28/04/2006

The feature film Cronica de una fuga by Uruguay’s Israel Adrian Caetano received a surprise promotion, announced yesterday by the organisers of the 59th Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28). The film, an Argentinean production, has in fact been transferred from the Un Certain Regard section to official competition, which now has 20 titles.

This change of category is also excellent news for French sales company Wild Bunch, which now has a seventh candidate for the Golden Palm in its line-up (the six others are Charlie Said [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Nicole Garcia, The Caiman [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile] by Nanni Moretti, L'amico di famiglia by Paolo Sorrentino, Southland Tales by Richard Kelly, Summer Palace by Lou Ye and Pan's Labyrinth [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] by Guillermo del Toro).

Two Thirty 7, the debut feature by Murali K. Thalluri, will wrap up the Un Certain Regard selection. Thalluri, a 21 year-old Australian filmmaker, will benefit from more than flattering buzz. Moreover, German protests following their “eviction” from the Official Selection seem to have been heard by the Festival’s direction, who will be generous enough to show a special screening of the short by Wim Wenders made in Cannes in 1982 (Room 666), followed by the Holger Ernst’s debut feature The House is Burning (a Reverse Angle Pictures production). Another screening in honour of French actress Danielle Darrieux will take place on May 24, with the preview of Nouvelle chance by Anne Fontaine.

The official selection

In competition
Pedro Almodovar - Volver (ES)
Nanni Moretti - The Caiman (IT)
Paolo Sorrentino - L'amico di famiglia (IT)
Ken Loach - The Wind That Shakes the Barley (UK)
Nicole Garcia - Charlie Said(FR)
Bruno Dumont – Flanders (FR)
Xavier Giannoli - The Singer (FR)
Rachid Bouchareb - Days of Glory (DZ)
Lucas Belvaux – The Weakest Are Always Right (BE)
Sofia Coppola - Marie-Antoinette (US)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel(MX)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Climates (TR)
Pedro Costa - Juventude em Marcha (PT)
Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth (MX)
Aki Kaurismaki - Lights in the Dusk(FI)
Andrea Arnold - Red Road (GB)
Richard Kelly - Southland Tales (US)
Richard Linklater - Fast Food Nation (US)
Lou Ye - Summer Palace (CN)
Israel Adrian Caetano - Cronica de una fuga (UY)

Out of competition
Opening: Ron Howard - The Da Vinci Code (US)
Closing: Tony Gatlif - Transylvania (FR)

Special screenings:
Brett Ratner - X-Men 3: The Last Stand (US)
Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick - Over the Hedge (US)
Paul Greengrass - United 93 (GB)
Mimo Calopresti - Volevo solo vivere (IT)
Bill Couturié - "Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters" (US)
Benoît Delépine - Avida (FR)
Davis Guggenheim - An Inconvienient Truth (US)
Adam Guzinski - Dziki jezdziec (PL)
Jean-Henri Meunier - Ici Najac, à vous la Terre (FR)
Philippe Parreno et Douglas Gordon - Zidane, un portrait du XXIe siècle (FR)
Sydney Pollack - Sketches of Frank Gehry (US)
Tahani Rached - El-banate dol (EG-CA)
Abderrahmane Sissako - Bamako (MR)
Anne Fontaine - Nouvelle chance (FR)
Wim Wenders - Chambre 666 & Holger Ernst The House is Burning (DE)

Midnight screenings
John Cameron Mitchell - Shortbus (US)
Johnnie To - Election 2 (HK)
Su Chao-pin – Guisi (TW)

Un Certain Regard

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Jacques Fieschi - La Californie (FR)
Denis Dercourt - La Tourneuse De Pages (FR)
Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche - Bled Number One (FR)
Patrick Grandperret - Murderers (FR)
Marco Bellocchio - Il Regista di matrimoni (IT)
György Palfy - Taxidermia (HU)
Slawomir Fabicki - Z Odzysku (PL)
Kristijonas Vildziunas - You Am I (LT)
Manuel Huerga - Salvador (ES)
Stefan Faldbakken - Uro (NO)
Catalin Mitulescu - Cum Mi-Am Petrecut Sfarsiful Lumii (RO)
Nikolay Khomeriki - 977 (RU)
Djamshed Usmonov - To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (TJ)
Murali K. Thalluri - Two Thirty 7 (AU)
Paz Encina - Hamaca Paraguaya (PY)
Rolf De Heer - Ten Canoes (AU)
Paul Goldman - Suburban Mayhem (AU)
Garin Nugroho - Serambi (ID)
Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang - Recycle) (HK)
Francisco Vargas - El Violin (MX)
Richard Linklater - A Scanner Darkly (US)
Yoon Jong-bin - The Unforgiven (KR)
Wang Chao - Luxury Car (CN)