This year the Festival de Cannes celebrates Brazil as its “special guest country”. Following on from Egypt in 2011, it is the second year in a row that the Festival has shone the spotlight on a great filmmaking nation. The quality of Brazil’s output is clearly on display with four films in Official Selection, plus On the Road by Walter Salles in Competition. A Música segundo Tom Jobim by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, co-directed with Tom Jobim’s granddaughter Dora Jobim, ...

Films Day 6In CompetitionFAHRENHEIT 911 by Michael MOORE (USA)WOMAN IS THE FUTURE OF MAN by HONG Sangsoo (South Korea/France) THE EDUKATORS by Hans WEINGARTNER (Germany/Austria)A Certain RegardHOTEL by Jessica HAUSNER (Austria/Germany)THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON by Niels MUELLER (USA/Mexico)Cannes ClassicsBEFORE THE REVOLUTION by Bernardo BERTOLUCCI VIDAS SECAS by Nelson PEREIRA DOS SANTOS DEUS E O DIABO NA TERRA DO SOL by Glauber ROCHA ...

A TRIBUTE TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA: 40 YEARS OF CINEMA NOVO: PROGRAMMEAn initiative between the Cannes Film Festival and the Rio Festival, represented at Cannes by executive director, Ilda Santiago, Tribute To Brazilian Cinema will centre on a celebratory 40th anniversary screening of Brazilian cinema master filmmaker Glauber Rocha's Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil), long considered one of finest examples of Latin cinema.Further films which will have a place in the tribute p...