Group Photos: Cannes film festival opens Cannes ready for film fest

The 58th Cannes film festival opened

Wednesday with Asian films in focus. Five Asian films are running for the

top prize, the Palme d'Or,including three from China:"Shanghai Dreams", a

tragic love storyby Wang Xiaoshuai, one of the leading lights of what has

been called China's"Sixth Generation","Three Times" by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

from Taiwan telling about lovers who meet in three separate lifetimes, and

"Election" by Johnnie To from Hongkong.(Photo: Sina)[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]