The 62nd Cannes Film Festival Opening Photos and Festival Film List at The Insider

The 62nd Cannes Film Festival got underway on Wednesday 13 May and will be running until 24 May. A bit of an A List magnet and a major event in the film industry calendar, this in film circles is regarded by most as the biggest film festival. It’s in effect a film festival and film competition with the prestigious Palm D’Or award going to the Best Film and Best director amongst other categories which will be announced on May 24.

Needless to say the winner of this award will have film distributors stretching as far as the eye can see in most cases to showcase the film in the real commerical world. Directors at this years festival include Quentin Tarantino, Ang Lee and Pedro Almodovar and Jane Campion, Ken Loach, Michael Haneke and Park Chan-wook. Strong Euro presence at this particular Cannes Festival, a light American presence and a quite bit of a showing from the Asian Countries.

Photo above Elizabeth Banks and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan famous Bollywood Actress

First film and the opener to this festival was an animation film designed for children and adults alike from the famous Pixar Studios who created the succesful Wall E animated film amongst many others, and this film goes by the very short title of “Up”

Photo above Jayde Michelle

Also outside of the main Cannes competition a further 52 feature films from 32 countries will also be showcased at the festival. Further coverage of the event highlights will be here.

The Complete Line Up of the films in the competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival

Film Title, Country, Director

Antichrist, Denmark-Sweden-France-Italy, Lars von Trier
Bright Star, Australia-U.K.-France, Jane Campion
Broken Embraces, Spain, Pedro Almodóvar starring Penelope Cruz
Enter the Void, France, Gaspar Noe
Face, France-Taiwan-Netherlands-Belgium, Tsai Ming-liang
Fish Tank, U.K.-Netherlands, Andrea Arnold
In the Beginning, France, Xavier Giannoli
Inglourious Basterds, U.S., Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt
Kinatay, Philippines, Brillante Mendoza
Les Herbes folles, France-Italy, Alain Resnais
Looking for Eric, U.K.-France-Belgium-Italy, Ken Loach
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, Spain, Isabel Coixet
A Prophet, France, Jacques Audiard
Spring Fever, China-France, Lou Ye
Taking Woodstock, U.S., Ang Lee
The Time That Remains, Israel-France-Belgium-Italy, Elia Suleiman
Thirst, South Korea-U.S., Park Chan-wook
Vengeance, Hong Kong-France-U.S., Johnnie To
Vincere, Italy-France, Marco Bellocchio
The White Ribbon, Germany-Austria-France, Michael Haneke