The Daily 2006

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...

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...

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...

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....

Hugh Jackman, Diana Ramirez, Brett Ratner and Halle Berry

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...

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...

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 Kaurism„ki, cinematographer Timo Salminen, producer Fabienne Vonier as well as stars Janne Hyyti„inen, Maria ...

Aki Kaurism„ki

Aki Kaurism„ki 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...

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...

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...

Margherita Buy, Nanni Moretti and Jasmine Trinca

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...