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THE FILMS IN COMPETITION AND MANY CANDIDATES TO BECOME CULT
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Nº 564
31ª Mostra > 24/04/2008
Edition: Renata de Almeida and Leon Cakoff
Text: Leon Cakoff, for ‘Jornal da Mostra’

THE FILMS IN COMPETITION AND MANY CANDIDATES TO BECOME CULT

Untitled Document Every year it is the same suspense. A silent war is fought in the backstage of cinematographic production, among the films submitted to the Cannes selection, the most expected of all in the calendar of more than 100 international festivals in the world. And the selection of the 61st Cannes Festival (14-25/ may/ 2008), with the films that will compete for the Golden Palm, was announced by Gilles Jacob, its president, and Thierry Frémaux, general delegate, on April 23, less than a month before the opening of the festival. Among the selected, the Belgian brothers Dardenne, who have already won twice in Cannes, the respectable veteran Clint Eastwood, and the cult from Canada (Atom Egoyan), from Brazil (Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas), from Germany (Wim Wenders) and from China (Jia Zhang-Ke). From the USA, three films have been chosen. From France, Italy and Argentina, two films each. These are the feature films that will be judged by a jury presided by American filmmaker, actor and writer Sean Penn:

THREE MONKEYS/ ÜÇ MAYMUN, by Turkish Nuri Bilge
LE SILENCE DE LORNA, by Belgian Jean-Pierre and Luc DARDENNE
UN CONTE DE NOËL, by French Arnaud DESPLECHIN
CHANGELING, by American Clint EASTWOOD
ADORATION, by Canadian Atom EGOYAN
WALTZ WITH BASHIR, animation by Israeli Ari FOLMAN
LA FRONTIÈRE DE L`AUBE, by French Philippe GARREL
GOMORRA, by Italian Matteo GARRONE
24 CITY, by Chinese JIA Zhangke
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, by debutant American Charlie KAUFMAN
MY MAGIC, by Malayan Eric KHOO
LA MUJER SIN CABEZA, by Argentinean Lucrecia MARTEL
SERBIS, by Philippine Brillante MENDOZA
DELTA, by Hungarian Kornel MUNDRUCZO
LINHA DE PASSE, by Brazilians Daniela THOMAS and Walter SALLES
CHE, by American Steven SODERBERGH (the longest film in competition, four hours of length)
IL DIVO, by Italian Paolo SORRENTINO
LEONERA, by Argentinean Pablo TRAPERO
THE PALERMO SHOOTING, by German Wim WENDERS

With Sean PENN, take part in the jury of the Cannes competition
Sergio CASTELLITTO, Italian director, actor and writer, the American-Israeli actress Natalie PORTMAN, Mexican filmmaker
Alfonso CUARON, Thai director Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, German actress Alexandra Maria LARA and the French director Rachid BOUCHAREB.

English version: Laura Rebessi
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