The 2006 Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

ran from May 17, 2006 to May 28, 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the 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...

. The President of the Official Jury was Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...

, the first Chinese director to preside over the jury.

English director Ken Loach

Ken Loach

Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...

 won 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...

, with his movie The Wind That Shakes the Barley

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...

. Other winners were Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...

 (Best Screenplay, Volver

Volver

Volver is a 2006 Spanish dramatic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave...

) and Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...

 (Best Director, Babel

Babel (2006 film)

Babel is a 2006 international drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga, starring an ensemble cast. The multi-narrative drama completes Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, following Amores perros and 21 Grams....

). This also marked the first time in three years that no American film, actor, actress, or filmmaker won any awards in Cannes.

The festival opened with the premiere screening of The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code (film)

The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard. The screenplay was written by Akiva Goldsman and based on Dan Brown's worldwide bestselling 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code...

, based on the controversial novel by Dan Brown

Dan Brown

Dan Brown is an American author of thriller fiction, best known for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. Brown's novels, which are treasure hunts set in a 24-hour time period, feature the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories...

. Journalists gave the film a cool reception at its first press screening, with loud laughter breaking out at one of the pivotal scenes.

Jury

• Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...
  
  , President (Hong Kong)
• Monica Bellucci
  Monica Bellucci
  Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress and fashion model.-Early life:Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy as the only child of Luigi Bellucci, who was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Pakistan...
  
   (Italy)
• Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter
  Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane...
  
   (United Kingdom)
• Samuel L. Jackson
  Samuel L. Jackson
  Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American film and television actor and film producer. After becoming involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then films. He had several small roles such as in the film Goodfellas before meeting his mentor,...
  
   (United States)
• Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...
  
   (France)
• Lucrecia Martel
  Lucrecia Martel
  Lucrecia Martel is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Lucrecia Martel is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c...
  
   (Argentina)
• Tim Roth
  Tim Roth
  Simon Timothy "Tim" Roth is an English film actor and director best known for his roles in the American films,Legend of 1900, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Skellig, Planet of the Apes, The Incredible Hulk and Rob Roy, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for...
  
   (United Kingdom)
• Elia Suleiman
  Elia Suleiman
  Elia Suleiman , is a Palestinian film director and actor. He is best known for the 2002 film Divine Intervention , a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   (Palestine)
• Zhang Ziyi
  Zhang Ziyi
  Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese film actress. Zhang is coined by the media as one of the Four Young Dan actresses in the Film Industry in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun...
  
   (China)

Films in competition

• Babel by Alejandro González Iñárritu
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
  Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...
  
  
• Crónica de una fuga by Israel Adrián Caetano
  Israel Adrián Caetano
  Israel Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...
  
  
• El Laberinto del Fauno
  Pan's Labyrinth
  Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish Spanish-language dark fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto Films...
  
  by Guillermo del Toro
  Guillermo del Toro
  Guillermo del Toro is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones...
  
  
• Fast Food Nation
  Fast Food Nation (film)
  Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American/British drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The screenplay was written by Linklater and Eric Schlosser, loosely based on the latter's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book of the same name...
  
  by Richard Linklater
  Richard Linklater
  -Early life:Linklater was born in Houston, Texas. He studied at Sam Houston State University and left midway through his stint in college to work on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. While working on the rig he read a lot of literature, but on land he developed a love of film through...
  
  
• Flandres
  Flanders (film)
  Flanders is a 2006 French film written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of Demester, a man whose girlfriend cheats on him out of frustration with his lack of emotion...
  
  by Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
  
  
• İklimler by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
  
  
• Il caimano
  Il caimano (film)
  The Caiman is a 2006 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti and starring Silvio Orlando and Margherita Buy. Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi's vicissitudes, it was released just before the beginning of the 2006 elections, in which Berlusconi lost. It was one of the most successful films...
  
  by Nanni Moretti
  Nanni Moretti
  Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...
  
  
• Indigènes by Rachid Bouchareb
  Rachid Bouchareb
  Rachid Bouchareb is a French film director of Algerian descent.From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, Société française de production . Subsequetly, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2...
  
  
• Juventude Em Marcha
  Colossal Youth (film)
  Colossal Youth is a 2006 film directed by Portuguese director Pedro Costa. The film was shot on DV in long, static takes and mixes documentary and fiction storytelling...
  
  by Pedro Costa
  Pedro Costa
  Pedro Costa is a Portuguese film director.He is acclaimed for using his ascetic style to depict the marginalised people in desperate living situations...
  
  
• L'amico di famiglia
  The Family Friend
  The Family Friend is a 2006 Italian film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother...
  
  by Paolo Sorrentino
  Paolo Sorrentino
  Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino's first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L'amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001...
  
  
• La Raison du plus faible by Lucas Belvaux
  Lucas Belvaux
  Lucas Belvaux is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the Trilogie, consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The three films are Cavale, a thriller; Un couple épatant, a comedy; and Après la vie,...
  
  
• Laitakaupungin valot by Aki Kaurismäki
  Aki Kaurismäki
  -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
  
  
• Marie Antoinette
  Marie Antoinette (2006 film)
  Marie Antoinette is a 2006 biographical film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It is very loosely based on the life of the Queen consort in the years leading up to the French Revolution. It won an Academy Award for Best Costume Design...
  
  by Sofia Coppola
  Sofia Coppola
  Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and producer.In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing...
  
  
• Quand j'étais chanteur by Xavier Giannoli
  Xavier Giannoli
  Xavier Giannoli is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1993.-Filmography:* Le condamné * Terre sainte * J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites...
  
  
• Red Road
  Red Road (film)
  Red Road is a 2006 British film directed by Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow, Scotland which were the tallest residential buildings in...
  
  by Andrea Arnold
  Andrea Arnold
  Andrea Arnold OBE is a filmmaker and former actress from England, who made her feature film directorial debut in 2006 with Red Road.-Early TV work:...
  
  
• Selon Charlie by Nicole Garcia
  Nicole Garcia
  Nicole Garcia is a French actress, film director and writer. Her film Selon Charlie was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Actress:*1968: Des garçons et des filles directed by Étienne Périer...
  
  
• Southland Tales
  Southland Tales
  Southland Tales is a 2006 American-Franco-German science fiction dark comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Kelly. The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles...
  
  by Richard Kelly
  Richard Kelly (director)
  James Richard Kelly is an American film director and writer, best known for writing and directing the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001.-Early life:...
  
  
• Volver
  Volver
  Volver is a 2006 Spanish dramatic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave...
  
  by Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
  
  
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
  
  by Ken Loach
  Ken Loach
  Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
  
  
• Yíhé Yuán
  Summer Palace (film)
  Summer Palace , is a 2006 Chinese film and the fourth feature film by director Lou Ye. The film was a Chinese-French collaboration produced by Dream Factory, Laurel Films, Fantasy Pictures and Sylvain Bursztejn's Rosem Films...
  
  by Lou Ye
  Lou Ye
  Lou Ye , born 1965, is a Chinese writer-director who is commonly grouped with the "Sixth Generation" directors of Chinese cinema.-Films:Born in Shanghai, Lou was educated at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he made his first film Weekend Lover, but it was not released until two years later in 1995...
  
  

Films out of competition

• An Inconvenient Truth
  An Inconvenient Truth
  An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate, he has given more than a thousand times.Premiering at the...
  
  , by Davis Guggenheim
  Davis Guggenheim
  Philip Davis Guggenheim is an Academy Award-winning American film director and producer. His credits as a producer and director include Training Day, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, Deadwood, and Party of Five and the documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for 'Superman...
  
  
• Avida, by Benoît Delépine
  Benoît Delépine
  Benoît Delépine is a French comedian and film director. He is known for his satirical activities on TV channel Canal+....
  
  
• Bamako
  Bamako (film)
  Bamako is a 2006 film directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, first released at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival on May 21 and in Manhattan by New Yorker Films on February 14, 2007....
  
  , by Abderrahmane Sissako
  Abderrahmane Sissako
  Abderrahmane Sissako is an award-winning film director and producer who has often worked in Mali and France. Sissako is, along with Ousmane Sembène, Souleymane Cissé, Idrissa Ouedraogo and Djibril Diop Mambety, one of the few filmmakers from Sub-Saharan Africa to reach a measure of international...
  
  
• Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters, by Bill Couturié
  Bill Couturié
  Bill Couturié is a film director, best known for the Academy Award-winning documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt which he produced and his multi-Emmy Award Winning film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, which he wrote, produced, and directed...
  
  
• Chambre 666
  Room 666
  Room 666 is a 1982 documentary film directed by German film director Wim Wenders.During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders set up a static camera in room 666 of the Hotel Martinez and provided selected film directors a list of questions to answer concerning the future of cinema. Each director...
  
  , by 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...
  
  
• Chlopiec na galopujacym koniu
  The Boy on the Galloping Horse
  The Boy on the Galloping Horse is a 2006 Polish drama film directed by Adam Guziński. It was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Piotr Bajor - Jerzy* Aleksandra Justa - Maria* Krzysztof Lis - Janek...
  
  , by Adam Guziński
  Adam Guziński
  Adam Guziński is a Polish film director and screenwriter. His film Chłopiec na galopującym koniu was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Jakub * Antychryst...
  
  
• Clerks II
  Clerks II
  Clerks II is a 2006 American comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, sequel to his 1994 film Clerks, and his sixth and latest feature film to be set in the View Askewniverse...
  
  , by Kevin Smith
  Kevin Smith
  Kevin Patrick Smith is an American screenwriter, actor, film producer, and director, as well as a popular comic book writer, author, comedian/raconteur, and internet radio personality best recognized by viewers as Silent Bob...
  
  
• The Da Vinci Code
  The Da Vinci Code (film)
  The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard. The screenplay was written by Akiva Goldsman and based on Dan Brown's worldwide bestselling 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code...
  
  , by Ron Howard
  Ron Howard
  Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
  
   (Opening film)
• El-banate dol, by Tahani Rached
• Election 2
  Election 2
  Election 2 |Black Society]]: Value Peace Most), also known as Triad Election in the United States, is a 2006 Hong Kong crime film directed by Johnnie To with a large ensemble cast that includes Louis Koo, Simon Yam and Nick Cheung...
  
  (aka Triad Election), by 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...
  
  
• Silk
  Silk (2006 film)
  Silk is a 2006 Taiwanese horror film directed by Su Chao-Bin. It was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  , by Su Chao-pin
• Ici Najac, à vous la terre, by Jean-Henri Meunier
• Les signes, by Eugène Green
• Nouvelle chance
  Nouvelle chance
  Nouvelle chance is a 2006 French drama film directed by Anne Fontaine. It was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Danielle Darrieux - Odette Saint-Gilles* Arielle Dombasle - Bettina Fleischer...
  
  , by Anne Fontaine
  Anne Fontaine (filmmaker)
  Anne Fontaine is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France.Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral...
  
  
• Over the Hedge
  Over the Hedge (film)
  Over the Hedge is a 2006 computer animated family action comedy film based on the characters from United Media comic strip of the same name. Directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, and produced by Bonnie Arnold, it was released in the United States on May 19, 2006.The film was produced by...
  
  , by Tim Johnson
  Tim Johnson (film director)
  Tim Johnson is an American animation director specializing in CGI animation. Johnson has directed in many films such as Antz, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and Over the Hedge.-Career:...
  
  , Karey Kirkpatrick
  Karey Kirkpatrick
  Karey Kirkpatrick is an American screenwriter and director. His films include James and the Giant Peach, Space Jam, The Iron Giant, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Charlotte's Web and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adaptation. He has also directed the films, Imagine That starring Eddie Murphy as...
  
  
• Requiem for Billy the Kid, by Anne Feinsilber
• Shortbus
  Shortbus
  Shortbus is a 2006 comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connect in New York City. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn artistic/sexual salon loosely inspired by...
  
  , by John Cameron Mitchell
  John Cameron Mitchell
  John Cameron Mitchell is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus and Rabbit Hole.- Early life:...
  
  
• SIDA
  8 (2008 film)
  8 is a series of eight short films centered on the eight Millennium Development Goals.-Topics:Eight directors had "carte blanche" to treat one of the eight topics:*Segment by Abderrahmane Sissako: Tiya's dream...
  
  , by Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé
  Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
  
  
• Sketches of Frank Gehry
  Sketches of Frank Gehry
  Sketches of Frank Gehry is a 2005 American documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by Ultan Guilfoyle, about the life and work of the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The film was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Pollack and Gehry had been...
  
  , by Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...
  
  
• Stanley's Girlfriend, by Monte Hellman
  Monte Hellman
  Monte Hellman is an American film director, producer, and film editor.Hellman is among a group of directing talent mentored by Roger Corman, who produced several of the director's early films...
  
  
• The House Is Burning
  The House is Burning
  The House Is Burning is a 2006 German drama film directed by Holger Ernst. It was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* John Diehl - Mr. Garson* Melissa Leo - Mrs...
  
  , by Holger Ernst
  Holger Ernst
  Holger Ernst / HOLGERSON is a German script writer and film maker based in Berlin. He also lives in New York and Los Angeles.- Career :He graduated from the Department of Film at the Academy of Arts in Kassel, specializing in writing and directing...
  
  
• The Water Diary, by Jane Campion
  Jane Campion
  Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...
  
  
• Transylvania
  Transylvania (film)
  Transylvania is a 2006 French drama film starring Asia Argento. In 2006, Director Tony Gatlif and composer Delphine Mantoulet won the "Georges Delerue Prize" at the Flanders International Film Festival for the score, and Gatlif was nominated for the "Grand Prix" award...
  
  , by Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...
  
   (Closing film)
• Un lever de rideau, by 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....
  
  
• United 93
  United 93 (film)
  United 93 is a 2006 fact-based historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Paul Greengrass that chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked during the September 11 attacks...
  
  , by Paul Greengrass
  Paul Greengrass
  Paul Greengrass is an English film director, screenwriter and former journalist. He specialises in dramatisations of real-life events and is known for his signature use of hand-held cameras.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Volevo solo vivere, by Mimmo Calopresti
  Mimmo Calopresti
  Mimmo Calopresti is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has directed 16 films since 1987. His film The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  
• X-Men: The Last Stand
  X-Men: The Last Stand
  X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 superhero film and the third in the X-Men series. It was directed by Brett Ratner and stars an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Kelsey Grammer, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Vinnie Jones,...
  
  , by Brett Ratner
  Brett Ratner
  Brett Ratner is an American film director, film producer and music video director. He is best known for directing the Rush Hour film series, The Family Man, Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist. He was also a producer on the Fox drama series, Prison Break.- Early life :Ratner was...
  
  
• Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle, by Philippe Parreno
  Philippe Parreno
  Philippe Parreno is an Algerian artist and filmmaker, born in Oran, and currently living in Paris, France. Parreno's work primarily revolves around the interrogation of the nature of an image, as well as the modes of its exhibition.-Life and work:...
  
   and Douglas Gordon
  Douglas Gordon
  Douglas Gordon is a Scottish artist; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• 977
  977 (film)
  977 is a 2006 Russian drama film directed by Nikolay Khomeriki. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Fyodor Lavrov - Ivan* Klavdiya Korshunova - Rita* Yekaterina Golubeva - Tamara...
  
  by Nikolay Khomeriki
  Nikolay Khomeriki
  Nikolay Khomeriki is a Russian film director and screenwriter. He has directed six films since 2004. His film 977 was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• A Scanner Darkly
  A Scanner Darkly (film)
  A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 science fiction thriller directed by Richard Linklater based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-technology police surveillance in the midst of a drug...
  
  by Richard Linklater
  Richard Linklater
  -Early life:Linklater was born in Houston, Texas. He studied at Sam Houston State University and left midway through his stint in college to work on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. While working on the rig he read a lot of literature, but on land he developed a love of film through...
  
  
• Bihisht faqat baroi murdagon
  To Get to Heaven, First You Have to Die
  To Get to Heaven, First You Have to Die is a 2006 film directed by Jamshed Usmonov.-Plot:Kamal, a young man, is trapped into a loveless marriage in a rural village. He moves to a big city to seek his fortune and falls in love with Vera, a beautiful woman who, alas, is married...
  
  by Djamshed Usmonov
  Jamshed Usmonov
  Jamshed Usmonov is a Tajik film director, producer, scriptwriter and one of most notable figures of contemporary Persian cinema.He studied at the Dushanbe Fine Arts School in Dushanbe and Director's School in Moscow...
  
  
• Bled Number One
  Bled Number One
  Bled Number One is a 2006 French drama film directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Meryem Serbah - Louisa* Abel Jafri - Bouzid* Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche - Kamel...
  
  by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
• Cum mi-am petrecut sfârşitul lumii
  The Way I Spent the End of the World
  The Way I Spent the End of the World is the feature-length film debut of Romanian director Cătălin Mitulescu. It was released on September 15, 2006.-Synopsis:...
  
  by Cătălin Mitulescu
  Catalin Mitulescu
  Cătălin Mitulescu is a Romanian film director. He graduated from the UNATC in Bucharest in 2001.He is best known for the short film Trafic , which won him the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and for the debut feature The Way I Spent the End of the World , which was screened...
  
  
• El violin
  The Violin
  The Violin is a 2005 Mexican drama film directed by Francisco Vargas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ángel Tavira – Don Plutarco* Gerardo Taracena – Genaro* Dagoberto Gama – Capitán...
  
  by Francisco Vargas
• Gwaï wik
  Re-cycle
  Re-cycle is a 2006 horror film directed by the Pang Brothers and starring Angelica Lee. The film was the closing film in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It was also a reunion for Pangs and the actress Lee, who starred in the Pang's 2002 hit, The Eye...
  
  by Oxide Pang & Danny Pang
• Hamaca paraguaya
  Paraguayan Hammock
  Paraguayan Hammock is a 2006 Argentine drama film directed by Paz Encina. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Paz Encina
• Il regista di matrimoni
  The Wedding Director
  The Wedding Director is a 2006 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sergio Castellitto - Franco Elica* Donatella Finocchiaro - Bona di Gravina...
  
  by Marco Bellocchio
• La Californie by Jacques Fieschi
  Jacques Fieschi
  Jacques Fieschi is a French screenwriter. He has written for 22 films since 1985. He wrote and directed the film French California, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• La Tourneuse de pages
  The Page Turner
  The Page Turner is a 2006 French film directed by Denis Dercourt. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Catherine Frot – Ariane Fouchécourt* Déborah François – Mélanie Prouvost...
  
  by Denis Dercourt
  Denis Dercourt
  Denis Dercourt is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed six films since 1997. His film La Tourneuse de pages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  
• Luxury Car
  Luxury Car (film)
  Luxury Car is a 2006 film directed by Wang Chao. The film was produced by China's Bai Bu Ting Media and France's Rosem Films, and in association with Arte France Cinéma....
  
  by Wang Chao
  Wang Chao (director)
  Wang Chao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter, sometimes considered part of the loosely defined "sixth generation." Wang began his career serving as an assistant director to the fifth generation auteur, Chen Kaige, working with the elder director on epics like Farewell My Concubine and...
  
  
• Meurtrières by Patrick Grandperret
  Patrick Grandperret
  Patrick Grandperret is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. His film Meurtrières was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Court circuit...
  
  
• Paris, je t'aime
  Paris, je t'aime
  Paris, Je t'aime is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities. The two-hour film consists of eighteen short films set in different arrondissements...
  
  by Gurinder Chadha
  Gurinder Chadha
  Gurinder Chadha , OBE, is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the United Kingdom. She is best known for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach , Bend It Like Beckham , Bride and Prejudice and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging...
  
  , Bruno Podalydès, 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...
  
  , Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Walter Salles
  Walter Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...
  
  , Daniela Thomas
  Daniela Thomas
  Daniela Thomas is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and editor.-Biography:Thomas, whose birthname is Daniela Gontijo Alves Pinto, is the daughter of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo Alves Pinto and the sister of Golden Globe Award-nominated film score composer Antonio Pinto.In 1994 she...
  
  , Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle
  Christopher Doyle is a cinematographer. He has won the AFI Award for cinematography, the Cannes Technical Grand Prize, Golden Osella, the Golden Horse awards , and Hong Kong Film Award . Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers.-Biography:Doyle was born in Sydney,...
  
  , Isabel Coixet
  Isabel Coixet
  Isabel Coixet is a Spanish film director.She received an M.A. in history from the University of Barcelona...
  
  , Suwa Nobuhiro, Sylvain Chomet
  Sylvain Chomet
  Sylvain Chomet is a French comic writer, animator and film director.- Early career :Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, near Paris, he studied art at high-school until he graduated in 1982. Chomet moved to London in 1988 to work as an animator at the Richard Purdum studio...
  
  , Alfonso Cuarón
  Alfonso Cuarón
  Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Y tu mamá también, and A Little Princess.- Early life :...
  
  , Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...
  
  , Oliver Schmitz
  Oliver Schmitz
  Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...
  
  , Richard LaGravenese
  Richard LaGravenese
  Richard LaGravenese is an American screenwriter and occasional film director. He is best known as the writer of The Fisher King.-Personal life:...
  
  , Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali
  Vincenzo Natali is an American-Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for writing and directing science fiction films such as Cube, Nothing and Splice.-Early life:...
  
  , Wes Craven
  Wes Craven
  Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven is an American actor, film director, writer, producer, perhaps best known as the director of many horror films, particularly slasher films, including the famed A Nightmare on Elm Street and Wes Craven's New Nightmare, featuring the iconic Freddy Krueger character, the...
  
  , Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer
  Tom Tykwer is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run , Heaven , Perfume: The Story of a Murderer , and The International ....
  
  , Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Depardieu
  Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...
  
  , Frédéric Auburtin, Alexander Payne
  Alexander Payne
  Alexander Payne, born Alexander Constantine Papadopoulos is an American film director and screenwriter. His films are noted for their dark humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society.- Early life :...
  
  
• Salvador
  Salvador (Puig Antich)
  Salvador is a 2006 Spanish film directed by Manuel Huerga. It is based on the Francesc Escribano book , which describes the execution of Salvador Puig Antich, the last person executed by garrote under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at...
  
  by Manuel Huerga
• Serambi by Garin Nugroho
  Garin Nugroho
  Garin Nugroho Riyanto , better known as Garin Nugroho, is an award-winning Indonesian film director.-Biography:Nugroho was born in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta on 6 June 1961. He was the fourth child of postal workers Soetjipto Amin and Mariah, who eventually had seven children...
  
  , Tonny Trimarsanto, Viva Westi, Lianto Luseno
• Suburban Mayhem
  Suburban Mayhem
  Suburban Mayhem is a 2006 Australian film directed by Paul Goldman, written by Alice Bell, produced by Leah Churchill-Brown and Executive Producer Jan Chapman. It features an ensemble cast including Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Anthony Hayes, Robert Morgan and Genevieve Lemon...
  
  by Paul Goldman
• Taxidermia
  Taxidermia
  Taxidermia is a 2006 Hungarian film directed by György Pálfi. The film focuses on three generations of men from Hungary, beginning with a military orderly during the Second World War, moving on to an aspiring speed-eater during the Cold War, and concluding with a taxidermist during modern times...
  
  by György Pálfi
  György Pálfi
  György Pálfi is a Hungarian filmmaker. His film Taxidermia was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Hukkle * Taxidermia...
  
  
• Ten Canoes
  Ten Canoes
  Ten Canoes is a 2006 film. It was directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr and starred Crusoe Kurddal. The title of the film arose from discussions between de Heer and David Gulpilil about a photograph of ten canoeists poling across the Arafura Swamp, taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson in...
  
  by Rolf de Heer
  Rolf de Heer
  Rolf de Heer is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and...
  
  
• Yongseobadji mothan ja
  The Unforgiven (2005 film)
  The Unforgiven is a 2005 South Korean drama film directed by Jong-bin Yun. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Jong-bin Yun
• 2:37
  2:37
  2:37 is a 2006 Australian drama film, written, produced, and directed by filmmaker Murali K. Thalluri and starring an ensemble cast including Teresa Palmer, Joel Mackenzie, Frank Sweet, Charles Baird, Sam Harris, Marni Spillane and Clementine Mellor. 2:37 was filmed in Adelaide, Australia on...
  
  by Murali K. Thalluri
  Murali K. Thalluri
  Murali Krishna Thalluri is an Australian film director, writer, and producer. Born in Canberra to Indian-born parents, he moved to Adelaide where he attended Rostrevor College before completing his education at University Senior College. Thalluri's first feature film 2:37 was completed when he was...
  
  
• Uro
  Uro (film)
  Uro is a 2006 Norwegian crime film starring Nicolai Cleve Broch and Ane Dahl Torp. It was directed by Stefan Faldbakken. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Stefan Faldbakken
  Stefan Faldbakken
  Stefan Faldbakken is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. His film Uro was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Kosmonaut * Anolit * Uro...
  
  
• You Am I
  You Am I (film)
  You Am I is a 2006 Lithuanian romance film directed by Kristijonas Vildžiūnas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Saulius Bagaliunas - Blacksmith* Andrius Bialobzeskis - Baronas* Daiva Jovaisiene...
  
  by Kristijonas Vildziunas
• Z odzysku
  Retrieval (film)
  Retrieval is a 2006 Polish film directed by Sławomir Fabicki. It was Poland's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee...
  
  by Sławomir Fabicki
  Sławomir Fabicki
  Sławomir Fabicki is a Polish film director and screenwriter. His film Z odzysku was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Wewnętrzny 55 * Bratobójstwo...
  
  

Winners

• 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...
  
   (Won by Ken Loach
  Ken Loach
  Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
  
   for The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film)
  The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War...
  
  )
• 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...
  
   (Won by Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
  
   for Flandres)
• Prix de la mise en scène
  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....
  
   (Won by Alejandro González Iñárritu
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
  Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...
  
   director of Babel)
• Prix du Jury (Won by Andrea Arnold
  Andrea Arnold
  Andrea Arnold OBE is a filmmaker and former actress from England, who made her feature film directorial debut in 2006 with Red Road.-Early TV work:...
  
   for Red Road
  Red Road (film)
  Red Road is a 2006 British film directed by Andrea Arnold. It tells the story of a CCTV security operator who observes through her monitors a man from her past. It is named after, and partly set at, the Red Road flats in Barmulloch, Glasgow, Scotland which were the tallest residential buildings in...
  
  )
• Prix du scénario
  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...
  
   (Won by Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
  
   for Volver
  Volver
  Volver is a 2006 Spanish dramatic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave...
  
  )
• Prix d'interprétation féminine du Festival de Cannes (Won by the cast of Volver
  Volver
  Volver is a 2006 Spanish dramatic comedy film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Headed by actress Penélope Cruz, the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, and Chus Lampreave...
  
  including Penélope Cruz
  Penélope Cruz
  Penélope Cruz Sánchez is a Spanish actress. Signed by an agent at age 15, she made her acting debut at 16 on television and her feature film debut the following year in Jamón, jamón , to critical acclaim...
  
  )
• Prix d'interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes (Won by the cast of Indigènes
  Indigènes
  Days of Glory is a 2006 French film directed by French-Algerian Rachid Bouchareb. The cast includes Sami Bouajila, Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Mélanie Laurent and Bernard Blancan....
  
  )
• Prix un certain regard (Won by Wang Chao
  Wang Chao (director)
  Wang Chao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter, sometimes considered part of the loosely defined "sixth generation." Wang began his career serving as an assistant director to the fifth generation auteur, Chen Kaige, working with the elder director on epics like Farewell My Concubine and...
  
   for Luxury Car
  Luxury Car (film)
  Luxury Car is a 2006 film directed by Wang Chao. The film was produced by China's Bai Bu Ting Media and France's Rosem Films, and in association with Arte France Cinéma....
  
  )

External links

• 2006 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:2006 at Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
  
  
• IFC's red carpet webcam feed (Windows Media Player)