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the usual suspects but looks like a great yearโ€ฆ. and Portmanโ€™s on jury


Competition
Nuri Bilge Ceylan โ€“ Three Monkeys (Turkey-France-Italy)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne โ€“ Le Silence De Lorna (France-Belgium)
Arnaud Desplechin โ€“ A Christmas Story (France)
Clint Eastwood โ€“ Changeling (US)
Atom Egoyan โ€“ Adoration (Canada)
Ari Folman โ€“ Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
Philippe Garrel โ€“ La Frontiere De Lโ€™Aube (France)
Matteo Garrone โ€“ Gomorra (Italy)
Charlie Kaufman โ€“ Synecdoche, New York (US)
Eric Khoo โ€“ My Magic (Singapore)
Lucretia Martel โ€“ La Mujer Sin Cabeza (Argentina-Spain)
Brillante Mendoza โ€“ Serbis (The Philippines)
Kornel Mondruczo โ€“ Delta (Hungary-Germany)
Walter Salles & Daniela Thomas โ€“ Linha De Passe (Brazil)
Paolo Sorrentino โ€“ Il Divo (Italy)
Pablo Trapero โ€“ Leonera (Argentina-South Korea)
Wim Wenders โ€“ The Palermo Shooting (Germany)
Jia Zhangke โ€“ 24 City (China)
Steven Soderbergh โ€“ Che (US-Spain-France) โ€” one four-hour competion title comprised of Guerrilla and The Argentine

Out of competition

Steven Spielberg โ€“ Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (US)
Mark Osborne and John Stevenson โ€“ Kung Fu Panda (US)
Ji-Woon Kim โ€“ The Good, The Bad, The Weird (South Korean)
Woody Allen โ€“ Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Spain-US)

Special screenings
Marina Zenovich โ€“ Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (US)
Wong Kar-wai โ€“ Ashes Of Time Redux (Hong Kong-China-Taiwan)
Daniel Leconte โ€“ Cโ€™est Dur Dโ€™etre Aime Par Des Cons (France)
Marco Tullio Giordana โ€“ Sangue Pazzo (Italy-France)
Terence Davies โ€“ Of Time And The City (UK)

Midnight Screenings
Emir Kusturica โ€“ Maradona (Spain)
Jennifer Lynch โ€“ Surveillance (US)
Hong-Jin Na โ€“ The Chaser (South Korea)

Special Jury Presidentโ€™s screening
Alison Thompson โ€“ The Third Wave (US)

Main Jury
Sean Penn, president
Sergio Castellitto
Natalie Portman
Alfonso Cuaron
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Alexandra Maria Lara
Rachid Bouchareb

Un Certain Regard 2008 line-up

Tokyo!, dir: Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry (France)
*Afterschool, dir: Antonio Campos (US)
*Ting Che, dir: Chung Mong-Hong (Taiwan)
Soi Cowboy, dir: Thomas Clay (UK)
La Vie Moderne (Profils Paysans), dir: Raymond Depardon (France)
Wolke 9, dir: Andreas Dresen (Germany)
*Tulpan, dir: Sergey Dvortsevoy (Germany)
Los Bastardos, dir: Amat Escalante (Mexico)
Chelsea On The Rocks, dir: Abel Ferrera (US)
Je Veux Voir, dir: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige (France)
Oโ€™ Horten, dir: Bent Hamer (Norway-Germany)
*Milh Hadha Al-Bahr, dir: Annemarie Jacir (Palestine)
Tokyo Sonata, dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
Yi Ban Haishui, Yi Ban Huoyan, dir: Fendou Liu (China)
*A Festa Da Menina Morta, dir: Matheus Nachtergaele (Brazil)
De Ofrivilliga, dir: Ruben Ostlund (Sweden)
Wendy And Lucy: dir: Kelly Reichardt (US)
Johnny Mad Dog, dir: Jean-Stephane Sauvaire (France)
*Versailles, dir: Pierre Schoeller (France)
Tyson, dir: James Toback (US)

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*denotes first film, eligible for the Camera dโ€™Or

Un Certain Regard jury president: Fatih Akin
Camera Dโ€™Or jury president: Bruno Dumont
Cinefondation jury president: Hou Hsiao-hsien

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