 | Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (C) attends a photocall for his in-competition film 'Iklimler' with actresses Ebru Ceylan (R) and Nazan Kesal at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 21, 2006. click to open  |
 | Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan attends a photocall for his in-competition film 'Iklimler' at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 21, 2006. click to open |
 | Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (C) attends a photocall for his in-competition film 'Iklimler' with actresses Ebru Ceylan (L) and Nazan Kesal at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 21, 2006. click to open |
 | Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (C) attends a photocall for his in-competition film 'Iklimler' with actresses Ebru Ceylan (L) and Nazan Kesal at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 21, 2006. click to open |
 | Actress Ebru Ceylan attends a photocall for Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's in-competition film 'Iklimler' at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 21, 2006. click to open |
 | A poster for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Chinese Director Wong Kar Wai will head the jury of this 59th Cannes Film Festival, that will take place from 17 to 28 May 2006. Sex -- in many forms and, in at least one case, unsimulated -- is heating up screens at the Cannes film festival, confirming the event's reputation for taboo-busting fare. Five films in the official competition alone have already offered enough nudity to mark them for mature audiences only, and one, "Shortbus", by US director John Cameron Mitchell, blurred the boundary between pornography and art with its actors engaging in real intercourse. click to open |
 | Chinese actors Guo Xiaodong and Hao Lei pose upon arriving at the Festival Palace for the screening of Chinese director Lou Ye's film 'Summer Palace' at the 59th edition of the International Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, Southern France. Lou Ye, 40, faces a five year work ban for violating the rules by sending "Summer Palace" directly to the prestigious festival, the Shenghuo Xinbao newspaper reported, citing the China Film Group Corp., the main company in charge of distributing films overseas. click to open |
 | U.S. burlesque artiste Dita Von Teese arrives for the screening of French director Nicole Garcia's in-competition film 'Selon Charlie' at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 20, 2006. click to open |
 | Finnish actress Minna Haapkyla arrives for the screening of the film 'Selon Charlie,' at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Saturday, May 20, 2006. click to open |
 | French actress Judith Godreche arrives for the screening of French director Nicole Garcia's in-competition film 'Selon Charlie' at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 20, 2006. click to open |
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