2008 Cannes Film Festival

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2008 Cannes Film Festival
2008 Cannes Film Festival poster.jpg
Official poster of the 61st Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo of model Anouk Marguerite and photographed by Pierre Collier. [1]
Opening film Blindness
Closing film What Just Happened
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or :
The Class
Hosted by Édouard Baer
No. of films22 (Main Competition)
Festival date14 May 2008 (2008-05-14) – 25 May 2008 (2008-05-25)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2008. American actor and filmmaker Sean Penn served as jury president for the main competition. French filmmaker Laurent Cantet won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film The Class . [2] [3]

Contents

The festival opened with Blindness by Fernando Meirelles [4] and closed with What Just Happened by Barry Levinson. [5] Édouard Baer was the master of ceremonies. [6]

The British press reported the list of films in competition this year was notable for its absence of British films for the second successive year. [7] [8]

Juries

Sean Penn, President of the 2008 Feature film Jury Seanpenn1.jpg
Sean Penn, President of the 2008 Feature film Jury

Main competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2008 Official Selection: [9]

Un Certain Regard

Cinefondation and Short Films Competition

Caméra d'Or

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : [11]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
24 City 二十四城记/二十四城記 Jia Zhangke China
Adoration Atom Egoyan Canada
Blindness Fernando Meirelles Brazil, Canada, Japan
Changeling Clint Eastwood United States
Che (Part I: The Argentine and Part II: Guerilla) Steven Soderbergh Spain, Germany, France, United States
A Christmas Tale Un conte de Noël Arnaud Desplechin France
The Class Entre les murs Laurent Cantet France
Delta Kornél Mundruczó Hungary
Il Divo Paolo Sorrentino Italy
Frontier of the Dawn La frontière de l'aube Philippe Garrel France
Gomorrah Gomorra Matteo Garrone Italy
The Headless Woman La mujer sin cabeza Lucrecia Martel Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Lion's Den Leonera Pablo Trapero Argentina, South Korea, Brazil, Spain
Linha de Passe Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas Brazil
My Magic Eric Khoo Singapore
Palermo Shooting Wim Wenders Germany, France, Italy
Service Serbis Brillante Mendoza Philippines, France
Lorna's Silence Le silence de Lorna Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Belgium, Italy, Germany
Synecdoche, New York Charlie Kaufman United States
Three Monkeys Üç Maymun Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey
Two Lovers James Gray United States
Waltz with Bashir ואלס עם באשיר Ari Folman Israel, Germany, France

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard : [11]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Afterschool Antonio Campos United States
Hunger Steve McQueen Ireland, United Kingdom
Involuntary De ofrivilliga Ruben Östlund Sweden
I Want to SeeJe veux voir Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige France, Lebanon
Johnny Mad Dog Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire France, Belgium, Liberia
The Dead Girl's FeastA Festa da Menina Morta Matheus Nachtergaele Brazil
Los Bastardos Amat Escalante Mexico, France, United States
Modern LifeLa Vie moderne Raymond Depardon France
Ocean Flame 一半海水，一半火燄 Fendou Liu Hong Kong
O' Horten Bent Hamer Norway, France, Germany, Denmark
Parking 停車 Chung Mong-Hong Taiwan
Salt of this Sea ملح هذا البحر Annemarie Jacir Palestine, France, Israel, United States, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland
Soi Cowboy ซอยคาวบอยThomas ClayThailand, United Kingdom
Tokyo! Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho France, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Tokyo Sonata トウキョウソナタ Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japan
Tulpan Тюльпан Sergey Dvortsevoy Kazakhstan, Germany
Tyson James Toback United States
VersaillesPierre SchoellerFrance
Wendy and Lucy Kelly Reichardt United States
Cloud 9 Wolke Neun Andreas Dresen Germany

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [11] [12]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
The Chaser 추격자 Na Hong-jin South Korea
The Good, the Bad, the Weird 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 Kim Jee-woon
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Steven Spielberg United States
Kung Fu Panda John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
Maradona by Kusturica Emir Kusturica Serbia
Surveillance Jennifer Lynch United States
Vicky Cristina Barcelona Woody Allen Spain, United States
What Just Happened (closing film) Barry Levinson United States

Special Screenings

The following films were selected for the Special Screenings: [11] [13]

English TitleOriginal TitleDirector(s)Production Country
Ashes of Time Redux (1994)東邪西毒 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong
C'est dur d'être aimé par des consDaniel LeconteFrance
Chelsea on the Rocks Abel Ferrara United States
Of Time and the City Terence Davies United Kingdom
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Marina Zenovich United States, United Kingdom
The Third Wave Alison Thompson United States, Sri Lanka
Wild Blood Sanguepazzo Marco Tullio Giordana Italy, France

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation: [11]

  • August 15th (Ba yue shi wu) by Jiang Xuan
  • Blind Spot by Johanna Bessiere, Nicolas Chauvelot, Olivier Clert, Cécile Dubois Herry, Yvon Jardel, Simon Rouby
  • El Reloj (The Watch) by Marco Berger
  • Et dans mon coeur j'emporterai (And I’ll Keep in My Heart) by Yoon Sung-A
  • Forbach by Claire Burger
  • Gata by Diana Mkrtchyan
  • Gestern In Eden (The Other Day In Eden) by Jan Speckenbach
  • Himnon (Anthem) by Elad Keidan
  • Illusion Dwellers by Robb Ellender
  • Interior. Scara de Bloc (Interior. Bloc of Flats Hallway) by Ciprian Alexandrescu
  • Kestomerkitsijät (Roadmarkers) by Juho Kuosmanen
  • Naus by Lukás Glaser
  • O som e o resto (Sound and the Rest) by André Lavaquial
  • Shtika (Silence) by Hadar Morag
  • Stop by Park Jae-Ok
  • The Maid by Heidi Saman
  • This Is a Story About Ted and Alice by Teressa Tunney

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [11]

Cannes Classics

Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema [14] and restored masterworks from the past. [15]

Tributes

Documentaries about Cinema

  • Il était une fois...Lawrence d'Arabie by Anne Kunvari (2008)
  • La Collection Cinéma cinémas by Claude Ventura (2008)
  • No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos by James Chressanthis (2008)
  • The Mystery of Samba (O mistério do Samba) by Jabor Carolina, Buarque De Hollanda Lula (2008)

Restored prints

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 47th International Critics' Week (47e Semaine de la Critique): [17]

Feature film competition

Short film competition

Special screenings

Short films
  • Areia (Sand) by Caetano Gotardo (Brazil)
  • La Résidence Ylang Ylang by Hachimiya Ahamada (France, Comores)
  • L’ondée by David Coquard-Dassault (France, Canada)
  • Beyond the Mexique Bay by Jean-Marc Rousseau Ruiz (France, Mexico)
Prix de la Critique
  • Taxi Wala by Lola Frederich (France)
  • Graffiti by Vano Burduli (Georgia)
  • Les Filles de feu by Jean-Sébastien Chauvin (France)
  • Les Paradis Perdus by Hélier Cisterne (France)
  • Young Man Falling (Ung and falder) by Martin De Thurah (Denmark)
  • A Relationship in Four Days by Peter Glanz (United States)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2008 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [18]

Feature films

Special screenings

Short films

  • The Acquaintances of a Lonely John by Benny Safdie
  • Ciel éteint! by F. J. Ossang  [ fr ]
  • Easter Morning by Bruce Conner
  • Il fait beau dans la plus belle ville du monde by Valérie Donzelli
  • Je vous hais petites filles by Yann Gonzalez
  • Kamel s’est suicidé six fois, son père est mort by Soufiane Adel
  • MAN by Myna Joseph
  • Mes copains by Louis Garrel
  • Muro by Tião
  • Sagan om den lille Dockpojken by Johannes Nyholm
  • Summer Afternoon by Wi-ding Ho
  • Vsakdan ni vsak dan by Martin Turk

Official Awards

Laurent Cantet, winner of the 2008 Palme d'Or Laurent Cantet.jpg
Laurent Cantet, winner of the 2008 Palme d'Or
Matteo Garrone, winner of the 2008 Grand Prix Matteo Garrone cropped.jpg
Matteo Garrone, winner of the 2008 Grand Prix
Director Clint Eastwood at the festival promoting Changeling ClintEastwoodCannesMay08.jpg
Director Clint Eastwood at the festival promoting Changeling

In Competition

The following films and people received the 2008 Official selection awards: [19] [2]

Un Certain Regard

Cinéfondation

Caméra d'Or

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

International Critics' Week

Regards Jeunes Prize

Prix François Chalais

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