The 52nd Cannes International
Film opened yesterday with a program that offers films from some
of the top names in world cinema. With a distinct lack of American
Studio films showing this year it would seem to be European and
World Cinema to the fore.
The 52nd Cannes Festival
will have two official juries:
- the feature films
Jury which awards the winning feature films in the competitive section
of the official selection.
- the Short Film and Cinefoundation Jury (created in 1998) which
chooses the award-winners in these two categories of the official
selection. This jury selects the winner of the Short Films Palme
d'Or and The Camera d'Or is awarded to the best first-time film.
Feature Film Jury
is: David CRONENBERG, President (Director, Canada); Dominique BLANC
(Actress, France); Doris DÖRRIE (Director, Germany); Barbara HENDRICKS
(Opera Singer , Sweden) ;Holly HUNTER (Actress, United-States) ;Yasmina
REZA (Author, France) ;Jeff GOLDBLUM (Actor, United-States); George
MILLER (Director, Australia); Maurizio NICHETTI (Director, Italy);
and André TÉCHINÉ (Director, France)
The Short Film and
Cinefoundation Jury is: Thomas VINTERBERG, President (Director,
Denemark); Virginie LEDOYEN (Actress, France); Greta SCACCHI (Actress,
Great Britain); Cédric KLAPISCH (Director, France); Walter SALLES
(Director, Brazil).
IN COMPETITION
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER
(Spain)
Director: Pedro Almodovar
CRADLE WILL ROCK (US-France)
Director: Tim Robbins
EIGHT AND A HALF WOMEN
(UK-Netherlands-Germany-Lux)
Director: Peter Greenaway
THE EMPEROR AND THE
ASSASSIN (China)
Director: Chen Kaige
FELICIA'S JOURNEY (Canada-US-UK)
Director: Atom Egoyan
GHESSE HAYE KISH (Iran)
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfaz Djalili, Nasser Taghvai
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF
THE SAMURAI (US-France)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
L'HUMANITE (France)
Director: Bruno Dumont
KADOSH (Israel)
Director: Amos Gita
KIKUJIRO (Japan)
Director: Takeshi Kitano
THE LETTER (Portugal)
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
LIMBO (US)
Director: John Sayles
LOVE WILL TEAR US APART
(Hong Kong)
Director: Yu Lik Wai
MOLOCH (Russia-Germany)
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
NOBODY WRITES TO THE
COLONEL (Mexico)
Director: Arturo Ripstein
NOS VIES HEUREUSES (France)
Director: Jacques Maillot
POLA X (France)
Director: Leos Carax
ROSETTA (Belgium)
Director: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
THE STRAIGHT STORY (US-France)
Director: David Lynch
TIME REGAINED (France)
Director: Raoul Ruiz
THE NANNY (Italy)
Director: Marco Bellocchio
WONDERLAND
(UK)
Director: Michael Winterbottom
SHORTS OFFICIAL SELECTION
BILLY'S BALLOON (US)
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
THE COOKIE THIEF (UK)
Director: Toby Leslie, Hugo Currie
DEVIL DOLL (US)
Director: Jarl Olsen
AN ETERNITY (Korea)
Director: Kim Daehyun
FOOD FOR THOUGHT (US)
Director: John Paton, Matthew Ross
HUSK (SA)
Director: Jerry Handler
THE PICNIC (Korea)
Director: Song il-gon
RIEN DIRE (Fr)
Director: Vincent Perez
ROULETTE (Sp)
Director: Roberto Santiago
SIMULATION (Korea)
Director: Kim Seong Sook
STOP (Fr)
Director: Rodolphe Marconi
WHEN THE DAY BREAKS
(Can)
Director: Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis
OUT OF COMPETITION/SPECIAL
SCREENING
Opening Film:
THE BARBER OF SIBERIA
(Rus-Fr-UK)
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Closing Film:
AN IDEAL HUSBAND (UK)
Director: Oliver Parker
DOGMA (US)
Director: Kevin Smith
EDtv (US)
Director: Ron Howard
ENTRAPMENT (US)
Director: Jon Amiel
FAREWELL, TERRA FIRMA
(Georgia-France)
Director: Otar Iosseliani
THE LIMEY (US)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
MY BEST FRIEND (doc)
(Germany-US)
Director: Werner Herzog
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Opening Film:
EL AKHAR (Egypt-France)
Director: Youssef Chahinee
Closing Film:
HAREM SUARE (Turk-Fr-It)
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
AS BODAS DE DEUS (Portugal)
Director: Joao Cesar Monteiro
AWAY WITH WORDS (HK-Japan)
Director: Christopher Doyle
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (UK)
Director: Jasmin Dizdar
BERESINA (Switz-Ger-Aust)
Director: Daniel Schmid
BOOTLEG FILM (Japan)
Director: Masahiro Kobayashi
GARAGE OLIMPO (Italy)
Director: Marco Bechis
LA GENESE (Mali-France)
Director: Cheick Oumar Sissoko
IF I GIVE YOU MY HUMBLENESS,
DON'T TAKE AWAY MY PRIDE (short) (Denmark)
Director: Karin Westerlund
JUDY BERLIN (US)
Director: Eric Mendelsohn
THE LAST DANCE (India-France)
Director: Shaji Karun
MARANA SIMHASANAM (India-UK)
Director: Murali Nair
MARCH OF HAPPINESS (Taiwan)
Director: Lin Cheng-Sheng
NADIA ET LES HIPPOPOTAMES
(France)
Director: Dominique Cabrera
LES PASSAGERS (France)
Director: Jean-Claude Guiguet
PEAU NEUVE (France)
Director: Emilie Deleuze
THE PERSONALS (Taiwan)
Director: Kuo-Fu Chen
RATCATCHER (UK)
Director: Lynne Ramsay
THE SHADE (France)
Director: Raphael Nadjari
SICILIA! (France)
Director: Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet
SO CLOSE TO PARADISE
(China)
Director: Xiao Shuai Wang
THE WINSLOW BOY (US)
Director: David Mamet
CRITIC'S WEEK
HOLD BACK THE NIGHT
(UK)
Director: Phil Davis
THE WHITE SUIT (Yugoslavia)
Director: Lazar Ristovski
SIAM SUNSET (Australia)
Director: John Polson
FLOWERS FROM ANOTHER
WORLD (Spain)
Director: Iciar Bollain
7/25 (Japan)
Director: Hayakawa Wataru
ON BOARD (Turkey)
Director: Serdar Akar
STRANGE FITS OF PASSION
(Australia)
Director: Elise McCredie
CRITIC'S WEEK SHORTS
CIRCLE (Iran)
Director: Mohammed Shirvani
LA LECON DU JOUR (Fr)
Director: Irene Sohm
DERAPAGES (Bel)
Director: Pascal Adant
SHOES OFF (Can)
Director: Mark Sawers
FUZZY LOGIC (US)
Director: Tom Krueger
MORE (US)
Director: Mark Osborne
THE GOOD SON (UK)
Director: Sean McGuire
For Further Information
checkout the official festival website at: www.festival-cannes.fr
