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This year's Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

This year's Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition, including movies from four past winners of the top prize Palme d'Or, as well as several cult favourites.

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This years Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

'Nostalgia'

Italian director Mario Martone pays homage to his hometown of Naples.

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This years Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

'Brother and Sister'

Marion Cotillard stars in a drama about feuding siblings brought back together by the death of their parents, directed by Cannes veteran Arnaud Desplechin.

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This years Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

'Leila's Brothers'

Iran's Saeed Roustaee made a splash last year with his punchy cop thriller "Just 6.5". His new film examines the economic struggles of a family in a country hit by international sanctions.

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This years Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

'EO'

Following a donkey from the circus to the slaughterhouse, this treatise against animal cruelty is from 84-year-old Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, who was first in competition at Cannes in 1972.

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This years Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

'Pacification'

Spanish director Albert Serra heads for Tahiti to explore the diplomatic tensions around French nuclear testing.

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This years Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

'Mother and Son'

France's Leonor Serraille follows a Senegalese mother from the 1980s to the present day as she tries to establish a life in the Paris suburbs.

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This years Cannes Film Festival has 21 films in competition

'The Eight Mountains'

A story of a lifelong friendship between boys and their rural home from Belgian husband-and-wife team Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch.