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Also Known As Festival de Cannes
Notable Honorees Jules Dassin • Jafar Panahi • Steve McQueen • Atom Egoyan • Chen Kaige • Sofia Coppola • Benicio Del Toro • Wim Wenders • Paul Thomas Anderson • Pawel Pawlikowski • Naomi Kawase • Im Kwon-Taek • Mira Nair • Jim Jarmusch • Jean-Pierre Dardenne • Luc Dardenne • Ethan Coen • Susan Hayward • Joel Coen

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