Cannes Film Festival regular Quentin Tarantino's World War II picture "Inglorious Bastard," starring Brad Pitt, will debut at the festival which opens on May 13. The flick is also a hot competitor for the prestigious Cannes honor.

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Another highly anticipated film, "Tetro," written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, will not take part in the Cannes race. Having been invited to the festival, the "Godfather" director withdrew from the competition claiming it goes against the nature of an independent film, to run for a prize.

Chinese director Lu Chuan's Nanjing massacre epic, "City of Life and Death," which rolls out at cinemas in China on April 22, will share a slot in Cannes along with three other Asian films from China and South Korea. Presumably the Asian force will be tightly followed by Asian media during the festival.

Opening this year's festival is Pixar's animated picture, "Up." It will mark the first time in Cannes history an animated picture has opened the festivities.

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Editor:Liu Fang