BOF: 60th Cannes Film Festival

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60th Cannes International Film Festival

When: May 16 to May 27th, 2007
Counting Down:
Where: Cannes, France
Official Website: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php?langue=6002

What: In 1939, French minister for Public Instruction and the Arts (Ministère de l'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts), Jean Zay proposed the creation of an international film event in France. Cannes was chosen for its “sunshine and enchanting setting”. The first International Film Festival (Festival International du Film), to be presided by Louis Lumière, was postponed due to the war. In 1945, the French Association for Artistic Action (Association Française d'Action Artistique) was asked once again to organise a festival to be held under the aegis of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères), the Ministry of National Education (Ministère de l'Education Nationale) and, from 1946 onwards, the newly founded National Cinema Centre (Centre Nationale de la Cinématographie – CNC).

Accreditation: Academy Award ® accreditation, FIAPF

Competition: feature-length films and shorts; non-competitive section: “Un Certain Regard”, “Out of Competition”; Cinéfondation film schools section (medium-length and short films, see separate entry)

Awards: Palme d'Or, Grand Prix, award for best actress and best actor, best director, best screenplay, Jury Prize (awarded to a technician), the Palme d'Or to the best short film, The Caméra d'Or to the best first-time feature film of any category

Opening film:

My Blueberry Nights – WONG Kar Wai

Closing Film:
The Age of Ignorance (L'Âge des ténèbres) – DENYS Arcand

4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days – Cristian MUNGIU
Alexandra – Alexander SOKOUROV
The Edge of Heaven (Auf Der Anderen Seite) – Fatih AKIN
Breath – KIM Ki Duk
LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR – Christophe HONORÉ
Death Proof (Long Version) – Quentin TARANTINO
IMPORT EXPORT – Ulrich SEIDL
IZGNANIE (The Banishment) – Andrey ZVYAGINTSEV
The Man from London – Béla TARR
MOGARI NO MORI (The Mourning Forest) – Naomi KAWASE
No Country for Old Men – Joel & Ethan COEN
Promise Me This – Emir KUSTURICA
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly  – Julian SCHNABEL
SECRET SUNSHINE – LEE Chang-dong
Silent Night – Carlos REYGADAS
Paranoid Park – Gus VAN SANT
Persepolis – Marjane SATRAPI, Vincent PARONNAUD
Tehilim  – Raphaël NADJARI
Une Vieille Maîtresse – Catherine BREILLAT
We Own the Night – James GRAY
Zodiac – David FINCHER

Out of Competition:
Sicko – Michael MOORE
Ocean's Thirteen – Steven SODERBERGH
A Mighty Heart – Michael WINTERBOTTOM

Midnight Screenings:
Olivier ASSAYAS Boarding Gate
Abel FERRARA Go Go Tales
Catherine OWENS & Mark PELLINGTON U2 3D

Special Screenings:
Leila CONNERS PETERSEN & Nadia CONNERS 11th Hour (Le Dernier virage)
Ken BURNS & Lynn NOVICK THE WAR (La Guerre)
Nicolas PHILIBERT Return to Normandie
WANG Bing HE FENGMING (Chronicle of a Chinese Woman)

60th Anniversary Film: To Each His Own Cinema // Chacun son cinema
Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan & Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yimou.

60th Anniversary Tributes:
Jane BIRKIN BOXES
Claude LELOUCH ROMAN DE GARE
Ermanno OLMI CENTOCHIODI
Volker SCHLÖNDORFF ULZHAN

Cannes Classics – Documentaries on Filmmaking:
Anne-Marie FAUX & Jean-Pierre DEVILLERS MAURICE PIALAT, L’AMOUR EXISTE
Mimi FREEDMAN, Leslie GREIF BRANDO
Mike KAPLAN LINDSAY ANDERSON, NEVER APOLOGIZE
Todd McCARTHY PIERRE RISSIENT

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION:
Mark ALBISTON RUN New-Zealand 15’
Tim Thaddeus CAHILL THE OATE’S VALOR United States 14’
Antonio CAMPOS THE LAST 15 United States 15’
Anthony CHEN AH MA Singapore 14’ (Grandma)
Olivier HEMS RÉSISTANCE AUX TREMBLEMENTS France 15’
Grzegorz JONKAJTYS ARK Poland 8’
Elisa MILLER VER LLOVER Mexico 13’
Kyros PAPAVASSILIOU TO ONOMA TOU SPOURGITIOU Cyprus 15’ (The Name of the Sparrow)
Erik ROSENLUND SPEGELBARN Sweden 5’ (Looking Glass)
Marco VAN GEFFEN HET ZUSJE Netherlands 9’ (My Sister)
YANG Hae-hoon MY DEAR ROSSETA South Korea

Full features programme:
Hou Hsiao Hsien – The Flight of the Red Balloon (opening film)
Roy Andersson – You, the Living

Daniele Luchetti – My Brother Is An Only Child (Mio fratello e figlio unico)
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi – Le Rêve de la nuit d'avant (Dreams of the Night Before)
Céline Sciamma – Waterlilies (Naissance des Pieuvres)
Lola Doillon – Just about Love? (Et toi T'es Sur Qui?)
Jaime Rosales – Fragments of Loneliness (La Soledad)
Robert Thalheim – And Along Come Tourists (Am Ende kommen Touristen)
Cristian Nemescu – California dreamin' (Nesfarsit)
Kadri Kousaar – Magnus
Barbet Schroeder – Terror's Advocate
Harmony Korine – Mister Lonely
Lee Isaac Chung – Munyurangabo (Liberation Day)
Carmen Castillo – Santa Fe Street
Yang Li – Blind Moutain (Mang Shan)
Enrique Fernandes and Cesar Charlone – El Baño del Papa
Eran Kolirin – The Band's Visit (Bikur Hatizmoret)
Ekachai Uekrongtham – Pleasure Factory (Kuaile Gongchang)
Ana Katz – A Stray Girlfriend (Una Novia Errante) 

Feature films:
» Après Lui directed by Gael Morel
» Avant que j'oublie directed by Jacques Nolot
» Caramel directed by Nadine Labaki
» Chop Shop directed by Ramin Bahrani
» Control directed by Anton Corbijn
» Dai Nipponjin directed by Hitoshi Matumoto
» Elle s'appelle Sabine directed by Sandrine Bonnaire
» Estado do mundo directed by Chantal Akerman, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Vicente Ferraz, Ayisha Abraham, Bing Wang, Pedro Costa
» Foster Child directed by Brillante Mendoza
» La France directed by Serge Bozon
» Garage directed by Lenny Abrahamson
» Gegenüber (Counterparts), directed by Jan Bonny
» La Influencia directed by Pedro Aguilera
» Mutum directed by Sandra Kogut
» Ploy directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang
» PVC-1 directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos
» La Question humaine directed by Nicolas Klotz
» Savage Grace directed by Tom Kalin
» Smiley Face directed by Gregg Araki
» Tout est pardonné directed by Mia Hansen-Love
» Un homme perdu (A Lost Man) directed by Danielle Arbid
» Yumurta directed by Semih Kaplanoglu
» Zoo directed by Robinson Devor

Short films
“Avant Petalos Grillados”,” directed by Velasco Broca
“Le Ballon rouge” (Red Balloon), directed by Albert Lamorisse
“Candy Boy,” directed by Pascal-Alex Vincent
“China, China,” directed by Joao Pedro Rodrigues, Joao Rui Guerra Da Mata
“Crin Blanc,” directed by Albert Lamorisse
“Entracte,” directed by Yann Gonzalez
“Hoguera (Bonfire),” directed by Andres Baiz
“Meme pas mort,” directed by Claudine Natkin
“Mota shel shula (La Mort de Shoula),” directed by Asaf Korman
“Silencio,” directed by F.J Ossang
“superDONG,” directed by Yue Weng Pok
“Tel pere, telle fille,” directed by Sylvie Ballot

Special screening
“Cruising,” directed by William Friedkin

Features Competition
David Oelhoffen – Nos retrouvailles (FR)
Micha Wald – Horse Thieves (BE)
Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen – Meduzot (IL/FR)
Lucia Puenzo – XXY (AR)
Daihachi Yoshida – Funuke Show Some Love, You Losers! (JP)
Lina Chamie – The Mily Way (BR)
Ernesto Contreras – Parpados Azules (MX)

Specials – Features
Coup de coeur: Pablo Fendrik – El Asaltante (AR)
Opening film: Bruno Merle – Heroes (FR)
Closing film: Cecilia Miniucchi – Expired (US)
Documentary: Andrey Paounov – The Mosquito Problem and other stories (BG)

“Very Special” Screenings:
Juan Antonio Bayona – The Orphanage (ES)
Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo – Inside (FR)

Film of the Ambassador of the 46th Critics’ Week
Gael Garcia Bernal – Déficit (MX)

Special Palace Screening:
Simon Bross – Bad Habits (MX)

FIPRESCI Revelation of the Year:
Rafa Cortez – Yo (ES)

Screening in partnership with RFI:
Newton Aduaka – Ezra (FR/AT/NG)

Special Screenings – Medium-length features
Patrick Eklund – Situation Frank (SE)
Mikhaël Hers – Primrose Hill (FR)
Frédéric Pelle – Chambre 616 (FR)