When Philippino director Brillante Mendoza walked home with the best director award for his fllm Kinatay at the Cannes film Festival 2009, he knew he had the world looking at him. ?I started getting calls from producers all over the world. I knew I had it? recognition.? Mendoza feels that Cannes will always be a bigger form for filmmakers because it?s been on for a long time now. And so does Vimukthi Jayasundara, a Sri Lankan filmmaker, who says, ?It?s almost a spiritual space because everything in cinema in at Cannes. It has a past that?s enriching so it?s more than a festival really.?