:: FRIDAY 21 MAY
   Two much anticipated entries in competition: 2 years after Demonlover, Olivier Assayas is back on the croisette with Clean while Stephen Hopkins focuses on The Life & Death of Peter Sellers.

:: THURSDAY 20 MAY
   One should finally discover Wong Kar-Wai's mysterious 2046, an In the Mood for Love spin-off that nobody has seen yet—including the programmers of the festival. Johnnie To will present Breaking News (out of competition).

:: WEDNESDAY 19 MAY
   Walter Salles adapts the journals of Che in The Motorcycle Diaries.

:: TUESDAY 18 MAY
   Godard plays Notre Musique. The Cohen Brothers' Ladykillers try to compete with the cruelty of Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa.

:: MONDAY 17 MAY
   The temperature is dangerously rising and it's gonna give hemorrhoids to conservatives; here comes Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.

:: SUNDAY 16 MAY
   In competition: Lucrecia Martel's La Sainte Fille, Agnès Jaoui's Comme une Image & Kill Bill 2 (Out of competition).

:: SATURDAY 15 MAY
   Abbas Kiarostami (Five) battles zombies & ogres from Hollywood (Dawn of the Dead & Shrek 2).

:: FRIDAY 14 MAY
   Today's event is the screening of Emir Kusturica's new film, Life is a Miracle ; also showing in competition: Mondovino; Robert Bresson's Pickpocket is featured in classics.

:: THURSDAY 13 MAY
Wolfgang Petersen disembarks with Troy while Abbas Kiarostami returns to Ten with 10 on Ten (Certain Regard). Cannes Classics features Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet.

:: WEDNESDAY 12 MAY
   Opening of the festival with Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education.