Heads-up credit to Mark at VuDeja on the fact that Michael Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 911 (“The Temperature at which Freedom Burns”) will be premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year. I had already heard that the film would be ready to show sometime soon from Moore’s recent article on Bush’s press conference. In that article dated April 14th, he mentioned that he had to finish the film in four weeks–it is possible that he knew that Cannes was possible a week in advance. The IMDB lists Moore’s film as having its general release in September, which jibes with Moore’s earlier statements that the film would be released a few months before the election.

About the honor of being featured again at Cannes–a rare privilege for documentary films–Moore remarks, “I am deeply honored by this announcement, considering it comes from our mortal enemy, the French.” Moore had been pretty quiet in the past several months because he has been working solidly on the new film.

The Cannes site lists the film’s running time: 1 hour and 50 minutes. Moore is reportedly preparing his next film, Sicko, a film about the American Health Care system.