Colin Farrell may feature in three movies at next month’s Festival de Cannes.

Productions tipped as likely Cannes contenders include Neil Jordan's Ondine, in which Farrell plays a West Cork fisherman who finds a young woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his net; Bosnian writer-director Danis Tanovic's Triage, featuring Farrell as a war photographer coming home to Ireland after a dangerous Kurdistan assignment; and Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, which stalled when Heath Ledger died last year. His character now accesses three separate dimensions, in which he is played by Farrell, Johnny Depp and Jude Law.

To date, the only officially confirmed Cannes selections are Disney's animated Up, which opens the festival on May 13th, and the world premiere of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mike Myers and Michael Fassbender, who also stars in another potential Cannes entry, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank.

Many Cannes regulars are expected to return with new movies, among them Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, Jane Campion's Bright Star, Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro, Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces, Alejandro Amenábar's Agora, Lars von Trier's Antichrist, Michael Haneke's The White Tape, Jaco van Dormael's Mr Nobody, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Dodgy Dealings by the Dozenand Ken Loach's Looking for Eric.