It was announced 9 days ago that Baz Luhrmann's fantastical take on The Great Gatsby, will open the 2013 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which takes place in May.

The creative focus has opened a registration call for projects to be submitted for 2013. Scheduled to take place from the 11th to the 14th of June 2013 as part of the International Animation Film Market (Mifa), the creative focus is a special place where dreams can become reality.

President Nicolas Sarkozy led a chorus of congratulation on Monday for The Artist, the French silent movie that won five Oscars, proclaiming that its Hollywood triumph was a ringing endorsement of France’s system of heavily subsidising its film industry. By Hugh Carnegy