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Plus, at Le Marche, movies from across the globe are for sale; and, dumpster-diving for festival-related trash. CANNES, France — Visitors exiting the Carlton hotel's front door on this city's beachfront main street this week can't help but see a giant map of France with Cannes listed as being a "Safe Zone." "This Is the Safest Place to Be," one poster insists, though another implores the public, "Stay Off the Streets."

Watch the trailer for Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian), Arnaud Desplechin's entry to the 2013 Cannes film festival

Watch the trailer for Wara No Tate (Shield of Straw), Takashi Miike's entry to the 2013 Cannes film festival

Watch the trailer for Jeune et Jolie, François Ozon's entry to the 2013 Cannes film festival

Director to donate auction profits to children's charity as exit looms despite success of new film Behind the CandelabraThis time, Steven Soderbergh really is quitting the movie business. And to prove it, the Oscar-winning US film-maker has announced he will be selling off an array of film memorabilia from more than two decades behind the cameras.Soderbergh, whose Cannes film festival smash Behind the Candelabra is being screened on the pay TV network HBO in the US, will donate profits from the auction to charity."I didn't want to throw this stuff away but I didn't want to keep it either, so I figured the smart play was to put it up for auction and donate the money to charity," he told Yahoo. "If you have a friend, relative, or child that digs movies, maybe these items would make a great gift or a talisman of some sort. 100% of all proceeds from this auction will be going to the Children's Aid Society of New York charity."Items included in the sale are a signed Solaris press kit (starting price $100), an Erin Brockovich clapperboard (starting price $250) and framed Ocean's Thirteen tickets for the film's 2007 Cannes premiere ($600). Further memorabilia can be seen on the director's website.Soderbergh, 50, has said he is no longer interested in making films for the cinema and has hinted at a shift into TV. His long goodbye to Hollywood has been going on for at least three years; the critically acclaimed thriller Side Effects appears to have been his final theatrical release. Nevertheless, the director's Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, is being tipped by some critics to win prizes at Cannes.Soderbergh outlined his reasons for leaving the film industry in January. "The worst development in film-making – particularly in the last five years – is how badly directors are treated," he told New York magazine. "It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen, to put it bluntly. It's not just studios – it's who is financing a film. I guess I don't understand the assumption that the director is presumptively wrong about what the audience wants or needs when they are the first audience, in a way. And probably got into making movies because of being in that audience."Steven SoderberghBiopicsFilm industryBen Childguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds