The competition is full of past winners, including two-time Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach, and other past winners such as Nanni Moretti, Wim Wenders and Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Critics were enthusiastic, with The Hollywood Reporter calling it “an all-killer, no-filler program”.
Scorsese’s “Killer of the Flower Moon,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, currently has an out-of-competition slot but could end up in competition, said festival director Thierry Fremaux.
Also playing out of competition is a documentary about wartime Amsterdam, the ‘Occupied City’ by renowned British director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave), which Fremaux describes as “a very radical film”.