Films in the running for the Cannes festival Palme d’Or

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PARIS—The Cannes film festival on Thursday unveiled the lineup of movies that will go head to head in the race for the Palme d’Or at the French Riviera festival on May 15-26.

Here are the 19 films chosen to compete before the jury headed by US director Steven Spielberg:

— “Un Chateau en Italie” (“A Chateau in Italy”), 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” (“The Past”), 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”), Kore-Eda Hirokazu

— “La Vie d’Adele” (“The Life of Adele”), Abdellatif Kechiche

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

— “Jeune et Jolie” (“Young and Pretty”), 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