Alexander Sokurov's "Alexandra" and Andrei Zvyagintsev's "Izgnanie" (The Banishment) will be in the competition program, which will open with "My Blueberry Nights" by Wong Kar-wai (China). The film is still in production but Thierry Fremaux, the festival director, said it would be finished by May 16.
"Many films announced in the official program are not yet ready but they will all be completed by May 16," Fremaux said.
The competition program includes 20 films, three of them French - Raphael Nadjari's "Tehilim", Christophe Honore's "Les Chansons d'Amour", and "Une Vieille Maitresse" (An Old Mistress) by Catherine Breillat.
British director Stephen Frears will preside over the jury, which will also include Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk, an Academy award-nominated Australian actress Toni Collette, Italian director Marco Bellocchio, and French director Michel Piccoli.
The out of competition program features "Sicko" by Michael Moore (United States), "Ocean's Thirteen" by Steven Soderbergh (U.S.), and "A Mighty Heart" by Michael Winterbottom.
Last year, Russian films were not in the main competition program but film 977 (Nine Seven Seven) by Nikolai Khomeriki was represented in the Un Certain Regard section, and eight Russian films were shown on Day of Russia on May 20.
