Nicole Kidman movie to premiere in 2012 Cannes Film Festival, line-up revealed!

The full line-up for the 2012 Cannes Film Festival which will run from May 16 25th has been announced.

Wes Andersons Moonrise Kingdom will open the festival and Therese D, the last film from director Claude Miller, starring Audrey Tautou, will close it.

Australia will be racing for Cannes gold this year with Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue lighting up the red carpet and two directors from Down Under competing for the Palme dOr.

Kidman stars in the 1960s-set thriller The Paperboy by Lee Daniels, alongside Zac Efron and John Cusack.

As we expected, David Cronenbergs Cosmopolis confirmed earlier this morning, Walter Salles On The Road starring Garett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart and Jacques Audiards latest drama, Rust & Bone starring Marion Cotillard, Michael Hanekes Amour and Abbas Kiarostamis Like Someone In Love will premiere in Cannes. They all will compete for Palme DOr.

John Hillcoats Lawless starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain and many others, Lee Daniels The Paperboy with Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron and Andrew Dominiks Killing Them Softly, previously known as Cogans Trade, starring Brad Pitt are in the same Cannes In Competition category.

When it comes to the Out of Competition and Un Certain Regard selections, Philip Kaufmans Hemingway & Gellhorn, Xavier Dolans Lau! rence An yways and 7 Days In Havana will have that honor to be presented at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

Now, check out the full line-up.

In Competition:

Amour(dir. Michael Haneke)

The Angels Share (dir. Ken Loach)

Baad EL Mawkeaa (Apres La Bataille) (dir. Yousry Nasrallah)

Beyond The Hills (dir. Cristian Mungiu)

Cosmopolis (dir. David Cronenberg)

Holly Motors (dir. Leos Carax)

The Hunt (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

In Another Country (dir. Hong Sang-Soo)

Im Nebels (Dans La Brume) (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)

Killing Them Softly (dir. Andrew Dominik)

Lawless (dir. John Hillcoat)

Like Someone In Love (dir. Abbas Kiarostami)

Moonrise Kingdom (dir. Wes Anderson)

Mud (dir. Jeff Nichols)

On the Road (dir. Walter Salles)

Paradies: Liebe (dir. Ulrich Seidl)

The Paperboy (dir. Lee Daniels)

Post Tenebras Lux (dir. Carlos Reygadas)

Reality (dir. Matteo Garrone)

Rust & Bone (dir. Jacques Audiard)

Taste Of Money (dir. Im Sang-Soo)

Vous NAvez Encoure Rien Vu (dir. Alain Resnais)

Opening Film:

Moonrise Kingdom (dir. Wes Anderson)

Closing Film:

Therese D. (dir. Claude Miller)

Un Certain Regard:

Miss Lovely (dir. Ashim Ahluwalia)

La Playa (dir. Juan Andres Arango)

Les Chevaus De Dieu (dir. Nabil Ayouch)

Trois Mondes (dir. Catheron Corsini)

Antiviral (dir. Brandon Cronenberg)

7 Days In Havana (dir. Benicio Del Toro, Laurent Cantet, Gaspar Noe etc)

Le Grand Soir (dir. Benoit Delepine & Gustave Kervern)

Laurence Anyways (dir. Xavier Dolan)

Despues De Lucia (dir. Michel Franco)

Aimer A Perdre La Raison (dir. Joachim Lafosse)

Mystery (dir. Lou Ye)

Student (dir. Darezhan Omirbayev)

La Pirogue (dir. Moussa Toure)

Elefante Blanco (dir. Pablo Trapero)

Confession Of A Child Of The Century (dir. Sylvie Verheyde)

11.25: The Da! y He Cho se His Own Fate (dir. Koji Wakamatsu)

Beasts Of The Southern Wild (dir. Benh Zeitlin)

Out of Competition

Une Journee Particuliere (dir. Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure)

Madagascar 3: Europes Most Wanted (dir. Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath)

Dario Argentos Dracula (dir. Dario Argento)

Io E Te (dir. Bernardo Berolucci)

Hemingway & Gellhorn (Dir. Philip Kaufman)

Ai To Makoto (dir. Takashi Miike)

Special Screening:

Der Mull Im Garten Eden (dir. Faith Akin)

Mekong Hotel (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

Villegas (dir. Gonzalo Tobal)

A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim (dir. Nelson Pereira Do Santos)

Journal De France (dir. Claudine Nougaret & Raymond Depardon)

Les Invisbles (dir. Sebastien Lifshitz)

The Central Park Five (dir. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon)

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (dir. Laurent Bouzereau)