Monday, 5 May 2008

Official Selection

The films in competition at the festival were made public quite recently, and the list has just been updated. Blindness, by Fernando Meirelles, the Brazilian director who did City of God, will be opening the festival, and What Just Happened? (out of competition) by Barry Levinson , who has won Best Director at the Academy Awards twice, will close it. Steven Soderbergh's Che has been extended - in the last announcement, the movie was four hours long, but it has grown to 4 hours and 28 minutes since then. At this rate, it will be over 5 hours long by the time the festival starts. All the other films, even the latest Indiana Jones installment, are under three hours. The shortest film, My Rabit Hoppy by Anthony Lucas, is just three minutes.

A complete list of the films screening at the festival, including out of competition features, short films and the Cinefondation student films can be found here.

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