The Festival in Movement

The 61st Cannes Film Festival will take place 15 - 26 May 2008.

For the past 60 years, the Festival has constantly observed a living cinema, discovering thereby its styles, trends and points of emergence on world cartography in perpetual evolution. It continually pursues as well reflection on its own future to provide itself with the best means possible to prepare for and respond to the expectations of both professionals and film lovers alike.

This symbolic date of the 60th anniversary offers the Festival de Cannes the occasion to mark its entrance into the 3rd millennium by placing the event under the sign of modernity and renewal. And to thus celebrate international cinema, we wish to revitalise each of our actions and artistic choices, highlight ever better the films, and last but not least bring together the artists around shared sources of inspiration and passion.

This future vision is fully expressed in the poster, composed of Alex Majoli's photos for the agency Magnum in a manifesto which brings together great names of the international cinema in a dynamic surge forward...

In illustration of this will for the anniversary to be as well a tribute to artists, we have initiated a project for an original film, A Chacun Son Cinema, a work both personal and collective devoted to the cinema. 35 renowned directors have taken up the challenge. Each of them had entire freedom to imagine a 3-minute film based on this theme. It reunites film lovers the world over around the motion-picture theatre as a temple of this shared passion.

It is this same spirit which presides over the launch of this brand-new, completely restructured website, with modernised aesthetics and simplified navigation, which makes available to you the most innovative technologies. An important platform reflecting the Festival's work in favour of cinematic creation, it will equally respond to the expectations of professionals by developing practical services.

Source : www.festival-cannes.org