The Resistance made it to special Screening 17 may 2012

780 movies were selected for the 65th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, but only a few were selected for final nomination, The Resistance reached to the special Screening at 17th May. The winner were the French movie "Love" and the Mexican movie "After Lucia" on uncertain regards. here is the list of the final results:

The official selection was announced on 19 April at Grand Hôtel in Paris. Among comments after the announcement, journalists noted the unusually high number of Hollywood films in the line-up, the absence of any female director in the main competition, as well as the absence of competing first-time feature film directors.[8][9] The festival's artistic leader Thierry Frémaux responded that people should not focus only on the competition films: "The selection is an ensemble; you have to consider the whole package."[9]

Competition	Edit The following films were selected as In Competition:[10][11]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Moonrise Kingdom (opening film)	N/A	Wes Anderson	United States Rust and Bone	De rouille et d'os	Jacques Audiard	France, Belgium Holy Motors	N/A	Leos Carax	France, Germany Cosmopolis	N/A	David Cronenberg	France, Canada The Paperboy	N/A	Lee Daniels	United States Killing Them Softly	N/A	Andrew Dominik	United States Reality	N/A	Matteo Garrone	Italy, France Love†	Amour	Michael Haneke	France, Germany, Austria Lawless	N/A	John Hillcoat	United States In Another Country	다른 나라에서, Da-Reun Na-Ra-e-Suh	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea The Taste of Money	돈의 맛, Donui Mat	Im Sang-soo	South Korea Like Someone in Love	ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ	Abbas Kiarostami	France, Japan The Angels' Share	N/A	Ken Loach	United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy In the Fog	В тумане, V tumane	Sergei Loznitsa	Germany, Russia, Latvia, Netherlands, Belarus Beyond the Hills	După dealuri	Cristian Mungiu	Romania, France, Belgium After the Battle	بعد الموقعة, Baad el Mawkeaa	Yousry Nasrallah	Egypt, France Mud	N/A	Jeff Nichols	United States You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! Vous n'avez encore rien vu	Alain Resnais	France, Germany Post Tenebras Lux	N/A	Carlos Reygadas	Mexico, France, Germany, Netherlands On the Road	Sur la route	Walter Salles	Brazil, France, United Kingdom, United States Paradise: Love	Paradies: Liebe	Ulrich Seidl	Austria, Germany, France The Hunt	Jagten	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark, Sweden Un Certain Regard	Edit The following films were screened in the Un Certain Regard section:[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Miss Lovely*	N/A	Ashim Ahluwalia	India La Playa DC*	La Playa	Juan Andrés Arango	Colombia God's Horses	Les Chevaux De Dieu	Nabil Ayouch	Morocco Children of Sarajevo	Djeca	Aida Begić	Bosnia-Herzegovina Renoir	Renoir	Gilles Bourdos	France Three Worlds	Trois monde	Catherine Corsini	France Antiviral*	N/A	Brandon Cronenberg	Canada 7 Days in Havana	7 días en La Habana	Julio Médem Laurent Cantet Juan Carlos Tabío Benicio del Toro Gaspar Noé Pablo Trapero Elia Suleiman	Spain Le grand soir	Le grand soir	Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern	France Laurence Anyways	N/A	Xavier Dolan	Canada After Lucia†	Después de Lucía	Michel Franco	Mexico Gimme the Loot*	Gimme the Loot	Adam Leon	United States Loving Without Reason	Aimer à perdre la raison	Joachim Lafosse	France, Belgium Student	N/A	Darezhan Omirbaev	Kazakhstan The Pirogue	La Pirogue	Moussa Toure	Senegal White Elephant	Elefante blanco	Pablo Trapero	Argentina Confession of a Child of the Century	La confession d'un enfant du siècle	Sylvie Verheyde	France 11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate	自決の日　三島由紀夫と若者たち, 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi	Kōji Wakamatsu	Japan Mystery	浮城谜事	Lou Ye	China Beasts of the Southern Wild*	N/A	Benh Zeitlin	United States Out of Competition	Edit The following films were screened out of competition:[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Me and You	Io e te	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	N/A	Eric Darnell Tom McGrath Conrad Vernon	United States Hemingway & Gellhorn	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Philip Kaufman	United States Thérèse Desqueyroux (closing film)	Thérèse Desqueyroux	Claude Miller	France Cruel Summer	N/A	Kanye West	United States/Qatar Midnight Screenings English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Dario Argento's Dracula	Dario Argento's Dracula	Dario Argento	Italy, France, Spain The Sapphires*	The Sapphires	Wayne Blair	Australia Maniac	Maniac	Franck Khalfoun	United States, France For Love's Sake	愛と誠, Ai to Makoto	Takashi Miike	Japan 65th Anniversary English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Film Anniversary: A Special Day	Le Film anniversaire : Une journée particulière - Histoire(s) de festival N°4	Gilles Jacob, Samuel Faure	France Special Screenings	Edit The following films were screened in the Special Screenings section:[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Polluting Paradise	Der Müll im Garten Eden	Fatih Akın	Germany Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir	Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir	Laurent Bouzereau	United Kingdom, Germany Trashed	Trashed	Candida Brady	United Kingdom The Central Park Five	The Central Park Five	Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon	United States Les Invisibles	Les Invisibles	Sébastien Lifshitz	France Journal de France	Journal de France	Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon	France The Resistance	The Resistance	Peng Zhang Li	China, USA The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim	A Música Segundo Tom Jobim	Nelson Pereira Dos Santos	Brazil Villegas*	Villegas	Gonzalo Tobal	Argentina, Netherlands, France Mekong Hotel	Mekong Hotel	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand Short Films	Edit Out of 4,500 submissions, the following films were selected for the short film competition:[12]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country My Holy Glance	Mi Santa Mirada	Alvaro Aponte-Centeno	Puerto Rico Gasp	Gasp	Eicke Bettinga	Germany This Way Before Me	Ce Chemin Devant Moi	Mohamed Bourokba	France Waiting for P.O. Box	Falastein, sandouk al intezar lil burtuqal	Bassam Chekhes	Syria The Chair	The Chair	Grainger David	United States Night Shift	Night Shift	Zia Mandivwalla	New Zealand Pack Leader	Chef de meute	Chloé Robichaud	Canada Yardbird	Yardbird	Michael Spiccia	Australia Cockaigne	Cockaigne	Emilie Verhamme	Belgium Silent†	Sessiz-Bêdeng	L. Rezan Yesilbas	Turkey Cinéfondation	Edit The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following entries were selected, out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 different schools:[12]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	School Behind Me Olive Trees	Derrière moi les oliviers	Pascale Abou Jamra	ALBA, Lebanon The Barber	Riyoushi	Shoichi Akino	Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan The Raptures	Les Ravissements	Arthur Cahn	La Fémis, France Slug Invasion	Slug Invasion	Morten Helgeland	The Animation Workshop, Denmark Tambylles	Tambylles	Michal Hogenauer	FAMU, Czech Republic Matteus	Matteus	Leni Huyghe	Sint-Lukas Brussels, Belgium The Camp in Răzoare	Tabăra din Răzoare	Cristi Iftime	UNATC, Romania The Road To†	Doroga na	Taisia Igumentseva	VGIK, Russia Land	Terra	Piero Messina	CSC, Italy The Hosts	Los anfitriones	Miguel Angel Moulet	EICTV, Cuba The Ballad of Finn + Yeti	The Ballad of Finn + Yeti	Meryl O'Connor	UCLA, USA Head over Heels	Head Over Heels	Timothy Reckart	NFTS, United Kingdom Abigail	Abigail	Matthew James Reilly	NYU, USA Dog Leash	Resen	Eti Tsicko	TAU, Israel Could See a Puma	Pude ver un puma	Eduardo Williams	UCINE, Argentina Parallel sections	Edit

Directors' Fortnight	Edit The line-up for the Directors' Fortnight was announced at a press conference on 24 April.[13] The following films were selected:[14]

Feature films English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country The Repentant	El Taaib	Merzak Allouache	Algeria Room 237*	Room 237	Rodney Ascher	United States Ernest & Celestine	Ernest et Célestine	Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner	France, Belgium, Luxembourg Clandestine Childhood	Infancia clandestina	Benjamin Ávila	Argentina, Spain, Brazil Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram*	Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram	Massoud Bakhshi	Iran Hold Back*	Rengaine	Rachid Djaïdani	France The We and the I	The We and the I	Michel Gondry	United States Dangerous Liaisons	Dangerous Liaisons	Hur Jin-ho	China, South Korea Gangs of Wasseypur	Gangs of Wasseypur	Anurag Kashyap	India No†	No	Pablo Larraín	Chile, United States Camille Rewinds	Camille redouble	Noémie Lvovsky	France Fogo	Fogo	Yulene Olaizola	Mexico, Canada Granny's Funeral	Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé	Bruno Podalydès	France Dream and Silence	Sueño y silencio	Jaime Rosales	Spain, France Night Across the Street	La noche de enfrente	Raúl Ruiz	France, Chile 3	3	Pablo Stoll	Uruguay, Germany, Argentina La Sirga*	La Sirga	William Vega	Colombia, France, Mexico Opération Libertad	Opération Libertad	Nicolas Wadimoff	Switzerland, France Alyah*	Alyah	Elie Wajeman	France Sightseers	Sightseers	Ben Wheatley	United Kingdom The King of Pigs*	돼지의 왕, Dae-gi-eui-wang	Yeon Sang-ho	South Korea Short films English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Drawn from Memory	Portret Z Pamieci	Marcin Bortkiewicz	Poland The Curse†	The Curse	Fyzal Boulifa	United Kingdom, Morocco The Living Also Cry	Os vivos tambem choram	Basil da Cunha	Switzerland, Portugal Wrong Cops	Wrong Cops	Quentin Dupieux	France With Jeff	Avec Jeff	Marie-Eve Juste	Canada Rodri	Rodri	Franco Lolli	France Königsberg	Königsberg	Philipp Mayrhofer	France Tram	Tram	Michaela Pavlátová	France, Czech Republic The Living Dead	Os mortos-vivos	Anita Rocha da Silveira	Brazil Enraged Pigs	Porcos Raivosos	Leonardo Sette, Isabel Penoni	Brazil International Critics' Week	Edit The line-up for the International Critics’ Week was announced on 23 April at the section's website. The feature competition consists entirely of directorial debuts, something the section's artistic director Charles Tesson stressed was not intentional, but only the way it turned out when the submissions had been judged by quality.[15] The following films were selected:[16]

Feature films English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Peddlers*	Halahal	Vasan Bala	India The Wild Ones*	Los Salvajes	Alejandro Fadel	Argentina Beyond the Walls*	Hors les murs	David Lambert	Belgium, Canada, France Au galop*	Au galop	Louis-Do de Lencquesaing	France Aquí y Allá*†	Aqui y alla	Antonio Méndez Esparza	Spain, United States, Mexico Sofia's Last Ambulance*	Sofia's Last Ambulance	Ilian Metev	Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria God's Neighbors*	Les Voisins de Dieu	Meni Yaesh	Israel, France Short and medium length films English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Family Dinner	Family Dinner	Stefan Constantinescu	Sweden Yeguas y cotorras	Yeguas y cotorras	Natalia Garagiola	Argentina Red River, Song Hong	Fleuve rouge, Song Hong	Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy	France Hazara	Hazara	Shay Levi	Israel A Sunday Morning	Un dimanche matin	Damien Manivel	France Horizon	Horizon	Paul Negoescu	Romania It's Not a Cowboy Movie	Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys	Benjamin Parent	France Doppelgänger	O Duplo	Juliana Rojas	Brazil The Dickslap	La Bifle	Jean-Baptiste Saurel	France Circle Line	순환선, Soonhwanseon	Shin Su-won	South Korea Special Screenings English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Maddened by His Absence	J'enrage de son absence	Sandrine Bonnaire	France, Luxembourg, Belgium Broken	Broken	Rufus Norris	United Kingdom Augustine	Augustine	Alice Winocour	France Cannes Classics	Edit The following films were screened in the Cannes Classics section.[17][18] The Hungarian "montage film" Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen, directed by György Pálfi, was selected as the closing film for the Cannes Classics section.[17]

Restorations English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country A Great Day in Harlem (1994)	Jean Bach	United States An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935) (short)	Roy Mack	United States Jammin' the Blues (1944) (short)	Gjon Mili	United States Twenty Years Later (1984)	Cabra Marcado para Morrer	Eduardo Coutinho	Brazil Xica (1976)	Xica da Silva	Carlos Diegues	Brazil The Ring (1927)	Alfred Hitchcock	United Kingdom The Ballad of Narayama (1958)	楢山節考 Narayama bushikō	Keisuke Kinoshita	Japan Runaway Train (1985)	Andrei Konchalovsky	United States The Great Spy Chase (1964)	Les Barbouzes	Georges Lautner	France, Italy Lawrence of Arabia (1962)	David Lean	United Kingdom Once Upon a Time in America (1984)	C'era una volta in America	Sergio Leone	Italy, United States Tess (1979)	Roman Polanski	France, United Kingdom Journey to Italy (1954)	Viaggio in Italia	Roberto Rossellini	Italy, France Jaws (1975)	Steven Spielberg	United States Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)	Cléo de 5 à 7	Agnès Varda	France, Italy Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)	Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim	György Pálfi	Hungary After the Curfew (1954)	Lewat Djam Malam	Usmar Ismail	Indonesia Kalpana (1954)	Kalpana	Uday Shankar	India Documentaries English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country Claude M Loves the Cinema	Claude Miller, cinéaste de l'intime	Emmanuel Barnault	France Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis	Gregg Barson	United States Me and My Dad	Katrine Boorman	United Kingdom, Ireland Woody Allen: A Documentary	Robert Weide	United States Key	Edit

†	Winner of the main award for best film in its section The opening and closing films are screened during the opening and closing ceremonies respectively.
 * Directorial debut feature; eligible for the Caméra d'Or

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