The Happening is a 2008 American apocalyptic film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It stars Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel.

The film revolves around a pandemic that begins in New York City, and quickly spreads across eastern United States. The pandemic is a toxin that has a devestating mental effect on humans: victims that breath in the toxin immediatly ceace what they are doing, have loss of speech and become physically disoriented. Finally, the victim unfreezes and commits suicide by the closest means possible: people jump from buildings, shoot or hang or cut themselves, throw themselves into barbed wire, drive vehicles off roads, and various other fatal means. The toxin is apparently spread by the wind.

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The film is based in part on writer Candace Bushnell’s book of the same name, compiled from her column with the New York Observer. Bushnell has stated in several interviews that the Carrie Bradshaw in her columns is her alter ego; when she wrote the “Sex and the City” essays, she used her own name initially; for privacy reasons, however, she created the character of Carrie Bradshaw, a woman who was also working as a writer and living in New York City. Carrie also has the same initials, which reiterates her connection with Bushnell.
A movie by Michael Patrick King, with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon.

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Iron Man is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Tales of Suspense #39 (March 1963), and was created by writer-editor Stan Lee, scripter Larry Lieber, and artists Don Heck and Jack Kirby. Anthony “Tony” Edward Stark, after suffering a severe heart injury and being kidnapped, was forced to build a devastating weapon. He instead created a suit of power armor to save his life and help protect the world as the superhero Iron Man. He is a wealthy industrialist and genius inventor that created military weapons and whose metal suit is laden with technological devices that enable him to fight crime.

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New adventure of famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, who is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.

With Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf, John Hurt.

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The aims of the festival are presenting, teaching, confronting and experimenting the art of the moving image. Always searching for artistic innovation, the Festival produces and exhibits interdisciplinary projects in animation and moving image.

The program will comprise the following areas:

• Animation Short Film Competition;
• English retrospective;
• Interdiciplinary Artistic Projects;
• Workshops and Seminars;
• Monstrinha - films for younger audiences;
• exhibitions;
• Monstra editions.

If you want more information regarding Monstra Festival, visit its official website.

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In parallel to the Official Selection, the Festival also runs non-competitive film programmes dedicated to discovering other aspects of cinema. These range from the historical nature of Cannes Classics, to the directorial debuts of the Caméra d’Or and the more public arena of the Cinéma de la Plage.

Cannes Classics: Since 2004, the Festival has celebrated the heritage of film with Cannes Classics. The programme’s aim is to highlight works of the past, presented with brand new or restored prints, and to give them a second lease of life in museums, cinemas and on DVD.

Cannes Classics is held at the Buñuel Theatre and offers a diversified thematic programme which is particularly focused on: new or restored prints, tributes to filmmakers or foreign cinema, documentaries on filmmaking.

The Caméra d’or: created in 1978, this programme focuses on the first features in any selections (official Selection, Directors’ Fortnight, International Critics’ Week) and awards the best of them.

Cinema de la Plage: opened in order to bring Cannes to the masses, the Cinéma de la plage is an outdoor theatre on the Macé beach screening films Out of Competition or from the programme Cannes Classics.

Have access to the complete program of the festival, as well as other details and curiosities, by visiting its official website.

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The movie, based on a novel by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of blindness afflicting nearly everyone in one (unnamed) city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor’s patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. This group bands together in a family-like unit to survive by their wits and by the (also unexplained) good fortune that the doctor’s wife is, as far as we know, the only individual who has escaped the blindness. The sudden onset and unexplained origin and nature of the blindness cause widespread panic, and the social order rapidly unravels as the government attempts to contain the apparent contagion and keep order via increasingly repressive and inept measures.

A movie by Fernando Meirelles.

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A 70-year-old man, Dominic Matei, decides to commit suicide because he knows he won’t be able to achieve his life’s purpose - finishing a masterpiece about language and conscience.

When arriving at Bucarest, and during a storm, he is struck by lightning. Burnt and in a comma, he goes to the hospital nearly dead. But Dominic gets better. new hair begins to grow in his head, new teeth tear his gums, and his skin and face look like the ones of a 30-year-old man. Along with this rebirth his mind shows amazing cognitive and learning capacities.

A movie about the thin line existing between life and death, the bright and the dark side of being. And about the possibility some people get of having a second chance.

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May 15, 1871. The French poet Rimbaud writes a letter to Paul Demeny stating “Je est un autre”. When Bob Dylan comes across that letter he finds the true essence of his self.

“I’m not there”, the movie by Todd Haynes is a creative attempt of portraying those many lives of Bob Dylan. Based on the concept of “not being Bob Dylan” (his true name is Robert Allen Zimmerman), the director builds the musician’s biography based on six different characters:

• Arthur Rimbaud (Ben Whishaw), the poet, a narrator/commentator testifying about his choices and ideas;
• Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin), an 11-year-old black boy, the north-american folk communist “Dustbowl balladeer”;
• Jack Rollins (Christian Bale), the protest singer and Christian Dylan of the end of the 70s;
• Robbie Clark (Heath Ledger), the eccentric musician unhappy at love;
• Jude Quinn (Cate Blanchett), the drug addict and folk tradition traitor; and
• Billy the Kid (Richard Gere), the outlaw, the outsider Dylan.

A movie about searching for an ultimate identity by analysing different alter-egos.

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