The first Filipino to win the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival is Brillante Mendoza, who won for his film "Kinatay" in 2009.
Raymond Red was the first Filipino to win the Best Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, not for Best Director.
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The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes; Occitan: Festenal de Canas), founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious film festivals.[1][2] The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.The 63rd edition takes place from 12 May to 23 May 2010. The President of the Jury is to be American film director Tim Burton.[3]
The first Cannes Film Festival was planned for September 1939. The outbreak of World War II in the same month, however, forced the festival to be postponed. It was not until September 1946 that the first edition went ahead.
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It was founded by Jean Zay, the French Minister for Education in the late 1930s. World War 2 delayed it's beginning, but the first Festival was held in 1947.
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Haaladhiya Charaye Bawdhan Khaai(Second Best Film ( Locarno Interntl. Film Festival ) ) in 1987
The First Page - 2005 was released on: USA: 25 September 2005 (Director's Cut Film Festival)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was first released in France at the Cannes Film Festival on the 22nd. of May in 2009. It was premiered in DVD in Germany on July 1, 2010