the film Dark Habits was rejected by the Cannes Film Festival because the organizing committee considered it sacrilegious, blasphemous and anti-Catholic?
the film Joshua Then and Now was Canada's entry to the 1985 Cannes Film Festival?
when Cannes Film Festival officials called Zhang Yimou's Not One Less a propaganda piece, he accused them of "discrimination" against Chinese cinema and withdrew the film from the festival?
prior to screening The Round-Up in Cannes, in order to appease the Hungarian government, director Miklós Jancsó had to declare the film was not an allegory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956?
in 1999, Song Il-gon became the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival?
Handling Ships, the first animated British Technicolor feature film, was never meant to be released to theatres but was an "Official Selection" at Cannes in 1946?
Graceland, a 2006 short film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, was the first Thai short film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival?
Irish film critic Michael Dwyer attended every Cannes Film Festival from 1982 until 2009, months before his death?
Norwegian film critic Arne Hestenes, a one-time jury member of the Cannes Film Festival, was an honorary citizen of Cannes?