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Written by the editor   
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Cannes 2008The Competition titles of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival were announced today, with a Belgian, two French and two Italian films making the cut, as well as Mondruczo's Hungarian Delta and Wim Wenders' European co-production The Palermo Shooting. Two French film will run in Competition this year, both from veteran directors: Arnaud Desplechin's Un conte de Noël (A Christmas Story) and Philippe Garrel's La Frontière de L'aube. The French-language La silence de Lorna from the Belgian Dardenne brothers will also play in Competition, as will the Italian films Il Divo from Paolo Sorrentino and Matteo Garrone's Gomorra. The festival will open on May 14 and will run through May 25. UPDATE: Several new titles had been added to the list below.

 

Cannes 2008 - Opening Film (In Competition)

  • Fernando Mereilles - Blindness

Cannes 2008 - In Competition

  • Laurent Cantet - Entre les murs (The Class)
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys
  • Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence de Lorna
  • Arnaud Desplechin - Un conte de Noël (A Christmas Story)
  • Clint Eastwood - Changeling
  • Atom Egoyan - Adoration
  • Ari Folman - Waltz with Bashir
  • Philippe Garrel - La Frontière de L'aube
  • Matteo Garrone - Gomorra
  • James Gray - Two Lovers
  • Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York
  • Eric Khoo - My Magic
  • Lucretia Martel - La mujer sin cabeza
  • Brillante Mendoza - Serbis
  • Kornel Mondruczo - Delta
  • Walter Salles - Linha de passe
  • Paolo Sorrentino - Il Divo
  • Pablo Trapero - Leonera
  • Wim Wenders - The Palermo Shooting
  • Jia Zhangke - 24 City
  • Steven Soderbergh - Che (Guerrilla &The Argentine)

Cannes 2008 - Closing Film (Out of Competition)

  • Barry Levinson - What Just Happened

Cannes 2008 - Out of Competition

  • Steven Spielberg - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
  • Mark Osborne and John Stevenson - Kung Fu Panda
  • Ji-Woon Kim - The Good, The Bad, The Weird
  • Woody Allen - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Cannes 2008 - Special Screenings

  • Marina Zenovich - Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  • Wong Kar-wai - Ashes Of Time Redux
  • Daniel Leconte - C'est dûr d'etre aimé par des cons
  • Marco Tullio Giordana - Sangue pazzo
  • Terence Davies - Of Time and The City 

Cannes 2008 - Midnight Screenings

  • Emir Kusturica - Maradona 
  • Jennifer Lynch - Surveillance 
  • Hong-Jin Na - The Chaser

Cannes 2008 - Special Jury President's Screening

  • Alison Thompson - The Third Wave

Cannes 2008 - Competition jury

  • Sean Penn, president
  • Jeanne Balibar
  • Rachid Bouchareb
  • Sergio Castellitto
  • Alfonso Cuaron
  • Alexandra Maria Lara
  • Marjane Satrapi
  • Natalie Portman
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
 
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