War' (Stéphane Brizé)

'BlacKkKlansman' (Spike Lee)

'Burning' (Lee Chang-dong)

'Capernaum' (Nadine Labaki)

'Cold War' (Pawel Pawlikowski)

'Dogman' (Matteo Garrone)

'Girls of the Sun' (Eva Husson)

'The Image Book' (Jean-Luc Godard)

'Lazzaro Felice' (Alice Rohrwacher)

'Leto' or 'Summer' (Kirill Serebrennikov)

'Netemo Sametemo' or 'Asako I & II' (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

'Shoplifters' (Kore-Eda Hirokazu)

'Sorry Angel' (Christophe Honoré)

'Three Faces' (Jafar Panahi)

'Under the Silver Lake' (David Robert Mitchell)

'Yomeddine' (A.B. Shawky)

ADDED FILMS:

'Knife & Heart' by the French Yann Gonzalez starring Vanessa Paradis.

'Akya' by the Russian Sergey Dvortsevoy, director of 'Tulpan', winner of the Prize Un Certain Regard in 2008.

'The Wild Pear Tree' by the Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan, winner of the Palme d’or 2014 for 'Winter Sleep'.

UN CERTAIN REGARD

'Angel Face' (Vanessa Filho)

'Border' (Ali Abbasi) 

'El Angel' (Luis Ortega)

'Euphoria' (Valeria Golino)

'Friend' (Wanuri Kahiu)

'The Gentle Indifference of the World' (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)

'Girl' (Lukas Dhont)

'The Harvesters' (Etienne Kallos)

'In My Room' (Ulrich Köhler)

'Little Tickles' (Andréa Bescond & Eric Métayer)

'Manto' (Nandita Das)

'My Favorite Fabric' (Gaya Jiji)

'Sextape' or 'On Your Knees, Guys' (Antoine Desrosières)

'Sofia' (Meyem Benm’Barek)

ADDED FILMS: 

'Muere, Monstruo, Muere' by the Argentinean Alejandro Fadel

'The Dead and the Others' by by the Portugese João Salaviza and the Brasilian Renée Nader Messora

'Donbass' by the Ukranian Sergey Loznitsa which will open Un Certain Regard 2018 on Wednesday May 9

OUT OF COMPETITION

'Le Grand Bain' (Gilles Lellouche)

'Solo: A Star Wars Story' (Ron Howard)

ADDED FILM:

'The House that Jack Built' by Lars von Trier with Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

'Arctic' (Joe Penna)

"Gongjak' or 'The Spy Gone North' (Yoon Jong-Bing)

ADDED FILMS:

'Whitney' a documentary by the Scottish Kevin Macdonald, about the life of the singer Whitney Houston

'Fahrenheit 451' by the American Ramin Bahrani with Sofia Boutella, Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon. It’s the second adaptation of the novel by Ray Bradbury, after the one made by François Truffaut

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

'Dead Souls' (Wang Bing)

'La Traversée' (Romain Goupil)

'O Grande Circo Místico' (Carlo Diegues)

'Pope Francis – A Man of His Word' (Wim Wenders)

'The State Against Mandela and the Others' (Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte)

'10 Years in Thailand' (Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnon Sriphol & Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

'To the Four Winds' (Michel Toesca)

ADDED FILM:

The animated 'Another Day of Life' by Raul De La Fuente and Damian Nenow