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The world's glitziest film festivalHeld annually on the French Riviera Rich last attended Cannes in 2008, and is still recovering | |||
77th Cannes Film Festival14 - 25 May 2024 Opening film: THE SECOND ACT | 2 0 2 4 A W A R D S |
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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 LANGUAGECinemas 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) 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)
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) MOTEL DESTINO (Ainouz) 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) 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) 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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L'ABBE PIERRE: UNE VIE DE COMBATS (Tellier)ABOUT DRY GRASSES (Ceylan) ABRAHAM'S VALLEY (de Oliveira) ACID (Philippot) AGRA (Behl) ALONG CAME LOVE (Quillevere)
AMA GLORIA (Amachoukeli, Fr)
ANATOMY OF A FALL (Triet, Fr)
ANSELM (Wenders, Ger)
ASTEROID CITY (Anderson, US)BANEL E ADAMA (Sy) BLACK FLIES (Sauvaire)
BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD BLACKBERRY (Naveriani, Geo)BONNARD, PIERRE AND MARTHE (Provost) THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS (Gondry) BREAD AND ROSES (Mani) THE BREAKING ICE (Chen) A BRIGHTER TOMORROW (Moretti) THE BURITI FLOWER (Salaviza/Nader Messora)
LA CHIMERA (Rohrwacher, It)
CLOSE YOUR EYES (Erice, Sp)CLUB ZERO (Hausner) COBWEB (Kim) CREATURA (Gimeno)
THE DELINQUENTS (Moreno, Arg)DESERTS (Bensaidi)
ELEMENTAL (Sohn, US)
EUREKA (Alonso, Arg)THE (EX)PERIENCE OF LOVE (Sirot /Balboni, Bel)
FALLEN LEAVES (Kaurismaki, Fin)THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED (Arnow)
FIREBRAND (Ainouz, UK)FOUR DAUGHTERS (Ben Hania) THE GOLDMAN CASE (Kahn) GOODBYE JULIA (Kordofani) GRACE (Povolotsky) HOMECOMING (Corsini) HOPELESS (Kim) HOUNDS (Lazraq)
HOW TO HAVE SEX (Walker, UK)
HYPNOTIC (Rodriguez, US)THE IDOL (Levinson)
IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE (Purevdash, Mon)
IN FLAMES (Kahn, Pak)IN OUR DAY (Hong)
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (Mangold, UK)INSHALLAH A BOY (Al Rasheed, Jor) INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL (An Pham) IT'S RAINING IN THE HOUSE (Sermon-Dai, Bel) |
JEANNE DU BARRY (Maiwenn, Fr)JUST THE TWO OF US (Donzelli) KENNEDY (Kashyap)
KIDNAPPED (Bellocchio, It)
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (Scorsese, US)THE KING OF ALGIERS (Belkeddar) KUBI (Kitano) LAST SUMMER (Breillat) LEGUA (Reis/Guerra) LITTLE GIRL BLUE (Achache) LOST COUNTRY (Perisic, Ser)
LOST IN THE NIGHT (Escalante, Mex)MAMBAR PIERRETTE (Mbakam) MAN IN BLACK (Wang) MARGUERITE'S THEOREM (Novion)
MAY DECEMBER (Haynes, US)
MONSTER (Kore-eda, Jpn)THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES (El Moudir)
THE NATURE OF LOVE (Chokri, Can)
THE NEW BOY (Thornton, Aus)NO LOVE LOST (Le Duc, Fr) OCCUPIED CITY (McQueen)
THE OLD OAK (Loach, UK)
OMEN (Baloji, Bel)
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS (Wei, Chn)THE OTHER LAURENS (Schmitz)
PERFECT DAYS (Wenders, Jpn)PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Mendonca) A PRINCE (Creton) POWER ALLEY (Halla, Br) PROJECT SILENCE (Kim) THE RAPTURE (Kaltenback, Fr) LE REGNE ANIMAL (Cailley)
RIDDLE OF FIRE (Razooli, US)RIEN A PERDRE (Deloget)
ROBOT DREAMS (Berger, Sp)ROSALIE (Di Giusto) SALEM (Marlin)
THE SETTLERS (Galvez, Chl)SHE IS CONANN (Mandico) A SONG SUNG BLUE (Geng)
SLEEP (Yu, Kor)STRANGERS BY NIGHT (Lutz) THE SWEET EAST (Williams)
THE TASTE OF THINGS (Hung, Fr)TERRESTRIAL VERSES (Asgari/Khatami)
TIGER STRIPES (Eu, Mys)VINCENT MUST DIE (Castang, Fr) YOUTH (Wang)
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 | ||
74th Cannes Film Festival6 - 17 July 2021 Opening film: ANNETTE Closing Film: OSS 117: FROM AFRICA WITH LOVE
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Palme d'Or: TITANEGrand Prix: A HERO and COMPARTMENT NO 6 Jury prize: MEMORIA and AHED'S KNEE Queer Palm: THE DIVIDE Camera d'Or: MURINA L'Oeil d'Or: A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING Director: Leos Carax (ANNETTE) Screenplay: Ryusuke Hamaguchi (DRIVE MY CAR) Actress: Renate Reinsve (THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD) Actor: Caleb Landry Jones (NITRAM) Honorary Palme d'Or: Marco Bellocchio Fipresci - Competition: DRIVE MY CAR Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: PLAYGROUND Fipresci - Parallel Sections: FEATHERS Critics' Week: FEATHERS Rising Star: Sandra Melissa Torres (AMPARO) |
Un Certain Regard: UNCLENCHING THE FISTS Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: GREAT FREEDOM Un Certain Regard - Ensemble: GOOD MOTHER Un Certain Regard - Courage: LA CIVIL Un Certain Regard - Originality: LAMB Cinefondation: THE SALAMANDER CHILD SACD - Critics' Week: OLGA SACD - Director's Fortnight: MAGNETIC BEASTS Label Europa Cinemas: A CHIARA Gan Foundation: ZERO F**KS GIVEN Palm Dog: Rose, Dora, and Snowbear (THE SOUVENIR: PART II) Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: Sophie (RED ROCKET) and Panda (LAMB) Dogmanitarian Award: Mastercard | ||
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A HERO (Farhadi, Irn)
AFTER YANG (Kogonada, US)
ALI & AVA (Barnard, UK)
ALINE (Lemercier, Can)
ANAIS IN LOVE (Bourgeois-Tacquet, Fr)
ANNETTE (Carax, Fr)
BELLE (Hosoda, Jpn)
BENEDETTA (Verhoeven, Fr)
BERGMAN ISLAND (Hansen-Love, Swe)
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS (Carrere, Fr)
BRUNO REIDAL: CONFESSION OF A MURDERER (Le Port, Fr)
CASABLANCA BEATS (Ayouch, Mor)
CLARA SOLA (Alvarez, CR)
COMPARTMENT NO 6 (Kuosmanen, Fin)
COW (Arnold, UK)
THE DIVIDE (Corsini, Fr)
DRIVE MY CAR (Hamaguchi, Jpn)
EVERYTHING WENT FINE (Ozon, Fr)
FLEE (Rasmussen, Den)
FRANCE (Dumont, Fr)
THE FRENCH DISPATCH (Anderson, US)
GREAT FREEDOM (Meise, Aut)
HIT THE ROAD (Panahi, Irn)
IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE (Kor) |
LAMB (Johansson, Ice)
MEDUSA (Rocha, Br)
MEMORIA (Weerasethakul, Col)
MONEYBOYS (Yi, Tai)
MOTHERING SUNDAY (Husson, UK)
NEPTUNE FROST (Williams/Uzeyman, Rw)
NITRAM (Kurzel, Aus)
OLGA (Grappe, Swi)
PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT (Audiard, Fr)
PETROV'S FLU (Serebrennikov, Rus)
PLAYGROUND (Wandel, Bel)
PLEASURE (Thyberg, Swe)
RED ROCKET (Baker, US)
SMALL BODY (Samani, It)
THE SOUVENIR: PART II (Hogg, UK)
STILLWATER (McCarthy, US)
THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS (Imbert, Fr)
TITANE (Ducournau, Fr)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (Haynes, US)
VORTEX (Noe, Fr)
THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Trier, Nor)
THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM (Panahi/Poitras/et al, US)* review to come | ||
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