Presentation of the Jury Un Certain Regard, and discussion with the Italian actor and director Sergio Castellito.

A mag devoted in its first part to Dario Argento and his Suspiria, and then to Malcolm McDowell, who evokes his relationship with the director Lindsay Anderson in Lindsay Anderson, Never Apologize.

Interview of the director and the actors of Mio fratello è figlio unico (Un Certain Regard).Then, a discussion with Frederic Mitterrand, who evokes his memories of Cannes in his new book, Le Festival de Cannes.

Press Conference Import Export

Interview of the directors and actors of And Along Come Tourists and El Bano del Papa, both selected in "Un Certain Regard".

Interview of the directors and actors of Mr Lonely and Santa Fe street, both selected in "Un Certain Regard".

Interview of two directors : Cédric Klapisch, co-chairman of a french society of movie directors (SRF), and William Friedkin, whose film Cruising is projected during the Festival.

Interview of the directors and actors of Munyurangabo and You,The Living (Un Certain Regard selection).

Interview of Ana Katz, director of A Wandering Bride, and her actor, Daniel Hendler. Discussion with Andrei Boncea, producer, Armand Assante and Razvan Vasilescu, actors of California Dreamin', whose director Cristian Nemescu recently passed away.

Today's mag introduces the directors of the eleven short films in competition this year, after the official screening this morning. Tomorrow one of them will get the Short Film Palme d'Or.

A return to the Croisette and the official competition for director Emir Kusturica, in town to present his new film, Kad je zivot bio cudo (Life Is a Miracle). The second arrival of the day was American filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter and his film Mondovino, a documentary on the wine world.

The Matrix Reloaded, the long awaited second installment of the Wachowski brothers' cutting ege trilogy, was finally unveiled to the world on May 15, at the Palais des Festivals. The rebels and the foes of the sci-fi wonderland – Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson and Jada Pinkett-Smith – were there for the international premiere of virtual proportions. As for the Official Selection, director Raoul Ruiz, accompanied by Elsa Zylberstein and Bernard Giraudeau, among others, kicked off the competition with his new film, Ce Jour-là.

André Téchiné travels back to World War II with Strayed – a tale of a young mother and her two children who flee Paris on the eve of the Nazi German occupation - starring Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel. Samira Makhmalbaf tackles the challenging issue of the nascent new life of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan in At Five in the Afternoon, while Wim Wenders sings an ode to blues music with The Soul of a Man.

A sea of diversity flooded into the Festival today. Festivalgoers were able to dive into François Ozon's Swimming Pool, while James Cameron took us down into the depths of the ocean to discover his Ghosts of the Abyss. Gus Van Sant explores the underside of American youth in Elephant and Sylvain Chomet chose the path less traveled by in animation with Les Triplettes de Belleville.

It was a very emotional day on La Croisette today, as filmmakers played with our feelings. First, Denys Arcand told the story of a man on the threshold of death who reunites with his loved ones past and present, in The Barbarian Invasions. This film marks the Canadian director's return to Cannes after his 1989 Jury Prize-winning Jesus of Montreal. Vincent Gallo spiced things up with The Brown Bunny, which shows a “real” onscreen fellatio, which had not been seen In Competition, since Marco Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh 17 years earlier. But, more importantly, Gallo's second feature film is a poetic and melancholic road movie.

Eastwood. Clint Eastwood. Accompanied by his all-star cast of actors - Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins and Laura Linney – the Good came to present his latest feature film, Mystic River, competing for the Palme d'Or. This drama/mystery flick is Eastwood's fourth directional opus to be presented in the official Cannes Selection. He was also Jury president in 1994. Another cinema great made his way up the Red Carpet today. Russian cineaste Aleksandr Sokurov returned for his fourth time to the Festival with a poignant drama revolving around the deep-rooted relationship between a father and son.

Homestretch to the Palme d'Or! As the end of the 56th annual Cannes Film Festival approaches, the last of the competing films are projected before the award ceremony on Saturday. Charismatic director Peter Greenaway returns to Cannes for the seventh time with his long-awaited Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story – the first of three installments. On the French side, Bertrand Blier presents his latest film, Les Côtelettes, adapted from his 1997 play and starring Philippe Noiret and Michel Bouquet. Last but not least, Japanese Naomi Kawase brings us Sharasojyu, after her 1997 Caméra d'Or winning piece, Suzaku.

Pedro Almodóvar, in Cannes with his film La Mala educación (Bad Education), opened the 57th Cannes Festival. During the opening ceremony, Jury President Quentin Tarantino shouted loud and proud his love of cinema.

In the competition today were two films, Le Conseguenze dell'Amore (The Consequences of Love) from Neapolitan director Paolo Sorrentino and Nobody Knows from Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. Out of competition was Troy, a US super-production directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Brad Pitt.

A return to the Croisette and the official competition for director Emir Kusturica, in town to present his new film, Kad je zivot bio cudo (Life Is a Miracle). The second arrival of the day was American filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter and his film Mondovino, a documentary on the wine world.

Two films in competition today on the Croisette: South Korean director Park Chan-wook's thriller Old Boy and the animated Shrek 2, co-directed by the Americans Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. At midnight there was a special screening of Dawn of the Dead, directed by Zack Snyder.

The competition continued with the screening of three films: German director Hans Weingartner's Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei (The Edukators), Woman is the Future of Man from South Korean director Hong Sang-soo, and US director Michael Moore's documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11.

Japanese director Mamoru Oshii presents Innocence, the second animated film in this year's competition.

The competition drew to a close with the screenings of Clean from French director, Olivier Assayas, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers from Stephen Hopkins, and 2046 from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai.

Today in the mag : a meeting with Rolf de Heer, the Australian director of Ten Canoes (Un Certain Regard). Then, the "interview attempt" of Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern, directors of Avida (Out of competition), and Mathieu Kassovitz, who produces their movie.

The well named “24 Hour Party People” is about the Manchester music scene from punk to electronic music. Michael Winterbottom signs a movie with a crazy musical and visual universe. It's with the same rock'n'roll attitude that the movie team answered the journalists' questions.

The final Le Mag of this year's festival welcomed director Silvio Tendler for his out of competition documentary, Glauber the film, Labyrinth of Brazil, as well as Portuguese filmmaker João Canijo with his Noite Escura. The actress Yousra talked to us about Youssef Chahine's Un Certain Regard closer, Alexandria... New York.