Woody Allen film to open 2016 Cannes Festival

Woody Allen's latest film, Cafe Society, will open the 69thCannes International Film Festival on May 11 in an out of competition slot.

Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg head an all-star cast in Cafe Society which includes Blake Lively, Parker Posey and Steve Carell.

Eisenberg plays a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry who finds himself swept up in the vibrant cafe society that defined the spirit of the age.

This will be Allen's 14th film to screen in Cannes, all out of competition. The last was Irrational Man in 2015.  

Eisenberg walked Cannes red carpet last year as the co-star of Joachim Trier's Louder Than Bombs. Stewart is a Cannes regular. Her last appearance at the festival, in 2014 for Olivier

Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria, a role that earned her a Cesar, France's highest cinema award, making her the first-ever American actress to be so honored.

Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum and Edward Walson produced Cafe Society as a co-production together with Helen Robin. Ronald L. Chez, Adam B. Stern and Marc I. Stern executive produced. FilmNation

Entertainment is handling international sales. Mars Films will bow the film in French cinemas on May 11, day and date with its Cannes premiere.

Cannes is set to announce its full festival line-up on April 14.