The New Miss Europe 2005

She is Shermine Shahrivar of Germany, otherwise known this year as Miss Europe.

Shahrivar was crowned Miss Europe 2005 by her predecessor Miss Europe 2003 Zsusanna Laky in Paris on March 12, 2005.

Reuters photographers Eric Gaillard and Vincent Kessler along with dozens of other professional photographers captured Ms. Shahrivar walking down the red carpet.

Shahrivar came to the 58th Cannes Film Festival in part to see the French directors Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu's in-competition film 'Peindre ou Faire l'Amour'.

Just a few of the other celebrities in Cannes this past week included:

French actors Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil for the screening of 'Cache' (Hidden);

British actor Ralph Fiennes for 'Chromophobia', directed by his sister Martha Fiennes. Ralph joined co-stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Damian Lewis, Rhys Ifans, Ben Chaplin and Spanish actress Penelope Cruz;

Chen Chang & Shu Qi

Taiwanese actress Shu Qi, right, and actor Chen Chang for the screening of 'Three Times', directed by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao Hsien;

Director Tommy Lee Jones and Actress January Jones for their in-competition film 'Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada';

French Thai kickboxing world champion Dida Diafat and French singer Ophelie Winter;

American actress Milla Jovovich and French actress Naomie Lenoir;

U.S. actress and singer Liza Minnelli;

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi;

Sharon Stone -- AP Photo Credit: Michel Euler

American actress Sharon Stone who was awarded the medal of Officer of the Arts and Letters by the French culture ministry;

South Korean director Hong Sangsoo who submitted his 'Tale of Cinema' as a last-minute entry;

Japanese director Masahiro Kobayashi for his film 'Bashing';

The festival's top honors will be awarded today.

On Friday, Romanian director Cristi Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," a tale of a lonely widower living with three cats, won the top prize in a secondary Cannes competition called "Un Certain Regard."

U.S. filmmaker Miranda July's "Me and You and Everyone We Know," a romantic drama involving two misfits, took main honors in a third Cannes category overseen by critics.

The main attractions during this year's 12-day festival were two films that played outside the competition. "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" was the festival's centerpiece, with the sci-fi franchise's creator George Lucas and stars Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman and Samuel L. Jackson parading a Cannes red carpet swarming with actors in white stormtrooper costumes and a black Darth Vader outfit.

Woody Allen's "Match Point," a comic drama starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Emily Mortimer, proved to be his most crowd-pleasing film in years. Some critics saying it would have been a key contender had it been in the competition.

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