The Cannes Film Festival 2010 (12-23 May) sees 16 films with British involvement in the official Cannes line-up, reflecting the continuing success of films and talent from UK shores.

British veterans Mike Leigh and Stephen Frears alongside Americans Woody Allen and Oliver Stone will be attending this year’s Festival for the world premieres of their latest features, all of which shot in the capital.

The four directors are expected to descend on the Riviera and follow the trail marked by Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood – another directing heavyweight – whose revamped classic, which shot in the South East, will open this year’s festival.

A Cannes favourite with one Palme D’Or win and two nominations under his belt, Brit Mike Leigh is presenting his latest film In Competition this year. Shot between London and Derbyshire, Another Year stars Leigh favourites Jim Broadbent and Imelda Staunton. Leigh will be joined In Competition by another previous British Palme D’Or winner Ken Loach, whose latest feature – the Iraq war drama Route Irish – has been added to the line up just 3 days before the start of the Festival.

Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is presented in the Out of Competition section. The film is a romantic story featuring an all-star cast which includes Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Anthony Hopkins and it was shot on location largely in central and west London. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger is Allen’s fourth feature shot in the capital in recent years.

Coming from a very different film-making school from Allen, but with an equally pre-eminent voice, Oliver Stone is expected to present a crude and critical view on the economic meltdown in thriller Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – a follow up to his 1987 hit – featuring Shia LaBeouf (Transformers), Michael Douglas, and Oscar®-nominated actress, Carey Mulligan (An Education). The film, set in New York City, follows a young broker as the first signs of the financial crisis unfold. The film-making team was in London late last year to gather shots of the capital for the film’s London-set scenes.

Accompanying Stone and Allen Out of Competition is Stephen Frears (The Queen) with Tamara Drewe, based on Posy Simmons’ comic about a young and sexy journalist (Gemma Arterton, Clash of the Titans) who stirs up a storm when she returns to her idyllic childhood home in the English countryside. The film shot in Dorset, London and Pinewood Studios.

Taking part in the more experimental Un Certain Regard section is thriller Chatroom, by Japanese horror master Hideo Nakata (The Ring) and starring Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy). The film follows five teenagers who meet online and form destructive bonds. The film completed work at Shepperton Studios before moving to the capital, where it finished shooting on location in early August 2009.

Also In Competition are Doug Liman's Fair Game, co-written by British writers Jez Butterworth and John Henry Butterworth and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives co-produced by the UK's Illuminations Films. Countdown to Zero by British documentary film-maker Lucy Walker and Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow will both have a special screening.

Microwave Mentor Stephen Kijak's Stones in Exile - produced by British Oscar®-winning documentary company Passion Pictures - will screen in Directors' Fortnight alongside Alicia Duffy's mesmerizing debut All Good Children - which tells the story of Dara, a young Irish boy who is moved to rural France with his brother after the death of their mother. Craig McCall's documentary Cameraman: The Life and Jack Cardiff screens in Cannes Classics.

British short film-making is also well represented as two recipients of Film London’s Film-makers’ Festivals fund - Jens Blank with Cooked, and Alois de Leo with The Boy who Wanted to be a Lion - will have their films screened in Cinéfondation and Critics' Week respectively.

For further information and to access the full line-up visit the official website for the Cannes Film Festival.