Jury

• Emir Kusturica
  Emir Kusturica
  Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
  
  , director, President ( Serbia and Montenegro)
• Fatih Akın
  Fatih Akin
  Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...
  
  , director ( Germany/ Turkey)
• Javier Bardem
  Javier Bardem
  Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. In 2007 he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as sociopathic assassin Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, and has also garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los...
  
  , actor ( Spain)
• Nandita Das
  Nandita Das
  Nandita Das is an award-winning Indian film actress and director. As an actress, she is known for her performances in Fire , Earth , Bawandar , Kannathil Muthamittal and Aamaar Bhuvan . As a director, she is known for her directorial debut Firaaq , which has won a number of national and...
  
  , actress ( India)
• Salma Hayek
  Salma Hayek
  Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...
  
  , actress ( Mexico)
• Toni Morrison
  Toni Morrison
  Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
  
  , writer ( United States)
• Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
  , director ( Early Modern France)
• Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda
  Agnès Varda is a French film director and professor at the European Graduate School. Her movies, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary — with a distinct experimental style....
  
  , director ( Early Modern France)
• John Woo
  John Woo
  John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...
  
  , director ( Hong Kong)

Festival line-up

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Opener	Lemming Lemming (film) Lemming is a psychological thriller film, directed by Dominik Moll and starring André Dussollier, Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Laurent Lucas. It was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...		Dominik Moll Dominik Moll Dominik Moll is a German born French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien and Lemming. He was born in Bühl, West Germany....	Early Modern France

Films in competition

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Bashing Bashing (film) is a 2005 film by Kobayashi Masahiro. It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or.-Cast:* Fusako Urabe - Yuko* Nene Otsuka - Yuko's step mother* Ryûzô Tanaka - Yuko's father* Takayuki Katô - Ex-boyfriend...		Kobayashi Masahiro Kobayashi Masahiro is a Japanese film director.-Biography:Masahiro Kobayashi was born on January 6, 1954 in Tokyo, Japan). He began his career as a folk singer, and then turned to scriptwriting. A great admirer of François Truffaut, he directed his first feature, Closing Time, in 1996 and in 1997 became the first...	Japan
Battle in Heaven	Batalla en el cielo	Carlos Reygadas Carlos Reygadas Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican filmmaker known for his three films Batalla en el Cielo, Japón and Silent Light . After Batalla en el Cielo, he was known for his raw depiction of sex in his films and the use of old or ugly-seeming characters...	Mexico
Broken Flowers Broken Flowers Broken Flowers is a 2005 French/American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging "Don Juan" who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter...		Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...	United States
Don't Come Knocking Don't Come Knocking Don't Come Knocking is a 2005 film, a comedy-drama road movie directed by German director Wim Wenders and written by Wenders and actor/playwright Sam Shepard. The two had previously collaborated on the film Paris, Texas...		Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...	United States
Hidden Caché (film) Caché is a 2005 Austrian-French film written and directed by Michael Haneke. It stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges and Juliette Binoche as his wife Anne.-Plot:...	Caché	Michael Haneke Michael Haneke Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...	Early Modern France
The Child	L'enfant	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne	Belgium
Election Election (2005 film) Election |society of Triads]]), is a 2005 Hong Kong crime film directed by Johnnie To. Featuring a large ensemble cast, the film stars Simon Yam and Tony Leung Ka-Fai as two gang leaders engaged in a power struggle to become the new leader of the Hong Kong Triad society.The film premiered as an...		Johnnie To Johnnie To Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas...	Hong Kong
Free Zone Free Zone (film) Free Zone is a 2005 film directed by Amos Gitai. Shot in Israel and Jordan, the Israel-Belgium-French-Spain production stars Israeli Jewish actress Hanna Laslo, Palestinian Arab actress Hiam Abbass, and Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman....		Amos Gitai Amos Gitai Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...	Israel
A History of Violence A History of Violence (film) A History of Violence is a 2005 American crime thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and written by Josh Olson. It is an adaptation of the 1997 graphic novel of the same name by John Wagner and Vince Locke...		David Cronenberg David Cronenberg David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...	United States
Kilometre Zero Kilometre Zero In many countries, Kilometre Zero or similar terms in other languages, is a particular location , from which distances are traditionally measured...	Kilomètre zéro	Hiner Saleem Hiner Saleem Huner Saleem, also transliterated as Huner Salim, , is an Iraqi–Kurdish film director. He was born in the town of Aqrah in Iraqi Kurdistan. He left Iraq at the age of 17, and soon made his way to Italy, where he completed school and attended university. Later on, he moved to France where he lives now...	Iraq
Last Days Last Days (film) Last Days is a 2005 American film directed, produced, and written by Gus Van Sant, and is a fictionalized account of the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. It was released to theaters in the United States on July 22, 2005, and was produced by HBO. The film stars Michael Pitt as the...		Gus Van Sant Gus Van Sant Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, both of which were also nominated for Best Picture, and won the...	United States
Lemming Lemming (film) Lemming is a psychological thriller film, directed by Dominik Moll and starring André Dussollier, Charlotte Rampling, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Laurent Lucas. It was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:...		Dominik Moll Dominik Moll Dominik Moll is a German born French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien and Lemming. He was born in Bühl, West Germany....	Early Modern France
Manderlay Manderlay Manderlay is the 2005 sequel to the film Dogville. It is the second part of Lars von Trier's projected USA - Land of Opportunities trilogy. Bryce Dallas Howard replaces Nicole Kidman in the role of Grace Mulligan. The film co-stars Willem Dafoe, replacing James Caan...		Lars von Trier Lars von Trier Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....	Denmark
To Paint or Make Love To Paint or Make Love To Paint or Make Love is a 2005 film directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu.The story is about a middle-aged couple, Madeleine and William who enjoy a comfortable, smooth life. They decide to buy a house in a scenic but isolated rural setting and this changes their lives forever...	Peindre ou faire l'amour	Arnaud Arnaud Larrieu Arnaud Larrieu is a French film director and writer. His film Peindre ou faire l'amour was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.- Filmography :*Les derniers jours du monde...  and Jean-Marie Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1987. His film Peindre ou faire l'amour was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival...	Early Modern France
Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide is a 2005 Italian drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. The film concerns undocumented migration to Italy via the Mediterranean.-Plot:...	Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti	Marco Tullio Giordana Marco Tullio Giordana Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...	Italy
Shanghai Dreams Shanghai Dreams Shanghai Dreams is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and starring Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, Tang Yang, Wang Xiaoyang, and Yao Anlian. The film was produced by Stellar Megamedia, Debo Films Ltd...	Qīng hóng	Wang Xiaoshuai Wang Xiaoshuai Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China....	Mainland China
Sin City Sin City (film) Sin City, also known as Frank Miller's Sin City, is a 2005 crime thriller film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez...		Frank Miller Frank Miller (comics) Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...  and Robert Rodríguez Robert Rodriguez Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet...	United States
Tale of Cinema Tale of Cinema Tale of Cinema is the sixth film by critically acclaimed South Korean director Hong Sang-soo. It was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bang Moonsu* Choi Bo-Kwang* Choi Myeong-su* Jo Han-Cheol* Kim Myoeng-su...	Geuk jang jeon	Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director. Hong's directorial debut, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well , was praised by South Korean critics for its originality and won international film prizes...	South Korea
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 American drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, and Dwight Yoakam....		Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....	United States
Three Times Three Times Three Times is a 2005 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. It features three chronologically separate stories of love between May and Chen, set in 1911, 1966 and 2005, using the same lead actors, Shu Qi and Chang Chen.The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film...	Zui hao de shi guang	Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...	Republic of China
Where the Truth Lies Where the Truth Lies Where the Truth Lies is a 2005 Canadian/British drama film, written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It stars Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, and Alison Lohman, and is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Rupert Holmes.-Plot:... '		Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...	Canada

Films out of Competition

• Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, by Avi Mograbi
  Avi Mograbi
  Avi Mograbi is an Israeli documentary filmmaker. His films are often experimental in form and are highly critical of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people....
  
  
• C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
  C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
  C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé is a 2005 French drama film directed by Michel Piccoli. It was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Roger Jendly - Le mari* Michèle Gleizer - La femme...
  
  , by Michel Piccoli
• Chromophobia, by Martha Fiennes
  Martha Fiennes
  Martha Fiennes is a British film director, writer and producer. An award-winning director, Fiennes is best-known for her films Onegin and Chromophobia .-Career:...
  
  
• Cindy: The Doll Is Mine
  Cindy: The Doll Is Mine
  Cindy, the doll is mine is a short film by French director Bertrand Bonello.It stars Italian actress Asia Argento in the double role of photographer Cindy Sherman, a brunette, and her model, a blonde who strangely resemble one another....
  
  , by Bertrand Bonello
  Bertrand Bonello
  Bertrand Bonello is a French film director. His background is in classical music, and he lives between Paris and Montreal.Le Pornographe won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
  Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
  Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul is a 2005 film/documentary directed by Fatih Akın. The film is a journey through the music scene in modern Istanbul, Turkey as well as portraying its cultural life. It was screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.It features German...
  
  , by Fatih Akın
  Fatih Akin
  Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...
  
  
• Dalkomhan insaeng
  A Bittersweet Life
  A Bittersweet Life is a 2005 South Korean film directed and written by Kim Ji-woon and starring Lee Byung-hun...
  
  , by Kim Ji-woon
  Kim Ji-Woon
  Kim Ji-woon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim Ji-woon has a history of successfully tackling a wide range of film genres, garnering a cult following among Asian films fans all over the world.-Career:...
  
  
• Darshan - L'étreinte, by Jan Kounen
  Jan Kounen
  Jan Kounen is a Dutch-born French film director and producer.In France, he is mostly known for his films Dobermann , Blueberry, l'experience secrete and 99 francs ....
  
  
• Joyeux Noël, by Christian Carion
  Christian Carion
  Christian Carion is a French film director, dialogue writer and screenwriter.-As director and writer:*2009 : L'affaire Farewell*2005 : Joyeux Noël, starring Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann and Guillaume Canet...
  
  
• Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages
  Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages
  is a 2005 French animated feature film. It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival on 13 May and, unlike its predecessor, received only festival screenings in all English-speaking territories...
  
  , by Michel Ocelot
  Michel Ocelot
  Michel Ocelot is a French writer, character designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association...
  
   and Bénédicte Galup
• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is a 2005 crime/dark comedy film, which engages many conventions of the classic film noir genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. It is based, in part, on the novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them by Brett Halliday. The cast includes Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan...
  
  , by Shane Black
  Shane Black
  Shane Black is an American actor, screenwriter and film director. He contributed to some of the biggest blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including work on Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout...
  
  
• Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé
  The Burnt Theatre
  The Burnt Theatre, or Les Artistes du Théâtre Brûlé, is a 2005 French-Cambodian docudrama directed and co-written by Rithy Panh. A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practise their art in the burned-out...
  
  , by Rithy Panh
  Rithy Panh
  Rithy Panh is an internationally and critically acclaimed Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter.The French-schooled director's films focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia...
  
  
• Match Point
  Match Point
  Match Point is a 2005 dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton....
  
  , by Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
  
• Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
  Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream
  Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream is a 2005 documentary written and directed by Stuart Samuels, based on his book on the subject....
  
  , by Stuart Samuels
• Operetta tanuki goten
  Princess Raccoon
  is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. The "raccoon" of the English title is actually a translation for the tanuki. It is a love story set in the musical genre and stars Zhang Ziyi as a tanuki princess and Joe Odagiri as the banished prince she falls in love with...
  
  , by Seijun Suzuki
  Seijun Suzuki
  , born Seitaro Suzuki on May 24, 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are renowned by film enthusiasts worldwide for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility...
  
  
• Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
  Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
  Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the sixth and final film released in the Star Wars saga and the third in terms of the series' internal chronology....
  
  , by George Lucas
  George Lucas
  George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
  
  
• The Power of Nightmares
  The Power of Nightmares
  The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration...
  
  , by Adam Curtis
  Adam Curtis
  Adam Curtis is a British BAFTA winning documentarian and a writer, television producer, director and narrator. He works for BBC Current Affairs.-Early life and education:Curtis was born in 1955...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Blood Sangre (film) Sangre is a 2005 Mexican drama film directed by Amat Escalante. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Cirilo Recio Dávila - Diego* Claudia Orozco - Karina* Martha Preciado - Martita...	Sangre	Amat Escalante Amat Escalante Amat Escalante is a Mexican director, producer and screenwriter known for his films Sangre and Los Bastardos.- Biography :...	Mexico
The Bow	Hwal	Kim Ki-duk Kim Ki-duk Kim Ki-duk is a South Korean filmmaker noted for his idiosyncratic "art-house" cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit. He is not related to the Kim Ki-duk who directed Yonggary in the 1960s...	South Korea
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures is a 2006 Brazilian film directed by Marcelo Gomes. It was Brazil's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee...	Cinema, aspirinas e urubus	Marcelo Gomes Marcelo Gomes (director) Marcelo Gomes is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1999. His film Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...	Brazil
Dark Horse Dark Horse (2005 film) Dark Horse is a 2005 Danish film directed by Dagur Kári about a young man, his best friend, and a girl. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :*Jakob Cedergren - Daniel*Nicolas Bro - Morfar...	Voksne mennesker	Dagur Kári Dagur Kári Dagur Kári is an Icelandic film director.He was born in Paris, France to Icelandic parents and returned to Iceland when he was 3 years old. Dagur graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999, with art house short movie Lost Weekend...	Denmark/ Iceland
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu The Death of Mr. Lazarescu The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a 2005 Romanian dark comedy film by director Cristi Puiu. In the film an old man is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital all night long, as doctors keep refusing to treat him and send him away....	Moartea domnului Lăzărescu	Cristi Puiu Cristi Puiu Cristi Puiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.Puiu's first interest in art was painting and in 1992, he was admitted as a student at the Painting Department of Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school and graduated in...	Kingdom of Romania
Delwende Delwende Delwende is a 2005 Burkinabé drama film directed by S. Pierre Yameogo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prize of Hope award.-Cast:* Blandine Yaméogo - Napoko* Claire Ilboudo - Pougbila...		S. Pierre Yameogo S. Pierre Yameogo S. Pierre Yameogo is a Burkinabé film director and screenwriter. He has directed six films since 1987. His film Delwende was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Prize of Hope award....	Burkina Faso
Down in the Valley		David Jacobson	United States
Le filmeur Le filmeur Le filmeur is a 2005 French drama film directed by Alain Cavalier. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Christian Boltanski - Himself* Danielle Bouilhet - Herself...		Alain Cavalier Alain Cavalier Alain Cavalier is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987...	Early Modern France
The Forsaken Land The Forsaken Land The Forsaken Land is a 2005 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Caméra d'Or.-Cast:* Kaushalaya Fernando - Soma...	Sulanga Enu Pinisa	Vimukthi Jayasundara Vimukthi Jayasundara Vimukthi Jayasundara is an award winning Sri Lankan film director.-Early life:Vimukthi Jayasundara was born in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka. He was educated at Mahinda College, Galle. Vimukthi began his cinematic career as a journalist, film critic and screenwriter. He attended the Institute for Film and...	Sri Lanka
Havana Blues Habana Blues Havana Blues is a 2005 Spanish and Cuban film by Benito Zambrano, which tells the story of two young musicians in Cuba. The film revolves around their music and contains criticism of problems in Cuba such as poverty and electricity outages...	Habana Blues	Benito Zambrano Benito Zambrano Benito Zambrano , is an awarded Spanish screenwriter and film director. His film Habana Blues was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival...	Cuba/ Spain
I Am Guilty I Am Guilty I Am Guilty is a 2005 German drama film directed by Christoph Hochhäusler. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Constantin von Jascheroff - Armin Steeb* Manfred Zapatka - Martin Steeb...	Falscher Bekenner	Christoph Hochhäusler Christoph Hochhäusler Christoph Hochhäusler is a German film director and screenwriter. His film Falscher Bekenner was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival...	Germany
Jewboy Jewboy Jewboy is a 2005 Australian film directed by Tony Krawitz. The film stars Ewen Leslie, Chris Hayward, Saskia Burmeister, and Nicholas Eadie. It won the 2005 Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Short Fiction Film, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay in a Short.The film tells of a young...		Tony Krawitz	Australia
Johanna Johanna (film) Johanna is a 2005 Hungarian musical film directed by Kornél Mundruczó. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....		Kornél Mundruczó Kornél Mundruczó Kornél Mundruczó is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. He has directed 15 short and feature films since 1998. His film Johanna was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....	Hungary
The King		James Marsh James Marsh (director) James Marsh is a film director known for directing the cult film Wisconsin Death Trip starring Marcus Monroe and Sir Ian Holm. He won 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for directing Man on Wire....	/ United States
Lower City	Cidade Baixa	Sérgio Machado Sérgio Machado Sérgio Machado is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. His film Cidade Baixa was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Onde a Terra Acaba...	Brazil
Marock Marock Marock is the 2005 Moroccan film by the female director Laïla Marrakchi. The movie was very controversial as it deals with a Muslim/Jewish love between two high school mates, Rita and Youri...		Laïla Marrakchi Laila Marrakchi Laila Marrakchi is a Moroccan film maker most famous for the controversial film Marock. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....	Morocco/ Early Modern France
Northeast Northeast (film) Northeast is a 2005 Argentine drama film-thriller film directed by Juan Diego Solanas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carole Bouquet – Hélène* Aymará Rovera – Juana...	Nordeste	Juan Diego Solanas	Argentina
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? is a 2005 Japanese drama film directed by Shinji Aoyama. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tadanobu Asano - Mizui* Aoi Miyazaki - Hana...	Eri Eri rema sabakutani	Shinji Aoyama Shinji Aoyama is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.-Biography:...	Japan
One Night	Yek Shab	Niki Karimi Niki Karimi Niki Karimi , born 10 November 1971 in Tehran, is a multi-award–winning Iranian actress and movie director.- Biography :Niki Karimi was born and raised in Tehran. She participated in theatrical work while she was in elementary school. Her hobby of reading and watching movies from an early age...	Iran
Sleeper Sleeper (2005 film) Sleeper is a 2005 Austrian-German drama film directed by Benjamin Heisenberg. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Bastian Trost - Johannes Mehrveldt* Mehdi Nebbou - Farid Atabay...	Schläfer	Benjamin Heisenberg	Austria/ Germany
Time to Leave	Le temps qui reste	François Ozon François Ozon François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....	Early Modern France
Yellow Fella		Ivan Sen Ivan Sen Ivan Sen is an Australian filmmaker. Throughout the late 1990s Sen worked on numerous short films, before making his feature film debut with Beneath Clouds in 2002. He studied filmmaking at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where he produced his first short films, working with the...	Australia
Zim and Co. Zim and Co. Zim and Co. is a 2005 French comedy film directed by Pierre Jolivet. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Adrien Jolivet - Victor Zimbietrovski, dit Zim* Mhamed Arezki - Cheb* Yannick Nasso - Arthur...		Pierre Jolivet Pierre Jolivet Pierre Jolivet is a French director, actor and script-writer. His film Zim and Co. was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival....	Early Modern France

Awards

• Palme d'Or
  Palme d'Or
  The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
  
  : L'Enfant, by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
• Grand Prix
  Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
  
  : Broken Flowers
  Broken Flowers
  Broken Flowers is a 2005 French/American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging "Don Juan" who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter...
  
  , by Jim Jarmusch
  Jim Jarmusch
  James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Best Actress Award: Hanna Laslo
  Hanna Laslo
  Hanna Laslo is an Israeli actress and comedian.Laszlo rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of comedy routines in which she portrayed such characters as 'Safta Zapta' and 'Clara the cleaning woman.' In 2005 she won th Best Actress Award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her role in...
  
   in Free Zone
• Best Actor Award: Tommy Lee Jones
  Tommy Lee Jones
  Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....
  
   in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 American drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, and Dwight Yoakam....
  
  
• Best Director Award
  Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....
  
  : Caché
  Caché (film)
  Caché is a 2005 Austrian-French film written and directed by Michael Haneke. It stars Daniel Auteuil as Georges and Juliette Binoche as his wife Anne.-Plot:...
  
  by Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
  
  
• Best Screenplay Award
  Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival...
  
  : Guillermo Arriaga
  Guillermo Arriaga
  Guillermo Arriaga Jordán is a Mexican author, screenwriter, director and producer. Self-defined as “a hunter who works as a writer,” he authored Amores Perros, received a BAFTA Best Screenplay nomination for 21 Grams, and received the 2005 Cannes Best Screenplay Award for The Three Burials of...
  
   for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is a 2005 American drama film directed by Tommy Lee Jones and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, and Dwight Yoakam....
  
  
• Prix du Jury
  Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the film festival, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix....
  
  : Shanghai Dreams
  Shanghai Dreams
  Shanghai Dreams is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and starring Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, Tang Yang, Wang Xiaoyang, and Yao Anlian. The film was produced by Stellar Megamedia, Debo Films Ltd...
  
  , by Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China....
  
  
• Prix un certain regard: The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu
  The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
  The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a 2005 Romanian dark comedy film by director Cristi Puiu. In the film an old man is carried by an ambulance from hospital to hospital all night long, as doctors keep refusing to treat him and send him away....
  
  by Cristi Puiu
  Cristi Puiu
  Cristi Puiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.Puiu's first interest in art was painting and in 1992, he was admitted as a student at the Painting Department of Ecole Superieure d'Arts Visuels in Geneva. After the first year he switched to film studies at the same school and graduated in...
  
  
• Prix François Chalais: Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide
  Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide
  Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide is a 2005 Italian drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana. The film concerns undocumented migration to Italy via the Mediterranean.-Plot:...
  
  , by Marco Tullio Giordana
  Marco Tullio Giordana
  Marco Tullio Giordana is an Italian director and scriptwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Director:*Maledetti, vi amerò...
  
  
• Palme d'Or du court métrage - Podorozhni (Wayfarers) directed by Igor Strembitskyy

External links

• 2005 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:2005 at Internet Movie Database
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