One of the most anticipated international film openings in recent film history, of "The DaVinci Code," will mark the debut of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Also be sure to see my main Cannes Film Festival 2006 page.
Below is a list of films.
Opening film
- Ron Howard (director), "The DaVinci Code," out of competition
In competition
- Pedro Almodovar, "Volver"
- Andrea Arnold, "Red Road," first film
- Lucas Belvaux, "La Raison de Plus Faible"
- Rachid Bouchareb, "Indigenes"
- Israel Adrian Caetano, "Cronica de Una Fuga"
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, "Iklimler"
- Sofia Coppola, "Marie-Antoinette"
- Pedro Costa, "Juventude em Marcha"
- Guillermo Del Toro, "El Laberinto del Fauno" (Pan's Labyrinth)
- Bruno Dumongt, "Flandres"
- Nicole Garcia, "Selon Charlie"
- Xavier Giannoli, "Quand J'Etais Chanteur"
- Alejandro González Inarritu, "Babel"
- Aki Kaurismaki, "Laitakaupungin Valot"
- Richard Kelly, "Southland Tales"
- Richard Linklater, "Fast Food Nation"
- Ken Loach, "The Wind that Shakes the Barley"
- Ye Lou, "Summer Palace"
- Nanni Moretti, "Il Caimano"
- Paolo Sorrentino, "L'Amico di Famiglia"
Closing film
- Tony Gatlif, "Transylvania," out of competition
Un Certain Regard Opening Film
- "Paris, Je t'Aime"
Un Certain Regard
- Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche, "Bled Number One"
- Marco Belloccio, "Il Regiista di Matrimoni"
- Israel Adrian Caetano, "Cronica de Una Fuga"
- Rolf De Heer, "Ten Canoes"
- Denis Dercourt, "La Tourneuse de Pages"
- Paz Encina, "Hamaca Paraguaya," first film
- Stefan Faldbakken, "Uro," first film
- Jacques Fieschi, "La Californie," first film
- Paul Goldman, "Suburban Mayhem"
- Patrick Grandperret, "Meurtrieres"
- Slawomir Fabicki, "Z Oyzysku," first film
- Manuel Huerga, "Salvador"
- Nikolay Khomeriki, "977," first film
- Richard Linklater, "A Scanner Darkly"
- Catalin Mitulescu, "Cum Mi-Am Petrecut Sfarsitul Lumii" (The Way I Spent The End Of The World), first film
- Garin Nugroho, "Serambi"
- György Palfi, "Taxidermie"
- Oxide Pang Chun, Danni Pang, "Gwai Wik," (Recycle)
- Murali K. Thalluri, "Two Thirty 7"
- Djamshed Usmonov, "Bihisht Faqat Baroi Murdagon," (To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die)
- Francisco Vargas, "El Violin," (The Violin), first film
- Kristijonas Vildziunas, "You am I"
- Chao Wang, "Luxury Car"
- Jong-bin Yoon, "The Unforgiven," first film
Films out of competition
- Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
- Brett Ratner, "X-Men: The Last Stand"
- Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick, "Over the Hedge"
- John Cameron Mitchell, "Shortbus"
- Chao Pin Su, "Guisi" (Silk)
- Johnnie To, "Election 2"
- Mimmo Calepresti, "Volevo Solo Vivere"
- Bill Couturie, "Boffo: Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters"
- Benoît Delepine, Gustave Kervern, "Avida"
- Davis Guggenheim, "An Inconvenient Truth"
- Adam Guzinski, "Chlopiec Na Galopujacym Koniu," (The boy on a galloping horse), first film
- Jean-Henri Meunier, "Ici Najac, a Vous la Terre"
- Phillipe Parreno, Douglas Gordon, "Un Portrait du 21eme Siecle"
- Sydney Pollack, "Sketches of Frank Gehry"
- Tahani Rached, "El-Banate Dol," (These Girls)
- Abderrahmane Sissako, "Bamako"
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