2006 Cannes Film Festival Film Line-Up
April 20th, 2006 by Andre Soares
The 59th Cannes Film Festival will open on May 17. The awards will be announced on May 28.
Films in competition:
L’Amico di famiglia / Friend of the Family (Paolo Sorrentino)
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Il Caimano / The Caiman (Nanni Moretti)
Fast Food Nation (Richard Linklater)
Flandres (Bruno Dumont)
Indegènes / Days of Glory (Rachid Bouchareb)
Iklimer / Les Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Juventude em Marcha (Pedro Costa)
El Laberinto del Fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
Laitakaupungin valot / Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismaki)
Marie-Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)
Quand jetais chanteur / When I was a Singer (Xavier Giannoli)
La Raison du plus faible / The Weakest Is Always Right (Lucas Belvaux)
Red Road (Andrea Arnold)
Selon Charlie (Nicole Garcia)
Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
Summer Palace (Ye Lou)
Volver (Pedro Almodóvar)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach)
Opening film:
The Da Vinci Code (Ron Howard)
Closing film:
Transylvania (Tony Gatlif)
Official selection - out of competition special screenings:
United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
X-Men 3: The Last Stand (Brett Ratner)
Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick)
Official selection - midnight screenings:
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
Election 2 (Johnnie To)
Guisi / Silk (Su Chao-pin)
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Very strong lineup this year … nice to see two Mexican films .. I expect either Inaritu or Del Toro to win big
I’m betting on Pedro Almodovar and “Volver.”