Warning the World: Many movies at the 72nd Cannes film festival deal with issues of inequality, gender, racism, terrorism and climate change

At the beginning of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman's new film, It Must Be Heaven is a scene in which a Good Friday procession finds the church occupied by pranksters who refuse to let the faithful in. Part of the prestigious competition section of the 72nd Cannes film festival, It Must Be Heaven and many of its fellow Palme d'Or contenders for the top prize of the festival reflect the state of the world today.

American director Jim Jarmusch's zombie film The Dead Don't Die opened the 72nd Cannes film festival held during May 14-25.

The Dead Don't Die by American director Jim Jarmusch, the opening film of the Cannes festival this year, set the ball rolling with its apocalyptic portrayal of a sleepy town besieged by zombies. The film, which has an ensemble cast of Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Danny Glover, Selena Gomez and Iggy Pop, shows the dead waking up from the graves after polar fracking sends the earth off its axis.