03/05/2006

The 58th Cannes Film Festival is a good year for the MEDIA Programme, which backed 17 of the films selected, nine of which are in competition : La raison du plus faible [+see also:
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film profile] by Lucas Belvaux and The Wind That Shakes the Barley [+see also:
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interview: Ken Loach
interview: Rebecca O’Brien
film profile] by Ken Loach (MEDIA Development and MEDIA "i2i Audiovisual"); Fast Food Nation by Richard Linklater and L'amico di famiglia by Paolo Sorrentino (MEDIA Development); Volver [+see also:
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interview: Agustín Almodóvar
interview: Carmen Maura
interview: Pedro Almodóvar
interview: Pénélope Cruz
film profile] by Pedro Almodóvar, Pan's Labyrinth [+see also:
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film profile] by Guillermo Del Toro, Flandres [+see also:
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film profile] by Bruno Dumont, Lights in the Dusk [+see also:
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film profile] by Aki Kaurismäki and The Caiman [+see also:
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interview: Jean Labadie
interview: Nanni Moretti
film profile] by Nanni Morretti (MEDIA Distribution-Automatic Support).

Un Certain Regard includes five MEDIA-backed films: collective title Paris je t'aime and Pour aller au ciel il faut mourir by Djamshed Usmonov (MEDIA "i2i Audiovisual"); Uro [+see also:
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film profile] by Stefan Faldbakken, You Am I by Kristijonas Vildziunas (MEDIA Development) and Taxidermia [+see also:
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film profile] by György Pálfi (MEDIA Distribution-Automatic Support).

The Directors’ Fortnight features Azur et Asmar by Michel Ocelot (MEDIA "i2i Audiovisual") and Critics Week, Komma [+see also:
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film profile] by Martine Doyen (MEDIA Development and MEDIA “i2i Audiovisual”). Lastly, Zidane, un portrait du 21 siècle by Philipe Parremo and Douglas Gordon, which will screen out of competition, obtained backing from MEDIA “i2i Audiovisual”.