(CANNES-AFP) - The Cannes Film Festival awards its top Palme d'Or prize for best film at a star-studded on ceremony on Saturday.

Here are the 18 films competing before the jury headed by New Zealand film-maker Jane Campion:

  • "Clouds of Sils Maria", Olivier Assayas
  • "Saint Laurent", Bertrand Bonello
  • "Winter Sleep", Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • "Maps to the Stars", David Cronenberg
  • "Two Days, One Night", Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
  • "Mommy", Xavier Dolan
  • "Captives", Atom Egoyan
  • "Goodbye to Language", Jean-Luc Godard
  • "The Search", Michel Hazanavicius
  • "The Homesman", Tommy Lee Jones
  • "Still the Water", Naomi Kawase
  • "Mr Turner", Mike Leigh
  • "Jimmy's Hall", Ken Loach
  • "Foxcatcher", Bennett Miller
  • "The Wonders", Alice Rohrwacher
  • "Wild Tales", Damian Szifron
  • "Timbuktu", Abderrahmane Sissako
  • "Leviathan", Andrei Zvyagintsev