The Cannes Film Festival returns in July with a rich official selection competing for the Palme d'Or after the pandemic robbed the world's leading film festival of its 2020 edition. Here are the 24 films competing from July 5 to 17 for the prestigious prize awarded by a jury headed by US director Spike Lee. - "Annette" by Leos Carax, France - "The French Dispatch" by Wes Anderson, US - "Benedetta" by Paul Verhoeven, Netherlands - "A Hero" by Asghar Farhadi, Iran - "Tout s'est Bien Passe" (Everything Went Well) by Francois Ozon, France - "Tre Piani" (Three Floors) by Nanni Moretti, Italy - "Titane" (Titan) by Julia Ducournau, France - "Red Rocket" by Sean Baker, US - "Petrov's Flu" by Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia - "Par un Demi Clair Matin" (France) by Bruno Dumont, France - "Nitram" by Justin Kurzel, Australia - "Memoria" by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand - "Lingui" by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad - "Les Olympiades" (Paris 13th District) by Jacques Audiard, France - "Les Intranquilles" (The Restless) by Joachim Lafosse, Belgium - "La Fracture" by Catherine Corsini, France - "The Worst Person in the World" by Joachim Trier, Norway - "Compartment No 6" by Juho Kuosmanen, Finland - "Casablanca Beats" by Nabil Ayouch, France-Morocco - "Ahed's Knee" by Nadav Lapid, Israel - "Drive My Car" by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan - "Bergman Island" by Mia Hansen-Love, France - "The Story of My Wife" by Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary - "Flag Day" by Sean Penn, US jh/js/yad