Cannes Film Festival

Nine films will compete in 2013 for the Short Film Palme d’or,  at the 66th Festival de Cannes. For the first time, a Palestinian film will take part in the Short Films Competition.  

In the Cinéfondation Selection, 18 films (14 fiction films and 4 animated films) were selected from 277 film schools from all around the world. The Cinéfondation Selection features films from film students from a diversity of film schools, with a third of the schools being selected for the first time and one country – Chile – which has never previously been selected.

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION:

Ali  ASGARI; BISHTAR AZ DO SAAT (More than two Hours); 15′; Iran

Mohammed  ABOU NASSER, Ahmad ABOU NASSER; CONDOM LEAD; 14′; Palestine, Jordan    

Gudmundur Arnar GUDMUNDSSON; HVALFJORDUR (Whale Valley); 15′; Iceland, Denmark

SASAKI Omoi; INSEKI TO IMPOTENCE (The Meteorite and Impotence); 10′; Japan

Gilles COULIER; MONT BLANC; 14′; Belgium    

Elzbieta BENKOWSKA; OLEN; 14’; Poland    

Annarita ZAMBRANO; OPHELIA; 15’; France    

MOON Byoung-gon; SAFE; 13’; South  Korea    

Adriano VALERIO; 37°4 S; 11’; France    

 

THE 2013 CINÉFONDATION SELECTION 

Evgeny BYALO; THE NORM OF LIFE; 23’ ;  High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, Russia

Ana CARO; THE MAGNIFICENT LION BOY; 10’; NFTS, United Kingdom

Eliška CHYTKOVÁ; O ŠUNCE (Ham Story); 6’; Tomas Bata University in Zlίn, Czech Republic

Navid DANESH; DUET; 24’; Karnameh Film School, Iran

Gan DE LANGE; BABAGA; 26’; The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Israel

Anahita GHAZVINIZADEH; NEEDLE; 21’; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Sarah HIRTT; EN ATTENDANT LE DÉGEL (Waiting for the Thaw); 20’; INSAS, Belgium

Alejandro IGLESIAS MENDIZÁBAL; CONTRAFÁBULA DE UNA NIÑA DISECADA (Fable of a Blood-Drained Girl); 25’; CCC, Mexico

Joey IZZO; STEPSISTER; 18’; San Francisco State University, USA

JOW Zhi Wei; AU-DELÀ DE L’HIVER (After the Winter); 19′; Le Fresnoy, France

Tudor Cristian JURGIU; ÎN ACVARIU (In the Fishbowl); 20′; UNATC, Romania

KIM Soo-Jin; SEON (The Line); 27′; Chung-Ang University, South Korea

Camila LUNA TOLEDO; ASUNCIÓN; 21′; Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile

Jefferson MONEO; GOING SOUTH; 15′; Columbia University, USA

Małgorzata RŻANEK; DANSE MACABRE; 5′; Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland

Sebastián SCHJAER; MAÑANA TODAS LAS COSAS (Tomorrow All the Things); 17′; UCINE, Argentina

Vladilen VIERNY; EXIL; (Exile); 16′; La fémis, France

Matúš VIZÁR; PANDY (Pandas); 12′; FAMU, Czech Republic

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The Great Gatsby by Australian director Baz Luhrmann, will open the 66th Festival de Cannes, on Wednesday 15th May, 2013, in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, out of Competition in the Official Selection.

Adapted from the famous novel by American author Francis Scott Fitzgerald and set against the roaring twenties on the East Coast of the United States, the film depicts the romantic and tragic figure of Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), as narrated by his friend Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire). Carey Mulligan is Daisy Buchanan, whose husband is played by Joel Edgerton.

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For its 66th edition poster, the Festival de Cannes has chosen the image of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, photographed during the shooting of  A New Kind of Love, by Melville Shavelson (1963). 

The Festival describes its choice as a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark its undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favoured co-star.

They were honoured at the Festival de Cannes in 1958 – the year of their marriage – with the selection In Competition of Martin Ritt’s The Long Hot Summer, the first film in which they appeared together. 

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Director and producer Steven Spielberg will head up the jury of the 66th Cannes Film Festival taking place May 15-26, 2013.

“The memory of my first Cannes Film Festival, nearly 31 years ago with the debut of E.T., is still one of the most vibrant memories of my career, Spielberg goes on. For over six decades, Cannes has served as a platform for extraordinary films to be discovered and introduced to the world for the first time. It is an honor and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world.”

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Thérèse Desqueyroux directed by Claude Miller who died earlier this month, and starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, will close the 65th Cannes Film Festival on 27 May.

Claude Miller’s final film is described by the festival as an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel “Thérèse Desqueyroux”. On the 4th of April of this year, Miller passed away, and this film is the final piece in his immense body of work, to which the Cannes Film Festival and the director’s many admirers will pay tribute.

Claude Miller’s formative years were in Nouvelle Vague cinema, working as an assistant to François Truffaut, “the filmmaker of the intimate”.  Through the evolution of his work, he created a universe that could speak to a very broad audience, from The Best Way to Walk (La meilleure façon de marcher) (1976) to The Grilling (Garde à vue) (1981), from Deadly Run (Mortelle randonnée) (1983) to The Accompanist (l’Accompagnatrice) (1992) and A secret (Un secret) (2007), from the Prix Delluc for The Hussy (l’Effrontée) (1985) to the Jury Prize at the Festival de Cannes for Class Trip (la Classe de neige) (1998). As a politically engaged filmmaker, he also chaired the Association of Filmmakers and Producers (Association des réalisateurs producteurs) and was active in the “Club des 13”, a think tank for reforming the production system.By dedicating the closing night to him, the Festival de Cannes, along with his family, friends, producers, and distributors, is very pleased to pay tribute to the memory of Claude Miller.

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The Official Selection for short films to screen at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival was unveiled yesterday.

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided over by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, will reward the best films from the Short Film Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection.

Ten films have been selected from among the 4,500 films that were submitted to the selection committee to compete for the 2012 Short Film Palme d’or . For the first time, both a Syrian and a Puerto Rican film-maker are participating in the competition, which also welcomes a French artist best known in the world of music: rapper Hamé from the group La Rumeur.

Alvaro APONTE-CENTENO; MI SANTA MIRADA (Puerto Rico)    

Eicke BETTINGA; GASP (Germany)

Mohamed BOUROKBA (aka Hamé); CE CHEMIN DEVANT MOI (France)

Bassam CHEKHES; FALASTEIN, SANDOUK  AL INTEZAR LIL BURTUQAL (WAITING FOR P.O. BOX) ( Syria)                      

Grainger DAVID; THE CHAIR (United States)

Zia MANDVIWALLA; NIGHT SHIFT (New-Zealand)

Chloé ROBICHAUD; CHEF DE MEUTE  (Canada)

Michael SPICCIA; YARDBIRD (Australia)

Emilie VERHAMME; COCKAIGNE (Belgium)    

L.Rezan YESILBAS; SESSIZ-BE DENG (SILENT) (Turkey)

Fifteen films have been selected out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 film schools for the Cinéfondation Selection; and for the first time, a Lebanese school is included in the selection.

Pascale ABOU JAMRA ALBA, Lebanon – DERRIÈRE MOI LES OLIVIERS (Behind Me Olive Trees)

Shoichi AKINO Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan – RIYOUSHI (The Barber)

Arthur CAHN La Fémis, France  – LES RAVISSEMENTS (The Raptures)

Morten HELGELAND The Animation Workshop, Denmark  – SLUG INVASION

Michal HOGENAUER FAMU, Czech Republic – TAMBYLLES

Leni HUYGHE Sint-Lukas Brussels, Belgium – MATTEUS

Cristi IFTIME UNATC, Romania  –  TABĂRA DIN RĂZOARE (The Camp in Razoare)

Taisia IGUMENTSEVA VGIK, Russia –  DOROGA NA (The Road to)   

Piero MESSINA CSC, Italy – TERRA (Land)

Miguel Angel MOULET EICTV, Cuba –  LOS ANFITRIONES (The Hosts)

Meryl O’CONNOR UCLA, USA – THE BALLAD OF FINN + YETI   

Timothy RECKART NFTS, United-Kingdom – HEAD OVER HEELS

Matthew James REILLY NYU, USA – ABIGAIL

Eti TSICKO TAU, Israël – RESEN (Dog Leash)

Eduardo WILLIAMS UCINE, Argentina –  PUDE VER UN PUMA (Could See a Puma)

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English actor and director Tim Roth will be the president of the Un Certain Regard Jury, part of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival Official Selection.

He is an English actor who began his career in television before moving on to cinema with The Hit directed by Stephen Frears, Tim Roth made his first appearances at Cannes with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Palme d’or, 1994)  which earned him international renown. In 1995, he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Rob Roy directed by Michael Caton-Jones. Roth directed his first film in 1999: The War Zone, which received nominations at Cannes, Sundance and Toronto. He also appeared in The New World directed by Terrence Malick, Don’t Come Knocking directed by Wim Wenders, Planet of the Apes directed by Tim Burton, Funny Games directed by Michael Haneke and Everyone Says I Love You directed by Woody Allen. Since 2009, he has starred in the lead role of successful American TV series Lie to Me.

The 2011 Prix Un Certain Regard was a tie, awarded to Arirang directed by Kim Ki-Duk (Korea) and Halt Auf Freier Strecke (Stopped on Track) by Andreas Dresen (Germany).

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[caption id="attachment_2668" align="alignnone" width="550"]Jean-Pierre DARDENNE[/caption]

Belgian director, scriptwriter and producer Jean-Pierre DARDENNE who along with his brother Luc won Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival for The Kid with a Bike in 2011, after winning two Palmes d’Or, first in 1999 for Rosetta and then in 2005 for The Child, and the prize for best screenplay in 2008 for Lorna’s Silence, will preside over the jury for the Cinéfondation and short films at this year’s festival.

The jury will include Arsinée KHANJIAN (Canadian actress), Karim AÏNOUZ (Brazilian director and scriptwriter), Emmanuel CARRÈRE (French writer, scriptwriter and director) and YU Lik-wai (Chinese director of photography and filmmaker).

The short-film competition, composed of previously unscreened works, has in the past discovered artists who have risen to fame: Jane CAMPION and Nuri Bilge CEYLAN, Xavier GIANNOLI, Lynne RAMSAY and Catalin MITULESCU all received their first recognition with a short film in competition in Cannes.

For its part, the Sélection de la Cinéfondation, created in 1998, has screened the student films of many directors whose talent was subsequently confirmed with a feature film, including Vimukthi JAYASUNDARA (Caméra d’Or 2005),  Corneliu PORUMBOIU (Caméra d’Or 2006), Kornél MUNDRUCZÓ (In Competition 2008 & 2010) and Jessica HAUSNER (Un Certain Regard 2001 & 2004).

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Wes Anderon’s new film, MOONRISE KINGDOM, will open the 65th Festival de Cannes on Wednesday, May 16, 2012.

Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman as well as Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman playing the pre-adolescents, MOONRISE KINGDOM recounts a tormented and surprising story of children and adults during the stormy days of the summer of 1965.

Gilles Jacob, President of the Festival, is glad to proclaim: “With Wes Anderson opening the 65th Festival de Cannes, young American cinema will be celebrated on the Croisette.”

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Fifty years after her death, and on its 65th anniversary, the Festival de Cannes has selected Marilyn Monroe as the icon of the 2012 Festival.

The Festival poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality – a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the Festival anniversary.

She enchants us with this promising gesture: a seductively blown kiss.

The Festival is a temple of glamour and Marilyn is its perfect incarnation. Their coming together symbolises the ideal of simplicity and elegance.

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Nanni Moretti will be President of the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes to be held from May 16 to 27, 2012.

Accepting the invitation, the Italian actor and director said: “This is a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility to preside over the jury of the most prestigious festival of cinematography in the world, a festival that is held in a country where film has always been treated with interest and respect.

As a director, I was always very moved when my films were presented at the Festival de Cannes. I also have very happy memories of my experience as a jury member during the fiftieth anniversary season, and of the attentiveness and passion that went into the jury’s viewing and discussion of all the films.

As a spectator, fortunately I still have the same curiosity that I had in my youth and so it is a great privilege for me to embark on this voyage into the world of contemporary international film.”

Nanni Moretti has presented six films at the Festival de Cannes, including last year’s Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope).

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