The VIP guests expected to be in attendance today are:

Emil ABOSSOLO M'BO, Alberto BARBERA, Mélanie BARNIER, Kate BECKINSALE, Mélanie BERNIER, Juliette BINOCHE, Dominique BLANC, Cate BLANCHETT, Raoul BOVA, Stephane BRIZE, Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI, Tim BURTON, Emmanuel CARRERE, Lolita CHAMMAH, Monia CHOKRI, Glenn CLOSE, Dominic COOPER, Marion COTILLARD, Russell CROWE, Benicio DEL TORO, Anais DEMOUSTIER, Claire DENIS, Alexandre DESPLAT, Emmanuelle DEVOS, Carlos DIEGUES, Dinara DROUKAROVA, Kirsten DUNST, Atom EGOYAN, Victor ERICE, Luke EVANS, Françoise FABIAN, Bingbing FAN, Patrick FERLA, Marina FOIS, Jean-Marie FRIN, Gael GARCIA BERNAL, Louis GARREL, Elio GERMANO, Janine GOLD, Pascal GREGORY, William HURT, Gemma JONES, Shekhar KAPUR, Huan-Ru KE, Dong Ho KIM, Doutzen KROES, Henri LECONTE, Daniel LEE, David LEE, Michael LONSDALE, Giovanna MEZZOGIORNO, Wallapa MONGKOLPRASERT, Viktor NEMETS, Candice NEYLL, Luc PLAMONDON, Clementine POIDATZ, Olivier RABOURDIN, Isabella RAGONESE, Edgar RAMIREZ, Marc RECHA, Niels SCHNEIDER, Lea SEYDOUX, William SHIMELL, Olga SHUVALOVA, Mark STRONG, David TARIELASHVILI, Max VON SYDOW, Nora VON WALDSTAFFEN, Naomie WATTS, Yuh-Jung YOUN, Billy ZANE, Junghee YUN.

Also expected: Edward HOUSDEN, David VERBEEK, Hector BABENCO, Jean-Pierre MOCKY, Cristi PUIU, Radu MUNTEAN, Xavier BEAUVOIS, Mohamed LAKHDAR HAMINA, Charles FERGUSON, Xiaoshuai WANG, Lucy WALKER, Christopher THOMPSON, Agnes VARDA, Raoul PECK, Daniel LECONTE, Francine BRUCHER, Jean-Jacques ANNAUD, Christian CARION, Pascal THOMAS, Julie BERTUCELLI, Xavier DOLAN, Oliver SCHMITZ, Jean-Pierre SALOME, Mike LEIGH, Agnes KOCSIS, Ke JIA ZHANG, Marialy RIVAS, Catherine CORSINI, Nikita MIKHALKOV, Fabrice GENESTAL, Takeshi KITANO, Pierre SCHOENDOERFFER, Elia SULEIMAN, Yarden KARMIN, Pablo TRAPERO, Michael HANEKE, Santiago LOZA, Laurent CANTET, Stephen FREARS, Serge AVEDIKIAN, Rodrigo FELHA, Manaira CARNEIRO, Luciano VIDIGAL, Wava NOVAIS, Luciana BEZERRA, Cadu BARCELOS, Cacau AMARAL, Derek CIANFRANCE, Andrei UJICA, Surgis KRASONS, Xavier BEAUVOIS, Abbas KIAROSTAMI, Claude PINOTEAU, Otar IOSSELIANI, Marco BELLOCCHIO, Chang-Dong LEE, Vikramaditya MOTWANE, Sergei LOZNITSA, Fabrice GOBERT, Apitchapong WEERASETHAKUL, Danie VEGA, Diego VEGA, Marcia FARIA, Daniele LUCHETTI, Rachid BOUCHAREB