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72nd Cannes Film Festival 14-25 May 2019 in France Opening film: THE DEAD DON'T DIE Closing film: THE SPECIALS	2 0 1 9 A W A R D S
	Palme d'Or: PARASITE Grand Prix: ATLANTICS Jury prize: BACURAU and LES MISERABLES Queer Palm: PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Camera d'Or: OUR MOTHERS L'Oeil d'Or: FOR SAMA and THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS Director: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (YOUNG AHMED) Screenplay: Celine Sciamma (PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) Actress: Emily Beecham (LITTLE JOE) Actor: Antonio Banderas (PAIN AND GLORY) Honorary Palme d'Or: Alain Delon Chopard Trophy: Francois Civil and Florence Pugh Carrosse d'Or: John Carpenter Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel Fipresci - Competition: IT MUST BE HEAVEN Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: BEANPOLE Fipresci - Parallel Sections: THE LIGHTHOUSE Critics' Week: I LOST MY BODY Rising Star: Ingvar E Sigurdsson (A WHITE, WHITE DAY) Ecumenical Prize: A HIDDEN LIFE Cinefondation: MANO A MANO	Un Certain Regard: THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF EURIDICE GUSMAO Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: FIRE WILL COME Un Certain Regard - Director: Kantemir Balagov (BEANPOLE) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Chiara Mastroianni (ON A MAGICAL NIGHT) Un Certain Regard - Special Prize: Albert Serra (LIBERTE) and Bruno Dumont (JOAN OF ARC) Coup de Coeur: A BROTHER'S LOVE and THE CLIMB SACD - Critics' Week: OUR MOTHERS SACD - Director's Fortnight: AN EASY GIRL Vulcan Award: Flora Volpeliere and Julien Poupard (LES MISERABLES) Label Europa Cinemas: ALICE AND THE MAYOR Prix Francois Chalais: A HIDDEN LIFE Gan Foundation: VIVARIUM Soundtrack Award: Alberto Iglesias (PAIN AND GLORY) Palm Dog: Brandy (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: LITTLE JOE and AASHA AND THE STREET DOGS Dogmanitarian Award: Google Underdog Award: THE UNADOPTABLE
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	ABOU LEILA (Sidi-Boumediene, Alg) ADAM (Lin, Sin) ADAM (Touzani) ALICE AND THE MAYOR (Pariser, Fr) ALIEN (Yeon, Kor) AMBIENCE (Jafari, Pal) AND THEN WE DANCED (Akin, Swe) AS HAPPY AS POSSIBLE (Raoust, Fr) AS UP TO NOW (Moldovai, Hun) ATLANTIQUE (Diop) BACURAU (Mendonca/Dornelles) BAMBOE (Van Deuren, Bel) BEANPOLE (Balagov) BELLE EPOQUE (Bedos) BERTOLUCCI: NO END TRAVELLING (Sesti, It) BLIND SPOT (Trividic/Bernard, Fr) BLOW IT TO BITS (Kowalski, Fr) BRIEF STORY FROM THE GREEN PLANET (Loza, Arg) A BROTHER'S LIFE (Chokri) BULL (Silverstein) THE CLIMB (Covino) COMPLEX SUBJECT (Yakovleva, Rus) THE DEAD DON'T DIE (Jarmusch, US) DEERSKIN (Dupieux, Fr) DES HOMMES (Odiot/Viallet, Fr) DIEGO MARADONA (Kapadia, UK) DOGS DON'T WEAR PANTS (Valkeapaa, Fin) DWELLING IN THE FUCHUN MOUNTAINS (Gu, Chn) AN EASY GIRL (Zlotowski, Fr) EVGE (Aliev) FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC (Herzog) FAVOURITES ( Monk, Aut) FIRST LOVE (Miike, Jpn) FOR SAMA (Kateab/Watts) FOR THE MONEY (Moguillansky, Arg) FORMAN VS. FORMAN (Trestikova/Hejna, Cz) FRANKIE (Sachs, US) THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL (Lee, Kor) GHOST TROPIC (Devos, Bel) GIVE ME LIBERTY (Mikhanovsky, US) THE HALT (Diaz, Ph) HEROES DON'T DIE (Rapin, Fr) A HIDDEN LIFE (Malick, US) HIEU (Van, US) I LOST MY BODY (Clapin, Fr) INDIANARA (Chevalier-Beaumel/Barbosa, Br) INVISIBLE LIFE (Ainouz) IT MUST BE HEAVEN (Suleiman) JEREMIAH (Gillespie, US) JOAN OF ARC (Dumont, Bel) KONGO (La Vapeur, Corto Vaclav, Fr) LAND OF ASHES (Ubeda, CR) LAS VEGAS (Villegas, Arg) LIBERTE (Serra) THE LIGHTHOUSE (Eggers, Can) LILLIAN (Horwath, Aut) LITIGANTE (Lolli, Col) LITTLE JOE (Hausner, US) THE LITTLE SOUL (Rupik, Pol) MAKING WAVES: THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUND (Costin, US) MANO A MANO (Courvoisier, Fr)	MATTHIAS AND MAXIME (Dolan, Can) MICKEY AND THE BEAR (Attanasio, US) LES MISERABLES (Ly) OH MERCY! (Desplechin, Fr) OLEG (Kursietis, Lat) ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (Tarantino, US) ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND (Erban, Cz) THE ORPHANAGE (Sadat, Den) OUR MOTHERS (Diaz, Bel) * PAIN AND GLORY (Almodovar, Sp) PAPICHA (Meddour) PARASITE (Bong, Kor) LES PARTICULES (Harrison, Switzerland, Fr) LA PASSIONE DI ANNA MAGNANI (Cerasuolo, It) PERDRIX (Le Duc, Fr) PORT AUTHORITY (Lessovitz) PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (Sciamma, Fr) PURA VIDA (Gonda, Svk) QUE SEA LEY (Solanas) RED 11 (Rodriguez, US) RIFT (Louz, Isr) ROADKILL (Mozga, UK) ROCKETMAN (Fletcher, UK) ROOM 212 (Honore, Fr) ROSSO: A TRUE LIE ABOUT A FISHERMAN (Messana, Fr) SANGRE BLANCA (Sarasola-Day, Arg) SHARE (Bianco) SIBYL (Triet) SICK, SICK, SICK (Furtado, Br) LES SILENCES DE JOHNNY (Glenn, Fr) SOLAR PLEXUS (McShane, UK) SOLO (Benki, France, Cz) SONG WITHOUT A NAME (Leon, Per) SORRY WE MISSED YOU (Loach, UK) THE SPECIALS (Nakache/Toledan, Fr) THE STAGGERING GIRL (Guadagnino, It) SUMMER OF CHANGSHA (Zu) A SUN THAT NEVER SETS (Laxe) THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL (Breitman/Mevellec) TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE (Sendijarevic, Bos) THE BEST YEARS OF LIFE (Lelouch, Fr) TLAMESS (Slim, Tunisia, Fr) TO BE ALIVE AND KNOW IT (Cavalier) TO LIVE TO SING (Ma, China, Fr) TOMMASO (Ferrara) TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG (Refn) THE TRAITOR (Bellocchio, It) THE UNKNOWN SAINT (Aljem, Mor) VIF-ARGENT (Batut, Fr) VIVARIUM (Finnegan, Ire) THE WHISTLERS (Porumboiu, Rom) A WHITE, WHITE DAY (Palmason, Ice) THE WILD GOOSE LAKE (Diao) WOUNDS (Anvari, US YOU DESERVE A LOVE (Herzi, Fr) YOUNG AHMED (Dardenne/Dardenne, Bel) YVES (Forgeard, Fr) ZHUO REN MI MI (Z) ZOMBI CHILD (Bonello, Fr)

71st Cannes Film Festival 8-19 May 2018 in France	2 0 1 8 A W A R D S
	Palme d'Or: SHOPLIFTERS Grand Prix: BLACKkKLANSMAN Jury prize: CAPERNAUM Queer Palm: GIRL Camera d'Or: GIRL Director: Pawel Pawlikowski (COLD WAR) Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher (HAPPY AS LAZZARO) and Nader Saeivar (3 FACES) Actress: Samal Yeslyamova (MY LITTLE ONE) Actor: Marcello Fonte (DOGMAN) Honorary Palme d'Or: Jean-Luc Godard (IMAGE BOOK) Chopard Trophy: Elizabeth Debicki and Joe Alwyn Carrosse d'Or: Martin Scorsese L'Oeil d'Or: SAMOUNI Fipresci - Competition: BURNING Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: GIRL Fipresci - Parallel Sections: ONE DAY Critics' Week: DIAMANTINO Rising Star: Felix Maritaud (SAUVAGE) Ecumenical Prize: CAPERNAUM Cinefondation: THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION	Un Certain Regard: BORDER Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS Un Certain Regard - Director: Sergei Loznitza (DONBASS) Un Certain Regard - Screenplay: Meryem Benm'Barek (SOFIA) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Victor Polster (GIRL) SACD - Critics' Week: WOMAN AT WAR SACD - Director's Fortnight: EN LIBERTE Label Europa Cinemas: TROPPA GRAZIA Art Cinema: CLIMAX Prix Francois Chalais: YOMEDDINE Gan Foundation: SIR Illy Award: SKIP DAY Soundtrack Award: Roma Zver & German Osipov (SUMMER) Palm Dog: DOGMAN Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: DIAMANTINO Dogmanitarian Award: Vanessa Davies and the Patricks
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	AMIN (Faucon, Fr) ARCTIC (Penna, Ice) BIRDS OF PASSAGE (Guerra/Gallego, Col) BLACKkKLANSMAN (Lee, US) BORDER (Abbasi, Swe) BURNING (Lee, Kor) CAPERNAUM (Labaki, Leb) CLIMAX (Noe, Fr) COLD WAR (Pawlikowski, Pol) DIAMANTINO (Abrantes/Schmidt, Por) DOGMAN (Garrone, It) DONBASS (Loznitsa, Ukr) EVERYBODY KNOWS (Farhadi, Sp) THE EYES OF ORSON WELLES (Cousins, UK) FAHRENHEIT 451 (Bahrani, US) GIRL (Dhont, Bel) HAPPY AS LAZZARO (Rohrwacher, It) THE HARVESTERS (Kallos, SA) THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Von Trier, Den) KNIFE + HEART (Gonzalez, Fr)	LEAVE NO TRACE (Granik, US) LOVE BLOOMS (Dacheux, Fr) * THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE (Gilliam) MANDY (Cosmatos, Bel) MIRAI (Hosoda, Jpn) MY BEST FRIEND (Deus, Arg) RAFIKI (Kahiu, Ken) SAUVAGE (Vidal-Naquet, Fr) SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda, Jpn) SOFIA (Benm'barek, Fr) SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (Howard, UK) SORRY ANGEL (Honore, Fr) THUNDER ROAD (Cummings, US) UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (Mitchell, US) WHITNEY (Macdonald, US) THE WILD PEAR TREE (Ceylan, Tur) WILDLIFE (Dano, US) WOMAN AT WAR (Erlingsson, Ice) * review to come

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