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Iñárritu presents To each one his own cinema  

Clara Sánchez/Translated by Vicentge Castañar

[imagen]Ana María Marinka stars 4 meses, 3 meses, 2 días, by Cristian Mungiu. This film won the Palm d’Or at Cannes. This movie was presented last night during Cada quien su cine (Each one his own cinema) presentation.

Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu was in charge of presenting this anthology which gathered 33 world wide films in order to celebrate 60 years of the Cannes Festival.

The filmmaker explained how he was invited to this project: “one day I got a call from Giles Jacob, President of the Cannes Festival, and he exhorted me to film a short film. So he sent me the specifications and when I saw the context and knew who were the participants I couldn’t sleep for a couple of nights because I was thinking about the people I was going to share my work with, renown people like: Kiarostami, Kitano, Wenders Angelopolus.”

This filmmaker who won Best Director at Cannes for his film Babel talked about the hardships of filming short films: “making a good short film is harder than making a long film. You can’t even add one gram of fat. We decided to make a 3 minute trial within a movie theater. The idea was to show the spot where we celebrate films. So I went to a movie theater to observe the walls and a serious idea came to mind and I came up with a shooting sequence with my talented friend Lubezki.”

[imagen]Later on the Mexican filmmaker invited everyone to flavour the enjoyable film menu: “I know you will enjoy this film menu, where you can taste different artistic proposals. Thanks to Morelia and to Daniela. This is the only presentation of To each one his own cinema after being premiered at Cannes. ”

Jean Christophe Berjon, director of the Cannes Critic Week was also at the show. Berjon discovered the talented González Iñárritu in the year 2000, year when the Mexican filmmaker was awarded as Young Filmmaker for his film Amores Perros and he also got the Grand Critic Award.

To each one his own cinema, was made in order to celebrate Cannes’ 60 years. The following filmmakers participated:

1. Theo Angelopoulos, Trois Minutes;
2. Olivier Assayas, Recrudescence;
3. Bille August, The Last Dating Show;
4. Jane Campion, The Lady Bug;
5. Youssef Chahine, 47 Ans Après;
6. Kaige Chen, Zhanxiou Village;
7. Michael Cimino, No Translation Hended;
8. Ethan y Joel Coen, World Cinema;
9. David Cronenberg, At the Suicide of the Last Jew in the World in the Last Cinema in the World;
10. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Dans l'Obscurité;
11. Manoel de Oliveira, Rencontre Unique;
12. Raymond Depardon, Cinéma d'Eté;
13. Atom Egoyan, Artaud Double Bill;
14. Amos Gitai, Le Dibbouk de Haifa;
15. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Anna;
16. Hsiao-hsien Hou, The Electric Princess House;
17. Aki Kaurismäki, La Fonderie;
18. Abbas Kiarostami, Where is my Romeo?;
19. Takeshi Kitano, One Fine Day;
20. Andrei Konchalovsky, Dans le Noir;
21. Claude Lelouch, Cinéma de Boulevard;
22. Ken Loach, Happy Ending;
23. Nanni Moretti, Diaro di uno Spettatore;
24. Roman Polanski, Cinéma Erotique;
25. Raoul Ruiz, Le Don;
26. Walter Salles, A 8 944 km de Cannes;
27. Elia Suleiman, Irtebak;
28. Ming-liang Tsai, It's a Dream;
29. Gus Van Sant, First Kiss;
30. Lars von Trier, Occupations;
31. Wim Wenders, War in Peace;
32. Wong Kar Wai, I