Twenty films are in competition for this year's Palme d'Or which will be awarded at the Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony on Sunday.

Here are the films chosen to compete before the jury, headed by US director Steven Spielberg, with English titles where supplied by festival organisers:

- "Un Chateau en Italie" ("A Castle 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"), Hirokazu Kore-Eda

- "La Vie d'Adele - Chapitre 1&2" ("Blue is the Warmest Colour"), Abdellatif Kechiche

- "Wara No Tate" ("Shield of Straw"), Takashi Miike

- "Jeune et Jolie" ("Young and Beautiful"), Francois Ozon

- "Nebraska", Alexander Payne

- "La Venus a la Forrure" ("Venus in Fur"), 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

- "Only Lovers Left Alive", Jim Jarmusch