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	1 June Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Award for the Best Screenplay for Le Silence de Lorna at Cannes. The awards were announced on 25 May. "Thanks to the Jury for this beautiful prize. And thanks to all who gave a substance to this screenplay: the light, the sound, the actors, and our leading lady Arta Dobroshi, who is here tonight. Thank you very much. Thanks to the Jury, and thanks to my brother." - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, accepting the award. "There are a lot of things it's hard to get used to. Since the films are different every time, it's always a pleasure to receive an award . . . All the directors in a competition want their actress to win the Prize. It's only human - anyone who denies it is lying. The fact that Arta did not win the prize for best actress takes nothing away from the quality of her work. This Prize is a reward for the work my brother and I did, over two and a half years. Last year, about this time, we had just begun working with Jérémie, Arta, and Fabrizio. And that work was based on the screenplay. For it to get an award is wonderful. It's a beautiful prize, because we write the screenplays for our films. So it's also a prize for the film. When we write the script, we are already structuring the scenes, the shots, the camera moves, the pacing. When we start rehearsing, the script comes alive." - The Dardenne brothers, speaking at the Awards Press Conference. Quotes are taken from the Cannes website (link).
	20 May Le Silence de Lorna screened at Cannes yesterday (with an additional screening today). Video and audio of the event is on the Cannes website (link). The film's page on dardenne-brothers.com has been updated with additional media (see here). A scene from the film is also on YouTube (link).
		25 April Le Silence de Lorna will screen in competition at the 61st Cannes Film Festival (14 - 25 May) next month. The film's running time is 105 minutes. See the Cannes press kit for more information (link).
	10 February The Dardennes have reportedly completed filming on their latest feature, Le Silence de Lorna (Lorna's Silence). Produced on a budget of €4 million, the film was shot over twelve weeks and features actors Jérémie Renier (La Promesse, L'Enfant), Fabrizio Rongione (Rosetta, L'Enfant), and Arta Dobroshi (as Lorna). "Le Silence de Lorna tells the story of a young Albanian woman who – in order to realise her dreams in Belgium – enters a marriage of convenience with a young drug addict. Her decision is far from innocent though, because if her husband dies from an overdose Lorna will have the freedom to do as she wants. However, the young man wants to live and once again the Dardenne brothers explore a moral dilemma." - Cineuropa (link). The film's information page can be viewed here.
		7 August Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardennes' three-minute short, Dans l'Obscurité (Darkness), was released on the French DVD Chacun son cinéma (To Each His Own Cinema). A compilation of thirty-three short films by prominent international directors, the selection was screened on 20 May to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, and released on region 2 DVD on 25 May. "35 directors, from 5 different continents and 25 countries, all universally recognised, pay tribute, in 3 minutes each, to the motion picture theatre, that magical venue of communion par excellence of film lovers the world over. 33 individual works for a collective celebration." - Cannes website (link). Other directors involved in the project are Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, Michael Cimino, Ethan and Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, 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, and Zhang Yimou. An information page for Dans l'Obscurité has been added here.
	7 August, 2007 dardenne-brothers.com is now up and running. Further updates and changes to come.