The line-up for the 70th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled, setting the international template for the cinematic year. Cannes president Pierre Lescure and general delegate Thierry Frémaux made the announcement on Thursday of the official selections, which included 49 movies from 29 countries around the world – notably including 12 films from female directors (3 in competition) and 9 from debut filmmakers.

The competition line-up includes a strong mix of internationally recognized auteurs from around the world and – as per usual – a smattering of new films from Cannes regulars including Hang Sang-Soo (The Day After), Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled), Michael Haneke (Happy End) and Yorgos Lanthimos (The Killing of a Sacred Deer). Todd Haynes also returns to competition with his latest, Wonderstuck, starring Julianne Moore (Haynes was last at Cannes with his 2015 triumph Carol), as will Noah Baumbach, who brings his latest comedy, The Meyerowitz Stories to the fest.

‘Ismael’s Ghosts’

The opening night film will hail from France – Ismael’s Ghosts from Arnaud Desplechin – which stars Oscar winner Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsbourg (a Best Actress winner from the festival for Lars von Trier’s Antichrist). Other notable Cannes items include the world premiere of Bong Joon-Ho’s anticipated Netflix offering Okja (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tilda Swinton), the Sundance hit Wind River from Taylor Sheridan (screenwriter of Sicario and Hell or High Water), which will screen in the Un Certain Regard sidebar, as well as a special screening of the first two episodes of David Lynch’s upcoming reboot of Twin Peaks.

Nicole Kidman will also be around for the debut of four projects – competition titles The Beguiled and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the out of competition title How to Talk to Girls at Parties (from director John Cameron Mitchell) and a special screening of the forthcoming limited series Top of the Lake: China Girl.

Take a look at the 2017 Cannes line-up below:

OPENING NIGHT FILM

• Ismael’s Ghosts – directed by Arnaud Desplechin

COMPETITION

‘The Beguiled’

• 120 Battements par Minute – directed by Robin Campillo
• The Day After – directed by Hang Sang-Soo
• The Beguiled – directed by Sofia Coppola
• A Gentle Creature – directed by Sergei Loznitsa
• Good Time – directed by Benny and Josh Safdie
• Happy End – directed by Michael Haneke
• In the Fade – directed by Fatih Akin
• Jupiter’s Moon – directed by Kornel Mundruczo
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer – directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
• L’Amant Double – directed by François Ozon
• Loveless – directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
• The Meyerowitz Stories – directed by Noah Baumbach
• Okja – directed by Bong Joon-Ho
• Radiance – directed by Naomi Kawase
• Le Redoubtable – directed by Michel Hazanavicius
• Rodin – directed by Jacques Doillon
• Wonderstruck – directed by Todd Haynes
• You Were Never Really Here – directed by Lynne Ramsay

UN CERTAIN REGARD

‘Wind River’

• After the War – directed by Annarita Zambrano
• April’s Daughter – directed by Michel Franco
• Barbara – directed by Mathieu Amalric
• Beauty & the Dogs – directed by Kaouther Ben Hania
• Before We Vanish – directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Desert Bride – directed by Cecilia Atan, Valeria Pivato
• Directions – directed by Stephen Komandarev
• Dregs – directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
• Closeness – directed by Kantemir Balagov
• L’Aterlier – directed by Laurent Cantet
• Lucky – directed by Sergio Castellitto
• The Nature of Time – directed by Karim Moussaoui
• Out – directed by Gyorgy Kristof
• Western – directed by Valeska Grisebach
• Wind River – directed by Taylor Sheridan
• Young Woman – directed by Léonor Serraille

OUT OF COMPETITION

• Blade of the Immortal – directed by Takashi Miike
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties – directed by John Cameron Mitchell
• Visages, Villages – directed by Agnes Varda, JR

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

• The Merciless – directed by Byun Sung-Hyun
• Prayer Before Dawn – directed by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
• The Villainess – directed by Jung Byung-Gil

SPECIAL EVENTS

• 12 Days – Raymond Depardon
• Claire’s Camera – Hong Sang-Soo
• Demons in Paradise – Jude Ratman
• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – Bonni Cohen, Jon Shen
• Napalm – Claude Lanzmann
• Promised Land – Eugene Jarecki
• Sea Sorrow – Vanessa Redgrave
• They – Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

• 24 Frames – Abbas Kiarostami
• Carne y Arena – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (VR film)
• Come Swim – Kristen Stewart (short)
• Top of the Lake: China Girl – Jane Campion
• Twin Peaks – David Lynch (2 episodes)

The 2017 Cannes Film Festival runs May 17-28.