Twenty films will go head to head in the race for the Palme d’Or at the May 15-26 Cannes Film Festival.

Here are the films chosen to compete before the jury headed by US director Steven Spielberg, with English titles where cited by organisers:

– “Un Chateau en Italie”, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

– “Inside Llewyn Davis”, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

– “Michael Kohlhaas”, Arnaud Despallieres

– “Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)”, Arnaud Desplechin

– “Heli”, Amat Escalante

– “Le Passe”, Asghar Farhadi

– “The Immigrant”, James Gray

– “Grigris”, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

– “Tian Zhu Ding” (“A Touch of Sin”), Jia Zhangke

– “Soshite Chichi Ni Naru” (“Like Father, Like Son”), Hirokazu Kore-Eda

– “La Vie d’Adele”, Abdellatif Kechiche

– “Wara No Tate” (“Shield of Straw”), Takashi Miike

– “Jeune et Jolie”, Francois Ozon

– “Nebraska”, Alexander Payne

– “La Venus a la Forrure”, Roman Polanski

– “Behind the Candelabra”, Steven Soderbergh

– “La Grande Bellezza” (“The Great Beauty”), Paolo Sorrentino

– “Borgman”, Alex van Warmerdam

– “Only God Forgives”, Nicolas Winding Refn

– “Only Lovers Left Alive”, Jim Jarmusch