PARIS -- Organizers of the Cannes film festival on Wednesday issued the list of 19 films competing for the prestigious Palme d'Or award closing the event, May 14-25.

A 20th film from France is to be announced in the next few days.

Following is the list of contenders and directors:

? "Uc Maymun" (The Three Monkeys) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)

? "Le Silence De Lorna" (The Silence of Lorna) by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium)

? "Un Conte de Noel" (A Christmas Tale) by Arnaud Desplechin (France)

? "Changeling" by Clint Eastwood (United States)

? "Adoration" by Atom Egoyan (Canada)

? "Waltz With Bashir" by Ari Folman (Israel)

? "La Frontiere De l'Aube" (The Frontier Of Dawn) by Philippe Garrel (France)

? "Gomorra" by Matteo Garrone (Italy)

? "24 City" by Jia Zhangke (China)

? "Synecdoche, New York" by Charlie Kaufman (United States)

? "My Magic" by Eric Khoo (Singapore)

? "La Mujer Sin Cabeza" (Woman Without A Head) by Lucrecia Martel (Argentina)

? "Serbis" by Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)

? "Delta" by Kornel Mundruczo (Hungary)

? "Linha de Passe" (Line of Passage) by Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas (Brazil)

? "Che" by Steven Soderbergh (United States)

? "Il Divo" by Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)

? "Leonera" by Pablo Trapero (Argentina)

? "The Palermo Shooting" by Wim Wenders (Germany)

Out of competition:
? "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" by Woody Allen (United States)

? "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" by Kim Jee-Woon (South Korea)

? "Kung Fu Panda" by Mark Osborne, John Stevenson (United States)

? "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" by Steven Spielberg (United States)