2011 Cannes Film Festival
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The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival
was held from May 11 to May 22, 2011. American actor Robert De Niro
served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry
headed the jury for the short film competition. South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho
was the head of the jury for the Caméra d'Or
prize, which is awarded to the best first-time filmmaker.
Midnight in Paris
, written and directed by Woody Allen
, opened the ceremony. Mélanie Laurent
hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci
was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the festival. Gus Van Sant
's Restless
opened the Un Certain Regard
section. Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi
and Mohammad Rasoulof were honoured at the festival. Goodbye by Rasoulof and Panahi's This Is Not a Film was screened at the festival, and Panahi was awarded the Carrosse d'Or. Four female directors featured in the main competition: Australian Julia Leigh
, Japan's Naomi Kawase, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay and France's own Maïwenn Le Besco
.
Danish film director Lars von Trier
caused controversy with comments he made at the press conference of his film Melancholia. When he was asked about the relation between the influences of German Romanticism
in the film and his own German heritage, the director made jokes about Jews and Nazis. He said he understood Adolf Hitler
and admired the work of architect Albert Speer
, and jokingly announced that he was a Nazi. The Cannes Film Festival first issued an official apology for the remarks the same day and clarified that Trier is not a Nazi or an antisemite, then declared the director "persona non grata
" the following day. The film remained in competition.
was won by the American film The Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick
. Two of the film's producers, Bill Pohlad and Sarah Green, accepted the prize on behalf of the reclusive Malick. The Tree of Life is the first American film to win the Palme d'Or since Fahrenheit 9/11
in 2004. Head of the jury, Robert De Niro, said it was difficult to choose a winner, but The Tree of Life "ultimately fit the bill". De Niro explained, "It had the size, the importance, the intention, whatever you want to call it, that seemed to fit the prize."
section, which focuses on short films made by students at film schools:
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Independent sections
Independent awards
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...
was held from May 11 to May 22, 2011. American actor Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...
headed the jury for the short film competition. South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.-Biography:He was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club...
was the head of the jury for the Caméra d'Or
Caméra d'Or
The Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....
prize, which is awarded to the best first-time filmmaker.
Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on a small group of Americans visiting the French capital for business and pleasure...
, written and directed 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...
, opened the ceremony. Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent
Mélanie Laurent is a French actress, director, singer and writer. She is best known to international audiences for her role as Shosanna Dreyfus in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which she won Best Actress from the Online Film Critics Society and the Austin Film Critics...
hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers...
was presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or Award at the opening ceremony of the festival. 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...
's Restless
Restless (2011 film)
Restless is a 2011 British-American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Jason Lew. It stars Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska. Shot in Portland, Oregon, United States, and produced by Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer for Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, it...
opened the Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
section. Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi is an Iranian filmmaker and is one of the most influential filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave movement. He has gained recognition from film theorists and critics worldwide and received numerous awards including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the Silver Bear at the...
and Mohammad Rasoulof were honoured at the festival. Goodbye by Rasoulof and Panahi's This Is Not a Film was screened at the festival, and Panahi was awarded the Carrosse d'Or. Four female directors featured in the main competition: Australian Julia Leigh
Julia Leigh
Julia Leigh is an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia, Leigh is the eldest of three daughters of a doctor and maths teacher. She initially studied law but shifted to writing. For a time she worked at the Australian Society of Authors...
, Japan's Naomi Kawase, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay and France's own Maïwenn Le Besco
Maïwenn Le Besco
Maïwenn |Île-de-France]]) is a French actress and film director.-Biography and career:She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja, who ushered her into the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Le Besco in her one-woman shows "Le Pois Chiche" and "I'm an...
.
Danish film director 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....
caused controversy with comments he made at the press conference of his film Melancholia. When he was asked about the relation between the influences of German Romanticism
German Romanticism
For the general context, see Romanticism.In the philosophy, art, and culture of German-speaking countries, German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. German Romanticism developed relatively late compared to its English counterpart, coinciding in its...
in the film and his own German heritage, the director made jokes about Jews and Nazis. He said he understood Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
and admired the work of architect Albert Speer
Albert Speer
Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...
, and jokingly announced that he was a Nazi. The Cannes Film Festival first issued an official apology for the remarks the same day and clarified that Trier is not a Nazi or an antisemite, then declared the director "persona non grata
Persona non grata
Persona non grata , literally meaning "an unwelcome person", is a legal term used in diplomacy that indicates a proscription against a person entering the country...
" the following day. The film remained in competition.
Palme d'Or
Winner
The Palme d'OrPalme 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...
was won by the American film The Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....
. Two of the film's producers, Bill Pohlad and Sarah Green, accepted the prize on behalf of the reclusive Malick. The Tree of Life is the first American film to win the Palme d'Or since Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media...
in 2004. Head of the jury, Robert De Niro, said it was difficult to choose a winner, but The Tree of Life "ultimately fit the bill". De Niro explained, "It had the size, the importance, the intention, whatever you want to call it, that seemed to fit the prize."
Official Selection
The following films were screened as part of the official selection:| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
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| Opener | Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on a small group of Americans visiting the French capital for business and pleasure... (out of competition) |
— | 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... |
 United States |
| Closer | The Beloved The Beloved (2011 film) The Beloved is a 2011 French film written and directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Catherine Deneuve, Milos Forman, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel, Paul Schneider, Michel Delpech and Chiara Mastroianni. The story will be set in the 1960s and 1990s in Paris, Prague and London.-Production:The... (out of competition) |
Les Bien-aimés | Christophe Honoré Christophe Honoré Christophe Honoré is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970.After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in "Les Cahiers du Cinéma." He started writing soon-after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie... |
 Early Modern France |
In Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| 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... |
 Spain |
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| House of Tolerance House of Tolerance House of Tolerance is 2011 French drama film directed by Bertrand Bonello, starring Hafsia Herzi, Céline Sallette, Jasmine Trinca, Adèle Haenel, Alice Barnole, Iliana Zabeth and Noémie Lvovsky. The story is set in a Parisian brothel in the early 20th century... |
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... |
Early Modern France |
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| Pater Pater (film) Pater is a 2011 French film directed by Alain Cavalier. It premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.... |
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 |
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| Footnote Footnote (film) Footnote is a 2011 Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi. The plot revolves a power struggle between a father and his son who both teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The film won the Best Screenplay... |
Hearat Shulayim | Joseph Cedar Joseph Cedar Yossef Cedar is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. for his film Footnote .-Biography:Cedar was born in... |
 Israel |
| Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a 2011 Turkish drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe... |
Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da | 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.... |
 Turkey |
| Dardenne brothers Dardenne brothers Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are a Belgian filmmaking duo... |
 Belgium |
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| Michel Hazanavicius | Early Modern France |
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| 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... |
 Finland |
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| Hanezu Hanezu Hanezu is 2011 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase, based on a novel by Masako Bando. The title is an ancient Japanese word for a shade of red, taken from the 8th century poetry collection Man'yōshū. The story is set in contemporary time in the Asuka area and recalls the ancient history of the... |
朱花の月 / Hanezu No Tsuki | Naomi Kawase |  Japan |
| Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty (2011 film) Sleeping Beauty is a 2011 Australian erotic drama film written and directed by Julia Leigh. It was her debut as a director. It stars Emily Browning as Lucy, a young university student who performs a special type of erotic service.- Cast :... |
— | Julia Leigh Julia Leigh Julia Leigh is an Australian novelist, film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Born in 1970 in Sydney, Australia, Leigh is the eldest of three daughters of a doctor and maths teacher. She initially studied law but shifted to writing. For a time she worked at the Australian Society of Authors... |
 Australia |
| Poliss Poliss Poliss is a 2011 French drama film written, directed by and starring Maïwenn. It also stars Joeystarr, Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Riccardo Scamarcio. The film centres on the Child Protection Unit in Paris, and a photographer who is assigned to cover the unit. The title is a... |
Polisse | Maïwenn Le Besco Maïwenn Le Besco Maïwenn |Île-de-France]]) is a French actress and film director.-Biography and career:She is the daughter of actress Catherine Belkhodja, who ushered her into the entertainment industry at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Le Besco in her one-woman shows "Le Pois Chiche" and "I'm an... |
Early Modern France |
| — | Terrence Malick Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films.... |
United States |
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| Radu Mihăileanu Radu Mihaileanu Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer... |
Early Modern France |
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| Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai is a 2011 Japanese 3D drama film directed by Takashi Miike. It was produced by Jeremy Thomas and Toshiaki Nakazawa, who previously teamed with Miike on 2010's 13 Assassins. The film is a 3D re-imagining of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film Harakiri. It premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film... |
一命 / Ichimei | Takashi Miike Takashi Miike is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions... |
Japan |
| We Have a Pope We Have a Pope (film) We Have a Pope is a 2011 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti. Its original title is Habemus Papam, the Latin phrase used upon the announcement of a new pope. The film stars Michel Piccoli as a cardinal who against his wish is elected as the new pope. Moretti co-stars as a... |
Habemus Papam | 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... |
 Italy |
| We Need to Talk About Kevin We Need to Talk About Kevin (film) We Need to Talk about Kevin is a 2011 British-American drama thriller film adapted and directed by Lynne Ramsay from American author Lionel Shriver's 2003 novel of the same name. A long process of development and financing began in 2005 and filming eventually commenced in April 2010, with Tilda... |
— | Lynne Ramsay | |
| Michael Michael (2011 film) Michael is a 2011 Austrian drama film directed by Markus Schleinzer which resembles the famous Natascha Kampusch case from the offenders viewpoint... |
Markus Schleinzer |  Austria |
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| This Must Be the Place This Must Be the Place (film) This Must Be the Place is a 2011 drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand... |
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... |
Italy |
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| Melancholia | 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 |
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| Drive Drive (2011 film) Drive is a 2011 American crime neo-noir drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as the principal character, with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks... |
— | Nicolas Winding Refn | United States |
Un Certain Regard
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| Охотник / Okhotnik | Bakur Bakuradze |  Russia |
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| Stopped on Track Stopped on Track Stopped on Track is a 2011 German drama film directed by Andreas Dresen. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Prize of Un Certain Regard, the top award for best film in the section... |
Halt auf freier Strecke | Andreas Dresen Andreas Dresen Andreas Dresen is an award-winning German film director. His directing credits include Cloud 9, Summer in Berlin, Grill Point and Night Shapes. His film Stopped on Track premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of Un Certain Regard... |
 Germany |
| Outside Satan Outside Satan Outside Satan is a 2011 French drama film written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It was filmed under the production title L'Empire, which means "The Empire"... |
Hors Satan | 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... |
Early Modern France |
| Martha Marcy May Marlene Martha Marcy May Marlene Martha Marcy May Marlene is a 2011 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Sean Durkin, and starring Elizabeth Olsen , John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, and Hugh Dancy... |
— | Sean Durkin | United States |
| Robert Guédiguian Robert Guédiguian Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.... |
Early Modern France |
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| Beauty Beauty (2011 film) Beauty is a 2011 South African film directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival... |
Skoonheid | Oliver Hermanus |  South Africa |
| 북촌방향 / Bukchonbanghyang | 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 |
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| Bonsai Bonsai (film) Bonsai is a 2011 Chilean drama film directed by Cristián Jiménez. It premiered during the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Gabriela Arancibia as Bárbara* Cristóbal Briceño as Hippie* Nathalia Galgani as Emilia... |
Bonsái | Cristián Jiménez |  Chile |
| Tatsumi Tatsumi (film) Tatsumi is a 2011 Singaporean animated drama film directed by Eric Khoo. It is based on the manga memoir A Drifting Life and five earlier short stories by the Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi... |
Eric Khoo Eric Khoo Eric Khoo is a film director from Singapore. He was introduced to the world of cinema at a very early age. He was educated at United World College of South East Asia before attending City Art Institute in Sydney, Australia where he pursued cinematography... |
 Singapore |
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| Arirang Arirang (2011 film) Arirang is a 2011 South Korean documentary film by Kim Ki-duk. The film addresses a personal crisis Kim went through, sparked by an incident during the filming of his previous film, Dream, where the lead actress nearly died by hanging. The titles comes from a Korean folk song with the same title... |
아리랑 / Arirang | 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 |
| Where Do We Go Now? Where Do We Go Now? Where Do We Go Now? is a 2011 film by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki. The film premiered during the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as part of Un Certain Regard . The film was selected to represent Lebanon for the 84th Academy Awards... |
هلق لوين؟ / Halla' Lawein? | Nadine Labaki Nadine Labaki Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. She is one of the well known directors in the Arabic music video industry... |
 Lebanon |
| Loverboy Loverboy (2011 film) Loverboy is a 2011 Romanian drama film directed by Cătălin Mitulescu. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* George Piştereanu as Luca* Ada Condeescu as Veli* Ion Besoiu as Bunicul... |
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... |
 Kingdom of Romania |
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| 황해 / Hwanghae | Na Hong-jin Na Hong-jin Na Hong-jin is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. For his debut film The Chaser , Na won Best Director at the 45th Grand Bell Awards in 2008. The film also won the award for Best Film.... |
South Korea |
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| Miss Bala Miss Bala Miss Bala is a 2011 Mexican drama film written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo. The film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival... |
Gerardo Naranjo |  Mexico |
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| Hard Labor Hard Labor (film) Hard Labor is 2011 Brazilian drama film directed by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Helena Albergaria as Helena* Marat Descartes as Otávio* Naloana Lima as Paula... |
Trabalhar Cansa | Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra |  Brazil |
| Restless Restless (2011 film) Restless is a 2011 British-American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Jason Lew. It stars Henry Hopper and Mia Wasikowska. Shot in Portland, Oregon, United States, and produced by Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer for Columbia Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, it... |
— | 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 |
| L'Exercice de l'État | Pierre Schöller | Early Modern France |
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| Toomelah | — | 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 |
| Oslo, August 31st Oslo, August 31st Oslo, August 31st is a 2011 Norwegian drama film directed by Joachim Trier. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. It won the prizes for Best Film and Best Cinematography at the 2011 Stockholm International Film Festival; jury president Whit Stillman... |
Oslo, 31. august | Joachim Trier |  Norway |
| Elena Elena (2011 film) Elena is a 2011 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.-Cast:* Yelena Lyadova as Katerina* Nadezhda Markina as Elena... |
Елена / Yelena | Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev is a Russian film director and actor. He is mostly known for his 2003 film The Return, which won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.-Biography:... |
Russia |
| Goodbye | به امید دیدار | Mohammad Rasoulof |  Iran |
Out of Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris Midnight in Paris is a 2011 romantic comedy-fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot centers on a small group of Americans visiting the French capital for business and pleasure... |
— | 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... |
United States |
| Xavier Durringer | Early Modern France |
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| — | Jodie Foster Jodie Foster Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress.... |
United States |
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| Christophe Honoré Christophe Honoré Christophe Honoré is a French writer and film director born in Carhaix, Finistère in 1970.After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in "Les Cahiers du Cinéma." He started writing soon-after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo talks about HIV and is aimed at young adults; he made it into a movie... |
Early Modern France |
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| Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a 2011 adventure fantasy film and the fourth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean series... |
— | Rob Marshall Rob Marshall Rob Marshall is an American theater director, film director and choreographer. He is a six-time Tony Award nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and four-time Emmy winner whose most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner Chicago.-Life and career:Marshall was... |
United States |
| Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing Rang De Basanti , for which he won Best Director awards at the 2006 Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film... and Jeff Zimbalist Jeff Zimbalist Jeffrey Leib Nettler Zimbalist is an American filmmaker best known for his films Favela Rising, The Two Escobars, and The Scribe of Urabá.... |
 India |
Midnight Screenings
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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| Wu Xia Wu Xia (film) Wu Xia or Swordsmen is a 2011 martial arts thriller film directed by Peter Chan and starring Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei. Yen also served as the film's action director. It premiered on 13 May 2011 at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Midnight Screenings category... |
Wu Xia | Peter Chan Peter Chan Peter Chan Ho-sun , is a film director and producer.-Life and career:Chan was born in Bangkok to Chinese parents. He spent his teens in and studied in Hong Kong and United States, and he attended film school at UCLA. He returned to Hong Kong in 1983 for a summer internship in the film industry.... |
 Hong Kong |
| Days of Grace | Dias de gracia | Everardo Gout | Mexico |
Special Screenings
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| 18 Days 18 Days (film) 18 Days is an Egyptian film composed of ten short movies by ten directors focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.... |
Tamantashar yom | Ahmad Abdallah, Mariam Abou Ouf, Kamla Abu Zikri, Ahmed Alaa, Mohamed Ali, Sherif Arafa Sherif Arafa Sherif Arafa is an Egyptian director, writer and producer. He was born on December 25, 1960 and graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1982... , Sherif El Bendary, Marwan Hamed Marwan Hamed Marwan Hamed is a young Egyptian film director who is the son of author Wahid Hamed and journalist Zeinab Sweidan. His debut was a short film entitled Li Li followed by a major feature film entitled The Yacoubian Building based on a novel by Alaa Al Aswany and starring Adel Imam.He has taken part... , Khaled Marei and Yousry Nasrallah Yousry Nasrallah Yousry Nasrallah is an Egyptian film director.Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He graduated in economics and political science at Cairo University. Following, he worked as a film critic and directing assistant in Beirut from 1978 to 1982... |
 Egypt |
| Out of Bounds | Labrador | Frederikke Aspöck | Denmark |
| No More Fear | La khaoufa baada al'yaoum | Mourad Ben Cheikh |  Tunisia |
| Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell | Le Maître des forges de l'Enfer | 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... |
Early Modern France |
| Michel Petrucciani | Michael Radford Michael Radford Michael Radford is an English film director and screenwriter.-Early life and career:Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford... |
Early Modern France |
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| Leader-Sheep | Tous au Larzac | Christian Rouaud | Early Modern France |
| — | Rebecca Tickell and Josh Tickell Josh Tickell Josh Tickell is a professional speaker, author, filmmaker, and enthusiast on alternative fuels. His specific experience and focus is on biodiesel, a diesel engine fuel based in vegetable oil and electric vehicles.... |
United States |
Short Films
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| Ghost | 고스트 / Ghost | Dahci Ma | South Korea |
| Swimsuit 46 | Badpakje 46 | Wannes Destoop | Belgium |
| Soy tan feliz | Vladimir Durán |  Argentina |
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| Bear | — | Nash Edgerton Nash Edgerton Nash Edgerton is an Australian film director and stuntman.-Life and career:Edgerton was born in Blacktown, New South Wales and is the brother of actor Joel Edgerton.... |
Australia |
| Cold | Kjøttsår | Lisa Marie Gamlem | Norway |
| Meathead | — | Sam Holst |  New Zealand |
| It Is Nothing | Ce n'est rien | Nicolas Roy |  Canada |
| Paternal Womb | ふたつのウーテル | Megumi Tazaki | Japan |
| Cross | — | Maryna Vroda | Early Modern France Ukraine |
Cinéfoundation
The following films were selected to be screened in the CinéfondationCinéfondation
La Cinéfondation is a foundation under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers....
section, which focuses on short films made by students at film schools:
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| Cagey Tigers | Aramisova | FAMU Film and TV School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague or FAMU is one of the oldest film schools in Europe. Located in Prague, Czech Republic, FAMU was founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague... , Czech Republic |
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| Suu and Uchikawa | Suu et Uchikawa | Nathanael Carton | NYU Asia Tisch School of the Arts Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University .... , Singapore |
| The Trip | A Viagem | Simão Cayatte | Columbia University Columbia University School of the Arts The Columbia University School of the Arts , also known simply as the School of the Arts or as SoA, is the division of the university that offers Master of Fine Arts degrees in Film, Visual Arts, Theatre Arts, and Writing, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Film Studies... , United States |
| On My Doorstep | Befetach beity | Anat Costi | Bezalel Academy, Israel |
| The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit is a 2011 short film by D. Jesse Damazo and Joe Bookman. It was screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Cinéfondation section. The film was made as part of the directors' coursework at The University of Iowa. The title is a reference to William... |
— | D. Jesse Damazo and Joe Bookman | University of Iowa University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the largest of the eleven colleges at The University of Iowa, founded in 1900. In 2007-2008, there was a total of 16,417 undergraduates enrolled in CLAS, 81% of all undergraduates at the university, and about 2,400 graduate students... , United States |
| Bento Monogatari Bento Monogatari Bento Monogatari is a 2010 short film by Pieter Dirkx. It was selected for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in the Cinéfondation section... |
Pieter Dirkx | Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, based in the Schaarbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium, is said to still be the only independent art school in Flanders... , Belgium |
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| The Letter | Der Brief | Doroteya Droumeva | dffb Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin The Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin is a film school in Berlin, Germany.In the German film school ranking of FOCUS , the dffb - together with the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and the international filmschool cologne - were ranked as 2nd after the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg... , Germany |
| Duel Before Nightfall | Duelo Antes da Noite | Alice Furtado | Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil |
| Drari | Kamal Nazraq | La Fémis La Femis La Fémis , is the French state film school. FEMIS is an acronym for Fondation Européenne pour les Métiers de l’Image et du Son. Based in Paris, it offers courses balanced between artistic research, professional development and technical training... , France |
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| Salsipuedes | Mariano Luque | National University of Córdoba National University of Córdoba The National University of Córdoba, , is the oldest university in Argentina, and one of the oldest in the Americas. It is located in Córdoba, the capital of Córdoba Province. Since the early 20th century it has been the second largest university in the country in terms of the number of students,... , Argentina |
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| The Wedding Party | La fiesta de casamiente | Gastón Margolin and Martín Morgenfeld | Universidad del Cine, Argentina |
| Till Summer Comes | L'estate che non viene | Pasquale Marino | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia The Centro sperimentale di cinematografia was established in 1935 in Italy and aims to promote the art and technique of cinematography and film.... , Italy |
| Big Muddy | — | Jefferson Moneo | Columbia University, United States |
| Martha Must Fly | Al Martha lauf | Ma'ayan Rypp | Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:... , Israel |
| Fly by Night | 야간비행 / Ya-gan-bi-hang | Son Tae-gyum | Chung-Ang University Chung-Ang University The Chung-Ang University is a private comprehensive institution in South Korea, located over two campuses in Seoul and Anseong. It was founded subsequent to liberation from Japanese colonial rule for the benefit of the nation and advancement of civilization, with the educational philosophy of... , South Korea |
| Changeling | Der Wechselbalg | Maria Steinmetz | HFF Konrad Wolf, Germany |
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were selected to be screened in the independent Directors' FortnightDirectors' Fortnight
Directors' Fortnight is an independent section held in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. The section was created in 1969 after the events of May 1968, in which the Cannes festival was canceled in solidarity with striking workers....
section:
Feature Films
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| Dominique Abel, Bruno Romy and Fiona Gordon | Belgium |
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| Karim Aïnouz Karim Aïnouz Karim Aïnouz is a film director.-Filmography:* 2006 - O Céu de Suely , 35mm, color, 88 min.* 2002 - Madame Satã, 35mm, color, 105 min.... |
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| Code Blue | Urszula Antoniak |  Netherlands |
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| Blue Bird | Gust Van Den Berghe | Belgium |
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| Rebecca Daly |  Republic of Ireland |
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| End of Silence | Roland Edzard | Early Modern France |
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| Après le Sud | Jean-Jacques Jauffret | Early Modern France |
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| Mushrooms | Chatrak | 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... |
India |
| Return Return (2011 film) Return is a 2011 independent film about an American reservist, wife and mother returning home from her tour of duty in the Middle East. The film was written and directed by Liza Johnson, and stars Linda Cardellini, Michael Shannon and John Slattery... |
Liza Johnson | United States |
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| Ostrovat (Островът) | Kamen Kalev Kamen Kalev Kamen Kalev is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. Kalev came to prominence in 2009 with the film Eastern Plays, earning him numerous international film awards as director and screenwriter.... |
 Kingdom of Bulgaria |
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| Sur la planche | Leila Kilani |  Morocco |
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| Porfirio | Alejandro Landes |  Colombia |
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| Bouli Lanners Bouli Lanners Philippe "Bouli" Lanners is a Belgian actor, author and film director... |
Belgium |
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| Breathing Breathing (film) Breathing is a 2011 Austrian art house drama film directed and written by Karl Markovics. The film, about a 19-year-old ex-convict who attempts to build a new life amidst his guilt, stars Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka and Gerhard Liebmann. It was screened at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival... |
Atmen | Karl Markovics Karl Markovics Karl Markovics is an Austrian actor and film director.He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year... |
Austria |
| Iris in Bloom | En ville | Valérie Mrejen and Bertrand Schefer | Early Modern France |
| Play | Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund Ruben Östlund is a Swedish film director. Originally a director of skiing film, he has directed three feature-length fiction films: The Guitar Mongoloid from 2004, Involuntary from 2008 and Play, scheduled to be released in 2011.-Career:Ruben Östlund started as a director of skiing films in the... |
 Sweden |
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| Jeanne Captive | Philippe Ramos Philippe Ramos Philippe Ramos is a French film director. He was born in France in 1966. He directed a very unusual adaptation of Moby-Dick: Capitaine Achab with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart in 2004.... |
Early Modern France |
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| Corpo Celeste | Alice Rohrwacher | Italy |
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| Volcano Volcano (2011 film) Volcano is a 2011 Icelandic drama film directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson. The film has been selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-Cast:* Auður Drauma Bachmann as Tinna* Þorsteinn Bachmann as Ari... |
Runar Runarsson |  Iceland |
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| Palawan Fate | Busong | Auraeus Solito Auraeus Solito Auraeus Solito is a filmmaker and indigenous peoples rights advocate who comes from a lineage of Shaman-Kings from the Palawan tribe but is one of the first to be born outside of his tribal land of South Palawan... |
 Philippines |
| Impardonnables Impardonnables Impardonnables is a 2011 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, Mélanie Thierry. The film is an adaptation of Philippe Djian’s novel Unforgivable which received the Jean Freustié award in 2009. It was previously called theangelsTerminus... |
André Téchiné André Téchiné André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors.... |
Early Modern France |
Special Screenings
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| Natalia Almada | United States |
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| Jérôme de Missolz and Jean-François Sanz | Early Modern France |
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| Guilty of Romance Guilty of Romance is an upcoming 2011 Japanese film directed by Sion Sono.-External links:* at Twitch Film* at Variety... |
Koi no Tsumi | Sion Sono Sion Sono is a controversial Japanese filmmaker and poet. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, and is best known for his films as well as avant-garde poetry performances.-Early career:... |
Japan |
| Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace, directed by Harry Hunkele,and produced by Arick Wierson, Donald Tanselle, and Matthew Tollin, is an American documentary film about the interplay between the official government channels and the men who acted largely behind the scenes during the course of... |
Harry Hunkele Harry Hunkele Harry Hunkele is an American Film and Television Director, Producer and Editor. He is a ten-time Emmy Award winning television director and producer and is the director of the feature documentary "Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace" . -Biography:Hunkele was born in rural Vermont, and came to... |
United States |
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| Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault | Canada |
Short Films
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| The Guidance of Reason | La conduite de la Raison | Aliocha Aliocha -Filmography :*La conduite de la Raison ** Directors Fortnight 2011 Cannes Film Festival*Catedral **Best Short Film at the London International Documentary Festival 2010... |
Early Modern France |
| Killing the chickens to Scare the Monkeys | Jens Assur | Sweden |
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| Dans le jardin du temps, portrait d’Ely et Nina Bielutin | Clément Cogitore | Early Modern France |
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| Nuven | Basil Da Cuncha | Chile |
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| Demain, ça sera bien | Pauline Gay | Early Modern France |
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| Armand 15 ans l’été dernier | Blaise Harrison | Early Modern France |
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| Camille Henrot | Early Modern France |
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| Cigarette at Night | Duane Hopkins Duane Hopkins Duane Hopkins is an English film director, artist and photographer, best known for directing the independent film Better Things .- Career :... |
 United Kingdom |
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| Fourplay: Tampa | Henry Kyle | United States |
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| Boro in the Box | Bernard Mandico | Early Modern France |
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| Johannes Nyholm | Sweden |
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| Mila Caos | Simon Paetau | Germany |
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| Vice versa one | Sadat Shahrbanoo |  Afghanistan |
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| Csicska | Attila Till |  Hungary |
International competition
- Robert De NiroRobert De NiroRobert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
, American actor (President) - Jude LawJude LawDavid Jude Heyworth Law , known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989...
, English actor - Uma ThurmanUma ThurmanUma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...
, American actress - Martina GusmánMartina GusmánMartina Gusmán is an Argentine actress and film producer. She starred in the 2010 film Carancho, which was entered into the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. In 2011, she was a member of the jury for the main competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
, Argentine actress and producer - Nansun ShiNansun ShiNansun Shi, born Shi Nan-Sun , is a Hong Kong film producer, presenter and a former Senior Advisor for Media Asia Group. She has been in the film industry for nearly thirty years, and has contributed a lot to the Hong Kong cinema scene since the late 1970s...
, Hong Kong producer - Linn UllmannLinn UllmannLinn Ullmann, originally Karin Beate Ullmann, is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published four novels....
, Norwegian critic and writer - Olivier AssayasOlivier AssayasOlivier 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:...
, French director - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chadian director
- Johnnie ToJohnnie ToJohnnie 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 director and producer
Un Certain Regard
- Emir KusturicaEmir KusturicaEmir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
, Serbian director (President) - Élodie BouchezÉlodie BouchezÉlodie Bouchez-Bangalter is a French actress. She is best known in the United States for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show Alias...
, French actress - Peter BradshawPeter BradshawPeter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he was President of Footlights.Bradshaw is a film critic for The Guardian...
, British critic - Geoffrey GilmoreGeoffrey GilmoreGeoffrey Gilmore is the Director of the Tribeca Film Festival and a member of the UCLA Producers Program faculty.- Life :Creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises, a New York company that includes the Tribeca Film Festival, the Tribeca Cinemas and the Tribeca Film Festival Doha...
, American Creative Director of Tribeca Enterprises - Daniela Michel, Mexican director of the Morelia Festival
Cinéfondation and short films
- Michel GondryMichel GondryMichel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...
, French director (President) - Julie Gayet, French actress and producer
- Jessica HausnerJessica HausnerJessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
, Austrian director and producer - Corneliu PorumboiuCorneliu PorumboiuCorneliu Porumboiu is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. His 2006 feature 12:08 East of Bucharest won him the Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival...
, Romanian director - João Pedro RodriguesJoão Pedro RodriguesJoão Pedro Rodrigues is a Portuguese film director whose activity started in 1997.Having studied at the School of Theatre and Cinema of Portugal, João Pedro Rodrigues started his career as an assistant director and editor in several features, directed, for example, by Alberto Seixas Santos and...
, Portuguese director
Camera d'Or
- Bong Joon-hoBong Joon-hoBong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.-Biography:He was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club...
, South Korean director (President) - Danièle Heyman, French critic
- Eva Vezer, Hungarian Head of Magyar Filmunio
- Robert Alazraki, French cinematographer
- Daniel Colland, French manager of Cinedia laboratory
- Jacques MaillotJacques MaillotJacques Maillot is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films since 1993. His film Nos vies heureuses was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Des fleurs coupées...
, French director - Alex Masson, French critic
Awards
Official Selection- In Competition
- Palme d'OrPalme d'OrThe 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 Tree of Life by Terrence MalickTerrence MalickTerrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films.... - Grand PrixGrand 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...
- Once Upon a Time in AnatoliaOnce Upon a Time in AnatoliaOnce Upon a Time in Anatolia is a 2011 Turkish drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe...
by Nuri Bilge CeylanNuri Bilge CeylanNuri 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....
and The Kid with a BikeThe Kid with a BikeThe Kid with a Bike is a 2011 drama film written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Cécile de France and Thomas Doret. Set in Seraing, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who turns to a woman after his father has abandoned him. The film was produced...
by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - Prix de la mise en scèneBest 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....
- Nicolas Winding Refn for DriveDrive (2011 film)Drive is a 2011 American crime neo-noir drama film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling as the principal character, with Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, and Albert Brooks... - Prix du scénarioBest 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...
- FootnoteFootnote (film)Footnote is a 2011 Israeli drama film written and directed by Joseph Cedar, starring Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi. The plot revolves a power struggle between a father and his son who both teach at the Talmud department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The film won the Best Screenplay...
by Joseph CedarJoseph CedarYossef Cedar is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. for his film Footnote .-Biography:Cedar was born in... - Jury Prize - Polisse by Maïwenn
- Prix d'interprétation féminineBest Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....
- Kirsten DunstKirsten DunstKirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, singer and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen for the anthology New York Stories...
for Melancholia - Prix d'interprétation masculineBest Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)The Best Actor 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.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....
- Jean DujardinJean Dujardin-Life and career:Dujardin was born in Rueil-Malmaison. Dujardin first became famous on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous C Nous, formed by members of the Carré blanc theater. From 1999 to 2003 he starred in the French version of the comedy television...
for The ArtistThe Artist (film)The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the... - Camera d'OrCaméra d'OrThe Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....
- Las Acacias by Pablo Giorgelli - Palme d'Or du court métrageShort Film Palme d'OrThe Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....
– Cross by Maryna Vroda
- Palme d'Or
- Un Certain RegardUn Certain RegardUn Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
- Prize of Un Certain Regard - ArirangArirang (2011 film)Arirang is a 2011 South Korean documentary film by Kim Ki-duk. The film addresses a personal crisis Kim went through, sparked by an incident during the filming of his previous film, Dream, where the lead actress nearly died by hanging. The titles comes from a Korean folk song with the same title...
by Kim Ki-dukKim Ki-dukKim 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...
and Stopped on TrackStopped on TrackStopped on Track is a 2011 German drama film directed by Andreas Dresen. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Prize of Un Certain Regard, the top award for best film in the section...
by Andreas DresenAndreas DresenAndreas Dresen is an award-winning German film director. His directing credits include Cloud 9, Summer in Berlin, Grill Point and Night Shapes. His film Stopped on Track premiered at the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize of Un Certain Regard... - Special Jury Prize - ElenaElena (2011 film)Elena is a 2011 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.-Cast:* Yelena Lyadova as Katerina* Nadezhda Markina as Elena...
by Andrey ZvyagintsevAndrey ZvyagintsevAndrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev is a Russian film director and actor. He is mostly known for his 2003 film The Return, which won him a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.-Biography:... - Directing Prize - Mohammad RasoulovMohammad RasoulovMohammad Rasoulov is an Iranian independent filmmaker. He studied sociology at Shiraz University, and film editing at Sooreh Higher Education Institute in Tehran....
for Goodbye
- Prize of Un Certain Regard - Arirang
- CinéfondationCinéfondationLa Cinéfondation is a foundation under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers....
- 1st Prize - The Letter by Doroteya Droumeva
- 2nd Prize - Drari by Kamal Nazraq
- 3rd Prize - Fly by Night by Son Tae-gyum
Independent sections
- Critics' Week
- Grand Prix Nespresso – Take ShelterTake ShelterTake Shelter is a 2011 American drama film starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The film is written and directed by Jeff Nichols. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from...
by Jeff NicholsJeff NicholsJeff Nichols is a comedian and writer based in NYC. Nichols was born in Manhattan on the upper-east-side in 1969. Growing up, Nichols struggled with learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette Syndrome... - Special Mention from the Jury President - SnowtownSnowtown (film)Snowtown is 2011 film about the Snowtown murders directed by Justin Kurzel and written by Shaun Grant.Screen Australia announced in March 2010 that they would be funding the film....
by Justin Kurzel - Prix SACD – Take ShelterTake ShelterTake Shelter is a 2011 American drama film starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The film is written and directed by Jeff Nichols. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from...
by Jeff NicholsJeff NicholsJeff Nichols is a comedian and writer based in NYC. Nichols was born in Manhattan on the upper-east-side in 1969. Growing up, Nichols struggled with learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette Syndrome... - ACID/CCAS Prize - Les Acacias by Pablo Giorgelli
- Very Young Critics Prize - Les Acacias by Pablo Giorgelli
- Grand Prix Nespresso – Take Shelter
Independent awards
- FIPRESCI Awards
- In Competition - Le HavreLe Havre (film)Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...
by Aki KaurismäkiAki 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... - Un Certain Regard - The MinisterThe MinisterThe Minister is a 2011 French drama film directed by Pierre Schöller. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Award.-Cast:* Olivier Gourmet as Bertrand Saint Jean...
by Pierre Schöller - Critics' Week or Directors' Fortnight - Take ShelterTake ShelterTake Shelter is a 2011 American drama film starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The film is written and directed by Jeff Nichols. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from...
by Jeff NicholsJeff NicholsJeff Nichols is a comedian and writer based in NYC. Nichols was born in Manhattan on the upper-east-side in 1969. Growing up, Nichols struggled with learning disabilities, a speech impediment, dyslexia, ADD, and a mild case of Tourette Syndrome...
- In Competition - Le Havre
- Ecumenical Jury
- Prize of the Ecumenical JuryPrize of the Ecumenical JuryThe Prize of the Ecumenical Jury is an independent film award for feature films at the Cannes Film Festival since 1974. The Ecumenical Jury is one of three juries at the Cannes Film Festival, along with the official jury and the FIPRESCI jury. The award was created by Christian film makers, film...
- This Must Be the PlaceThis Must Be the Place (film)This Must Be the Place is a 2011 drama film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello. It stars Sean Penn and Frances McDormand...
by Paolo SorrentinoPaolo SorrentinoPaolo 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... - Special Mention - Le HavreLe Havre (film)Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...
by Aki KaurismäkiAki 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... - Special Mention - Where Do We Go Now?Where Do We Go Now?Where Do We Go Now? is a 2011 film by Lebanese director Nadine Labaki. The film premiered during the 2011 Cannes Film Festival as part of Un Certain Regard . The film was selected to represent Lebanon for the 84th Academy Awards...
by Nadine LabakiNadine LabakiNadine Labaki is a Lebanese actress and director. She is one of the well known directors in the Arabic music video industry...
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
- Palm Dog
- Palm Dog AwardPalm Dog AwardThe Palm Dog Award is a yearly alternative award presented by the international film critics during the Cannes Film Festival. Begun in 2001 by Toby Rose, , Ammu Kannampilly, October 22, 2007, retrieved on May 27, 2009 it is awarded to the best performance by a canine or group of canines during...
- Uggy for The ArtistThe Artist (film)The Artist is a 2011 French romance film directed by Michel Hazanavicius, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood between 1927 and 1932 and focuses on a declining male film star and a rising actress, as silent cinema grows out of fashion and is replaced by the... - Special Jury Prize - Laika for Le HavreLe Havre (film)Le Havre is a 2011 comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Blondin Miguel. It tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was produced by Kaurismäki's...
- Palm Dog Award
- Queer Palm
- Queer Palm Award for BeautyBeauty (2011 film)Beauty is a 2011 South African film directed by Oliver Hermanus. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival...
by Olivier Hermanus
- Queer Palm Award for Beauty
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