This morning the official 2012 Cannes Film Festival line-up was announced after the selection committee saw 1,779 films submitted from 26 different countries. Of those, 54 have been chosen (so far) including the opening night film which will be Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and the closing night film comes from the late Claude Miller's Therese D. starring Audrey Tautou. Looking over the list the most universally recognized names are among a stacked competition list that includes the likes of Wes Anderson, Jacques Audiard, Leos Carax, David Cronenberg, Lee Daniels, Andrew Dominik, Matteo Garrone, Michael Haneke, John Hillcoat, Sangsoo Hong, Sangsoo Im, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Cristian Mungiu, Jeff Nichols, Alain Resnais, Walter Salles and Thomas Vinterberg. Those names alone should pique any film fans interest and that's just the competition. Go exploring further and you'll find David Cronenberg's son Brandon Cronenberg along with the likes of Xavier Dolan, Bernardo Bertolucci, Fatih Akin...
- 4/19/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The 65th Festival de Cannes announced ten short films that will compete for the 2012 Palme d’Or. These ten films, which include a Syrian and a Puerto Rican film for the first time, have been selected from among 4,500 films submitted for the festival.
The festival also announced the fifteen films that have been selected from films schools for The Cinéfondation.
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will be presided over by Belgian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
Short film competition:
Mi Santa Mirada – Alvaro Aponte-Centeno (PR)
Gasp – Eicke Bettinga (De)
Ce chemin devant moi – Mohamed Bouroikba (Fr)
Falastein, Sandouk Al Intezar Lil Burtuqal – Bassam Chekhes (Sy)
The Chair – David Grainger (Us)
Night Shift – Zia Mandivwalla (Nz)
Chef de meute – Chloé Robichaud (CA)
Yardbird – Michael Spiccia (Au)
Cockaigne – Emilie Verhamme (Be)
Sessiz-Be Deng – L.Rezan Yesilbas (Tr)
Cinéfondation selection:
Derrière moi les oliviers – Pascale Abou Jamra (Alba – Lb)
Riyoushi – Shoichi Akino (Tokyo...
The festival also announced the fifteen films that have been selected from films schools for The Cinéfondation.
The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury will be presided over by Belgian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Dardenne.
Short film competition:
Mi Santa Mirada – Alvaro Aponte-Centeno (PR)
Gasp – Eicke Bettinga (De)
Ce chemin devant moi – Mohamed Bouroikba (Fr)
Falastein, Sandouk Al Intezar Lil Burtuqal – Bassam Chekhes (Sy)
The Chair – David Grainger (Us)
Night Shift – Zia Mandivwalla (Nz)
Chef de meute – Chloé Robichaud (CA)
Yardbird – Michael Spiccia (Au)
Cockaigne – Emilie Verhamme (Be)
Sessiz-Be Deng – L.Rezan Yesilbas (Tr)
Cinéfondation selection:
Derrière moi les oliviers – Pascale Abou Jamra (Alba – Lb)
Riyoushi – Shoichi Akino (Tokyo...
- 4/18/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Two days ahead of the announcement of their feature film lineup, the Cannes Film Festival has announced the official selection of short films headed to this year's festival. Ten films have been selected (from 4,500 submissions) to compete for the Short Film Palme D'or. For the first time, films from Puerto Rico and Syria are competing. In addition, fifteen films have been selected for the Cinéfondation Selection out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 film schools across the globe. A jury presided over by Jean-Pierre Dardenne will decide the winners of both selections. The official selection: Alvaro Aponte-Centeno Mi Santa Mirada Puerto Rico Eicke Bettinga Gasp ...
- 4/17/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Cannes's 6th Cinefondation Atelier has a lineup of directors which this year includes more known auteurs than previously. It has also joined with Mexico's Expresion den Corto for a summer residence program in Guanajuato, Mexico. Both programs include a dozen of the best young filmmakers in the world, offering them a platform designed to propel their careers with master's classes, workshops and meetings with public and private organizaitons to help obtain financing for their film projects.
The Cannes lineup of 15 films this year includes 4 films by first time directors one of whom is a woman and 2 Latino filmmakers.
Debuting directors:
Taiwan based former actress Show-Chun Lee from France, a protege of Claude Miller with Shanghai-Belleville
Karoly Ujj Meszaros from Hungary with Liza, the Fox-Fairy, a comedic serial killer nurse romp
Diego Quemada-Diez from Mexico with La Jaula de oro
Ruben Sierra Salles from Venezuela with Lucia
A third Latino filmmaker...
The Cannes lineup of 15 films this year includes 4 films by first time directors one of whom is a woman and 2 Latino filmmakers.
Debuting directors:
Taiwan based former actress Show-Chun Lee from France, a protege of Claude Miller with Shanghai-Belleville
Karoly Ujj Meszaros from Hungary with Liza, the Fox-Fairy, a comedic serial killer nurse romp
Diego Quemada-Diez from Mexico with La Jaula de oro
Ruben Sierra Salles from Venezuela with Lucia
A third Latino filmmaker...
- 4/15/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Budget movie Together is competing for the critics choice award at the Cannes Film Festival this week, with new Doctor Who star Matt Smith in a lead role. Filmed for just £40,000, the production - which took a year to raise funds for and was part funded by the UK Film council - was only able to offer Smith minimum wage and expenses for the trip to Germany. Graduates Zorana Piggott and Eicke Bettinga co-wrote the film with Piggott producing and Bettinga directing. Piggott...
- 5/11/2009
- by Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com
- Kasterborous.com
Direct from German Film
Germany seems to already be the winner for having the most coproductions represented in the Cannes Film Festival and its sidebars.
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux has announced this year's selection for the Official Program. The Berlin production company X-Filme Creative Pool is pleased about the invitation to the Competition for The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) by the Munich-born director Michael Haneke (a German-Austrian-French-Italian coproduction). The film tells the story of a school and church choir led by the local teacher in a village in Germany's Protestant North on the eve of the First World War. Strange accidents occur and increasingly assume the character of ritual punishments.
Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a division of Studio Babelsberg Ag, is the German producer of the competition entry from Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds (a Us-German coproduction). The film combines the story of the young Shosanna, whose family are...
Germany seems to already be the winner for having the most coproductions represented in the Cannes Film Festival and its sidebars.
Cannes Film Festival director Thierry Frémaux has announced this year's selection for the Official Program. The Berlin production company X-Filme Creative Pool is pleased about the invitation to the Competition for The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) by the Munich-born director Michael Haneke (a German-Austrian-French-Italian coproduction). The film tells the story of a school and church choir led by the local teacher in a village in Germany's Protestant North on the eve of the First World War. Strange accidents occur and increasingly assume the character of ritual punishments.
Zehnte Babelsberg Film, a division of Studio Babelsberg Ag, is the German producer of the competition entry from Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds (a Us-German coproduction). The film combines the story of the young Shosanna, whose family are...
- 5/3/2009
- by Sydney@SydneysBuzz.com (Sydney)
- Sydney's Buzz
- The section devoted to 1st and 2nd films is mostly going with newbies this year. With the exception of Altiplano starring (Olivier Gourmet) from director pairing of Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth (Khadak), in my opinion, the complete sidebar will be a like throwing a dart aimlessly and hoping to land on something worth your while. In the past couple of years they had Junebug, Me and you and everyone we know, Look Both Ways, Xxy, and my favorite film of the section in 2008 was Aida Begic's Snijep (Snow). This year they have stripped the section down, by perhaps five films less and there are no signs of the Fipresci "revelation of the year" pick - a one slot for a film the organization thinks deserves a second chance. This year, like previousyears they have films from a little bit everywhere - but this year they focused mostly
- 4/23/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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