62nd Cannes Film Festival Line-Up

    The 62nd Annual Cannes Film Festival will officially start on May 13th in France. The opening film will be the Disney Pixar film Up, which is directed by Monsters, Inc. director Pete Docter.

    It will be a first in the history of Festival de Cannes that a 3D animated film will serve as the opening film.

    Up, which is a non-competition film for the top prize Palme d'Or or the Golden Palm, will be released in the US on May 29th, 2 weeks after the opening of 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

    Twenty (20) films will be in competition for the Palme d'Or prize and that includes the Filipino film Kinatay (The Execution of P), which is directed by Brillante Mendoza who was also in competition for the top prize last year via the film Serbis.

    Kinatay stars Coco Martin, Mercedes Cabral, Maria Isabel Lopez and John Regala. Martin and Cabral were also part of Serbis. Mercedes Cabral, amazingly, is also part of the Korean movie Thirst, one of the 20 competing films.

    Director Mendoza will compete against big time and Oscar-winning directors in the world such as Spain's Pedro Almodovar for Broken Embraces (starring Penelope Cruz), Britain's Andrea Arnold for Fish Tank, New Zealand's Jane Campion for Bright Star (starring Paul Schneider), USA's Ang Lee for Taking Woodstock, USA's Quentin Tarantino for Inglorious Basterds (starring Brad Pitt) and 2006 Cannes' Golden Palm winner from the UK Ken Loach for Looking For Eric.

    Three more Pinoy films will be participating in the said festival.

    Raya Martin's Independencia, starring Tetchie Agbayani, Sid Lucero and Alessandra De Rossi, has been chosen for exhibition under "Un Certain Regard" section. Agbayani's role was first offered to the Star for All Seasons Vilma Santos, but the latter begged off due to conflict of schedules because she was to shoot for her next movie with Star Cinema tentatively titled A Mother's Story, with John Lloyd Cruz and Luis Manzano.

    The film will compete for the Prix Un Certain Regard award.

    Manila, jointly directed by Adolf Alix Jr. and Raya Martin, will also be part under "Special Screenings", but not competing for any prize. The movie's cast includes Piolo Pascual, Rosanna Roces, Jay Manalo and Alessandra De Rossi.

    Under 'Short Films Corner', Sabongero (Cockfighter) by Janice Y. Perez has also been shortlisted.

    Heath Ledger's last film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will also be screened in the festival, but it's also out of the competition. It also stars Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farell, who all replaced Ledger in the movie.

    The closing film for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival will be France's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.

    The awarding and closing ceremony is scheduled on the 24th of May.

    Here's the complete line-up of films for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival:

    Opening Film : Pete DOCTER - UP - Out of Comp., USA

    ***

    THE COMPÉTITION :

    Pedro ALMODÓVAR - LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces), Spain
    Andrea ARNOLD - FISH TANK, UK
    Jacques AUDIARD - UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet), France
    Marco BELLOCCHIO - VINCERE (To Conquer), Italy
    Jane CAMPION - BRIGHT STAR, New Zealand
    Isabel COIXET - MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO, Spain
    Xavier GIANNOLI - A L’ORIGINE (In the Beginning), France
    Michael HANEKE - DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon), Germany/Austria
    Ang LEE - TAKING WOODSTOCK, USA
    Ken LOACH - LOOKING FOR ERIC, UK
    LOU Ye - CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN (Spring Fever), China
    Brillante MENDOZA - KINATAY, Philippines
    Gaspar NOE - Soudain le Vide (ENTER THE VOID), France
    PARK Chan-Wook - BAK-JWI - (Thirst), South Korea
    Alain RESNAIS - LES HERBES FOLLES (Wild Grasses), France
    Elia SULEIMAN - THE TIME THAT REMAINS, Palestine/Israel
    Quentin TARANTINO - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, USA
    Johnnie TO - VENGEANCE, Hong Kong
    TSAI Ming-liang - VISAGE (Face), Taiwan
    Lars VON TRIER - ANTICHRIST, Denmark

    ***
    Closing Film : Jan KOUNEN - COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY - Out of Comp., France

    UN CERTAIN REGARD
    BONG Joon Ho - MOTHER, South Korea
    Alain CAVALIER - IRENE, France
    Lee DANIELS - PRECIOUS, USA
    Denis DERCOURT - DEMAIN DES L'AUBE, France
    Heitor DHALIA - À DERIVA (Adrift), Brazil
    Bahman GHOBADI - KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH (Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats), Iran
    Ciro GUERRA - LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO (Les Voyages Du Vent), Colombia
    Mia HANSEN-LOVE - LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS, France
    Hanno HÖFER, Razvan MARCULESCU, Cristian MUNGIU, Constantin POPESCU, Ioana URICARU:
    AMINTIRI DIN EPOCA DE AUR (Tales from The Golden Age)
    Nikolay KHOMERIKI - SKAZKA PRO TEMNOTU (Tale In The Darkness)
    HIrokazu KORE-EDA - KUKI NINGYO (Air Doll)
    Yorgos LANTHIMOS - KYNODONTAS (Dogtooth)
    Pavel LOUNGUINE - TZAR (Le Tsar)
    Raya MARTIN - INDEPENDENCIA - (Independence), Philippines
    Corneliu PORUMBOIU - POLITIST, ADJECTIV (Policier, Adjectif)
    Pen-Ek RATANARUANG - NANG MAI (Nymph)
    João Pedro RODRIGUES - MORRER COMO UM HOMEM (Mourir Comme Un Homme)
    Haim TABAKMAN - EYES WIDE OPEN
    Warwick THORNTON - SAMSON AND DELILAH
    Jean VAN DE VELDE - THE SILENT ARMY

    OUT OF COMPETITION:
    Alejandro AMENABAR - AGORA, Spain
    Terry GILLIAM - THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS, USA
    Robert GUÉDIGUIAN - L'ARMÉE DU CRIME (The Army of Crime), France

    MIDNIGHT SREENINGS :
    Stéphane AUBIER, Vincent PATAR - A TOWN CALLED PANIC, Belgium
    Sam RAIMI - DRAG ME TO HELL, USA
    Marina de VAN - NE TE RETOURNE PAS (Don't Look Back), France

    SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
    Anne AGHION - Mon voisin, mon tueur (MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER), France
    Adolfo ALIX, JR., Raya MARTIN - MANILA, Philippines
    Souleymane CISSE - MIN YE, Mali
    Michel GONDRY- L'EPINE DANS LE COEUR (A thorn in the heart), France
    Zhao LIANG - PETITION, China
    Eduardo VALENTE - NO MEU LUGAR (The Eye of the Storm), Brazil
    Keren YEDAYA - JAFFA, Israel

    Tribute to Fanny Ardant
    Fanny ARDANT - CENDRES ET SANG (Ashes and blood), France

    Lee Chang-Dong presents
    Ounie LECOMTE - UNE VIE TOUTE NEUVE (A brand new life), France/South Korea

    THE SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION
    Mark ALBISTON, Louis SUTHERLAND - THE SIX DOLLAR FIFTY MAN-15' New Zealand
    Daniel BORGMAN - LARSOG PETER-15' Denmark
    Alex BRENDEMÜHL - RUMBO A PEOR-12' Spain
    Jochem DE VRIES - MISSEN -12' The Netherlands
    Jean-Christophe LIE - L'HOMME A LA GORDINI-10' France
    Goran ODVORCIC - CIAO MAMA-10' Croatia
    Laila PAKALNINA - KLUSUMS-14' Latvia
    João SALAVIZA - ARENA-15' Portugal
    Emma SULLIVAN - AFTER TOMORROW-15’United Kingdom
    Source URL: https://mykiru1.blogspot.com/2009/05/62nd-cannes-film-festival-line-up.html
    Visit nEw MyKiRu IsYuSeRo for Daily Updated Hairstyles Collection

Popular Posts

My Blog List

Blog Archive