CANNES ’08 LINE UP ANNOUNCED

As you can see from the list below, the 61st Festival de Cannes is filled with many familiar names including Steven Soderbergh, who brings his pair of Che films, and works from Clint Eastwood, Atom Egoyan, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen and Charlie Kaufman‘s directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York. The festival takes place May 14-25.

IN COMPETITION
24 City, directed by Jia Zhangke
Adoration, directed by Atom Egoyan
Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood
Che (The Argentine, Guerrilla), directed by Steven Soderbergh
Un Conte de noel, directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Delta, directed by Kornel Mundruczo
Il Divo, directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Gomorrah, directed by Matteo Garrone
La Frontiere de l’aube, directed by Philippe Garrel
Le Silence de Lorna, directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Leonera, directed by Pablo Trapero
Linha de Passe, directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas
La mujer sin cabeza, directed by Lucrecia Martel
My Magic, directed by Eric Khoo
The Palermo Shooting, directed by Wim Wenders
Three Monkeys, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Serbis, directed by Brillante Mendoza
Synecdoche, New York, directed by Charlie Kaufman
Waltz With Bashir, directed by Ari Folman

OUT OF COMPETITION
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, directed by Steven Spielberg
Kung Fu Panda, directed by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
The Good, the Bad, the Weird, directed by Kim Jee-woon
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, directed by Woody Allen

UN CERTAIN REGARD
Afterschool, directed by Antonio Campos
Cloud 9, directed by Andreas Dresen
The Dead Girl’s Feast, directed by Matheus Nachtergaele
Involuntary, directed by Ruben Ostlund
Je Veux Voir , directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Johnny Mad Dog, directed by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
O’ Horten, directed by Bent Hamer
Los Bastardos, directed by Amat Escalante
Parking, directed by Chung Mong-Hong
Part Ocean, Part Flame, directed by Liu Fendou
Salt of This Sea, directed by Annemarie Jacir
Soi Cowboy, directed by Thomas Clay
The Moderne Life (Profils Paysans), directed by Raymond Depardon
Tokyo!, directed by Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, and Michel Gondry
Tokyo Sonata, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Tulpan, directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy
Tyson, directed by James Toback
Versailles, directed by Pierre Schoeller
Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
The Chaser, directed by Na Hong-Jin
Maradona, directed by Emir Kusturica
Surveillance, directed by Jennifer Lynch

SHORT FILM COMPETITION
411-Z, directed by Daniel Erdelyi
Jerrycan, directed by Julius Avery
De Moins en Moins, directed by Melanie Laurent
Good Trip, directed by Javier Palleiro and Guillermo Rocamora
The Desire, directed by Marie Benito
Love You More, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood
Megatron, directed by Marian Crisan
My Rabbit Hoppy, directed by Anthony Lucas
Two Birds, directed by Runar Runarsson

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Ashes of Time Redux, directed by Wong Kar Wai
C’Est Dur D’Etre Aime Par Des Cons, directed by Daniel Leconte
Chelsea Hotel, directed by Abel Ferrara
Of Time and City, directed by Terence Davies
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, directed by Marina Zenovich
Sanguepazzo, directed by Marco Tullio Giordana

SCREENING OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE JURY
The Third Wave, directed by Alison Thompson