The Daily 2006

22 May

Short Film Corner: 3rd Edition

the 22.05.2006 at 11:55 PM - Updated on 23.05.2006 at 12:00 AM

With more than 800 works from nearly fifty different countries, the Short Film Corner testifies to the great popularity of the short with the cinema, television and new mobile media, including the cellphone. Returning to the Film Market for the third consecutive year, this event, whose mission is to favour the distribution of...
Out of Competition: "These Girls" by Tahani Rached

the 22.05.2006 at 11:49 PM - Updated on 22.05.2006 at 11:54 PM

Presented out of competition, These Girls is a documentary by Tahani Rached which plunges us into the world of the street teens of Cairo, a world of violence and oppression, as well as freedom. These girls astonish us by the strength they give off, the laughter which fills them and the hardness with which they must arm...
Red Carpet: European Ministers of Culture

the 22.05.2006 at 4:52 PM - Updated on 24.05.2006 at 8:27 PM

On the occasion of the 4th edition of Europe Day, the European Ministers of Culture and European Commissioner Viviane Reding will walk up the red-carpeted steps for the screening of The Caiman by Italian director Nanni Moretti. Following the film will be the Europe Dinner during which will be announced the winners of Europe's...
Press Conference: "X-Men: The Last Stand"

the 22.05.2006 at 4:19 PM - Updated on 24.05.2006 at 8:26 PM

The press conference for the out-of-competition screening of X-Men: The Last Stand was held today. Answering questions from the journalists were director Brett Ratner, actors Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn, Shawn Ashmore, Ben Foster, Kelsey Grammer, Sir Ian McKellen and Hugh Jackman....
Red Carpet: "X-Men: The Last Stand"

the 22.05.2006 at 4:16 PM - Updated on 23.05.2006 at 12:09 AM

Hugh Jackman, Diana Ramirez, Brett Ratner and Halle Berry
Out of Competition: "X-Men: The Last Stand" by Brett Ratner

the 22.05.2006 at 4:13 PM - Updated on 22.05.2006 at 9:44 PM

The mutants invade the Festival de Cannes upon the occasion of the out-of-competition presentation, of X-Men: The Last Stand by Brett Ratner. For the ultimate chapter of the X-Men trilogy, they face a historic choice and their greatest combat. A treatment henceforth enables them to escape what they are. For the very first...
Un Certain Regard: "Luxury Car" by Wang Chao

the 22.05.2006 at 4:03 PM - Updated on 23.05.2006 at 12:15 AM

Presented in the section Un Certain Regard, Luxury Car is the last leg of a trilogy about China, directed by Wang Chao, following the first two episodes The Orphan of Anyang (2001) and Night and Day (2005). This time, the filmmaker portrays a schoolteacher close to retirement, set out to search for his son from whom he hasn't...
Press Conference: "Lights in the Dusk"

the 22.05.2006 at 2:22 PM - Updated on 28.05.2006 at 7:38 PM

On the occasion of the press conference for Lights in the Dusk, a Finnish film presented in the Official Selection and in competition, director Aki KaurismÃ‚â€žki, cinematographer Timo Salminen, producer Fabienne Vonier as well as stars Janne HyytiÃ‚â€žinen, Maria ...
Red Carpet: "Lights in the Dusk"

the 22.05.2006 at 2:19 PM - Updated on 23.05.2006 at 12:11 AM

Aki KaurismÃ‚â€žki
Competition: "Lights in the Dusk" by Aki Kaurismaki

the 22.05.2006 at 2:14 PM - Updated on 28.05.2006 at 7:36 PM

Aki KaurismÃ‚â€žki presents his third film in the Official Selection in competition, Lights in the Dusk, coming on the heels of Drifting Clouds in 1996 and The Man Without a Past in 2002, the latter having been bestowed the Grand Prix award. This latest film offering is considered the last of the...
Press Conference: "The Caiman"

the 22.05.2006 at 2:09 PM - Updated on 24.05.2006 at 8:22 PM

Nanni Moretti answered journalists' questions at the press conference for his film The Caiman, presented today in competition. He was surrounded by his stars Margherita Buy, Elio de Capitani, Silvio Orlando and Jasmine Trinca, producer Alberto Barbagallo, screenwriters Francesco Piccolo and Federica Pontremoli, and French...
Competition: "The Caiman" by Nanni Moretti

the 22.05.2006 at 2:06 PM - Updated on 24.05.2006 at 8:10 PM

Five years after having won the Palme d'Or for The Son's Room and two years after having lent himself to hosting the "Cinema Masterclass", Nanni Moretti is back once more at the Festival de Cannes with The Caiman, his 10th feature film, and the 5th presented in the Official Selection. Released in Italy in the middle of the...
Red Carpet: "The Caiman"

the 22.05.2006 at 2:00 PM - Updated on 23.05.2006 at 12:08 AM

Margherita Buy, Nanni Moretti and Jasmine Trinca
Actors in Cannes this Monday, May 22

the 22.05.2006 at 11:57 AM - Updated on 22.05.2006 at 12:00 PM

Actors in Cannes for this 6th day into the Festival are Aure Atika, Fabienne Babe, Bérénice Bejo, Halle Berry, Cate Blanchett, Samuel Boidin, Julien Boisselier, Elodie Bouchez, Margherita Buy, Guillaume Canet, Carmen Chaplin, François Cluzet, Clotilde Courau, Penélope Cruz, Jean Dujardin,...
Cannes Mix: Traffic Quintet/Homage to the New Wave

the 22.05.2006 at 8:32 AM - Updated on 24.05.2006 at 8:31 PM

This evening's Cannes Mix programme bills Traffic Une, a quintet featuring artists Philippe Noharet, Anne Villette, Raphaël Perraud, Estelle Villotte and Dominique Lemonnier, who will honour - in their own way - the great musical themes of the New Wave. The Beach Cinema is presenting at 9:30pm the feature film by...
Tous les Cinémas du Monde: Focus on Singapore

the 22.05.2006 at 8:30 AM - Updated on 24.05.2006 at 8:28 PM

After Russia and Israel, it is to Singapore that the All the Cinemas of the World programme, featuring the presentation by selected countries of a range of their cinematic creations, dedicates this day. One day to discover this cinema, "a multidimensional microcosm of a vibrating, creative, experimental nation endowed with a...
Cannes Classics: Homages to Norman McLaren and Marguerite Duras

the 22.05.2006 at 8:28 AM - Updated on 24.05.2006 at 8:29 PM

As a supplement to the screening of the film The Hussy by Jacques Doillon, the section Cannes Classics honours two great filmmakers today: the Canadian master of animation Norman McLaren and author Marguerite Duras. Some will be able to rediscover in the Salle Buñuel this experimental director, influenced by surrealism,...
Un Certain Regard: "Uro" by Stefan Faldbakken

the 22.05.2006 at 7:33 AM - Updated on 23.05.2006 at 12:40 PM

Presented in the section Un Certain Regard, Uro by Stefan Faldbakken is equally in the running for the Caméra d'Or, awarded to a first film. He portrays, in today's Norway, Hans Petter, better known as HP, a former delinquent who's joined the police. He is recruited by an elite unit called "Uro" whose agents fight drug...
Cannes Speed Dating: 3rd Edition

the 22.05.2006 at 12:00 AM - Updated on 23.05.2006 at 12:03 AM

Given the great success of Cannes Speed Dating last year, ADAMI (Society for the Management of the Rights, Artists and Musical Performers) and the Short Film Corner (the section of the Festival de Cannes devoted to shorts) will relaunch, between 2:30 pm and 5:00 pm, this operation to favour contacts and help young people to...