2008 Cannes Film Festival
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The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival ran from May 14 through 25, 2008, presided by American actor Sean Penn.
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.
Laurent Cantet's The Class won the Palme d'Or.
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Feature film competition
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Festival line-up
Opener
- Blindness, (by Fernando Meirelles, Brazil-Canada-Japan)
Closer
- What Just Happened?, (by Barry Levinson, United States)
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Films in competition
- 24 City (by Jia Zhangke, China)
- Adoration (by Atom Egoyan, Canada)
- Blindness, (by Fernando Meirelles, Brazil-Canada-Japan)
- Changeling (by Clint Eastwood, United States)
- Che (by Steven Soderbergh, United States)
- Delta (by Kornel Mondruczo, Hungary)
- Gomorra (by Matteo Garrone, Italy)
- Il Divo (by Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)
- La Mujer Sin Cabeza (by Lucrecia Martel, Argentina)
- La Frontière de l'aube (by Philippe Garrel, France)
- Le Silence de Lorna (by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, Belgium)
- Leonera (by Pablo Trapero, Argentina)
- Linha de Passe (by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, Brazil)
- My Magic (by Eric Khoo, Singapore)
- Serbis (by Brillante Mendoza, Philippines)
- Synecdoche, New York (by Charlie Kaufman, United States)
- The Palermo Shooting (by Wim Wenders, Germany)
- Three Monkeys (by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey)
- Two Lovers (by James Gray, United States)
- Un conte de Noël (by Arnaud Desplechin, France)
- Waltz with Bashir (by Ari Folman, Israel)
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Out of competition
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (by Steven Spielberg, US)
- Kung Fu Panda (by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne, US)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (by Kim Jee-Woon, South Korea)
- You and I (by Roland Joffe, US-Russia)
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Midnight screening
- Maradona (by Emir Kusturica, Spain-France)
- Surveillance (by Jennifer Chambers Lynch, US)
- The Chaser (by Jin-ah Hong, South Korea)
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Special screening
- Of Time and the City (by Terence Davies, UK)
- Chelsia on the rocks (by Abel Ferrara)
- Sangue Pazzo (by Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy-France)
- C'EST DUR D'ÊTRE AIMÉ PAR DES CONS (by Daniel LECONTE)
- Ashes of Time Redux (by Wong Kar-Wai, China)
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (by Marina Zenovich, USA-UK)
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Un certain regard
- Afterschool, by Antonio Campos
- De Ofrivilliga, by Robert Ostlund
- Je veux voir, by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
- Johnny Mad Dog, by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
- A Festa De Menina Morta, by Matheus Nachtergaele
- La Vie moderne, by Raymond Depardon
- Le Sel de la mer, by Annemarie Jacir
- Los Bastardos, by Amat Escalante
- O'Horten, by Bent Hamer
- Parking, by Chung Mong-Hong
- Soi Cowboy, by Thomas Clay
- Tokyo, by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho
- Tokyo Sonata, by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
- Tulpan, by Sergeï Dvortsevoy
- Tyson, by James Toback
- Versailles, by Pierre Schoeller
- Wendy and Lucy, by Kelly Reichardt
- Wolke 9, by Andreas Dresen
- Yi Ban Haishui, Yi Ban Huoyan, by Fendou Liu
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Competition shorts
- 411-Z, by Daniel Erdélyi
- Buen Viaje, by Javier Palleiro
- De moins en moins, by Mélanie Laurent (France)
- El Deseo, by Marie Benito
- Jerrycan , by Julius Avery
- Megatron, by Marian Crisan
- My Rabbit Hoppy, by Anthony Lucas
- Smafuglar, by Rúnar Rúnarsson
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