FACTBOX-Films in main competition at Cannes

Sat May 23, 2009 11:33pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - The Cannes film festival winds up on Sunday when the Palme d'Or for best movie and other prizes will be awarded.

The following is a list of competition films, named with the directors and their place of birth.

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FISH TANK/Andrea Arnold (Britain) - Mia, 15, sees her world turned upside down when her mother brings home a new boyfriend.

SPRING FEVER/Lou Ye (China) - A woman hires a man to spy on a passionate homosexual relationship her husband is involved in.

BRIGHT STAR/Jane Campion (New Zealand) - John Keats begins a secret affair with Fanny Brawne in 19th century London. The romance deepens as their troubles mount.

THIRST/Park Chan-Wook (South Korea) - Actor Song Kang-ho plays a priest who becomes a vampire during a medical experiment and who is seduced by a bored housewife bent on murder.

A PROPHET/Jacques Audiard (France) - Malik is sentenced to six years in prison, and must use every ounce of his ingenuity to survive the dangerous rivalry between gangs.

TAKING WOODSTOCK/Ang Lee (Taiwan) - Elliot Tiber invites the Woodstock concert to his neighbour's farm. His family struggles to cope with the hippies, hangers-on and half a million fans.  Continued...

 
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