Actress and Best Actor.
The main competition opens with Brazilian entry Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles who also directed City of God. It stars Julianne Moore and Gael Garcia Bernal caught up in a global blindness epidemic.
More big names in the feature film competition include Angelina Jolie in Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, Benicio del Toro in Steven Soderbergh’s Che, Gwyneth Paltrow and Joaquin Phoenix in James Gray’s Two Lovers and Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York.
Matteo Garrone, Paolo Sorrentino and Ari Folman are some of the less mainstream directors competing for the big awards.
There are also competition prizes for new talent (Un Certain Regard), film school entries (Cinefondation) and short films. In addition, the festival features special screenings and out