Every year, the Cannes Festival awards its Caméra d'Or prize to the director of the best debut feature. The winner will be announced at the Festival Closing Ceremonies, Sunday, May 24, by a Jury chaired by French actor and director Roschdy Zem. His fellow jurors are cinematographer Diane Baratier, filmmaker Sandrine Ray, critic Charles Tesson, Edouard Waintrop of the Fribourg Festival in Switzerland, and Olivier Chiavassa of the Fédération Française des Industries Techniques ...
About the film:
One year after the in-Competition presentation of Serbis, Brillante Mendoza is back in Cannes as the advocate for his seventh feature film, Kinatay, competing for the Palme d'Or. In Kinatay, which means "massacre" in Filipino, the streets of Manila turn into a hellhole for Peping, a young criminology student. As a junior member of a local gang, he is never trusted with anything big. One day, however, his crime bosses offer him a lot of money for a very ...
In competition:
SpringFever by Lou Ye
Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
Bright Star by Jane Campion-- Trailer Bright Star
Thirst by Park Chan Wook -- Trailer Thirst
A prophet by Jaques Audiard
Taking Woodstock by Ang Lee
Vengeance by Johnny To -- Trailer Vengeance
Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza
Looking for Eric by Ken Loach -- Trailer Looking for Eric
Antechrist by Lars Von Trier
Broken Embraces by Almodóvar
Vincere by Marco Bellochio -- Trailer Vincere
Inglourious Basterds by Quent...
In our first interview with aspiring filmmakers, we spoke with Patricia DiSalvo Viayra and Mike Viayara.Hailing from Los Angeles, Patricia and Mike are the team behind 'Naked Sushi', which they have registered with the short film corner (so check it out!). They are having a great time in Cannes, promoting their first film at their first festival. They've found the atmosphere to be welcoming as fellow festival goers are eager to discuss projects and offer advice. On the horizon, P...
One Colombian feature by young filmmaker Ciro Guerra "Los Viajes del Viento" (Les Voyages du vent) is an official entry this year at the 62nd Festival de Cannes in "Un Certain Regard" section.First time in eleven years.
A short film, "1989" by Camilo Matiz is in the Semaine de la critique section.
PROIMAGENES EN MOVIMIENTO is proud to present two films officially selected this year:
OFFI...
CINÉFONDATION
Giulia Barbera, Gianluca Lo Presti - IL NATURALISTA - 6’
Federico Parodi and Michele Tozzi
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy
Dominique Baumard - LE CONTRETEMPS - 39’
La fémis, France
Dorte Bengtson - SYLFIDDEN - 8’
Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark
Noamir Castéra - #1 - 4’
ENSAV La Cambre, Belgium
Daniel Day - GUTTER - 17’
New York University, USA
Hugo Frassetto - TRAVERSER - 5’
La Poudrière, France
Jo...
Godard, Losey, Antonioni, Visconti, Tati, Franju et Sergio Leone once again in the Official Selection? Pierrot le Fou, Eyes Without A Face or Senso in Competition against L’Avventura or Once Upon A Time…the Revolution?
Martin Scorsese is the honorary President of Cannes Classics 2009, a
section established in 2004 to accompany the contemporary films of the
Official Selection with a program of restored and rediscovered films,
to be released theatrically or on DVD. The film...
