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The official selection of movies to be shown at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival has finally been unveiled. In the festival that will be kicked off on May 13 and wrapped on May 24, a total of 52 films will be featured from four categories, In Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, and Special Screenings.

Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces", Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" and Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" are listed among the 20 In Competition movies. They will be up against Jane Campion's "Bright Star", Ken Loach's "Looking for Eric", Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon", Lars von Trier's "Antichrist" and Park Chan-wook's "Thirst" among others.

Terry Gilliam-directed drama fantasy starring Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law and the late Heath Ledger, "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", has been included in the Out of Competition line-up. In the meantime, Sam Raimi's horror "Drag Me to Hell" enters the Midnight Screenings list.

Opening the annual fest held at the Palais des Festivals et des Congres in France on May 13 will be Pete Docter and Bob Peterson-directed animation "Up", while closing the fest is Jan Kounen's "Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky".

The detailed line-up for the festival was outed by the fest duo Gilles Jacob and Fremaux at a news conference Thursday, April 23, in Paris. On the occasion, Jacob also revealed plans to post the first five minutes of all films on Festival de Cannes site. "We hope that Internet users, leaving their consoles and GameBoys behind, will be tempted to rush into the closest movie theater to discover the rest," he explained.

Opening Night Film: "Up", Pete Docter

In Competition:

• "Broken Embraces", Pedro Almodovar
• "Fish Tank", Andrea Arnold
• "A Prophet", Jacques Audiard
• "Vincere", Dir: Marco Bellocchio
• "Bright Star", Jane Campion
• "In the Beginning", Xavier Giannoli
• "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo", Isabel Coixet
• "The White Ribbon", Michael Haneke
• "Taking Woodstock", Ang Lee
• "Looking for Eric", Ken Loach
• "Spring Fever", Lou Ye
• "Kinatay", Brillante Mendoza
• "Enter The Void", Gasper Noe
• "Thirst", Park Chan-wook
• "Les Herbes Foilles", Alain Resnais
• "The Time That Remains", Elia Suleiman
• "Inglourious Basterds", Quentin Tarantino
• "Vengeance", Johnnie To
• "Face", Tsai Ming-liang
• "Antichrist", Lars von Trier

• "Mother", Bong Joon-ho
• "Irene", Alain Cavalier
• "Precious", Lee Daniels
• "Demaine Des L'Aube", Denis Dercourt
• "Adrift", Heitor Dhalia
• "Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats", Bahman Ghobadi
• "The Wind Journeys", Ciro Guerra
• "Le Pere De Mes Enfants", Mia Hansen-Love
• "Tale In The Darkness", Nikolay Khomeriki
• "Air Doll", Hirokazu Kore-Eda
• "Dogtooth", Giorgos Lanthimos
• "Tzar", Pavel Lounguine
• "Independence", Raya Martin
• "Police, Adjectiv", Corneliu Porumboiu
• "Nymph", Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
• "To Die Like A Man", Joao Pedro Rodrigues
• "Eyes Wide Open", Haim Tabakman
• "Samson & Delilah", Warwick Thornton
• "The Silent Army", Jean van de Velde
• "Tales From The Golden Age", Hanno Hofer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Propescu, Ioanna Uricaru

• "The Army of Crime", Robert Guediguian
• "Agora", Alejandro Amenabar
• "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus", Terry Gilliam

• "Petition", Zhao Liang
• "L'epine Dans le Coeur", Michel Gondry
• "Min Ye", Souleymane Cisse
• "Jaffa", Keren Yedaya
• "Manila", Adolfo Alix Jr. and Raya Martin
• "My Neighbor, My Killer", Anne Aghion

• "A Town Called Panic", Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar
• "Ne Te Retourne Pas", Marina de Van
• "Drag Me to Hell", Sam Raimi