The 2016 Cannes programme has been one of the most broadly appealing for years, with a robust main competition - featuring luminaries like Pedro Almodóvar and the Dardenne brothers, and a younger generation of hell raisers - plus an unusually starry selection of world premieres.Here are the films that caught our eye:THE BFGSteven Spielberg's second collaboration with Mark Rylance is an adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl children's story - a fantasy about an orphan and a giant that dances around a thousand Spielbergian sweet spots.THE NEON DEMONNicolas Winding Refn is a veteran of the Cannes roller-coaster. His latest is a sleekly stylised psycho-horror about cannibalistic models, with Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves.THE NICE GUYSNo one writes buddy action comedies quite like Shane Black - his Lethal Weapon script chiselled the genre rules into marble. His latest is a noirish caper starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, who play a bounty hunter and a private investigator on the trail of a missing girl in 1970s Los Angeles.AMERICAN HONEYBritish director Andrea Arnold's films are renowned for their skin-prickling intimacy and beady social-realist focus. Quite how that style will transfer to a sprawling road movie set in the American midwest and co-starring Shia LaBeouf remains to be seen. She is one of only three female filmmakers in contention for the Palme d'Or.STAYING VERTICALIn search of Cannes scandal? Look no further than Alain Guiraudie, the French filmmaker whose penchant for explicit sex is as much of a trademark as his flair for Hitchcockian tension with surreal detailing. This drama is about a creatively blocked film maker and single father.AQUARIUSIf you haven't heard of the Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, take note: this drama about a music critic battling a property developer is in competition for the Palme d'Or.DOG EAT DOGThe new hard-boiled thriller from Paul Schrader, the writer of Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, is based on a novel by former San Quentin inmate Edward Bunker. It stars Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe as two crooks whose kidnapping of a baby goes sickeningly wrong.CAFÉ SOCIETYWoody Allen opened Cannes for a record third time - with another honeyed period piece, about a plucky dreamer played by Jesse Eisenberg who tries to make a go of things in 1930s Hollywood.RISKJulian Assange comes to Cannes, on screen, as the subject of this cyber-intel doc by American filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last turned her attention to Edward Snowden's highly orchestrated data dump in Citizenfour.MONEY MONSTERGeorge Clooney is back in duplicitous smarm mode, as an oleaginous TV investment guru whose dodgy advice causes him to be taken hostage on air, by a disgruntled, gun-toting Jack O'Connell.JULIETAAny new Pedro Almodóvar is an event.Julieta brings him back to a predominantly female ensemble, and from a female source - three short stories from the stunning collection Runaway, by the Canadian writer Alice Munro.ELLEPaul Verhoeven directing Isabelle Huppert, in a French-language rape-revenge thriller about her stalking her own stalker back? Colour us scared, but first in line.PERSONAL SHOPPERKristen Stewart shops for the luminaries of the Paris fashion scene. But there's a supernatural twist. - © The Daily Telegraph..