Cannes 2012: Upcoming Highlights

Screenings, awards, galas, special tributes: key events scheduled at the 6th Cannes Film Festival from May 21 to 27.

Screenings, awards, galas, special tributes: key events scheduled at the 6th Cannes Film Festival from May 21 to 27.

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Monday May 21
- screening of You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet by Alain Resnais (Competition)
- screening of Like Someone in Love by Abbas Kiarostami (Competition)
- screening of In Another Country by Hong Sang-soo (Competition)
- screening of Tess by Roman Polanski (Cannes Classics)
- screening of J'enrage de son absence by Sandrine Bonnaire (Critics Week)

Tuesday May 22

- screening of Killing Them Softly by Andrew Dominik (Competition)

- screening of The Angel's Share by Ken Loach (Competition)

- screening of Journal de France by Claudine Nougaret et Raymond Depardon (out of competition - special screening)

- screening of Grand soir by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern (Un Certain Regard)

Wednesday May 23
- screening of On the Road by Walter Salles (Competition)
- screening of Holy Motors by Leos Carax (Competition)
- screening of Me and You by Bernardo Bertolucci (Out of competition)
- screening of a remastered copy of Jaws by Steven Spielberg (Cannes Classics)

Thursday May 24
- screening of Paperboy by Lee Daniels (Competition)
- screening of a resotred copy of Barbouzes by Georges Lautner (Cannes Classics)
- master class of American actor Norman Lloyd
- prizes awarded for 51st Critics Week
- 19th amfAR gala, Cinema Against AIDS, at Cap d'Antibes

Friday May 25
- screening of Cosmopolis by David Cronenberg (Competition)
- screening of The Oath of Tobruk by Bernard-Henri Levy (out of competition - special screening)
- master class by Philip Kaufman
- prizes awarded for 44th Directors' Fortnight
- screening of Camille redouble de Noémie Lvovsky (Directors' Fortnight - closing film)
- Cinéfondation awards
- Palm Dog awarded

Saturday May 26
- screening of Mud by Jeff Nichols
- screening of Taste of Money by Im Sang-soo (Compétition)
- screening of Maniac by Franck Khalfoun (Out of competition - Midnight Screening)
- prizes awarded for Un Certain Regard
- screening of Renoir by Gilles Bourdos (Un Certain Regard - closing film)
- screening of documentary about Claude Miller, Claude M Le Cinéma by Emmanuel Barnault (Cannes Classics)

Sunday May 27
- Closing ceremony and awards ceremony for 65th Cannes Film Festival
- screening of Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller (Out of competition - closing film)