Cannes Film Festival 2012 Live Streaming Online

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Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson is the opening film for the 65th Cannes Festival at the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals, while Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux will close the Festival de Cannes on 27 May 2012 at the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals.

Marilyn Monroe is the icon of the 65th Festival de Cannes
Jean-Pierre Dardenne will be the president for the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury
Tim Roth to be President of the Un Certain Regard Jury

The Cannes International Film Festival (French: Le Festival International du Film de Cannes or just Festival de Cannes), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is the world's most prestigious and publicized film festival

The invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The 2012 Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 16 to May 27, 2012. The President of the Jury is the Italian film director Nanni Moretti.

The festival was relaunched after World War II in 1946, in the old Casino of Cannes, financed by the French Foreign Affairs Ministry and the City of Cannes. Although the initial spirit of the French festival was to compete with its Italian counterpart, a secret agreement took place between both nations, so that they will celebrate their international festivals in alternating years. The first Cannes Festival had a considerable success, so when the Franco-Italian agreement was made public it was heavily criticised and considered as a "capitulation of France".

The next year, in 1947, the festival was held again as the Festival du film de Cannes, dropping the international nature, but only in name, as films from sixteen countries were presented. Moreover, the principle of equality was introduced, so that the jury was to be made up only of one representative per country. Also, this year the festival was held at the made-for-the-occasion Palais des Festivals, although the roof was unfinished and blew off during a storm.

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