Latin-American films will be represented at the Critic's Week and Director's Fortnight in Cannes.

If the Official Selection of the Cannes Festival did not have an important Latin-American content, the independent and parallel sections of Cannes shown in their selections a bigger frame within the Latin-American film industry, but not as important as last year.

The oldest of the parallel sections, the 48th Critics Week, included in its competition two Latin American films: from Chile “Huacho” directed by Alejandro Fernandez and from Uruguay “Mal dia para pescar”, directed by Alvaro Brechner. In she short film competition one work from Paraguay was selected, “Noche Adentro” from Pablo Lamar.

International Critics’ Week presents a very selective programming of seven feature films and seven shorts films in Cannes so that the films can get a greater visibility. Being a discoverer of new talents helped Critics’ Week bringing to the audience’s notice directors like the Mexicans Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu and Guillermo del Toro.

This is the official selection for 2009:

Long-métrages / Feature films
Huacho d'Alejandro Fernández Almendras (Chili / France / Allemagne)
Ordinary People de Vladimir Perisic (Serbie / France / Suisse)
Lost Persons Area de Caroline Strubbe (Belgique / Pays-Bas / Hongrie)
Adieu Gary de Nassim Amaouche (France)
Mal día para pescar (Bad Day to Go Fishing) d'Alvaro Brechner (Uruguay / Espagne)
Sirta la gal ba (Whisper with the Wind) de Shahram Alidi (Irak)
Altiplano de Peter Brosens et Jessica Woodworth (Belgique / Allemagne / Pays-Bas)

Court-métrages / Short films
Together d'Eicke Bettinga (Allemagne / Royaume-Uni)
Noche adentro de Pablo Lamar (Paraguay)
Runaway de Cordell Barker (Canada)
C’est gratuit pour les filles de Marie Amachoukeli & Claire Burger (France)
Tulum (La virée) de Dalibor Matanic (Croatie)
Logorama de François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, Ludovic Houplain (H5) (France)
Slitage (Seeds of the Fall) de Patrik Eklund (Suède)

In the 41st Director’s Fortnight we find among their twenty titles in competition the Mexican “Daniel y Ana” directed by Michel Franco, from Chile “Navidad” from Sebastian Lelio who in 2007 presented his film “La Sagrada Familia” in this event. In the short film selections there is one coming from Brazil “Superbarroco” by Renata Pinheiro. This edition of the Director’s Fortnight will have a strong francophone content with eight films coming from France, Belgium and Canada.

Among the various sections at the Cannes Film Festival, the Directors’ Fortnight is distinguished by the independent judgment displayed in the choice of films, the “cinéphile” standards and the accessibility to non-professional audiences at the festival. In fact, the Directors’ Fortnight is the non-competitive program at Cannes that is open to the general public, which can buy a subscription for the entire program or purchase tickets for individual screenings.

This is the official selection for 2009:

Longs métrages / Feature films

Ajami de/by Scandar Copti et/and Yaron Shani (Allemagne, Israël/Germany, Israel) * (clôture)
Amreeka de/by Cherien Dabis (Etats-Unis/USA, Canada, Kuweit) *
Les Beaux Gosses de/by Riad Sattouf (France) *
Carcasses de/by Denis Coté (Canada)
Daniel y Ana de/by Michel Franco (Mexique/Mexico) *
Eastern Plays de/by Kamen Kalev (Bulgarie/Bulgary) *
La Famille Wolberg de/by Axelle Ropert (France) *
Go Get Some Rosemary de/by Benny et/and Josh Safdie (Etats-Unis/USA)
Here de/by Tzu-Nyen Ho (Singapour/Singapore) *
Humpday de/by Lynn Shelton (Etats-Unis/USA)
I Love You Phillip Morris de/by Glenn Ficarra et/and John Requa (Etats-Unis/USA)*
J’ai tué ma mère de/by Xavier Dolan (Canada) *
Jal Aljido Motamyunseo (Like You Know It All) de/by Hong Sangsoo (République de
Corée/Republic of Korea)
Karaoke de/by Chan Fui (Chris) Chong (Malaisie/Malaysia) *
La Merditude des choses de/by Felix Van Groeningen (Belgique/Belgium)
Navidad de/by Sebastian Lelio (Chili/Chile)
Ne change rien de/by Pedro Costa (Portugal)
Oxhide II de/by Liu Jiayin (Chine/China)
La Pivellina de/by Tizza Covi et/and Rainer Frimmel (Autriche/Austria)
Polytechnique de/by Denis Villeneuve (Canada)
Le Roi de l’évasion de/by Alain Guiraudie (France)
La Terre de la folie de/by Luc Moullet (France)
Tetro de/by Francis Ford Coppola (Argentine, Espagne, Italie/Argentina, Spain, Italy)
(ouverture)
Yuki & Nina de/by Nobuhiro Suwa et Hippolyte Girardot (France, Japon/France, Japan)

* films concourrant à la Caméra d’Or / Films competed to the « Caméra d’Or » Prize

Courts métrages / Short films

A Repüles Története (The History of Aviation) de/by Balint Kenyeres (Hongrie/Hungary)
American Minor de/by Charlie White (Etats-Unis/USA)
Anna de/by Rúnar Runarsson (Danemark/Denmark)
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 (The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5) de/by Chema Garcia Ibarra (Espagne/Spain)
Canção de amor e saúde (Chanson d’amour et de bonne santé/Song Of Love And Health) de/by João Nicolau (Portugal, France)
Cicada de/by Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Australie/Australia)
Drömmar Från Skogen de/by Johannes Nyholm (Suède/Sweden)
Dust Kid de/by Yumi Jung (Corée du Sud/Republic of Korea)
Les Fugitives (The Fugitives) de Guillaume Leiter (France)
Jagdfieber de/by Alessandro Comodin (Belgique/Belgium)
John Wayne Hated Horses de/by Andrew Betzer (Etats-Unis/USA)
Nice de/by Maud Alpi (France)
Superbarroco de/by Renata Pinheiro (Brésil/Brazil)
Thermidor de/by Virgil Vernier (France)