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I spent all of last week divulging some of films that I expect to be in Cannes this year, and Screen Daily happened to do the same. There are a good number of films that are mentioned of both sites' lists, but I mention about twenty films that the trade makes no mention of, and of course they have got a long list as well of films that I either passed on as potential selections or I was totally oblivious as to their existence.

Masochist indie distributor First Independent Pictures will once again have their work cut out for them, as they board a coming-of-age tale about an Hasidic Jew who turns into a drug mule. I use the term masochist, because last year Gary Rubin's FIP took on the difficult to market Big Fan (the story of an obsessed stay-at-home NY Giants fan) and Gigantic (a bed and mattress salesmen in Paul Dano who desperately wants to adopt a child).

Back in January, I published a comprehensive Top 100 Most Anticipated Films list for the upcoming year, I thought I'd wrap it up stats with a checklist below.

Screen Daily made up their own Tips list with some surprise titles that I don't think will make it to Cannes (although I badly want to see Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus, I think he might return to Venice), and some titles that have a good shot which I did not mention (John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole) and plenty of their list mimics my picks - such as Julie Bertucelli's The Tree.

It's always fun to guess how the jury might end up voting and whether the head of juror will indeed sway the final vote. Last year The White Ribbon won and the wave of reactions obviously pointed to Huppert and Haneke's well-known rapport. The previous year, Sean Penn gave the Palme d'Or to The Class, not a politically-themed picture, but a social drama that represents a common pandemic. This year we have Tim Burton as the master of ceremonies -- knowing him he has a taste for noir and fantasy.