As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, the Festival de Cannes has commissioned 35 directors to participate in a collective film "To Each His Own Cinema," a collection of three-minute films focused on the "movie theater." In the words of an announcement today, each director was given carte blanche to come up with their own personal interpretation. Canadian artist Robert Carsen, who recently directed Leonard Bernstein's "Candide" at the Theatre du Chatelet, has created an on-stage introduction to the film for the Theatre Lumiere in Cannes. "To Each His Own Cinema" will have its world debut on Sunday, May 20 and broadcast the same evening on Canal+.

The "To Each His Own Cinema" directors are...

Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan & Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming Liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yimou.

The film is designed and produced by Gilles Jacob and co-produced by the Festival de Cannes and Elzevir Films with the cooperation of Canal+, in association with Studiocanal and Arte, and with the support of the Centre National de la Cinematographie (C.N.C.) and the participation of DIGImage and LVT.

Other 60th Anniversary events include tribute screenigns of "Boxes" by Jane Birkin, "Roman De Gare" by Claude LeLouch and "Ulzhan" by Volker Schlondorff.