Dans l'Obscurité (Darkness), a three-minute short by the Dardennes, was screened on 20 May as part of the Chacun son cinéma (To Each His Own Cinema) line-up commissioned by the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate its 60th anniversary.

"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."
- From the Cannes website (link).

Other directors contributing shorts were 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.


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Dans l'Obscurité (article, review)
filmjourney.org. 22 July, 2007.