Cannes 2012: seven films join the lineup

Seven films have been belatedly added to the official lineup for Cannes 2012 – but big hitters such as Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson and Terrence Malick seem destined not to have their latest films at the festival. The British anti-waste documentary Trashed , featuring Jeremy Irons and directed by Candida Bray, will join the special screenings programme, while The Sapphires , an Australian second world war musical about an Aboriginal girl group, and Maniac , the Elijah Wood-starring serial killer film, have both been given late-night slots in the midnight screenings section. The Un Certain Regard selection has added three new titles: the SXSW award-winning graffiti yarn Gimme the Loot , Bosnian director Aida Begic's Djeca, and Gilles Bourdos' Renoir , about the legendary artist and his film-maker son. Finally, the Cannes classics has programmed Hungarian director György Pálfi's clip-montage Final Cut (Hölgyeim és uraim) as its closing film. The Cannes film festival starts on 16 May.