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Movie icon Clint Eastwood will premiere his latest directorial outing, called Changeling, at the Cannes International Film Festival next month.

The 1920s thriller, about a woman whose son is kidnapped, stars Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich and Amy Ryan.

Other films set for the event include Wim Wenders' The Palermo Shooting and Steven Soderbergh's four-hour biopic of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.

The latest Indiana Jones movie will also be shown out of competition.

The 61st Cannes Film Festival runs from 14-25 May in the south of France.

Quentin Tarantino will be among the Hollywood A-listers attending the festival, where he will give a film directing masterclass.
Other celebrities rumoured to be attending include Penelope Cruz, Woody Allen, Benicio Del Toro and the main cast of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
No British films are competing for the Palme D'Or this year - but the UK Film Council said "people shouldn't get too hung up" about the selection.
The festival is the most prestigious event in the film calendar after the Oscars, and attracts more than 33,000 people to France each year.
A total of 19 directors will compete for the honour.
FILMS IN COMPETITION:

• Three Monkeys (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey / France / Italy)

• Le Silence De Lorna (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, France / Belgium)

• A Christmas Story (Arnaud Desplechin, France)

• Changeling (Clint Eastwood, USA)

• Adoration (Atom Egoyan, Canada)

• Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, Israel)

• La Frontiere De L'Aube (Philippe Garrel, France)

• Gomorra (Matteo Garrone, Italy)

• Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, USA / France)

• My Magic (Eric Khoo, Singapore)

• La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Lucretia Martel, Argentina / Spain)

• Serbis (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines)

• Delta (Kornel Mondruczo, Hungary / Germany)

• Linha De Passe (Walter Salles, Brazil)

• Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)

• Leonera (Pablo Trapero, Argentina / South Korea)

• The Palermo Shooting (Wim Wenders, Germany)

• 24 City (Jia Zhangke, China)

• Che (Steven Soderbergh, USA / Spain / France)