Festivalul de la Cannes, 2008

S-a terminat si a 61-a editie a Festivalului de Film de la Cannes. Filmul castigator al marelui premiu Palme d'Or a fost: Entre les murs, in regia lui Laurent Cantet. Mai jos sunt celelalte filme nominalizate la premiu:

Gomorra, r. Matteo Garrone --> Grand Prix
A Christmas Tale, r. Arnaud Desplechin --> Special Prize for the 61st Festival
Changeling, r. Clint Eastwood --> Special Prize for the 61st Festival
Three Monkeys, r. Nuri Bilge Ceylan --> Best Director Award
Lorna's Silence, r. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne --> Best Screenplay Award
Linha de passe, r. Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas --> Best Actress (Sandra Corveloni)
Che, r. Steven Soderbergh --> Best Actor (Benicio Del Toro)
Il Divo, r. Paolo Sorrentino --> Jury Prize
Adoration, r. Atom Egoyan
Blindness, r. Fernando Meirelles
Delta, r. Kornel Mundruczo
Er shi si cheng ji, r. Zhang Ke Jia
Frontier of Dawn, r. Philippe Garrel
The Headless Woman, r. Lucrecia Martel
Leonera, r. Pablo Trapero
My Magic, r. Eric Khoo
Palermo Shooting, r. Wim Wenders
Serbis, r. Brillante Mendoza
Synecdoche, New York, r. Charlie Kaufman
Two Lovers, r. James Gray
Waltz With Bashir, r. Ari Folman

Si anul acesta, un film romanesc, mai exact un scurt-metraj a castigat premiul sectiunii la Cannes. Este vorba de Megatron al lui Marian Crisan. Celelalte filme nominalizate la categoria scurt-metraj:

Jerrycan, r. Julius Avery --> Jury Prize
411-z, r. Daniel Erdelyi
Good Trip, r. Javier Palleiro, Guillermo Rocamora
De moins en moins, r. Melanie Laurent
The Desire, r. Marie Benito
Love You More, r. Sam Taylor-Wood
My Rabit Hoppy, r. Anthony Lucas
2 Birds, r. Runar Runarsson

Premiul Un Certain Regard a fost castigat de Tulpan, in regia lui Sergey Dvortsevoy si Cloud 9, regia Andreas Dresen. Celelalte nominalizari:

Johnny Mad Dog, r. Jean-Stephane Sauvaire --> Prize of Hope
Tyson, r. James Toback --> Knockout Prize
Tokyo Sonata, r. Kiyoshi Kurosawa --> Jury Prize
The Dead Girl's Feast, r. Matheus Nachtergaele
Afterschool, r. Antonio Campos
Involuntary, r. Ruben Ostlund
Hunger, r. Steve McQueen
Je veux voir, r. Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige
Modern Life, r. Raymond Depardon
Los bastardos, r. Amat Escalante
Salt of This Sea, r. Annemarie Jacir
O'Horten, r. Bent Hamer
Ocean Flame, r. Fendou Liu
Soi cowboy, r. Thomas Clay
Parking, r. Mong-Hong Chung
Tokyo!, r. Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, Joon Ho Bong
Versailles, r. Pierre Schoeller
Wendy et Lucy, r. Kelly Reichardt

La categoria Cinefondation, pe primul loc s-a situat Anthem, regia Elad Keidan, locul 2 ocupat de Forbach, regia Claire Burger, locul 3: Stop, regia Jae-Ok Park si Roadmarkers, regia Juho Kuosmanen. Nominalizate la aceasta categorie au mai fost:

August 15th, r. Xuan Jiang
Blind Spot, r. Johanna Bessiere, Cecile Dubois Herry, Nicolas Chauvelot, Simon Rouby, Olivier Clert,Yvon Jardel
The Watch, r. Marco Berger
And I'll Keep in My Heart, r. Sung-A Yoon
Gata, r. Diana Mkrtchyan
The Other Day in Eden, r. Jan Speckenbach
Illusion Dwellers, r. Robb Ellender
Interior. Bloc of Flats Hallway, r. Ciprian Alexandru
Naus, r. Lukas Glaser
Sound and the Rest, r. Andre Lavaquial
Silence, r. Hadar Morag
The Maid, r. Heidi Saman
This is a Story About Ted and Alice, r. Teressa Tunney

Alte filme prezentate la festival, in afara competitiei, au fost:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, r. Steven Spielberg
Kung Fu Panda, r. Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
Maradona by Kusturica, r. Emir Kusturica
Surveillance, r. Jennifer Lynch
The Chaser, r. Hong-Jin Na
The Good, the Bad, the Weird, r. Jee-woon Kim
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, r. Woody Allen
What Just Happened, r. Barry Levinson

Proiectii speciale:
Ashes of Time Redux, r. Kar Wai Wong
C'est dur d'etre aime par des cons, r. Daniel Leconte
Chelsea on the Rocks, r. Abel Ferrara
Of Time and the City, r. Terence Davies
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, r. Marina Zenovich
Sanguepazzo, r. Marco Tullio Giordana
The Third Wave, r. Alison Thompson