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FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES RECORD NUMBER OF SUBSCRIPTIONS
THE DEAD GIRL’S FEAST, by Brazilian actor and debutant director Matheus Nachtergaele – UN CERTAIN REGARD selection – UN CERTAIN REGARD selection

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Nº 569
31ª Mostra > 10/05/2008
Edition: Renata de Almeida and Leon Cakoff
Text: Leon Cakoff, for ‘Jornal da Mostra’

FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES RECORD NUMBER OF SUBSCRIPTIONS

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Cannes had an 11% increase in the subscriptions for the 2008 festival, coming from 96 countries. There were 1792 feature films, against 1615 in 2007. On the other hand, there has been a 6% decrease in the subscription of short films: 2233 shorts in 2008, from 80 countries, against 2368 in 2007. Other statistics in Cannes announce 55 films in world premiere, nine from debutant directors and ten directors for the first time in the competition.

Back to the official Cannes selection, here are the 20 films chosen to the parallel section UN CERTAIN REGARD, which also has a jury, presided by German filmmaker Fatih Akin, that will award the ones it finds best:

HUNGER, by British Steve McQueen (opening film)
TOKYO!, fable in segments about the Japanese city, with directions by Korean Joon Ho Bong and by the French Leos Carax and Michel Gondry
AFTERSCHOOL, by the Brazilian debutant Antonio Campos, a USA production
TING CHE/ PARKING, by debutant Mong-Hong Chung
SOI COWBOY, by Thomas Clay (Thailand, United Kingdom)
LA VIE MODERNE, by Raymond Depardon (France)
WOLKE 9, by Andreas Dresen (Germany)
TULPAN, by debutant Sergey Dvortsevoy (Germany, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, Russia, Poland)
LOS BASTARDOS, by Amat Escalante (Mexico, France, USA)
JE VEUX VOIR, by Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige (Lebanon, France)
O` HORTEN, by Bent Hamer (Norway, Germany, France)
MILH HADHA AL-BAHR/ LE SEL DE LA MER, by debutant Annemarie Jacir (Palestine, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain)
TOKYO SONATA, by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
OCEAN FLAME, by Fen Dou Liu (Hong Kong)
A FESTA DA MENINA MORTA (THE DEAD GIRL’S FEAST), by actor and debutant director Matheus Nachtergaele (Brazil)
DE OFRIVILLIGA/ INVOLUNTARY, by Ruben Östlund (Sweden)
WENDY AND LUCY, by Kelly Reichardt (USA)
JOHNNY MAD DOG, by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (France), about the drama of war children in Africa.
VERSAILLES, by debutant Pierre Schoeller (France)
TYSON, by James Toback (USA), documentary about the boxer Mike Tyson

English version: Laura Rebessi

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