Cannes Film Festival

  • Actress Isabella Rossellini to Preside over Un Certain Regard Jury at 2015 Cannes Film Festival

    Actress Isabella Rossellini to Preside over Un Certain Regard Jury at 2015 Cannes Film Festival Italian-American actress and director Isabella Rossellini will preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury, the Official Selection of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. The lineup of the twenty films comprising the Official Selection along with the films In Competition, will be announced on April 16th.
    The daughter of Italian director Roberto Rossellini and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman, to whom this year’s Festival de Cannes is to pay tribute, Isabella began her cinematic career alongside her father as a dresser, before becoming acting for the Taviani Brothers – family friends who gave her a role in The Meadow (1979). Her career quickly took an international turn, with White Nights by Taylor Hackford (1985), Tough Guys Don’t Dance by Norman Mailer (1987), Les Yeux noirs (1987) by Nikita Mikhalkov, Blue Velvet (1986) and then Wild at Heart (1990) by David Lynch, for whom she played a number of mysterious and tortured female roles. She went on to star in a wider variety of guises for both television and film in Italy and America but returned to arthouse cinema with Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral (1996), and Two Lovers by James Gray (2008), in which she played a role of remarkable intensity. In 2010 she appeared in The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Saverio Costanzo. In 2008 following a request from Robert Redford, she threw herself into directing a miniseries devoted to the reproduction, seduction techniques and maternal behaviour of animals. Green Porno, Seduce me and Mammas– all produced by SundanceTV – revealed her irresistible comic talent and off-beat sense of humour. Isabella Rossellini and Jean-Claude Carrière then made a scenic version entitled Animals Distracted Me, which toured the world to great acclaim. At the Festival de Cannes, Isabella Rossellini will take part in the tribute to her mother by attending the screening of Ingrid Bergman, in Her Own Words‏, a documentary by Stig Björkman being shown as part of the Cannes Classics. She will also launch her own ‘Ingrid Bergman Tribute’ to celebrate the centenary of her mother’s birth. The show, directed by Guido Torlonia and Ludovica Damiani, will be based on both her autobiography and her correspondence with Roberto Rossellini and will play on some at the world’s major theatres. With the help of a soon-to-be-announced Jury made up of artists, journalists and festival directors, Isabella Rossellini will award the Un Certain Regard Prize and meet the winners on Saturday 23rd of May, on the eve of the closing ceremony. The 2014 Un Certain Regard was awarded by President of the Jury Pablo Trapero to White God directed byKornél Mundruczó.
    image via flickr: Isabella Rossellini and Guy Maddin in Conversation | Aug 24, 2013 Isabella Rossellini and Guy Maddin in Conversation Aug 24, 2013 Wexner Center for the Arts The Ohio State University  

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  • Cannes Film Festival Pays Tribute to Ingrid Bergman with 2015 Official Poster

    2015_cannes_film_festival_official_poster The 68th Festival de Cannes taking place May 13 to 24, 2015, has chosen to pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman with this year’s poster. This year’s poster captures the actress, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Roberto Rossellini and Ingmar Bergman, and starred opposite Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Gregory Peck, in all her beauty, her face lit up by a calm serenity that seems to herald a promising future. Liberty, audacity, modernity – values also shared by the Festival, year after year, through the artists and films it showcases. Ingrid Bergman, who was President of the Jury in 1973, encouraged this journey… “My family and I are deeply moved that the Festival de Cannes has chosen to feature our magnificent mother on the official poster to mark the centenary of her birth,” said Isabella Rossellini. “Her outstanding career covered so many countries, from the smallest European independent films to the greatest Hollywood productions. Mum adored working as an actress: for her acting was not a profession but vocation. As she put it, ‘I didn’t choose acting, acting chose me.’ ” Based on a photograph by David Seymour, co-founder of Magnum Agency, Hervé Chigioni, who also created for last year’s remarkable Festival poster, was once again behind this year’s image, with his graphic designer Gilles Frappier. He has also produced an animated film based on the visual, featuring a remix of the Festival’s theme music, “The Carnival of the Animals” by Camille Saint-Saëns, arranged by two Swedish musicians, Patrik Andersson and Andreas Söderström. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLzAj0WmO0

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  • Joel & Ethan Coen to Preside Over Cannes Film Festival Jury

    Joel and Ethan Coen

    Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen will preside over the jury of the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

    Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen have accepted the invitation from President Pierre Lescure and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux to become the Presidents of the 68th edition of the Festival.

    “We look forward to returning to Cannes this year”, Joel and Ethan Coen said from the Hail Caesar! film shoot with George Clooney, Christophe Lambert, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Josh Brolin and Channing Tatum.“We welcome as always the opportunity to watch movies there from all over the world. Cannes is a festival that has been important to us since the very beginning of our career. Presiding over the Jury is a special honor, since we have never heretofore been president of anything. We will issue further proclamations at the appropriate time.” 

    The Festival de Cannes will take place from Wednesday 13 until Sunday 24 May, 2015. 

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  • Cannes Film Festival 2014 Awards, WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan Wins Palme d’or Award

    WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

    The Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Jane Campion awarded WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan the winner of the Palme d’or award.The award was presented to director Nuri Bilge Ceylan by actress Uma Thurman and director Quentin Tarantino.

     In WINTER SLEEP, Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce.In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities…

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan said: “This is a huge surprise for me, I wasn’t expecting it. I don’t know what to say. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Turkish cinema, which is a happy coincidence. I would like to thank the Festival de Cannes for supporting this long project. Thank you to the Jury, to Thierry Frémaux and Gilles Jacob. I would like to dedicate this Palme d’or to the young people of Turkey and to those who lost their lives during the year. Thank you very much”. 

    The complete list of winners of the 67th Cannes Film Festival Awards

    Palme d’or

    WINTER SLEEP by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

    Grand Prix
    LE MERAVIGLIE (The Wonders) by Alice Rohrwacher

    Best Director Award
    Bennett Miller for FOXCATCHER

    Jury Prize ex-aequo
    MOMMY by Xavier Dolan
    ADIEU AU LANGAGE (Goodbye to language) by Jean-Luc GODARD

    Best Screenplay Award
    Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin for LEVIATHAN

    Best Actress Award
    Julianne Moore in MAPS TO THE STARS by David Cronenberg

    Best Actor Award
    Timothy SPALL in MR. TURNER by Mike LEIGH

    SHORT FILMS

    Palme d’or       
    LEIDI by Simón Mesa Soto

    Special Mention – Ex-aequo
    AÏSSA by Clément Trehin-Lalanne
    JA VI ELSKER (Yes We Love) by Hallvar Witzø

     UN CERTAIN REGARD

    Un Certain Regard Prize
    FEHÉR ISTEN by Kornél Mundruczó

    Jury Prize
    TURIST by Ruben Östlund

    Un Certain Regard Special Prize
    THE SALT OF THE EARTH by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

    Ensemble Prize
    PARTY GIRL by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis

    Best Actor Award
    David Gulpilil in CHARLIE’S COUNTRY by Rolf de Heer

    CAMÉRA D’OR
    PARTY GIRL by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis presented in the Un Certain Regard Selection

    CINÉFONDATION 

    First Prize
    SKUNK by Annie Silverstein
    University of Texas at Austin, USA

     Second Prize
    OH LUCY! by Atsuko Hirayanagi
    NYU Tisch School of the Arts Asia, Singapore

     Joint Third Prize
    LIEVITO MADRE by Fulvio Risuleo 
    Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy

    THE BIGGER PICTURE by Daisy Jacobs
    National Film and Television School, United Kingdom

    The Jury of the CST has awarded the VULCAN AWARD OF THE TECHNICAL ARTIST to: 
    Dick POPE, director of photography, for bringing to light the works of Turner in the movie MR. TURNER by Mike LEIGH

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  • More Films Added to 2014 Cannes Film Festival

    White God by Kornél MundruczóWhite God by Kornél Mundruczó

    Six more films have been added to the Official Selections of 2014 Cannes Film Festival taking place May 14th to May May 25th. Films include In The Name of my Daughter will screen in Out of Competition, and White God by Kornél Mundruczó will screen in Un Certain Regard section.

    Out of Competition

    L’Homme qu’on aimait trop (In The Name of my Daughter) by André Téchiné with Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel (1h56)

    Un Certain Regard 

    Fehér Isten (White God) by Kornél Mundruczó (1h59)

    Special Screenings

    Of Men and War (Des Hommes et de la guerre) by Laurent Bécue-Renard (documentary, 2h22)

    The Owners by Adilkhan Yerzhanov (1h33)

    Géronimo by Tony Gatlif with Céline Salette, Rachid Yous (1h44) – a screening of the film will also be organized for the high school students of the PACA Region.    

    El Ardor by Pablo Fendrik (1h40) with Gael Garcia Bernal, member of the Jury of the Competition, will also be featured as a Special Screening. 

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  • Jury Revealed for 67th Cannes Film Festival

     cannes jury 2014 Jury, 67th Cannes Film Festival, Jane Campion, Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Sofia Coppola

    New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter Jane Campion, winner of the Palme d’or for The Piano, will be the President of the Jury of the 67th Cannes Film Festival. In addition to Campion, the Jury will also include five women and four men. Their task will be to decide between the 18 films in Competition in order to select the winners – to be announced on stage at the ceremony on Saturday 24th May. The winner of the Palme d’or will be screened during the Festival’s closing evening on Sunday 25th of May, in the presence of the Jury and the entire team of the winning film.

    THE JURY

    Jane CAMPION – President (Director, Screenwriter, Producer – New Zealand) 

    Carole BOUQUET (Actress – France)

    Sofia COPPOLA (Director, Screenwriter, Producer – United States)

    Leila HATAMI (Actress – Iran)

    JEON Do-yeon (Actress – South Korea)

    Willem DAFOE (Actor – United States)

    Gael GARCIA BERNAL (Actor, Director, Producer – Mexico)

    JIA Zhangke (Director, Screenwriter, Producer – China) 

    Nicolas Winding REFN (Director, Screenwriter, Producer – Denmark)

    Carole Bouquet, Actress (France)
    After her film debut in 1977 with Luis Buñuel in That Obscure Object of Desire, Bouquet alternated between arthouse and blockbuster productions. A Bond Girl in 1981 in For Your Eyes Only, she worked with Bertrand Blier on Buffet Froid (1979) and Too Beautiful For You (1989) for which she won the César for Best Actress. She appeared in Le jour des idiots by Werner Schroeter, Michel Blanc’s Dead Tired and Embrassez qui vous voudrez, Lucie Aubrac by Claude Berri, L’Enfer by Danis Tanovic, Nordeste by Juan Diego Solanas (Festival de Cannes 2005) and Unforgivable by André Téchiné.

    Sofia Coppola, Director and screenwriter (United States)
    Coppola’s first feature film, The Virgin Suicides (1999) was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, where it met with international critical acclaim. Four years later, after several Oscar nominations for Lost in Translation, including Best Director, she walked off with the Best Screenplay award. Her third film, Marie-Antoinette was selected in Competition at Cannes in 2006. After picking up a Golden Lion in Venice forSomewhere (2010), Sofia Coppola opened Un Certain Regard with her last film The Bling Ring at the Festival de Cannes in 2013.

    Leila Hatami, Actress (Iran)
    Born in Tehran into a family of filmmakers, she started out acting in films directed by her father, Ali Hatami, before starring in Dariush Mehrjui’s Leila (1998) which brought her to national attention. It was Asghar Farhadi who established her on the world stage with A Separation (Golden Bear at the 2011 Berlin Festival). She picked up the Best Actress award in Karlovy Vary for her role in Ali Mosaffa’s Last Step in 2012.

    Jeon Do-yeon, Actress (South Korea)
    The first Korean actress to receive the Best Actress award at the Festival de Cannes for her role in Secret Sunshine by Lee Chang-dong (2007), Jeon Do-yeon started out as a television actress before turning exclusively to cinema. Her major films include I Wish I Had a Wife by Ryoo Seung, My Mother, The Mermaid by Park Jin-pyo and The Housemaid by Im Sang-soo, presented at Cannes in 2010. A massive celebrity in her country, she has just finished shooting Memories of the Sword by Park Heung-sik.

    Willem Dafoe, Actor (United States)
    Twice nominated for an Oscar, for Oliver Stone’s Platoon and Shadow of the Vampire, Dafoe has appeared in 80 films including Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson, Light Sleeper by Paul Schrader, The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese, Antichrist by Lars von Trier and The English Patient by Anthony Minghella. He will soon be appearing in A Most Wanted Man by Anton Corbijn and Pasolini by Abel Ferrara. A co-founder of the Wooster Group – an experimental theatre collective – he is currently on tour with Bob Wilson’s play The Old Woman.

    Gael García Bernal, Actor, director and producer (Mexico)
    Bernal first came to public attention in Iñárritu’s Amorres Perros, soon followed by Y Tu Mamá También by Alfonso Cuarón. He then featured in films directed by some of the greats of international cinema, such as The Motorcycle Diaries by Walter Salles, Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education, The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry, Babel by Gonzalez Iñárritu, and The Limits of Control by Jim Jarmusch. In 2005, he founded his Canana production company with Diego Luna and in 2010, after a few short films, directed his first feature film,Deficit, selected at La Semaine de la Critique at Cannes.

    Nicolas Winding Refn, Director, screenwriter and producer (Denmark)
    His first film, Pusher (1996), written and directed at the age of 24, immediately became a cult movie and he shot to fame throughout the world. He then directed Bleeder (1999), Fear X (2003), Pusher II & III (2004 & 2005),Bronson (2008) and Valhalla Rising (2009), all characteristic of the style that came to be dubbed “Refn-esque”. In 2011, Drive was presented at the Festival de Cannes and won the Best Direction prize, awarded by the Jury presided by Robert De Niro. His last film, Only God Forgives, featured in Competition at Cannes in 2013.

    Jia Zhangke, Director, screenwriter and producer (China)
    After first studying art Jia Zhangke, born in 1970, attended the Beijing Film Academy in the 1990s. After the success of his first film, Xao Wu (1998), he directed Platform (Zhantai, 2000) and Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao, 2002) selected for Venice and Cannes respectively. Still Life picked up the Golden Lion in Venice in 2006. He also presented 24 City at the Festival de Cannes, in Competition in 2008 and I Wish I Knew for Un Certain Regard in 2010. Last year, A Touch of Sin garnered the Best Screenplay prize awarded by the Jury presided by Steven Spielberg.

    Image via Cannes Film Festival. Clockwise (top left to right) Jane Campion, Jia Zhangke, Willem Dafoe, Leila Hatami, Carole Bouquet, Gael Garcia Bernal, Jeon Do-yeon, Nicolas Winding Refn, Sofia Coppola

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  • Nicole Garcia is Jury President for Caméra d’or Award at 2014 Cannes Film Festival

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    Actress, director and screenwriter Nicole Garcia will preside over the Jury for this year’s Caméra d’or award for the best debut film at 2014 Cannes Film Festival. In this opportunity to champion an up-and-coming director she joins the ranks of previous Jury Presidents Bong Joon-Ho, Gael García Bernal, Carlos Diegues and Agnès Varda, who have all in the past contributed their experience and passion for cinema to the deliberations.

    “Presiding over the Caméra d’or is an honor, a joy and a mission,” announced Nicole Garcia. “I hope to be worthy of the honor, bask in the joy and do my best to deliver on the mission.”

    Since 1978, the Caméra d’or has awarded the best debut film presented in the Official Selection (Competition, Out of Competition, or Un Certain Regard), Critics’ Week or Directors’ Fortnight. The award showcases young filmmakers, whose work is propelled into the limelight with unrivaled international exposure. Among the past recipients of the award are Jim Jarmusch, Mira Nair, Jaco Van Dormael, Naomi Kawase, Bahman Ghobadi and Steve McQueen. Last year’s award was scooped up by Anthony Chen’s Singaporean film Ilo Ilo which was presented as part of Directors’ Fortnight.

    The Caméra d’Or 2014 will be presented by the Jury President at the Closing Ceremony on Saturday May 24.

    Nicole Garcia studied philosophy and acting, winning her first acting award at the Conservatoire before embarking on a career in theatre. But she was drawn to film. She made a name for herself in Bertrand Tavernier’s Let Joy Reign Supreme in 1975 and subsequently worked with directors Henri Verneuil (Body of My Enemy, 1976) and Laurent Heynemann (The Question, 1977). In 1979, her performance in Philippe de Broca’sPractice Makes Perfect earned her popular acclaim and a César award for best supporting actress. She went on to work with the great names of French cinema including Alain Resnais (My American Uncle, 1980), Bertrand Blier (Stepfather, 1981), Claude Lelouch (Bolero: Dance of Life, 1981), Pierre Schoendoerffer (A Captain’s Honor, 1982), Claude Sautet (Waiter!, 1983) and Claude Miller (Little Lili, 2003).

    In 1990, her behind-the-camera debut Every Other Weekend was released to critical acclaim, followed by the similarly well-received The Favorite Son in 1994. She has directed seven films, of which the latest, Going Away, was released in early 2014.

    She has presented a total of seven films at Cannes as both actress and director.

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  • Films by Ryan Gosling, Tommy Lee Jones, Mike Leigh Among the Official Selections Announced for 2014 Cannes Film Festival

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    Cannes Film Festival held a press conference earlier today during which the 2014 Official Selection were announced.  In addition to opening night film GRACE DE MONACO which was earlier announced, the lineup includes films from David Cronenberg, Jean-Luc Godard, Tommy Lee Jones, Ken Loach and Ryan Gosling debut as a director. 

    Also included among the lineup is Kristian Levring’s “The Salvation” described as a large-scale western drama rooted in Scandinavia. The story takes place in America in the 1870s. When settler John kills his family’s murderer, he unleashes the fury of the notorious gang leader Delarue. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, the peaceful pioneer must turn vengeful hunter, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town’s black heart. Mads Mikkelsen plays the Danish settler John, and the international cast also includes Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mikael Persbrandt and Jonathan Pryce.

    IN COMPETITION

    Opening Film
    Olivier Dahan; GRACE DE MONACO; 1h43

    Olivier Assayas; SILS MARIA; 2h03

    Bertrand Bonello; SAINT LAURENT; 2h15

    Nuri Bilge Ceylan; KIS UYKUSU; 3h16

    David Cronenberg; MAPS TO THE STARS; 1h51

    Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT; 1h35

    Xavier Dolan; MOMMY; 2h20

    Atom Egoyan; CAPTIVES; 1h53

    Jean-Luc Godard; ADIEU AU LANGAGE; 1h10

    Michel Hazanavicius; THE SEARCH; 2h40

    Tommy Lee Jones; THE HOMESMAN; 2h02

    Naomi Kawase; FUTATSUME NO MADO (Still the water); 1h50

    Mike Leigh; MR. TURNER; 2h29

    Ken Loach; JIMMY’S HALL; 1h46

    Bennett Miller; FOXCATCHER; 2h10

    Alice Rohrwacher; LE MERAVIGLIE; 1h50

    Abderrahmane Sissako; TIMBUKTU; 1h40

    Damian Szifron; RELATOS SALVAJES (Wild Tales); 1h55

    Andrey Zvyagintsev; LEVIATHAN; 2h20

     

    UN CERTAIN REGARD

    Opening Film
    Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis; PARTY GIRL, 1st film; 1h35 

    Lisandro Alonso; SIN TITULO; 1h41   

    Mathieu Amalric; LA CHAMBRE BLEUE; 1h15   

    Asia Argento; INCOMPRESA; 1h43   

    Kanu Behl; TITLI, 1st film; 2h04   

    Ned Benson; ELEANOR RIGBY; 1h59   

    Pascale Ferran; BIRD PEOPLE; 2h07   

    Ryan Gosling; LOST RIVER, 1st film; 1h45   

    Jessica Hausner; AMOUR FOU; 1h36   

    Rolf de Heer; CHARLIE’S COUNTRY; 1h48   

    Andrew Hulme; SNOW IN PARADISE, 1st film; 1h28   

    July Jung; DOHEE-YA (A Girl at my Door), 1st film; 1h59   

    Panos Koutras; XENIA; 2h03   

    Philippe Lacôte; RUN, 1st film; 1h40   

    Ruben öStlund; TURIST; 2h   

    Jaime Rosales; HERMOSA JUVENTUD; 1h40   

    Wang Chao; FANTASIA; 1h25   

    Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado; THE SALT OF THE EARTH; 1h40   

    Keren Yedaya; HARCHECK MI HEADRO (Away From His Absence); 1h35

     

    OUT OF COMPETITION

    Dean Deblois; DRAGONS; 21h45    

    Zhang Yimou; GUI LAI (Coming Home); 1h51  

     

    MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

    Chang; PYO JEOK  (The Target); 1h39

    Kristian Levring; THE SALVATION; 1h30

    David Michod; THE ROVER; 1h40

     

    SPECIAL SCREENINGS

    Aida Begic, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde; LES PONTS DE SARAJEVO
    (Bridges of Sarajevo); 1h50

    Polsky Gabe; RED ARMY; 1h25    

    Sergei Loznitsa; MAIDAN; 2h

    Mohammed Ossama; EAU ARGENTÉE; 1h50    

    Stéphanie Valloatto; CARICATURISTES – FANTASSINS DE LA DÉMOCRATIE  (Cartoonists – Foot Soldiers Of Democracy); 1h46

      

    70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF LE MONDE NEWSPAPER:

    Yves Jeuland; LES GENS DU MONDE; 1h22   

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  • Cannes Film Festival Unveils Films Selected for Short Films Competition and Cinéfondation Selection in 2014 Fest

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    The Official Selection of films in the Short Films in Competition and in the Cinéfondation Selection competition sections of the 67th Cannes Film Festival was unveiled earlier today. This year, the Selection Committee received 3,450 short films, representing 128 production countries. Nine films will compete in 2014 for the Short Film Palme d’or.  In a last minute minor controversy, the Italian film A PASSO D’UOMO by Giovanni ALOI was removed from the Short Films Competition because he was proven to break the rules and regulation of this Selection. The Cinéfondation Selection selected 16 films (14 fiction films and 2 animation films) among the 1,631 submitted this year by film schools from all around the world.  The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, will be presided over by Abbas Kiarostami, who will nominate the prize-winners for the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection.

    SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION:

    Ran HUANG, THE ADMINISTRATION OF GLORY, 15’ China

    Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI, UKHILAVI SIVRTSEEBI (Invisible Spaces),10’ Georgia    

    Sato MASAHIKO, Ohara TAKAYOSHI, Seki YUTARO, Toyota MASAYUKI, Hirase KENTARO, HAPPO-EN, 13’ Japan    

    Simón MESA, SOTO, LEIDI, 15′ Colombia United-Kingdom    

    Sergey PIKALOV, SONUNCU (The Last One), 15 ’Azerbaijan    

    Petra SZŐCS, A KIVEGZES (The Execution),14’ Hungary, Romania    

    Clément TREHIN-LALANNE, AÏSSA, 8’ France    

    Laura WANDEL, LES CORPS ÉTRANGERS, 15’ Belgium    

    Hallvar WITZØ, JA VI ELSKER (Yes we Love), 15’ Norway    

     

    THE CINEFONDATION SELECTION:

    Max CHAN; OUR BLOOD; 25’ Hampshire College, USA    

    Pierre CLENET, Alejandro DIAZ , Romain MAZEVET, Stéphane PACCOLAT; HOME SWEET HOME; 10’ Supinfocom Arles, France    

    Omar EL ZOHAIRY; THE AFTERMATH OF THE INAUGURATION OF THE PUBLIC TOILET AT KILOMETER 375; 18’High Cinema Institute, Academy of Arts, Égypt    

    Reinaldo Marcus GREEN; STONE CARS; 14’ NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA    

    HAN Fengyu; LAST TRIP HOME; 25’ Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore    

    Meryll HARDT; UNE VIE RADIEUSE (A Radiant Life); 17’ Le Fresnoy, France    

    Chie HAYAKAWA; NIAGARA; 27’ENBU Seminar Japan    

    Atsuko HIRAYANAGI; OH LUCY!; 21’ NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Asia, Singapore    

    Inbar HORESH; THE VISIT; 27’ Minshar for Art, School and Center, Israel    

    Stefan IVANČIĆ; LETO BEZ MESECA  (Moonless Summer); 31′ Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Serbia    

    Daisy JACOBS; THE BIGGER PICTURE; 7′ National Film and Television School, United Kingdom    

    György Mór KÁRPÁTI; PROVINCIA; 21′ University of Theatre and Film Arts, Hungary    

    KWON Hyun-ju; SOOM (Breath); 33’Chung-Ang University, South Korea    

    Léa MYSIUS; LES OISEAUX-TONNERRE (Thunderbirds); 22′ La Fémis, France    

    Fulvio RISULEO; LIEVITO MADRE (Sourdough); 17′ Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy    

    Annie SILVERSTEIN; SKUNK; 16′ The University of Texas at Austin, USA    

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  • Official Poster Unveiled for the 67th Cannes Film Festival

    67th Cannes Film Festival Official Poster 2014

    The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster for the upcoming festival taking place May 14 to 25, 2014. The poster design for the 67th Cannes Film Festival is based on a image taken from Federico Fellini’s 8½, which was presented in the Official Selection in 1963.

    In Marcello Mastroianni and Federico Fellini, we celebrate a cinema that is free and open to the world, acknowledging once again the artistic importance of Italian and European cinema through one of its most stellar figures. 

    “The way he looks at us above his black glasses draws us right in to a promise of global cinematographic happiness,” explains the poster’s designer. “The happiness of experiencing the Festival de Cannes together.”

    In his films, Marcello Mastroianni continued to encapsulate everything that was most innovative, nonconformist and poetic about cinema. On seeing the poster for the first time, Chiara Mastroianni, the actor’s daughter, said simply: “I am very proud and touched that Cannes has chosen to pay tribute to my father with this poster. I find it very beautiful and modern, with a sweet irony and a classy sense of detachment. It’s really him through and through!” 

    The 2014 Festival poster was designed by Lagency / Taste, Paris.

    The graphic charter of the 2014 Festival was designed by Bronx, Paris.

    The scene from Federico Fellini’s film 8 1/2 on which the poster is based. (below)

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  • PARTY GIRL to Open Official Selection of Un Certain Regard of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival

     PARTY GIRLPARTY GIRL

    PARTY GIRL, the first film written and directed by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis, has been chosen to open the Official Selection of Un Certain Regard of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.  

    Party Girl shows the life of Angélique, a 60 year-old night club hostess who still loves men and enjoys partying, but now as the senior member on staff, feels she has reached the end of the line. On an impulse, she agrees to marry her regular client, Michel. The film is a portrait of a free woman who has chosen to live on the margins of conventional society, and delves deep into a France that is often underrepresented. With total realism, the lead role is played by the real-life Angélique.

    The three co-directors met at Fémis, where they studied screenwriting and editing and began their collaboration. They produced short films that amassed awards at several festivals: Forbach (Cinéfondation Second Prize, Festival de Cannes 2008 and Grand Prix at the 2009 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival),  C’est gratuit pour les filles (Semaine de la Critique 2009 – César Award for Best Short Film, 2010), and Demolition Party (2013).

    With its mission to discover new talents, Un Certain Regard will provide excellent exposure for a collective first work that is innovative both in its form and its subject. The choice reflects the wish of Pablo Trapero, President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard 2014, “to present a passionate selection of established masters, young talents and new forms of cinema.”

    PARTY GIRL will be screened as the opening of Un Certain Regard, Thursday 15th May 2014. 

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  • Argentinean Filmmaker Pablo Trapero is President of the Jury for Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard 2014

     Pablo TraperoPablo Trapero

    Pablo Trapero, Argentinean scriptwriter, producer and director, will preside over the Jury for Un Certain Regard, Official Selection of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. He stated: “I am very proud to serve as President of the Jury for Un Certain Regard. Proud to take part in another way in the adventure in Cannes. Un Certain Regard, where I have presented three of my films, is always a very exciting selection. It brings us grand masters, promising young talent, new countries and new forms of cinema.”

    Pablo Trapero was born in Argentina in 1971. His first feature film Mundo Grúa received the Critics’ Award at the Venice Film Festival in 1999. His second, El Bonaerense, was selected in 2002 at the Festival de Cannes (Un Certain Regard). In 2008, Leonera, screened in Competition at the Festival de Cannes, reveals the exceptional talent of actress Martina Gusman. Carancho (2010) and Elefante blanco (2012), critically acclaimed internationally, were both presented in Un Certain Regard.

    Each of Pablo Trapero’s films portrays a harsh social reality in an almost documentary style, through a plot that is akin to a thriller and offers an uncompromising look at contemporary political issues.

    In 2002, he founded Matanza Cine, an independent company that produces young Argentinean filmmakers, including in particular Lisandro Alonso (La Libertad), Enrique Bellande and Raúl Perrone.

    Pablo Trapero follows Thomas Vinterberg, who presided over last year’s Jury for Un Certain Regard, which presented the award to the Franco-Cambodian film L’Image manquante (The Missing Picture), by Rithy Panh.

    The winner of the Prize for Un Certain Regard will be announced on Friday, May 23, on the eve of the 67th Festival closing night awards ceremony, which will take place this year, as an exception, on Saturday night.

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