The Cannes Film Festival is one of the few events where referring to a film by its director’s name—“the Anderson,” “the Assayas,” “the Loach”—feels not only appropriate, but necessary. We’re talking language barriers here, people, not attitude! (Example: Last year, you could simply tell a pal, “au revoir, off to see the Cronenberg,” instead of being forced to flub a line that made reference to “cartes à l'étoile,” unless you’re also fluent and French, and that’s actually very nice for you). Try it. It feels nice!

Cannes has now unveiled the majority of its slate—including competition titles, Un Certain Regard offerings, and special screenings—all of which beg to be referred to by their director’s last name. Those names include Van Sant, Allen, Haynes, Lanthimos, Audiard, Miller, Trier, Villeneuve, and Kapadia, and they all add up to one hell of a slate.

The festival includes some obvious offerings, like Woody Allen’s latest, Irrational Man, along with highly anticipated features, particularly Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth, Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs, and Gus Van Sant’s The Sea Of Trees. Cannes will even offer up screenings of George Miller’s majorly hyped Mad Max: Fury Road, along with Pixar’s Inside Out (for the teensy cinephile in your life). Every title is more exciting than the last, and Cannes continues to inspire both deep jealousy and major admiration in all who behold its slate.

The festival previously announced its opening film: Emmanuelle Bercot’s La Tete Haute, which stars the incandescent Catherine Deneuve and marks the first time since 1987 that the festival opened with a female-directed feature. The title also signals a break with recent tradition to open the fest with a larger title, as previous years have kicked off the festival with titles like Grace Of Monaco, The Great Gatsby, and Moonrise Kingdom.

Take a look at the just-announced slate, and brace yourself for the inevitable addition of still more films as we approach the festival:

Competition
Erran (working title), dir: Jacques Audiard
A Simple Man, dir: Stephane Brize
Marguerite and Julien, dir: Valerie Donzelli
The Tale Of Tales, dir: Matteo Garrone
Carol, dir: Todd Haynes
The Assassin, dir: Hou Hsiao Hsien
Mountains May Depart, dir: Jia Zhang-Ke
Our Little Sister, dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Macbeth, dir: Justin Kurzel
The Lobster, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Mon Roi, dir: Maiwenn
Mia Madre, dir: Nanni Moretti
Son Of Saul, dir: Laszlo Nemes
Youth, dir: Paolo Sorrentino
Louder Than Bombs, dir: Joachim Trier
The Sea Of Trees, dir: Gus Van Sant
Sicario, dir: Denis Villeneuve

Un Certain Regard
Madonna, dir: Shin Su-won
Maryland, dir: Anna Winocour
The Fourth Direction, dir: Gurvinder Singh
Masaan (Fly Away Solo), dir: Neeraj Ghaywan
Hruter (Rams), dir: Grimur Hakonarson
Kishibe No Tabi (Journey to the Shore), dir: Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Je Suis Un Soldat (I Am a Soldier), dir: Laurent Lariviere
Zvizdan (The High Sun), dir: Dalibor Matanic
The Other Side, dir: Roberto Minervini
One Floor Below, dir: Radu Muntean
Shameless, dir: Oh Seung-Uk
The Chosen Ones, dir: David Pablos
Nahid, dir: Ida Panahandeh
The Treasure, dir: Corneliu Porumboiu

Out of Competition
Mad Max: Fury Road, dir: George Miller
Irrational Man, dir: Woody Allen
Inside Out, dir: Pete Docter and Ronaldo del Carmen
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), dir: Mark Osborne

Special Screenings
Oka, dir: Souleymane Cisse
Sipur Al Ahava Ve Choshech (A Tale of Love and Darkness), dir: Natalie Portman
Hayored Lema’ala, dir Elad Keidan
Amnesia, dir: Barbet Schroeder
Panama, dir: Pavel Vuckovic
Asphalte, dir: Samuel Benchetrit
L'esprit de l'escalier, dir: Pabla Lucavic

Midnight Screenings
O Piseu (Office), dir: Hong Won-Chan
Amy, dir: Asif Kapadia

Cannes runs from May 13–24. Oh la la and such.