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 Shadows @ Cannes
The world's glitziest film festivalHeld annually on the French Riviera Rich last attended Cannes in 2008, and is still recovering | |||
78th Cannes Film Festival13 - 24 May 2025 Opening film: BYE BYE | 2 0 2 5 A W A R D S |
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Honorary Palme d'Or: Robert De Niro Carrosse d'Or: Todd Haynes | |||
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12 MOMENTS BEFORE THE FLAG-RAISING CEREMONY (Qu, Chn)AISHA CAN'T FLY AWAY (Mostafa, Egy) ALPHA (Ducournau, Fr) AMRUM (Akin, Ger) ARCO (Bienvenu, Fr) L'AVENTURA (Letourneur, Fr) BIMO (Hanader, Fr) THE BIRD FROM WITHIN (Anahory, Por) THE BLACK SNAKE (Vernhes-Lermusiaux, Fr) BONO: STORIES OF SURRENDER (Dominik, Aus) BRAND NEW LANDSCAPE (Danzuka) BYE BYE (Bonnin, Fr) CARAVAN (Kirchnerova, Cz) THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER (Stewart, Fr) THE COMING OF THE FUTURE (Klapisch, Fr) CONNEMARA (Lutz, Fr) DANGEROUS ANIMALS (Byrne) DEATH DOES NOT EXIST (Dufour-Laperriere) DIE, MY LOVE (Ramsay, US) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JOSEF MENGELE (Serebrennikov, Ger) A DOLL MADE UP OF CLAY (Tesfay, Ind) DOSSIER 137 (Moll, Fr) DRIFTING LAURENT (Balekdjian/Couture/Eustachon, Fr) DRUNKEN NOODLES (Castro, Arg) EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC (Saleh, Swe) EDDINGTON (Aster, US) ELEANOR THE GREAT (Johansson, US) ENTRONCAMENTO (Cabeleira, Por) ENZO (Campillo) ETHER (Skerk, UK) THE EXIT 8 (Kawamura, Jpn) FIRST SUMMER (Gayoung, Kor) THE FOXES ROUND (Carnoy) FUORI (Martone, It) GINGER BOY (SEPARATED) (Tanaka, Jpn) THE GIRL IN THE SNOW (Hemon) GIRL ON EDGE (Zhou) THE GIRLS WE WANT (Car) THE GREAT ARCH (Demoustier, Fr) HEADS OR TAILS? (Zoppis/Righi, It) HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (Lee, US) THE HISTORY OF SOUND (Hermanus, UK) HOMEBOUND (Ghaywan, Ind) L'HOMME QUI A VU L'OURS QUI A VU L'HOMME (Richard, Fr) HONEY DON'T! (Coen, US) I ONLY REST IN THE STORM (Pinho, Por) IMAGO (Pitsaev) INDOMPTABLES (Ngijol) IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Panahi, Irn) KIKA (Poukine) KOKUHO (Lee) THE LAND OF SLUMBER (Vesigot-Wahl, Fr) THE LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD (Sossai, It) LEFT-HANDED GIRL (Tsou) LIFE AFTER SIHAM (Messeeh, Egy) A LIGHT THAT NEVER GOES OUT (Parppei, Fin) THE LIGHTNING ROD (Donner, Fin) LITTLE AMELIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN (Vallade/Han, Fr) THE LITTLE SISTER (Herzi, Fr) LOVE ME TENDER (Cambet, Fr) |
LOVE ON TRIAL (Fukada, Jpn)THE LOVE THAT REMAINS (Palmason, Ice) LUCKY LU (Choi) MAGELLAN (Diaz, Ph) A MAGNIFICENT LIFE (Chomet, Fr) MAMA (Sinai, Isr) THE MASTERMIND (Reichardt, US) MAYBE IN MARCH (Kehlert, Den) METEORS (Charuel, Fr) MIDDLE CLASS (Cordier) MILITANTROPOS (Smith/Gorlova/Mozgovyi) MILK AND COOKIES (Tache-Codreanu, Rom) MIRRORS NO 3 (Petzold) 
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING (McQuarrie, US)MY FATHER'S SHADOW (Davies, Ngr) MY GRANDMOTHER IS A SKYDIVER (Piddubna, Ger) THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO (Cespedes, Chil) NINO (Loques) NO ONE WILL KNOW (Cardona, Fr) NOUVELLE VAGUE (Linklater, Fr) OBSCURE NIGHT: AIN'T I A CHILD? (George, Fr) ONCE UPON A TIME IN GAZA (Nasser/Nasser, Pal) ORWELL: 2+2=5 (Peck, Fr) A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (Ishikawa, Jpn) PEAK EVERYTHING (Emond) THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (Anderson, US) PILLION (Lighton, UK) THE PLAGUE (Polinger, Aus) UN POETA (Soto, Col) THE PRESIDENT'S CAKE (Hadi) PROMISED SKY (Sehiri, Tun) PUT YOUR SOUL ON YOUR HAND AND WALK (Farsi, Irn) QUE MA VOLONTe SOIT FAITE (Kowalski) REEDLAND (Bresser) RENOIR (Hayakawa, Japan) THE RESIDENCE (Gozlan, Fr) THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD (Klifa, Fr) ROMERIA (Simon, Sp) THE SECRET AGENT (Mendonca, Br) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Trier, Nor) SIRAT (Laxe, Fr) SLEEPLESS CITY (Galoe) SONS OF THE NEON NIGHT (Mak, Chn) THE SORCERESS ECHO (Camardons, Sp) SORRY, BABY (Victor) SOUND OF FALLING (Schilinski, Ger) SPLITSVILLE (Covino, US) TALK ME (Hanna, US) TELL HER THAT I LOVE HER (Bohringer,Fr) THREE (Ceballos, Arg) TWO PROSECUTORS (Loznitsa, Lat) URCHIN (Dickinson, UK) A USEFUL GHOST (Boonbunchachoke) VIE PRIVEE (Zlotowski, Fr) THE WAVE (Lelio, Chl) WINTER IN MARCH (Mirzoyan, Est) WOMAN AND CHILD (Roustayi, Irn) THE WONDERERS (Japy) YES (Lapid) THE YOUNG MOTHER'S HOME (Dardenne/Dardenne, Bel) | ||
77th Cannes Film Festival14 - 25 May 2024 Opening film: THE SECOND ACT | 2 0 2 4 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: ANORAGrand Prix: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Jury Prize: EMILIA PEREZ Special Prize: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Queer Palm: THREE KILOMETERS TO THE END OF THE WORLD Camera d'Or: Halfdan Ullmann Tondel (ARMAND) L'Oeil d'Or: ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND and THE BRINK OF DREAMS Director: Miguel Gomes (GRAND TOUR) Screenplay: Coralie Fargeat (THE SUBSTANCE) Actress: Selena Gomez, Karla Sofia Gascon, Zoe Saldana, Adriana Paz (EMILIA PEREZ) Actor: Jesse Plemons (KINDS OF KINDNESS) Honorary Palme d'Or: George Lucas, Meryl Streep, Studio Gibli Un Certain Regard: BLACK DOG Un Certain Regard - Jury Prize: THE STORY OF SOULEYMANE Un Certain Regard - Director: Rungano Nyoni (ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL) and Roberto Minervini (THE DAMNED) Un Certain Regard - Actress: Anasuya Sengupta (THE SHAMELESS) Un Certain Regard - Actor: Abou Sangare (THE STORY OF SOULEYMANE) Un Certain Regard - Youth Award: HOLY COW Critics' Week: SIMON OF THE MOUNTAIN |
Directors' Fortnight: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Cinemas Art et Essai: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Chopard Trophy: Mike Faist and Sophie Wilde Cinef: SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW... Citoyennete: BIRD Ecumenical: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Europa Cinemas: THE OTHER WAY AROUND Fipresci - Competition: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: THE STORY OF SOULEYMANE Fipresci - Parallel Sections: DESERT OF NAMIBIA Francois Chalais: THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG French Touch: BLUE SUN PALACE GAN Foundation: JULIE KEEPS QUIET Immersive: COLORED Palm Dog: Kodi (DOG ON TRIAL) Palm Dog Jury Prize: Xin (BLACK DOG) Palm Dog Mutt Moment: BIRD, KINDS OF KINDNESS, MEGALOPOLIS Rising Star: Ricardo Teodoro (BABY) SACD: THIS LIFE OF MINE Technical Artist: Daria D'Antonio (PARTHENOPE) Young Film Technician: Evgenia Alexandrova (LES FEMMES AU BALCON) | ||
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ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Kapadia, Ind)
ANORA (Baker, US)APPRENDRE (Simon)
THE APPRENTICE (Abbasi, Can)ARMAND (Tondel) THE ART OF JOY (Golino/Gelormini) THE BALCONETTES (Merlant) BANISHED LOVE (Cong) BEATING HEARTS (Lellouche) BEING MARIA (Palud) THE BELLE FROM GAZA (Zauberman)
BIRD (Arnold, UK)
BLACK DOG (Hu, Chn)BUNNYHOOD (Maheshwari) C'EST PAS MOI (Carax) CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia) THE CHAOS SHE LEFT BEHIND (Kolioukos)
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT (Taormina, US)
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (Delaporte/De La Patelliere, Fr)CROW MAN (Abdelnour) THE DAMNED (Minervini) THE DEER'S TOOTH (Hammash) DESERT OF NAMIBIA (Yamanaka, Jap) DOG ON TRIAL (Dosch) EAST OF NOON (Elkoussy, Egy) EAT THE NIGHT (Poggi/Vinel, Fr) ECHOES (Drossos) EEPHUS (Lund, US) ELEVATION (Esdras)
EMILIA PEREZ (Audiard, Fr)
ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND (Peck, Fr)EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA (Ayouch) THE FALLING SKY (Rocha/da Cunha, Br) LE FIL (Auteuil)
FLOW (Zilbalodis, Lat)FOREST OF ECHOES (Lim)
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA (Miller, Aus)GAZER (Sloan, US) GHOST CAT ANZU (Kuno/Yamashita, Jap)
THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (Von Horn, Den)
GOOD ONE (Donaldson, US)
GRAND TOUR (Gomes, Por)L'HISTOIRE DE SOULEYMANE (Lojkine)
HOLY COW (Courvoisier, Fr)
HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA - CHAPTER I (Costner, US)THE HYPERBOREANS (Leon/Cocina, Chi) I, THE EXECUTIONER (Ryoo) IN HIS OWN IMAGE (Peretti, Fr) IN SPIRITO (Folin) IN THE WONDERWOODS (Paronnaud/Ducord) THE INVASION (Loznitsa) IT'LL PASS (Draksas) IT'S NOT TIME FOR POP (Vaknin) JIM'S STORY (Larrieu/Larrieu)
JULIE KEEPS QUIET (van Dijl, Bel)
KINDS OF KINDNESS (Lanthimos, UK)THE KINGDOM (Colonna) |
LIMONOV: THE BALLAD (Serebrennikov)LULA (Stone/Wilson) MARCELLO MIO (Honore) THE MARCHING BAND (Courcol) MEETING WITH POL POT (Panh)
MEGALOPOLIS (Coppola, US)
MISERICORDIA (Guiraudie, Fr)MONGREL (Chiang/You, Tai)
THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES (Hazanavicius, Fr)
MOTEL DESTINO (Ainouz, Br)MY SUNSHINE (Okuyama) MY WAY (Teston/Azuelos) NASTY: MORE THAN JUST TENNIS (Giurgiu/Popescu/Pascariu) NIKI (Sallette) NORAH (Alzaidi) OH, CANADA (Schrader) ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL (Nyoni) THE OTHER WAY AROUND (Trueba, Sp) OUT THE WINDOW THROUGH THE WALL (Segalovich)
PARTHENOPE (Sorrentino, It)PLASTIC GUNS (Meurisse, Fr) LA PRISONNIERE DE BORDEAUX (Mazuy, Fr)
RUMOURS (Maddin/Johnson/Johnson)
SANTOSH (Suri, Ind)SAVAGES (Barras) SAVANNA AND THE MOUNTAIN (Carneiro, Por) THE SECOND ACT (Dupieux)
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Rasoulof, Irn)SEPTEMBER SAYS (Labed) THE SHAMELESS (Bojanov) SHE'S GOT NO NAME (Chan) THE SHROUDS (Cronenberg) SILEX AND THE CITY (Guigue/Berjeaut) SISTER MIDNIGHT (Kandhari, Ind) SLOCUM ET MOI (Laguionie) SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED (Rosselli, Arg) SPECTATEURS! (Desplechin)
THE SUBSTANCE (Fargeat, Fr)SUNFLOWERS WERE THE FIRST ONES TO KNOW... (Naik)
THE SURFER (Finnegan, Aus)TERMINAL (Elliott) THIS LIFE OF MINE (Fillieres, Fr) THREE (Song) THREE KILOMETRES TO THE END OF THE WORLD (Parvu)
TO A LAND UNKNOWN (Fleifel, Gr)TO LIVE, TO DIE, TO LIVE AGAIN (Morel) TRANSMITZVAH (Burman)
TWILIGHT OF THE WARRIORS: WALLED IN (Soi, Chn)UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (Rankin, Can) AN UNFINISHED FILM (Lou) US AND THEM (Dumaret)
VIET AND NAM (Truong, Vie)THE VILLAGE NEXT TO PARADISE (Harawe) WEEDS (Kazak) WHEN THE LIGHT BREAKS (Runarsson) WILD DIAMOND (Riedinger) WITHERED BLOSSOMS (Seah) | ||
76th Cannes Film Festival16 - 27 May 2023 Opening film: JEANNE DU BARRY Closing film: ELEMENTAL | 2 0 2 3 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: ANATOMY OF A FALL (Fr)Grand Prix: THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jury prize: FALLEN LEAVES Queer Palm: MONSTER Camera d'Or: Thien An Pham (INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL) L'Oeil d'Or: FOUR DAUGHTERS and THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES Director: Tran Anh Hung (THE TASTE OF THINGS) Screenplay: Yuji Sakamoto (MONSTER) Actress: Merve Dizdar (ABOUT DRY GRASSES) Actor: Koji Yakusho (PERFECT DAYS) Honorary Palme d'Or: Michael Douglas and Harrison Ford Un Certain Regard: HOW TO HAVE SEX Un Certain Regard - Jury Prize: HOUNDS Un Certain Regard - Director: Asmae El Moudir (THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES) Un Certain Regard - Ensemble: THE BURITI FLOWER New Voice: Baloji (OMEN) Freedom Prize: GOODBYE JULIA |
Critics' Week: TIGER STRIPESRising Star: Jovan Ginic (LOST COUNTRY) Cinemas Art et Essai: LA CHIMERA Chopard Trophy: Daryl McCormack and Naomi Ackie Cinef: NORWEGIAN OFFSPRING Citoyennete: FOUR DAUGHTERS Ecumenical: PERFECT DAYS Europa Cinemas Label: CREATURA Fipresci - Competition: THE ZONE OF INTEREST Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: THE SETTLERS Fipresci - First Feature: POWER ALLEY Francois Chalais: FOUR DAUGHTERS Palm Dog: Messi as Snoop (ANATOMY OF A FALL) Palm Dog Grand Jury: Alma (FALLEN LEAVES) Palm Dog Mutt Moment: LA CHIMERA Palm Dogmanitarian: Isabella Rossellini Palm Dog Life Achievement: Ken Loach SACD: A PRINCE Soundtrack: Mica Levi (THE ZONE OF INTEREST) | ||
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AMA GLORIA (Amachoukeli, Fr)
ANATOMY OF A FALL (Triet, Fr)
ANSELM (Wenders, Ger)
ASTEROID CITY (Anderson, US)
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Naveriani, Geo)
LA CHIMERA (Rohrwacher, It)
CLOSE YOUR EYES (Erice, Sp)
THE DELINQUENTS (Moreno, Arg)
ELEMENTAL (Sohn, US)
EUREKA (Alonso, Arg)
FALLEN LEAVES (Kaurismaki, Fin)
FIREBRAND (Ainouz, UK)
HOW TO HAVE SEX (Walker, UK)
HYPNOTIC (Rodriguez, US)
IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE (Purevdash, Mon)
IN FLAMES (Kahn, Pak)
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (Mangold, UK)
JEANNE DU BARRY (Maiwenn, Fr) |
KIDNAPPED (Bellocchio, It)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Scorsese, US)
LOST IN THE NIGHT (Escalante, Mex)
MAY DECEMBER (Haynes, US)
MONSTER (Kore-eda, Jpn)
THE NATURE OF LOVE (Chokri, Can)
THE NEW BOY (Thornton, Aus)
THE OLD OAK (Loach, UK)
OMEN (Baloji, Bel)
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei, Chn)
PERFECT DAYS (Wenders, Jpn)
RIDDLE OF FIRE (Razooli, US)
ROBOT DREAMS (Berger, Sp)
THE SETTLERS (Galvez, Chl)
SLEEP (Yu, Kor)
THE TASTE OF THINGS (Hung, Fr)
TIGER STRIPES (Eu, Mys)
THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Glazer, Pol) | ||
75th Cannes Film Festival17 - 28 May 2022 Opening film: FINAL CUT | 2 0 2 2 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: TRIANGLE OF SADNESSGrand Prix: CLOSE and STARS AT NOON Jury prize: EO and THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS Queer Palm: JOYLAND Camera d'Or: Riley Keough & Gina Gammell (WAR PONY) L'Oeil d'Or: ALL THAT BREATHES Director: Park Chan-Wook (DECISION TO LEAVE) Screenplay: Tarik Saleh (CAIRO CONSPIRACY) Actress: Zar Amir Ebrahimi (HOLY SPIDER) Actor: Song Kang-ho (BROKER) 75th anniversary Prize: TORI AND LOKITA Honorary Palme d'Or: Forest Whitaker and Tom Cruise Chopard Trophy: Sheila Atim and Jack Lowden Rising Star: Zelda Samson (LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA) Soundtrack: Pawel Mykietyn (EO) Critics' Week: LA JAURIA Un Certain Regard: THE WORST ONES Un Certain Regard - Jury Prize: JOYLAND Un Certain Regard - Director: Alexandru Belc (METRONOM) Un Certain Regard - Screenplay: Maha Haj (MEDITERRANEAN FEVER) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Vicky Krieps (CORSAGE) and Adam Bessa (HARKA) |
Art House Cinema: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Cinefondation: A CONSPIRACY MAN Citizenship: LEILA'S BROTHERS Coup de Coeur: RODEO CST Artist-Technician: TRIANGLE OF SADNESS CST Young Film Technician: MOTHER AND SON Dramatic Authors & Composers: THE MOUNTAIN Ecumenical Jury: BROKER Fipresci - Competition: LEILA'S BROTHERS Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: THE BLUE CAFTAN Fipresci - First Feature: LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA Francois Chalais: CAIRO CONSPIRACY French Touch: AFTERSUN Gan Foundation: THE WOODCUTTER STORY Golden Eye: ALL THAT BREATHES La Cinef: A CONSPIRACY MAN Label Europa Cinemas: ONE FINE MORNING Palm Dog: Brit (WAR PONY) Palm Dog Grand Jury: Marcel (MARCEL!) and canine cast (GODLAND) Palm Dog Dogmanitarian: Patron Palm Hound Dog: Titane SACD - Critics' Week: LA JAURIA | ||
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1976 (Martelli, Chl)
AFTERSUN (Wells, UK)
ALL THAT BREATHES (Sen, Ind)
ARMAGEDDON TIME (Gray, US)
THE BLUE CAFTAN (Touzani, Mor)
BROKER (Kore-eda, Kor)
BUTTERFLY VISION (Nakonechnyi, Ukr)
CAIRO CONSPIRACY (Saleh, Swe)
CLOSE (Dhont, Bel)
CORSAGE (Kreutzer, Aut)
CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (Cronenberg, Can)
DECISION TO LEAVE (Park, Kor)
THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS (van Groeningen/Vandermeersch, It)
ELVIS (Luhrmann, Aus)
ENYS MEN (Jenkin, UK)
EO (Skolimowski, Pol)
FINAL CUT (Hazanavicius, Fr)
FUNNY PAGES (Kline, US)
GOD'S CREATURES (Holmer/Davis, Ire)
GODLAND (Palmason, Ice) |
HARKA (Nathan, Tun)
HOLY SPIDER (Abbasi, Den)
HUNT (Lee, Kor)
THE INNOCENT (Garrel, Fr)
JOYLAND (Sadiq, Pak)
LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA (Nicot, Fr)
MEN (Garland,UK)
MOONAGE DAYDREAM (Morgen, Ger)
MORE THAN EVER (Atef, Fr)
MOTHER AND SON (Serraille, Fr)
NOSTALGIA (Martone, It)
PAMFIR (Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, Ukr)
PLAN 75 (Hayakawa, Jpn)
RETURN TO SEOUL (Chou, Fr)
R.M.N. (Mungiu, Rom)
RODEO (Quivoron, Fr)
SHOWING UP (Reichardt, US)
SICK OF MYSELF (Borgli, Nor)
THE SILENT TWINS (Smoczynska, UK)
SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING (Dupieux, Fr)
TOP GUN: MAVERICK (Kosinski, US)
TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (Ostlund, Swe)
WAR PONY* review to come | ||
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