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2413 articles available in total starting from 16/05/2002. Last article published on 06/11/2025.

The tragicomic magic of Persepolis

Official competition this afternoon at the Cannes Film Festival had a touch of the unusual, with the press screening of animated film Persepolis, a debut feature made almost entirely in 2D and...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Bac Films chooses Mexicans and wild card Reygadas

A true darling of the Cannes Film Festival with a 2002 Caméra d’Or Special Mention for his debut film Japan and the controversy triggered by the 2005 official competition screening of Battle in...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

Deep emotions in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

New York-born director Julian Schnabel took his first successful steps in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival today, where he presented his French production The Diving Bell and the...  

22/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Seidl’s human import/export

Fifty year-old Viennese documentary filmmaker Ulrich Seidl previous shook up audiences at the 2001 Venice Film Festival with the sex and violence of Austria’s torrid provinces in Dog Days...  

21/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/Austria

MK2 gives artist Van Sant carte blanche

"Nobody is ever ready for Paranoid Park," says one of the characters at the start of the new film of the same name by US filmmaker Gus Van Sant, at this morning’s official competition press...  

21/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Tehilim: Menachem’s blues

Foreign cinema on Israeli soil by young French director Raphaël Nadjari made its first appearance yesterday evening in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival with Tehilim ("Psalms"),...  

20/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

Demy’s shadow hangs over Love Songs

For his first time in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, French director Christophe Honoré this morning presented his ambitious musical Love Songs to an international press, as much...  

18/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/France

A cruel 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

A very warm welcome was received at the two press screenings of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s second feature 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, presented in official competition at the Cannes...  

17/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition/Romania

Asia in French spotlight with Wong Kar-Wai

Back on the Croisette one year after his role as jury president, Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai opened the official competition of the 60th Cannes Film Festival this afternoon with My Blueberry...  

16/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

Romania aims high with Christian Mungiu

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s official competition title 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days will be a surprise at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The European country with the lowest number of...  

16/05/2007 | Cannes 2007 | Competition

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