SpaceX Dragon capsule splash-lands back on Earth

The first journey of a privately built spacecraft to the International Space Station has come to an end. SpaceX's Dragon capsule has splashed down into the Pacific Ocean as intended.

The unmanned spacecraft parachuted safely into the ocean off the California coast on Thursday as planned.

"Dragon is in the water," NASA said after the US company reported the landing at 11:42 a.m. Eastern time (1542 GMT), two minutes ahead of schedule and six hours after it left the International Space Station (ISS).

The capsule delivered food and clothing to the ISS during its nine-day trip. The Dragon was the first non-governmental craft to successfully dock at the ISS.

The mission has been acclaimed by NASA and US leaders as a success. It opens up the possibility for private companies to take supplies - and one day perhaps astronauts - to the ISS.

The end of the US space shuttle program has forced astronauts to rely on Russia to get back and forth between Earth and the ISS.

ncy/jm (AP, dpa, AFP, Reuters)

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Right-wing extremists play minor role in Norway

While the trial of Anders Behring Breivik for the murder of 77 people has put a spotlight on radical right-wing currents in Norway, experts agree far-right extremists do not play a major role Norwegian society.

In a bright room equipped with desks at the Norwegian Center Against Racism in Oslo, a half dozen adult immigrants are working on their job applications. They are being trained by 24-year-old Somia Salaouatchi.

Salaouatchi, whose face is surrounded by a lilac-colored scarf, gives the immigrants tips on how to improve the look of their resumes. Born in Algeria, she said she doesn't feel that immigrants are discriminated against in Norway in general, but added that she does see structural discrimination.

"A report has just come out that says that a person's chances when applying for a job are slimmer with a foreign-sounding name," she said. "But presumably the larger problem is that immigrants do not have access to the same networks as ethnic Norwegians."

Fewer right-wing extremist attacks in Norway

Immediately after the killing of 77 people by Anders Behring Breivikin Oslo and Utoya on July 22, 2011, immigrants came under suspicion. Media reports quickly focused on speculation that radical Islamists had orchestrated the attacks while there was less interested in the possibility a Norwegian far-right perpetrator.

Paying respect to the Utoya Island massacre victims

That's no accident as right-wing extremism does not play a significant role in Norwegian society, said Shoaib Sultan, who researches Norway's right-extremist scene at the Center Against Racism.

"In Norway, we often talk about three different groups of right-wing extremists," Sultan said. "There are the neo-Nazis, who are few in number and not well-organized. There is the somewhat larger group of racists, who believe that people with a different skin color don't belong here. The third group uses Islamophobia to vent its racism."

The 2012 annual report by Norway's intelligence agency also said right-wing extremism does not play a particularly strong role in society. There have been attacks on centers for asylum-seekers in past decades, and the fights over the Mohammed caricatures did fuel skepticism toward Islam. But even the Progress Party (FrP), which acts as a right-wing populist party in the Norwegian Parliament, has not led to radical right-wing trends gaining ground, said Ketil Raknes, who has just written a book about right-wing populist parties.

"Norway handled the right-wing populists well," Raknes said. "The FrP was not shut out, yet it was also openly criticized. That has left its mark. At the party's last political convention, there were members who warned against criticizing Islam because it could scare of voters with immigrant backgrounds."

The Breivik killings, however, did set off a new debate on immigration has emerged following last summer's attacks, said Salaouatchi.

"It surprised everyone that Behring Breivik was not an immigrant; that has rekindled the debate," Salaouatchi said.

Author: Agnes Bührig / als
Editor: Sean Sinico

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European Commission sues Germany over data storage

The European Commission has launched legal action against Germany, which has not implemented rules on data surveillance and storage that are supposed to cover the entire bloc. The justice ministry says they go too far.

The European Commission told the government in Berlin on Thursday that it should pay a fine for not implementing a new EU law allowing authorities to store Internet activity and telephone records for all civilians for a six-month period.

The rule stems from 2006, but was subsequently overturned in Germany. The Consitutional Court ruled in 2010 that the earlier version of the law was not compatible with the country's constitution and individual rights to privacy. The EU had issued an April 30 deadline for Germany to come up with an alternative solution.

DW.DE

Germany calls for a 'quick freeze' data compromise

Germany's justice minister has proposed a new data retention law that she says would strike a balance between privacy concerns and EU law. But the EU says this is a non-starter and Germany must comply with its directive. (23.03.2012) 

The Comission is now demanding over 315,000 euros (around $390,000) for every day that passes since that deadline, until the government implements a satisfactory law. That equates to roughly 9.5 million euros per month.

The universal storage of data for monitoring is supposed to help combat crime and terrorism.

Since the constitutional court ruling, the German justice and interior ministries have been locked in debate on how to frame a new version of the law.

Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger opposes the rule, saying that a six-month period is too long to hold such data - arguing this should only be permitted in cases where there is concrete cause for suspicion. She is a member of the liberalist and pro-business Free Democrats, the junior coalition partners in Chancellor Merkel's government.

Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, from the ranks of Merkel's Christian Democrats, supports the legislation, saying it is necessary to help law enforcement and security services.

A spokesman for Friedrich said on Thursday, shortly before the long-anticipated announcement, that as a result of the lawsuit, "the pressure is thus mounting for the justice minister to present a draft law that meets the criteria of both the Commission and the [German] Constitutional Court."

One suggestion suggested by Leutheusser-Schnarrenberge, but rejected by Friedrich and the EU Commission, was that all data be stored for a one-week period.

msh/rc (AFP, dapd, dpa)

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German tennis veteran impresses in Paris

Former world number two Tommy Haas enjoys a few more days in the Paris tennis spotlight.

German veteran tennis player Tommy Haas won his second round match at the French Open Thursday. It was the last match to finish in the evening at 9:30 p.m. local time.

The 34-year-old, former number two ranked player in the world, played Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky, ranked 84 in the world. Haas took the match 6-2, 6-3, 6-2.

This is only the 10th time that Haas, currently ranked 112, has played Roland Garros. Injuries kept him away from Paris for a number of years during his career which began in 1996.

Haas played three rounds of qualifying to make it into the first round where he beat Italy's Filippo Volandri.

Asked what motivates him to continue playing Haas said: "My daughter, Valentina, is a year and a half. If I can play another year, year and a half, maybe she gets to see me play at a real high level still, which is another goal of mine.”

Haas said that as he missed three or four years through injury, he feels mentally younger: "Maybe mentally I'm only 29, 30, instead of my real age ... showing."

He cited Andre Agassi as a player who showed “it is possible to play unbelievable tennis at age 34, 35, 36 if you keep yourself in great shape.”

He next plays the 17th seed, Frenchman Richard Gasquet.

jm/ncy (Reuters, AFP)

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Chagas: Is tropical disease really the new AIDS?

Chagas, a tropical disease spread by insects, is causing some fresh concern following an editorial—published earlier this week in a medical journal—that called it "the new AIDS of the Americas."

More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States.

The editorial, published by the Public Library of Science's Neglected Tropical Diseases, said the spread of the disease is reminiscent of the early years of HIV.

"There are a number of striking similarities between people living with Chagas disease and people living with HIV/AIDS," the authors wrote, "particularly for those with HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic."

[Related: U.S. relief program prevented 741,000 HIV/AIDS deaths in Africa]

Both diseases disproportionately affect people living in poverty, both are chronic conditions requiring prolonged, expensive treatment, and as with patients in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, "most patients with Chagas disease do not have access to health care facilities."

Unlike HIV, Chagas is not a sexually-transmitted disease: it's "caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects," as the New York Times put it.

"It likes to bite you on the face," CNN reported. "It's called the kissing bug. When it ingests your blood, it excretes the parasite at the same time. When you wake up and scratch the itch, the parasite moves into the wound and you're infected."

"Gaaah," Cassie Murdoch wrote on Jezebel.com, summing up the sentiment of everyone who read the journal's report.

[Related: Coming soon--an over-the-counter HIV test]

Chagas, also known as American trypanosomiasis, kills about 20,000 people per year, the journal said.

And while just 20 percent of those infected with Chagas develop a life-threatening form of the disease, Chagas is "hard or impossible to cure," the Times reports:

The disease can be transmitted from mother to child or by blood transfusion. About a quarter of its victims eventually will develop enlarged hearts or intestines, which can fail or burst, causing sudden death. Treatment involves harsh drugs taken for up to three months and works only if the disease is caught early.

"The problem is once the heart symptoms start, which is the most dreaded complication—the Chagas cardiomyopathy—the medicines no longer work very well," Dr. Peter Hotez, a researcher at Baylor College of Medicine and one of the editorial's authors, told CNN. "Problem No. 2: the medicines are extremely toxic."

And 11 percent of pregnant women in Latin America are infected with Chagas, the journal said.

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Phyllorhiza punctata

Phyllorhiza punctata is a species of jellyfish, also known as the Australian spotted jellyfish
 or the white-spotted jellyfish. It is native to the southwestern Pacific, where it feeds primarily
on zooplankton. P. punctata average 45–50 centimetres (18–20 in) in bell diameter but in October
2007, one 72 cm (28 in) wide, perhaps the largest ever recorded, was found on Sunset Beach,
 North Carolina.

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[edit]Description

True jellyfish go through a two-stage life cycle which consists of a medusa stage (adult) and a polyp
 stage (juvenile). In the medusa stage male jellyfish release sperm into the water column and the female
 jellyfish gathers the sperm into her mouth where she holds the eggs. Once fertilizationoccurs and
 larvae are formed they leave their mother and settle to the ocean floor. Once on the bottom a polyp form
 occurs and this formreproduces asexually by “cloning” or dividing itself into other polyps. Jellyfish can
 live for up to five years in the polyp stage and up to two years in the medusa stage.

When found in warm waters these jellyfish flourish. They are mostly euryhaline but low salinities may
 have a negative effect on the species. In times of low salinity these jellyfish exhibit loss of their
 zooxanthellae.^[1]

They have only a mild venom and are not considered a threat to humans. They has a mild or non-noticeable
 sting which can be cured with vinegar. Salt water can be used as a last resort.

[edit]Invasive species

The species has been found in the waters off the Hawaiian Islands since at least 1945,^[2] Since at least
 2000, Phyllorhiza punctata has been found in large numbers in Gulf of Mexico.^[3] While it is not known
 how it was introduced to the region, it has been theorized that budding polyps may have attached
 themselves to ships,^[4] or gotten carried in a ship's ballast tank which was subsequently dumped in
the Gulf.^[5] As an invasive species, it has become a threat to several species ofshrimp. In Gulf waters,
 the medusae grow to unusually large size, upwards of 60 cm (24 in) across.

In July 2007 smallish individuals were seen in Bogue Sound much further north along the North Carolina
 coast. However, their ability to consume plankton and the eggs and larvae of important fish species is
 cause for concern. Each jellyfish can filter as much as 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal) of seawater per day.
 While doing that, it ingests the plankton that native species need.

It has also been spotted off the Southern California coast, but its presence there has not yet been confirmed.^[4]

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  Phyllorhiza punctata inBerlin Zoological Garden
 
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  Phyllorhiza punctata in Berlin Zoological Garden
 
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  Phyllorhiza punctata inUniverseum, Gothenburg.

[edit]References

1. ^ Masterson, J. (2007-06-13). "Phyllorhiza punctata". Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
2. ^ "Phyllorhiza punctata, Introduced Marine Species of Hawaii Guidebook". Bishop Museum. 2002. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
3. ^ "Phyllorhiza punctata (‘spotted jellyfish’)". Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
4. ^ ^a b "Spotted Jellyfish (Phyllorhiza punctata)". Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
5. ^ "White-spotted Jellyfish Fact File". Australian Museum. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-07-13.

[edit]External links

• Invasion of the Jellies, California Academy if Sciences

2012 Cannes Film Festival

The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 16 to May 27, 2012.^[1][2] Italian film director Nanni Moretti was the President of the Jury for the main competition^[3] and British actor Tim Roth was the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section.^[4] French actress Bérénice Bejo hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.^[5]

The festival opened with the US film Moonrise Kingdom, directed by Wes Anderson and closed with the late Claude Miller's final film Thérèse Desqueyroux.^[6] The main announcement of the line-up took place on April 19. The official poster of the festival features Marilyn Monroe, to mark the 50th anniversary of her death.^[7]

The Palme d'Or was awarded to Austrian director Michael Haneke for his film Love. Haneke previously won the Palme d'Or in 2009 for The White Ribbon. The jury gave the Grand Prize to Matteo Garrone's Reality, while Ken Loach's The Angels' Share was awarded the Jury Prize.

Official selection

The official selection was announced on 19 April at Grand Hôtel in Paris. Among comments after the announcement, journalists noted the unusually high number of Hollywood films in the line-up, the absence of any female director in the main competition, as well as the absence of competing first-time feature film directors.^[8][9] The festival's artistic leader Thierry Frémaux responded that people should not focus only on the competition films: "The selection is an ensemble; you have to consider the whole package."^[9]

[edit]Competition

The following films were selected as In Competition:^[10][11]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country/countries
Moonrise Kingdom (opening film)	N/A	Wes Anderson	United States
Rust and Bone	De rouille et d'os	Jacques Audiard	France, Belgium
Holy Motors	N/A	Leos Carax	France, Germany
Cosmopolis	N/A	David Cronenberg	France, Canada
The Paperboy	N/A	Lee Daniels	United States
Killing Them Softly	N/A	Andrew Dominik	United States
Reality	N/A	Matteo Garrone	Italy, France
Love†	Amour	Michael Haneke	France, Germany, Austria
Lawless	N/A	John Hillcoat	United States
In Another Country	다른 나라에서, Da-Reun Na-Ra-e-Suh	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
The Taste of Money	돈의 맛, Donui Mat	Im Sang-soo	South Korea
Like Someone in Love	ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ	Abbas Kiarostami	France, Japan
The Angels' Share	N/A	Ken Loach	United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy
In the Fog	В тумане, V tumane	Sergei Loznitsa	Germany, Russia, Latvia, Netherlands, Belarus
Beyond the Hills	După dealuri	Cristian Mungiu	Romania, France, Belgium
After the Battle	بعد الموقعة, Baad el Mawkeaa	Yousry Nasrallah	Egypt, France
Mud	N/A	Jeff Nichols	United States
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!	Vous n'avez encore rien vu	Alain Resnais	France, Germany
Post Tenebras Lux	N/A	Carlos Reygadas	Mexico, France, Germany, Netherlands
On the Road	Sur la route	Walter Salles	Brazil, France, United Kingdom, United States
Paradise: Love	Paradies: Liebe	Ulrich Seidl	Austria, Germany, France
The Hunt	Jagten	Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark, Sweden

[edit]Un Certain Regard

The following films were screened in the Un Certain Regard section:^[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Miss Lovely*	N/A	Ashim Ahluwalia	India
La Playa DC*	La Playa	Juan Andrés Arango	Colombia
God's Horses	Les Chevaux De Dieu	Nabil Ayouch	Morocco
Children of Sarajevo	Djeca	Aida Begić	Bosnia-Herzegovina
Renoir	Renoir	Gilles Bourdos	France
Three Worlds	Trois monde	Catherine Corsini	France
Antiviral*	N/A	Brandon Cronenberg	Canada
7 Days in Havana	7 días en La Habana	Julio Médem Laurent Cantet Juan Carlos Tabío Benicio del Toro Gaspar Noé Pablo Trapero Elia Suleiman	Spain
Le grand soir	Le grand soir	Benoît Delépine, Gustave de Kervern	France
Laurence Anyways	N/A	Xavier Dolan	Canada
Después de Lucía†	Después de Lucía	Michel Franco	Mexico
Gimme the Loot*	Gimme the Loot	Adam Leon	United States
Loving Without Reason	Aimer à perdre la raison	Joachim Lafosse	France, Belgium
Student	N/A	Darezhan Omirbaev	Kazakhstan
The Pirogue	La Pirogue	Moussa Toure	Senegal
White Elephant	Elefante blanco	Pablo Trapero	Argentina
Confession of a Child of the Century	La confession d'un enfant du siècle	Sylvie Verheyde	France
11:25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate	自決の日　三島由紀夫と若者たち, 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi	Kōji Wakamatsu	Japan
Mystery	浮城谜事	Lou Ye	China
Beasts of the Southern Wild*	N/A	Benh Zeitlin	United States

[edit]Out of Competition

The following films were screened out of competition:^[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Me and You	Io e te	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	N/A	Eric Darnell Tom McGrath Conrad Vernon	United States
Hemingway & Gellhorn	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Philip Kaufman	United States
Thérèse Desqueyroux (closing film)	Thérèse Desqueyroux	Claude Miller	France

Midnight Screenings

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Dario Argento's Dracula	Dario Argento's Dracula	Dario Argento	Italy, France, Spain
The Sapphires*	The Sapphires	Wayne Blair	Australia
Maniac	Maniac	Franck Khalfoun	United States, France
For Love's Sake	愛と誠, Ai to Makoto	Takashi Miike	Japan

65th Anniversary

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Film Anniversary: A Special Day	Le Film anniversaire : Une journée particulière - Histoire(s) de festival N°4	Gilles Jacob, Samuel Faure	France

[edit]Special Screenings

The following films were screened in the Special Screenings section:^[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Polluting Paradise	Der Müll im Garten Eden	Fatih Akın	Germany
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir	Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir	Laurent Bouzereau	United Kingdom, Germany
Trashed	Trashed	Candida Brady	United Kingdom
The Central Park Five	The Central Park Five	Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon	United States
Les Invisibles	Les Invisibles	Sébastien Lifshitz	France
Journal de France	Journal de France	Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon	France
A Música Segundo Tom Jobim	A Música Segundo Tom Jobim	Nelson Pereira Dos Santos	Brazil
Villegas*	Villegas	Gonzalo Tobal	Argentina, Netherlands, France
Mekong Hotel	Mekong Hotel	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand

[edit]Short Films

Out of 4,500 submissions, the following films were selected for the short film competition:^[12]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
My Holy Glance	Mi Santa Mirada	Alvaro Aponte-Centeno	Puerto Rico
Gasp	Gasp	Eicke Bettinga	Germany
This Way Before Me	Ce Chemin Devant Moi	Mohamed Bourokba	France
Waiting for P.O. Box	Falastein, sandouk al intezar lil burtuqal	Bassam Chekhes	Syria
The Chair	The Chair	Grainger David	United States
Night Shift	Night Shift	Zia Mandivwalla	New Zealand
Pack Leader	Chef de meute	Chloé Robichaud	Canada
Yardbird	Yardbird	Michael Spiccia	Australia
Cockaigne	Cockaigne	Emilie Verhamme	Belgium
Silent†	Sessiz-Bêdeng	L. Rezan Yesilbas	Turkey

[edit]Cinéfoundation

The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following entries were selected, out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 different schools:^[12]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	School
Behind Me Olive Trees	Derrière moi les oliviers	Pascale Abou Jamra	ALBA, Lebanon
The Barber	Riyoushi	Shoichi Akino	Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
The Raptures	Les Ravissements	Arthur Cahn	La Fémis, France
Slug Invasion	Slug Invasion	Morten Helgeland	The Animation Workshop, Denmark
Tambylles	Tambylles	Michal Hogenauer	FAMU, Czech Republic
Matteus	Matteus	Leni Huyghe	Sint-Lukas Brussels, Belgium
The Camp in Răzoare	Tabăra din Răzoare	Cristi Iftime	UNATC, Romania
The Road to†	Doroga na	Taisia Igumenseva	VGIK, Russia
Land	Terra	Piero Messina	CSC, Italy
The Hosts	Los anfitriones	Miguel Angel Moulet	EICTV, Cuba
The Ballad of Finn + Yeti	The Ballad of Finn + Yeti	Meryl O'Connor	UCLA, USA
Head over Heels	Head over Heels	Timothy Reckart	NFTS, United Kingdom
Abigail	Abigail	Matthew James Reilly	NYU, USA
Dog Leash	Resen	Eti Tsicko	TAU, Israel
Could See a Puma	Pude ver un puma	Eduardo Williams	UCINE, Argentina

[edit]Parallel sections

[edit]Directors' Fortnight

The line-up for the Directors' Fortnight was announced at a press conference on 24 April.^[13] The following films were selected:^[14]

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
The Repentant	El Taaib	Merzak Allouache	Algeria
Room 237*	Room 237	Rodney Ascher	United States
Ernest & Celestine	Ernest et Célestine	Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar,Benjamin Renner	France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Infancia clandestina	Infancia clandestina	Benjamin Ávila	Argantina, Spain, Brazil
Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram*	Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram	Massoud Bakhshi	Iran
Hold Back*	Rengaine	Rachid Djaïdani	France
The We and the I	The We and the I	Michel Gondry	United States
Dangerous Liaisons	Dangerous Liaisons	Heo Jin-ho	China, South Korea
Gangs of Wasseypur	Gangs of Wasseypur	Anurag Kashyap	India
No†	No	Pablo Larraín	Chile, United States
Camille Rewinds	Camille redouble	Noémie Lvovsky	France
Fogo	Fogo	Yulene Olaizola	Mexico, Canada
Granny's Funeral	Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé	Bruno Podalydès	France
Dream and Silence	Sueño y silencio	Jaime Rosales	Spain, France
Night Across the Street	La noche de enfrente	Raúl Ruiz	France, Chile
3	3	Pablo Stoll	Uruguay, Germany, Argentina
La Sirga*	La Sirga	William Vega	Colombia, France, Mexico
Opération Libertad	Opération Libertad	Nicolas Wadimoff	Switzerland, France
Alyah*	Alyah	Elie Wajeman	France
Sightseers	Sightseers	Ben Wheatley	United Kingdom
The King of Pigs*	돼지의 왕, Dae-gi-eui-wang	Yeun Sang-ho	South Korea

Short films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Drawn from Memory	Portret Z Pamieci	Marcin Bortkiewicz	Poland
The Curse†	The Curse	Fyzal Boulifa	United Kingdom, Morocco
The Living Also Cry	Os vivos tambem choram	Basil da Cunha	Switzerland, Portugal
Wrong Cops	Wrong Cops	Quentin Dupieux	France
With Jeff	Avec Jeff	Marie-Eve Juste	Canada
Rodri	Rodri	Franco Lolli	France
Königsberg	Königsberg	Philipp Mayrhofer	France
Tram	Tram	Michaela Pavlátová	France, Czech Republic
The Living Dead	Os mortos-vivos	Anita Rocha da Silveira	Brazil
Enraged Pigs	Porcos Raivosos	Leonardo Sette, Isabel Penoni	Brazil

[edit]International Critics' Week

The line-up for the International Critics’ Week was announced on 23 April at the section's website. The feature competition consists entirely of directorial debuts, something the section's artistic director Charles Tesson stressed was not intentional, but only the way it turned out when the submissions had been judged by quality.^[15] The following films were selected:^[16]

Feature films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Peddlers*	Halahal	Vasan Bala	India
The Wild Ones*	Los Salvajes	Alejandro Fadel	Argentina
Beyond the Walls*	Hors les murs	David Lambert	Belgium, Canada, France
Au galop*	Au galop	Louis-Do de Lencquesaing	France
Aqui y alla*†	Aqui y alla	Antonio Méndez Esparza	Spain, United States, Mexico
Sofia's Last Ambulance*	Sofia's Last Ambulance	Ilian Metev	Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria
God's Neighbors*	Les Voisins de Dieu	Meni Yaesh	Israel, France

Short and medium length films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Family Dinner	Family Dinner	Stefan Constantinescu	Sweden
Yeguas y cotorras	Yeguas y cotorras	Natalia Garagiola	Argentina
Red River, Song Hong	Fleuve rouge, Song Hong	Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy	France
Hazara	Hazara	Shay Levi	Israel
A Sunday Morning	Un dimanche matin	Damien Manivel	France
Horizon	Horizon	Paul Negoescu	Romania
It's Not a Cowboy Movie	Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys	Benjamin Parent	France
Doppelgänger	O Duplo	Juliana Rojas	Brazil
The Dickslap	La Bifle	Jean-Baptiste Saurel	France
Circle Line	순환선, Soonhwanseon	Shin Suwon	South Korea

Special Screenings

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Maddened by His Absence	J'enrage de son absence	Sandrine Bonnaire	France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Broken	Broken	Rufus Norris	United Kingdom
Augustine	Augustine	Alice Winocour	France

[edit]Key

*	Directorial debut feature; eligible for the Caméra d'Or
†	Winner of the main award for best film in its section
The opening and closing films are screened during the opening and closing ceremonies respectively.

[edit]Juries

Nanni Moretti, head of the main competition jury

Competition^[17]

• Nanni Moretti, Italian filmmaker (President)
• Hiam Abbass, Palestinian actress and director
• Andrea Arnold, English filmmaker
• Emmanuelle Devos, French actress
• Jean Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
• Diane Kruger, German actress
• Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
• Alexander Payne, American filmmaker
• Raoul Peck, Haitian filmmaker

Un Certain Regard

• Tim Roth, British actor (President)
• Leïla Bekhti, French actress
• Tonie Marshall, French actress and filmmaker
• Luciano Monteagudo, Argentine film critic
• Sylvie Pras, French responsible for cinemas at the Pompidou Centre and artistic director of the festival of La Rochelle

Cinéfoundation and short films^[18]

• Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgian filmmaker (President)
• Arsinée Khanjian, Canadian actress
• Karim Aïnouz, Brazilian filmmaker
• Emmanuel Carrère, French novelist and filmmaker
• Yu Lik-wai, Chinese cinematographer and director

[edit]Awards

[edit]Official selection

In Competition^[19]

The Palme d'Or was won by the French-language film Love directed by Michael Haneke. Haneke previously won the award for The White Ribbon in 2009.^[20] Love tells the story of an elderly couple preparing for death.^[21] During his acceptance speech, the director said "A very, very big thanks to my actors who have made this film. It's their film. They are the essence of this film."^[20]

Moretti said that none of the winners had been selected unanimously, and described such an outcome as "a middle ground that would have pleased no one". He revealed that Holy Motors,Paradise: Love and Post Tenebras Lux were the entries that most had divided the jury.^[22]

• Palme d'Or – Love by Michael Haneke
• Grand Prix – Reality by Matteo Garrone
• Best Director – Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux
• Best Screenplay – Beyond the Hills by Cristian Mungiu
• Best Actress – Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan for Beyond the Hills
• Best Actor – Mads Mikkelsen for The Hunt
• Jury Prize – The Angels' Share by Ken Loach

Un Certain Regard^[19]

• Prize of Un Certain Regard – Después de Lucía by Michel Franco
• Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize – Le grand soir by Benoît Delépine, and Gustave de Kervern
• Un Certain Regard Special Distinction – Children of Sarajevo by Aida Begić
• Un Certain Regard Award for Best Actress:
  • Émilie Dequenne in Loving Without Reason
  • Suzanne Clément in Laurence Anyways

Short Films^[19]

• Short Film Palme d'Or - Silent by L. Rezan Yesilbas

Cinéfoundation^[19]

• 1st Prize – The Road to by Taisia Igumentseva
• 2nd Prize – Abigail by Matthew James Reilly
• 3rd Prize – The Hosts by Miguel Angel Moulet

Golden Camera^[19]

• Caméra d'Or - Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin

[edit]Parallel sections

Directors' Fortnight^[23]

• Art Cinema Award – No by Pablo Larraín
• Europa Cinemas – The Repentant by Merzak Allouache
• Prix SACD – Camille Rewinds by Noémie Lvovsky
• Premier Prix Illy for Short Filmmaking – The Curse by Fyzal Boulifa
• Special mention – The Living Also Cry by Basil da Cunha

Critics' Week^[24]

• Grand Prix Nespresso – Aqui y alla by Antonio Méndez Esparza
• Visionary Prize – Sofia's Last Ambulance by Ilian Metev
• Prix SACD – God's Neighbors by Meni Yaesh
• ACID/CCAS Prize – The Wild Ones by Alejandro Fadel

[edit]Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prize^[25]

• In Competition - In the Fog by Sergei Loznitsa
• Un Certain Regard - Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin
• Directors' Fortnight - Hold Back by Rachid Djaïdani

Ecumenical Jury^[25]

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - The Hunt by Thomas Vinterberg
• Special Mention - Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin

Queer Palm Jury^[26]

• Queer Palm Award - Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan
• Short Film Queer Palm - It's Not a Cowboy Movie by Benjamin Parent

Palm Dog Jury^[27]

• Palm Dog Award - Smurf in Sightseers
• Grand Jury Prize - Billy Bob in Le grand soir

[edit]References

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23. ^ Ford, Rebecca (2012-05-25). "Cannes 2012: 'No' Takes Top Prize at Directors' Fortnight".The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
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[edit]External links

• Official Cannes Festival Site (in English)
• Short Film Corner catalogue