Cannes Film Festival 2008 :. Dates: May 14th - 25th :. Venue: Palais du Festival :. City: Cannes :. Country: France :. Edition: 2008/61th :. Official Site: Cannes Film Festival 2008

.: Palme d'Or: The Class
.: Grand Prix: Gomorra
.: Prix du Jury: Il Divo
.: Best Actor: Benicio Del Toro (Che)
.: Best Actress: Sandra Corveloni (Linha de Passe)
.: Best Script: Le Silence de Lorna (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
.: 61th Cannes Film Festival Award: Catherine Deneuve & Clint Eastwood
.: Palme d'Or - Short: Megatron
.: Certain Regard Award: Tulpan
.: Caméra d'Or: Hunger
.: International Critics Award: Delta
.: Cinéfondation Award: L'Hymne

Blindness The director is never able to find a fair balance between the codes of a film genre and the moralizing discourse on the fragility of society.

Che Anti-dramatic, anti-charismatic and as anti-Hollywood as possible, the icon of the Cuban Revolution as seen by Steven Soderbergh puzzles and even disappoints.

Chelsea on the Rocks Messy, uninhibited, relaxed, eclectic, crazy. These qualifiers apply as much to Abel Ferrara as they do to his subject.

The Class The Class is based on a book and screenplay by François Bégaudeau, a teacher who plays his own role here and is directed by Laurent Cantet, an astute portraitist of French societal social mechanisms.

Gomorra What differentiates Gomorra from other works however in the Mobster sub-genre is that it emphasizes the involvement of kids in the Mafia.

Hunger Deeply moving, experimental and almost dialogue-free, Hunger chronicles IRA detainees who tried to win political prisoner status in 1981 through a no wash protest and hunger strike.

Leonera Trapero's film, served by sophisticated but never flashy cinematography and an extremely precise sense of the frame, knows how to play the discretion of the objective observer who nevertheless feels tenderness for his characters.

Soi Cowboy Entirely filmed in Thailand, Soi Cowboy takes its title from a red light district of Bangkok.

Surveillance Surveillance disappoints even more especially since it paints the portrait of two serial killers who are particularly cruel and devoid of conscience.

Tokyo! While all three parts of Tokyo! are forgotten fairly quickly, the film emerges from the coherent vision of a city often portrayed as sprawling, swarming, supersaturated with technology and finally over-sanitized.

Two Lovers James Gray is back on the big screen with Two Lovers, his opportunity to abandon the thrillers emblematic of his work and explore the inexhaustible theme of love.

Waltz with Bashir Waltz with Bashir is an animated autobiographical documentary whose title refers to an Israeli soldier taken under fire from snipers in Beirut.

.: 05/24: Dennis Hopper
.: 05/20: Festival Atmosphere
.: 05/19: Directors' Fortnight Anniversary Party
.: 05/18: Indiana Jones
.: 05/17: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
.: 05/17: Sous le fiel de Cannes
.: 05/17: Jack Black
.: 05/17: Angelina Jolie
.: 05/16: Arnaud Despléchin for Un conte de Noël
.: 05/16: Hippolyte Girardot for Un conte de Noël
.: 05/16: Melvil Poupaud for Un conte de Noël
.: 05/15: Gael Garcia Bernal & Juliane Moore
.: 05/15: Nathalie Portman
.: 05/15: Sean Penn