Cannes Film Festival, the world's mostimportant cinema showcase, announced its 2013 competition lineupon Thursday.

The festival opens on May 15 with Australian director BazLuhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" starring Leonardo DiCaprio whowill return to Cannes for the first time since 2007.

Here is the lineup for the festival's main competition and films being shown out of competition:

COMPETITION:  

"A Chateau in Italy," by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

"Inside Llewyn Davis" by Ethan and Joel Coen

"Michael Kohlhaas" by Arnaud Despallieres

"Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian)" by Arnaud Desplechin

"Heli" by Amat Escalante

"The Past" by Asghar Farhadi

"The Immigrant" by James Gray

"Grigris" by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

"A Touch of Sin" by Jia Zhangke

"Like Father, Like Son" by Kore-Eda Hirokazu

"The Life of Adele" by Abdellatif Kechiche

"Shield of Straw" by Takashi Miike

"Young and Pretty" by Francois Ozon

"Nebraska" by Alexander Payne

"Venus in Fur" by Roman Polanski

"Behind the Candelabra" by Steven Soderbergh

"The Great Beauty" by Paolo Sorrentino

"Borgman" by Alex van Warmerdam

"Only God Forgives" by Nicolas Winding Refn

OUT OF COMPETITION:

"The Great Gatsby" (Opening) by Baz Luhrmann

"Zulu" (Closing) by Jerome Salle

"All is Lost" by J.C. Chandor

"Blood Ties" by Guilluame Canet