2007 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 60th Cannes Film Festival featuring Pedro Almodóvar, Juliette Binoche, Jane Campion, Souleymane Cissé, Penélope Cruz, Gérard Depardieu, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and Wong Kar Wai and photographed by Alex Majoli.
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| Opening film | My Blueberry Nights |
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| Closing film | The Age of Ignorance |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) |
| Hosted by | Diane Kruger |
| Number of films | 22 (En Competition) 20 (Un Certain Regard) 9 (Out of Competition) 16 (Cinéfondation) 11 (Special screenings) 11 (Short Film) |
| Festival date | 16 May 2007 – 27 May 2007 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed (Wong was the 2006 Cannes Film Festival's Jury president). The President of the Official Jury was British director Stephen Frears.
Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) began in 2005 to showcase films from a variety of different countries. From 19 May to 25 May 2007, films were screened from India, Lebanon, Poland, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Slovenia, and Colombia.
The first two days of this program were devoted entirely to the cinema of India and included films in a number of different languages. The Hindi film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, which screened on 19 May (with Bollywood superstar, Sanjay Dutt, as a Mumbai underworld don, who begins to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi), was particularly well received. In addition, a Maniratnam film, Guru, (starring Abhishek Bachchan, Madhavan and Aishwarya Rai and loosely based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani; Bachchan also made a cameo appearance in Lage Raho Munna Bhai) was also a "critical success". Other films included the Hindi film Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal starring John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, Dharm, the Malayalam film Saira, Missed Call, the Tamil film Veyil, and the Bengali film Dosar. Another Tamil language Indian film, Mozhi was shown in the non-prize category at a later date.
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