Cannes Film Festival announces its lineup

Here is the official lineup for the Cannes Film Festival. This post will be updated as more films and juries are added. During the festival I will also post comments on the films from people who are at the festival.

Opening filmThe Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard)

Closing filmTransylvania (Tony Gatlif)

In competition

Flandres (Bruno Dumont)
Selon Charlie (Nicole Garcia)
Quand j’etais Chaunteur aka When I was a Singer (Xavier Giannoli)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
La Raison Du Plus Faible aka The Weakest Is Always Right (Lucas Belvaux)
Indegenes aka Days Of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb)
Iklimer aka Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Juventude em Marcha (Pedro Costa)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
Lights In The Dusk (Aki Kaurismaki)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Ken Loach)
Summer Palace (Lou Ye)
The Caiman (Nanni Moretti)
L’Amico del Famiglia aka Friend Of The Family (Paolo Sorrentino)

Competition Jury

President - Wong Kar-wai
Monical Belluci
Helena Bonham Carter
Samuel L. Jackson
Patrice Leconte
Lucrecia Martel
Tim Roth
Elia Suleiman
Zizi Zhang


Official selection - Out Of Competition special screenings
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
Over The Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick)

Official selection: Midnight screenings
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
Election 2 (Johnnie To)
Silk (Su Chao-pin)
Salle (Bunuel) (Out of competition)
Volevo Solo Vivere (Mimo Calopresti)
Boffo: Tinsel Town's Bombs and Blockbusters (Bill Couturie)
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)
Zidane, Un Portrait du 21eme Siecle (Phillipe Parreno, Douglas Gordon)
El-Banate Dol (Tahani Rached)
Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako)
Avida (Benoit Delepine)
Ici Najac, a Vous la Terre (Jean-Henri Meunier)

Un Certain Regard

Opening film Paris Je T'Aime

Bled Number One, Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche
Il Registra Di Matrimoni, Marco Bellocchio
Cronica De Una Fuga, Israel Adrian Caetano
Ten Canoes, Rolf De Heer
Hamaca Paraguaya, Paz Encina, (first film)
Uro, Stefan Faldbakken (first film)
Suburban Mayhem, Paul Goldman
Z Odzysku, Slawomir Fabicki (first film)
Salvador Puig Antich, Manuel Huerga
977, Nikolay Khomeriki (first film)
Cum Mi-Am Petrecut Sfarsiful Lumii, Catalin Mitulescu (first film)
Serambi, Garin Nugroho
Taxidermie, Gyorgy Palfi
Gwai Wik, Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang
Bihisht Faqat Baroi Murdagon, Djamshed Usmonov
El Violon, Francisco Vargas (first film)
You Am I, Kristijonas Vildziunas
Luxury Car," Wang Chao
The Unforgiven, Yoon Jong-bin (first film)
La Tourneuse De Pages, Denis Dercourt
La Californie, Jacques Fieschi (first film)
Meurtrieres, Patrickc Grandperret
A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater

Cannes 45th Critics Week announces:
Under the "patronage" of Gaspar Noé who will present his latest film We Fuck Alone, segment of DestrictedSelection:

Closing film:Free Jimmy*(Christopher Nielsen)
Competition:

Long features:Ana, sonhos de peixe (Kirill Mikhanovsky)
Drama/Mex (Gerardo Naranjo)
Fresh Air (¢gnes Kocsis)
Komma (Martine Doyen)
Les Amitiés maléfiques (Emmanuel Bourdieu)
Pingpong (Matthias Luthardt)
The Bothersome Man (Jens Lien)

Short films:

Iron (Les pressor) (Hiroyuki Nakano)
Kristall (Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller)
L'Ecluse (Olivier Ciechelski)
News (Ursula Ferrara)
Printed Rainbow (Gitangali Rao)
Something Like That (Esmir Filho)
Woman & Grammophone (Johannes Stjarne Nilsson, Ola Simonsson)

Special screening chosen by Gaspar Noé:Destricted (Sam Taylor Wood, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Richard Price, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla)

Documentary:

Kigali, des images contre un massacre (Jean-Christophe Klotz)
Moyens métragesCharell (Mikhaël Hers)
Les Deux vies du serpent(Hélier Cisterne)
Marinela de la P7 (Cristian Nemescu)
Screening "trés spécial" ("very special"):L'Âme accablée(Yannis Economidis)
Fipresci Revelation of the year:Look both ways (Sarah Watt)

Camera d'Or (First Film) Jury

Presidents - Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardennes

Short Film Jury

President - Andrei Konchalovsky

DIRECTORS FORTNIGHT

Feature films:

A Fost sau n-a Fost? (Was it or Was it Not?)Director: Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania
Anche Libero va Bene (Free is Fine, Too)Director: Kim Rossi Stuart, Italy
Les Anges Exterminateurs (Exterminating Angels)Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau, France
Azur and Asmar Director: Michel Ocelot, France/Belgium/Italy/Spain
Bug Director: William Friedkin, U.S.
Ca Brule (It Burns)Director: Claire Simon, France/Switzerland
Changement d'Adresse (Change of Address)Director: Emmanuel Mouret, France
Congorama Director: Philippe Falardeau, Canada/Belgium/France
Daft Punk's Electroma Directors: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas BangalterDans Paris (In Paris)Director: Christophe Honore, France
Day Night Day NightDirector: Julia Loktev, U.S./Germany/France
Feher Tenyer (White Palms) Director: Szabolcs Hadju, Hungary/France
The Hawk is DyingDirector: Julian Goldberger, U.S.
Honor de Cavalleria (The Honor of Chivalry)Director: Albert Serra, Spain
The HostDirector: Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea
Jindabyne Director: Ray Lawrence, Australia
Lying Director: M. Blash, U.S.
On Ne Devrait Pas Exister (We Shouldn't Exist)Director: HPG, France
Princess Director: Anders Morgenthaler, Denmark/Germany
Sommer 04 An Der Schlei (Summer '04)Director: Stefan Krohmer, Germany
Transe Director: Teresa Villaverde, Portugal/France/Italy
Yureru Director: Nishikawa Miwa, Japan

Special screenings:

Fantasma Director: Lisandro Alonso, Argentina/France/Holland
MelvilDirector: Melvil Poupaud, France
Mala Noche (Bad Night)Director: Gus Van Sant, U.S.

Short films:

Program 1

The Aluminum FowlDirector: James Clauer, U.S.
Le Soleil et la Mort Voyagent Ensemble (The Sun and Moon Travel Together)Director: Frank Beauvais, France
By The Kiss Director: Yann Gonzalez, France
A Rat Director: Bosilka Simonovitch, France
Bugcrush Director: Carter Smith, U.S.
Sepohon Rambutan Indah Kepunyaanku Di Tanjung Rambutan (My Beautiful Rambutan Tree in Tanjung Rambutan)Director: U-Wei Bin HajiSaari, Malaysia

Program 2

L'Etoile de Mer (The Starfish)Director: Caroline Deruas, France
Rapace (Robber)Director: Joao Nicolau, Portugal
Dans le Rang (In the Row)Director: Cyprien Vial, France
MengedDirector: Daniel Taye Workou, Ethiopia
Manue BolonaiseDirector: Sophie Letourneur, France

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