In the City of Sylvia "In Review Online" named it the 2nd best film of 2008. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of "The A.V. Club" described it as "something of a masterpiece." "En la Ciudad de Sylvia" was nominated for the 2007 Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, although the award was eventually presented to Ang Lee for "Lust, Caution". "En la Ciudad de Sylvia" won the 2008 Australian Film Critics Association award for the 'best unreleased film' in Australia at the time of the awards. Guerín won the best director award of the Premios ACE 2009 for this film. In the City of Sylvia In the
2012 Cannes Film Festival 2012 Cannes Film Festival The 65th Cannes Film Festival was held from 16 to 27 May 2012. Italian film director Nanni Moretti was the President of the Jury for the main competition and British actor Tim Roth was the President of the Jury for the Un Certain Regard section. French actress Bérénice Bejo hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. The festival opened with the US film "Moonrise Kingdom", directed by Wes Anderson and closed with the late Claude Miller's final film "Thérèse Desqueyroux". The main announcement of the line-up took place on 19 April. The official poster of the festival