Slum dog become street dog

Authorities in Mumbai have demolished the hut of Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, the 10-year-old boy from Mumbai’s slums who appeared as young Salim in the Oscar winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”.This hut can be described as a shack or a lean-to with a tarpaulin roof and situated in the Garib Nagar slums, was destroyed by bulldozers on Thursday night last.. Another 30 more neighbors’ homes were also destroyed along with Ismail’s .There was no advance warning of demolition. The 10-year-old actor, had been in deep sleep in the hut when the cruel authorities and heartless bulldozers came to demolish it.. There are some 18 million people living in Mumbai , over half of them are consigned to the slums.

Adoor retro in Munich Film Museum

The Filmmuseum im Stadtmuseum is one of the great movie resources in Munich. The Munich film museum was founded in 1963 as part of the City Museum. A centre for research in cinematic history, it is where important documents of German and international film history are collected and restored. Additionally, its cinema shows a different film every day; silent films are often accompanied by live piano and/or violin music, especially composed for the occasion. The programme includes classics . Regular retrospectives document the work of a particular person or films on a certain topic. Directors, actors and film historians are often invited to give an introductory talk to a showing or to discuss the film with the audience. Normally all films are shown in their original version with German subtitles. A retrospective of all the Films of renowned film maker Adoor Gopalakrishnan would be screened in Munich Film Museum from May 12 to 16,2009.
Film critic and Secretary General of the International Film Critics Association (FIPRESCI) Klaus Eder would introduce Adoor Gopalakrishnan to the audience.

Jury for Competition films in Festival de Cannes 2009

Jury for Competition films in Festival de Cannes 2009 will be presided by eminent actress Isabelle HUPPERT ( France).
Other members are:
Asia ARGENTO (Actress, Director, Screenwriter- Italy)
Nuri BILGE CEYLAN (Director, Screenwriter, Actor - Turkey)
Lee CHANG-DONG (Director, Writer, Screenwriter - South Korea)
James GRAY (Director, Screenwriter – United States)
Hanif KUREISHI (Writer, Screenwriter – United Kingdom)
Shu QI (Actress - Taiwan)
Robin WRIGHT PENN (Actress - United States)
Sharmilla TAGORE ( Actress- India)

Source : Festival de Cannes news letter

The Official Selection in Festival de Cannes 2009

The Official Selection in Festival de Cannes 2009 is dedicated to the memory of Wouter Barendrecht (1965 - 2009).
Opening Film : Pete DOCTER - UP - Out of Comp.- 1h44

THE COMPÉTITION :

Pedro ALMODÓVAR - LOS ABRAZOS ROTOS (Broken Embraces) - 2h09
Andrea ARNOLD - FISH TANK - 2h04
Jacques AUDIARD - UN PROPHÈTE - 2h30
Marco BELLOCCHIO - VINCERE - 2h08
Jane CAMPION - BRIGHT STAR - 2h00
Isabel COIXET - MAP OF THE SOUNDS OF TOKYO -1h44
Xavier GIANNOLI - A L’ORIGINE - 2h30
Michael HANEKE - DAS WEISSE BAND (The White Ribbon) - 2h24
Ang LEE - TAKING WOODSTOCK -2h00
Ken LOACH - LOOKING FOR ERIC - 1h56
LOU Ye - CHUN FENG CHEN ZUI DE YE WAN (Spring Fever) - 1h55
Brillante MENDOZA - KINATAY - 1h40
Gaspar NOE - ENTER THE VOID - 2h30
PARK Chan-Wook - BAK-JWI - (Thirst) - 2h13
Alain RESNAIS - LES HERBES FOLLES (Wild grass) - 1h36
Elia SULEIMAN - THE TIME THAT REMAINS - 1h49
Quentin TARANTINO - INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - 2h40
Johnnie TO - VENGEANCE - 1h48
TSAI Ming-liang - VISAGE (face)- 2h18
Lars VON TRIER - ANTICHRIST - 1h44
Closing Film : Jan KOUNEN - COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY - Out of Comp. - 2h00

UN CERTAIN REGARD

BONG Joon Ho - MOTHER - 2h10
Alain CAVALIER - IRENE -1h23
Lee DANIELS - PRECIOUS - 1h49
Denis DERCOURT - DEMAIN DES L'AUBE - 1h36
Heitor DHALIA - À DERIVA (Adrift)- 1h43
Bahman GHOBADI - KASI AZ GORBEHAYE IRANI KHABAR NADAREH (Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats)- 1h30
Ciro GUERRA - LOS VIAJES DEL VIENTO (Les Voyages Du Vent) - 1h57
Mia HANSEN-LOVE - LE PÈRE DE MES ENFANTS - 2h00
Hanno HÖFER, Razvan MARCULESCU, Cristian MUNGIU, Constantin POPESCU, Ioana URICARU:
AMINTIRI DIN EPOCA DE AUR (Tales from The Golden Age) - 2h18
Nikolay KHOMERIKI - SKAZKA PRO TEMNOTU (Tale In The Darkness)- 1h12
HIrokazu KORE-EDA - KUKI NINGYO (Air Doll)- 2h05
Yorgos LANTHIMOS - KYNODONTAS (Dogtooth) - 1h36
Pavel LOUNGUINE - TZAR (Le Tsar) - 1h56
Raya MARTIN - INDEPENDENCIA - (Independence) - 1h17
Corneliu PORUMBOIU - POLITIST, ADJECTIV (Policier, Adjectif) - 1h55
Pen-Ek RATANARUANG - NANG MAI (Nymph)- 1h49
João Pedro RODRIGUES - MORRER COMO UM HOMEM (Mourir Comme Un Homme) - 2h13
Haim TABAKMAN - EYES WIDE OPEN - 1er film -1h31
Warwick THORNTON - SAMSON AND DELILAH - 1er film - 1h41
Jean VAN DE VELDE - THE SILENT ARMY - 1h32

OUT OF COMPETITION:
Alejandro AMENABAR - AGORA - 2h21
Terry GILLIAM - THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS - 2h02
Robert GUÉDIGUIAN - L'ARMÉE DU CRIME (The Army of crime) - 2h19

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS :

Stéphane AUBIER, Vincent PATAR - A TOWN CALLED PANIC -1st film - 1h16

Sam RAIMI - DRAG ME TO HELL - 1h39

Marina de VAN - NE TE RETOURNE PAS (Don't look back) - 1h50

SPECIAL SCREENINGS:

Anne AGHION - MY NEIGHBOR, MY KILLER - 1h20
Adolfo ALIX, JR., Raya MARTIN - MANILA -1h30
Souleymane CISSE - MIN YE - 2h15
Michel GONDRY- L'EPINE DANS LE COEUR (The thorn in the heart) - 1h26
Zhao LIANG - PETITION - 2h04
Eduardo VALENTE - NO MEU LUGAR (Eye of the storm) - 1st film - 1h53
Keren YEDAYA - JAFFA - 1h44

Tribute to Fanny Ardant

Fanny ARDANT - CENDRES ET SANG (Ashes and blood) -1st film - 1h45

Lee Chang-Dong presents

Ounie LECOMTE - UNE VIE TOUTE NEUVE (A brand new life) - 1st film - 1h32

THE SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION

Mark ALBISTON, Louis SUTHERLAND - THE SIX DOLLAR FIFTY MAN-15' New Zealand
Daniel BORGMAN - LARSOG PETER-15' Denmark
Alex BRENDEMÜHL - RUMBO A PEOR-12' Spain
Jochem DE VRIES - MISSEN -12' The Netherlands
Jean-Christophe LIE - L'HOMME A LA GORDINI-10' France
Goran ODVORCIC - CIAO MAMA-10' Croatia
Laila PAKALNINA - KLUSUMS-14' Latvia
João SALAVIZA - ARENA-15' Portugal
Emma SULLIVAN - AFTER TOMORROW-15’United Kingdom

Source: Festival de Cannes news letter -4

Un Certain regard in 62 nd Festival de Cannes 2009

The Jury Un Certain regard 2009 will be presided by the Italian director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino, awarded the Jury Prize in 2008 for il Divo.He will be surrounded by Julie Gayet (actress, France), Piers Handling (director of the Toronto Festival, Canada), Uma Da Cunha (journalist and festival programmer, India) and Marit Kapla (journalist, Göteborg Festival, Sweden).The opening film of Un Certain Regard, programmed for Thursday May 14th in the Salle Debussy, will be Nobody Knows About The Persian Cats, directed by the Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi.

source: Festival de Cannes News Letter