One of the most prestigious international film festivals is held annually in the French resort city of Cannes, located on the Mediterranean coast. It was first held in 1946 and since then, every year at the end of May, it gathers the world elite of cinema - actors, directors, critics, the press and film critics - for its views. Participation in the competition program of this festival is already prestigious and honorable in itself.
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The 65th Cannes Festival in 2012 will be held from May 16 to May 27 and its program has already been determined. In it you can see the most famous and famous names of recent years. The competition program will open with Wes Andersen’s film “The Kingdom of the Full Moon”, and at the closing ceremony they will show the last film of the recently deceased Claude Miller's “Teresa Dyskeru”, based on the book of the same name by Francois Moriac.
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The competition program will show films of four more laureates of the Golden Palm Branch of the Cannes Film Festival of yesteryear. Filmmaker Kristjan Mungiu, who became the representative of the “new Romanian wave”, who shot the film “Four months, three weeks, two days” that triumphantly took place in Cannes, this time brought a new film “On the Other Side of the Hills”. The Austrian director Michael Haneke (White Ribbon) will show the audience his new film Love, which he shot in a traditional and recognizable harsh manner and tells about elderly spouses, one of whom was struck by a stroke.
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Another laureate of past years - an Iranian who became a classic during his lifetime and working in exile - Abbas Kiarostami ("Taste of Cherry"), transferred the action of his new film "Like a Lover" to Japan. The viewer will see a picture of the sudden romance of a young student and an elderly scientist. Representative of the British realistic school Ken Loach ("The Wind That Shakes Heather") will show its twenty-seventh tape, "Share of Angels".
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Russia at the film festival will be represented by a new film directed by Sergei Loznitsa "In the Fog". Jacques Odiar, David Cronenberg, Bernardo Bertolucci, Dario Argento, Takashi Miike and other film masters and promising debutants, whose tapes will be shown as part of the festival's special look festival, will also submit their works to the jury and spectators. This year's jury will be chaired by Nanny Moretti, Golden Palm Branch winner.
