This year, its 55th as a festival, is packed with gala screenings and red-carpet events.

Cannes Film Festival 1999 (out of competition - special gala screening)

It is just noon on Saturday, yet already the Hollywood-smitten designer seems lost in feverish anticipation of that evening's gala screening of his film.

The original said that Faye Dunaway was in Cannes to attend the gala screening of her latest film.

I was taken to see a gala screening of "Around the World in Eighty Days."

The ceremony was accompanied by a gala screening of 'Fit'.

Bhansali purposely avoided a gala screening of Guzaarish apparently due to the bitter experience he had in a similar event of Saawariya.

The hall is one of the main venues used by the Toronto International Film Festival, with many gala screenings held there each year.

Lars von Trier's is a sick joke (and a pretty funny one) about how a filmmaker might deal with a boorish patron at a gala screening.

And, of course, The First Born is a silent film, so musician Stephen Horne has been commissioned to write a score for the gala screening.