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Cannes 60th Empowers Young Auteurs

 

Cannes - 60th Festival of Film Unveiled this morning by Festival artistic director Thierry Frémeaux, the 22 films selected include those by young directors and do not feature titles by Kitano, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Roy Andersson, Claude Miller and Todd Haynes that had been expected in the final lineup .

 

Europe faces a head-to-head with the US, with ten and six films selected respectively. Only four Asian titles make it through (China's Wong Kar Wai as opening film, Japan's Naomi Kawase and Korea's Lee Chang-dong and Kim Ki-duk), along with one Mexican title (Carlos Reygadas) and an unexpected French/Israeli film (Raphael Nadjari).

 

Eastern Europe will also have a strong presence, with films by Bosnian director Emir Kusturica, Hungary's Bela Tarr, Romania's Cristian Mungiu and two Russian titles by Andrei Zvyagintsev and Alexander Sokurov. Other offerings include those by Turkish/German director Fatih Akin and Austria's Ulrich Seidl.

The French delegation is represented by Christophe Honoré, Catherine Breillat and directing duo Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's animated film.

The US undoubtedly steals the show with films by Cannes regulars Gus Van Sant, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, James Gray, David Fincher and Julian Schnabel (for a French production).

UK director Michael Winterbottom's film has been selected out of competition, as well as titles by renowned US helmers Michael Moore and Steven Soderbergh.

 

Films in Competition

My Blueberry Nights - Wong Kar-Wai

An Old Mistress - Catherine Breillat

The Love Songs - Christophe Honoré

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Julian Schnabel

On the Other Side - Fatih Akin

No Country For Old Men - Ethan Coen/Joel Coen

Zodiac - David Fincher

We Own the Night - James Gray

Mogari No Mori - Naomi Kawase

Promise Me This - Emir Kusturica

Secret Sunshine - Lee Chang-Dong

4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days - Cristian Mungiu

Tehilim - Raphaël Nadjari

Silent Light - Carlos Reygadas

Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi/Vincent Paronnaud

Import/Export - Ulrich Seidl

Alexandra - Alexander Sokurov

Death Proof - Quentin Tarantino

The Man from London - Bela Tarr

Paranoid Park - Gus Van Sant

The Banishment - Andrey Zvyagintsev

Breath - Kim Ki-duk

 

Out of competition

Sicko - Michael Moore

Ocean's Thirteen - Steven Soderbergh

A Mighty Heart - Michael Winterbottom

 

Midnight Screenings, out of competition

Go Go Tales - Abel Ferrara

U2 3D - Catherine Owens / Mark Pellington

Boarding Gate - Olivier Assayas

 

Special Screenings, out of competition

11th Hour - Leila Conners Petersen / Nadia Conners

The War - Lynn Novick / Ken Burns

He Fengming - Bing Wang

Retour En Normandie - Nicolas Philibert

 

Tributes

Boxes - Jane Birkin

Roman De Gare - Claude Lelouch

Centochiodi - Ermanno Olmi

Ulzhan - Volker Schlondorff

 

Cannes Classics

Maurice Pialat, L'Amour Existe - Anne-Marie Faux / Jean-Pierre Devillers

Brando - Mimi Freedman and Leslie Grief

Lindsay Anderson, Never Apologize - Mike Kaplan

Pierre Ressient - Todd McCarthy

 

Cinefondation

Aditi Singh - Mickael Kummer

Ahora Todos Parecen Contentos - Gonzalo Tobal

Your Younger Daughter Rachel - Efrat Corem

Chinese Whispers - Raka Dutta

For The Love Of God - Joseph Tucker

Goyta - Joanna Jurewicz

Halbe Stunden - Nicolas Wackerbarth

Minus - Pavle Vuckovic

Pathways - Hagar Ben-Asher

Imprudence - Alexander Kugel

A Reunion - Sung-hoon Hong

Rondo - Marja Mikkonen

Ru Dao - Tao Chen

Saba - Thereza Menezes and Gregorio Graziosi

Triple 8 Palace - Alexander Ku

Vita Di Giacomo - Luca Governator

 

Short Films

Resistance Aux Tremblements - Olivier Hems

Run - Mark Albiston

The Oate's Valor - Tim Thaddeus Cahill

The Last 15 - Antonio Campos

Grandma - Anthony Chen

Ark - Grzegorz Jonkajtys

Ver Llover - Elisa Miller

To Onoma Tou Spourgitiou - Kyros Papavassiliou

Looking Glass - Erik Rosenlund

My Sister - Marco Ven Geffen

My Dear Rosetta - Hae-hoon Yang