Cannes International Film Festival 2011
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| H5 design agency , 2011 (using a 1970 photograph by Jerry Schatzberg ) |
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The 64th Cannes International Film Festival took place from May 11-22, 2011. The film festival opened with Woody Allen's non-competitive comedy Midnight in Paris . The French contribution Les Bien-aimés by Christophe Honoré , which was also shown out of competition, was named as the final film. The international jury, which among other things awarded the Golden Palm - the main prize of the festival - was headed by the American Robert De Niro . The main prize was won by Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life from the United States . The Danish competitor Lars von Trier ( Melancholia ) caused a scandal through controversial statements about Adolf Hitler , who was then referred to as the festival's “ Persona non grata ”.
With over 1,700 entries for the competition, more films were submitted than in 2010. This was also the first time that data was transferred over the Internet . After the festival's artistic director, Thierry Frémaux , spoke of a difficult selection process due to the financial crisis last year , the crisis has now been overcome. The official sections showed more than 49 films from 33 countries. The Cannes film market (French: Marché du film ) took place parallel to the festival . This represents the largest industry meeting at which film rights are bought and sold.
At the beginning of April 2011, the festival management announced that it would also award the Palme d'Or as an honorary award. Starting in 2011, every year during the opening ceremony, a “ Palm of Honor ” ( French: Palme d'honneur ) will honor important filmmakers whose work was authoritative, but was never awarded a regular Golden Palm. The first winner was the Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci , who had competed unsuccessfully for the main prize in 1981 with The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man and in 1996 with emotion and seduction . Another innovation from 2011 is the appointment of a "guest country" each year, whose films will be shown during the competition. In the 64th edition, this was Egypt . Four days before the start of the festival, the showing of two films by Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof was announced. The two Iranian directors were sentenced to several years imprisonment and a professional ban in their homeland at the end of 2010.
The official festival poster was presented in early April 2011. As in previous years, an actress was chosen as the motif - a black and white photograph of the American Faye Dunaway , taken in 1970 by Jerry Schatzberg . "As a model of sophistication and elegance, the picture embodies the cinematic dream that the Festival de Cannes would like to maintain," said the official press release. Schatzberg won the top prize for Asphalt Blossoms in 1973 after presenting the film Puzzle of a Downfall Child with Dunaway in the leading role in Cannes three years earlier . A restored version of Puzzle of a Downfall Child was shown at the film festival in the presence of Dunaway and Schatzberg.
Official selection
International competition
Competition jury
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Statistics (as of 2011) * = former winner of the Golden Palm |
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| Director | Invitations | |
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| Lars von Trier * | 9 | |
| Nanni Moretti * | 6th | |
| Jean-Pierre * and Luc Dardenne * | 5 | |
| Pedro Almodóvar , Nuri Bilge Ceylan , Aki Kaurismäki , Paolo Sorrentino | 4th | |
| Alain Cavalier , Naomi Kawase | 3 | |
| Bertrand Bonello , Terrence Malick | 2 | |
| Joseph Cedar , Michel Hazanavicius , Julia Leigh , Maïwenn , Radu Mihăileanu , Takashi Miike , Lynne Ramsay , Nicolas Winding Refn , Markus Schleinzer | 1 | |
As the successor to last year's jury president Tim Burton , the American actor, director and producer Robert De Niro was presented in Paris in early January 2011 . The two-time Oscar winner is considered one of the best film actors of his time and has made eight films in Cannes over the course of his career - Taxi Driver (1976) and Mission (1986) won the festival's main prize. By chairing the jury, the festival organizers also paid tribute to De Niro's role as the founder of the New York Tribeca Film Festival . After Burton (2010) and Sean Penn (2008), he was the third US jury president in the last four years.
As in previous years, the jury president was supported by eight jury members. It was almost exclusively filmmakers:
- Olivier Assayas - French director (three-time participant in the Cannes competition)
- Martina Gusmán - Argentine actress and film producer
- Mahamat-Saleh Haroun - Chad Director ( Jury Prize 2010)
- Jude Law - British actor
- Nansun Shi - Chinese film producer
- Uma Thurman - American actress
- Johnnie To - Chinese director and film producer from Hong Kong (two-time participant in the Cannes competition)
- Linn Ullmann - Norwegian journalist and author
The French actress Mélanie Laurent hosted (“maîtresse de cérémonie”) the opening ceremony on May 11th and the award gala on May 22nd, as announced in early March 2011. She succeeded the British Kristin Scott Thomas .
Competitors for the Golden Palm
The official competition program was presented to the public on April 14, 2011 by Thierry Frémaux and Festival President Gilles Jacob in Paris. 20 film productions by directors from 14 countries competed for the Palme d'Or , the main prize of the festival, among them again many auteur filmmakers . In previous years, 20 to 22 films were invited to the competition.
Thirteen of the twenty film productions came from Europe, two each from Japan and the United States, and one each from Australia, Israel and Turkey. Nine of the twenty directors ( Joseph Cedar , Michel Hazanavicius , Julia Leigh , Maïwenn , Radu Mihăileanu , Takashi Miike , Lynne Ramsay , Nicolas Winding Refn and Markus Schleinzer ) were represented in the competition for the first time. The Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (1999 for Rosetta and 2005 for Das Kind ), the Italian Nanni Moretti (2001 for My Son's Room ) and the Dane Lars von Trier (2000 for Dancer in the Dark ) have been in the past already awarded the main prize. The award of Le Gamin au Vélo der Dardennes would have been a historic victory - so far no director has triumphed more than twice in Cannes. The film focuses on a twelve-year-old boy (played by Thomas Doret ) who leaves the children's home to look for his father and is supported by a hairdresser (played by Cécile de France ). With Habemus Papam, Moretti presented the relationship between a newly elected Pope ( Michel Piccoli ) and his psychiatrist (Moretti). According to Antichrist, von Trier told in his work Melancholia about two sisters ( Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg ) and their families, who are all threatened by a planet hitting the earth.
French film directors were represented most often - Bertrand Bonello , Alain Cavalier , Maïwenn and Michel Hazanavicius . Bonello ( L'Apollonide - Souvenirs de la maison close ) tells of Parisian prostitutes in a brothel at the beginning of the 20th century, while Maïwenn ( Polisse ) reports on the everyday life of a police brigade in the field of youth protection . Cavalier's film Pater called Frémaux one of the “most bizarre things the festival will do this year”. Michel Hazanavicius' later Oscar- winning black and white film The Artist was originally intended to be shown out of competition, but was announced a week before the festival began as the 20th participant in the Palme d'Or competition. The romantic tragicomedy is set in Hollywood in 1927 and tells of a successful silent film star (played by Jean Dujardin ) who did not make the transition to sound film , while a young dancer ( Bérénice Bejo ) uses the now speaking medium as a career springboard. The daily Le Figaro registered that in the French selection, among others, Le terminus des Anges by André Téchiné , Les bien-aimés by Christophe Honoré (which later became the festival's closing film), L'ordre et la morale by Mathieu Kassovitz , Omar - A judicial scandal by the actor Roschdy Zem and Poulet aux prunes by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud would be missing. The Liberation attested an apparently “exciting competition on paper” and that the festival management clearly made a radical choice and did not rely on “standard products”. In addition to the absence of Honoré and Satrapi, she also pointed out the absence of the directors David Cronenberg , Alexander Sokurow , Dominik Moll , Lou Ye ( Love and Bruises with Tahar Rahim in the leading role), Wong Kar-Wai , Steven Soderbergh and Alexander Payne .
In addition to Maïwenn, three other women directors were represented in the competition, more than ever before. The Japanese Naomi Kawase introduces Hanezu no Tsuki , while the Australian author Julia Leigh, in her debut feature film The Sleeping Beauty, focuses on a young student ( Emily Browning ) who runs into a strange part-time job. With We Need to Talk About Kevin, Scottish woman Lynne Ramsay filmed the award-winning novel of the same name by Lionel Shriver in which Tilda Swinton can be seen as the mother of a teenage gunman .
The Austrian Markus Schleinzer was the only German-speaking director to be invited to Cannes. Schleinzer, who had previously worked as an actor and with Michael Haneke as casting director, tells in his debut film Michael about a 35-year-old man who is holding a little boy prisoner. At the ORF co-production. While the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn was responsible for the American action thriller Drive about a nameless Hollywood stuntman and occasional getaway driver in bank robberies, Terrence Malick (1979 director award for In der Glut des Südens ) was the only American director The Tree of Life represented. The much anticipated fantasy drama starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn had already been expected as a participant for last year's edition of the festival. Paolo Sorrentino's crime drama This Must Be the Place is also set in the USA , in which Sean Penn, a bored rock musician , is looking for his father's executioner, a former Nazi ( Heinz Lieven ).
Aki Kaurismäkis Le Havre was another field of participants . In the film, André Wilms plays a former Parisian writer and bohemian who, in voluntary exile - the eponymous French port city - hires out a shoe shine and takes care of an illegal refugee child from Africa. The Japanese Takashi Miike shot a remake of the samurai film Harakiri (1962) by Masaki Kobayashi with Ichimei (English-language title: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai ) . Radu Mihăileanu took in source of women to the women of a small village in North Africa who refuse to bring the tradition of following water from the mountains. The Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar , invited to the competition for the fourth time, presented La piel que habito, a revenge story about a surgeon (played by Antonio Banderas ) who retaliates against his daughter's alleged rapist. The Israeli Joseph Cedar presented an intellectual comedy with Hearat Shulayim ( footnote ).
In addition to the opening film Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen , Rob Marshall's Pirates of the Caribbean - Stranger Tides out of competition was shown in which Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush as well as Penélope Cruz again play the leading roles. Jodie Foster's directorial work The Beaver was also outside of the competition . Mel Gibson slips at the side of Jennifer Lawrence in the role of a troubled managing director who adopts a beaver hand puppet as the sole means of communication. The French Xavier Durringer dedicated his feature film La Conquête to the rise of the incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy (played by Denis Podalydès ). For the first time in the history of the festival, an incumbent President of France was shown in a feature film.
Feature films
An overview of the 20 feature film productions that competed for the Palme d'Or. These were selected from 1715 proposals received.
Out of competition
In addition to the competition, the following films were presented as part of the competition program:
- The Beaver - Director: Jodie Foster (with Jennifer Lawrence , Mel Gibson , Jodie Foster)
- The Lovers - The Burden of Being Happy - Director: Christophe Honoré (with Catherine Deneuve , Chiara Mastroianni , Ludivine Sagnier ) (graduation film)
- La Conquête - Director: Xavier Durringer (with Grégory Fitoussi , Hippolyte Girardot , Denis Podalydès )
- Midnight in Paris - Director: Woody Allen (with Rachel McAdams , Michael Sheen , Marion Cotillard ) (opening film)
- Pirates of the Caribbean - Directed by Rob Marshall (with Johnny Depp , Penélope Cruz , Geoffrey Rush )
Scandal about Lars von Trier
On the eighth day of the film festival, on May 18th, Lars von Trier caused a scandal at the official press conference on Melancholia . After he had commented on the use of Richard Wagner's music in his film, the journalist Kate Muir from The Times spoke to him, among other things, about German roots and a Gothic aspect of the film as well as earlier interview statements about his interest in “ Nazi - Aesthetics ”. With regard to the German ancestors of his biological father, von Trier then stated that he could muster a certain understanding for Adolf Hitler . But he was not in favor of the Second World War and not against Jews. It is very for Jews, but not too much, since Israel is a nuisance ("pain in the ass").
After asking himself out loud how he could get out of this sentence, von Trier added with reference to art that he liked Albert Speer ("Albert Speer I liked.") And added that he was a Nazi ("Ok . I'm a Nazi ”), which was acknowledged by laughter in the hall. He also threw in the term "final solution with journalists" on another question from the Toronto Star film critic Peter Howard .
Although the Dane distanced himself from his statements through his agency on the same day and apologized and stated that he had been provoked by journalists, his accreditation was withdrawn one day later and Trier excluded from the festival. The director's statements are unacceptable and tolerable and contradict "the ideals of humanity and generosity that characterize this festival". According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the decision was not made unanimously in the festival's administrative board, which includes state and municipal representatives. The exclusion was only directed against von Trier as a person, but not against his film Melancholia , which was still allowed to compete for festival prizes.
Even before von Trier's expulsion from the festival, the American industry journal The Hollywood Reporter suspected that his statements would have led to a “career suicide” if they had fallen on US soil. At the same time, it was compared to earlier anti-Semitic remarks by Mel Gibson , who starred in Jodie Foster's 2011 Cannes contribution The Beaver . One day after the exclusion of Triers, the German-language specialist review was divided and referred to the director's reputation as an “ enfant terrible ”. According to Hanns-Georg Rodek ( Die Welt ) von Trier has "exceeded the limits of normal market Nazi exploitation". The Tagesspiegel judged that von Trier was not an anti-Semite , “but his tight play with taboo has something anti-Semitic about it.” According to Daniel Kothenschultes ( Frankfurter Rundschau ) it was a “bizarre monologue” . Bernd Graff ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) called the festival organization's decision “rash” in a comment, Hannah Pilarczyk ( Spiegel Online ) described it as a “misjudgment”. Katja Nicodemus ( Die Zeit ) called the statements "embarrassing, stupid and tasteless", but also referred to von Trier's alleged "sarcastic-ironic permanent state" and the fact that the Dane's answers were laughed at at the press conference. One should “not boil over” the statements. At the same time, Nicodemus referred to the Serbian-French director Emir Kusturica , who as a “Serbian nationalist” and “ Karadžić admirer” heads the official subsidiary section Un Certain Regard . Dominik Kamalzadeh ( Der Standard ) also remarked that von Trier operated with an irony that "was only aimed at himself". The “moral rigorism ” with which the director was punished for it seemed excessive. His banishment only gives the "stupid provocations" additional weight.
The French daily Liberation judged the statements to be unforgivable “stupidity”, while Manohla Dargis ( The New York Times ) also described von Trier as “stupid and thoughtless”, but did not believe in a National Socialist attitude of the Dane. Trier's appearance in his home country Denmark was perceived to be similarly divided. Peter Wivel of the Danish daily Politiken commented in a summary of the incident that Danish humor sometimes falls on rocky ground abroad. The international media were not familiar with the Triers humor. Peter Aalbæk Jensen , Executive Producer of Melancholia said: “We have a director who tries to be funny and he wasn't. He's lovable and stupid… ” Jensen believes that von Trier had forfeited the chance to win the Golden Palm a second time after 2000 . On the other hand, there was a comment by the largest Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten , which was also printed by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “With the decision of the Cannes Film Festival to declare Lars von Trier an undesirable person, a liberating line has been drawn. It signals that there is a limit even for so-called geniuses ... One can only speculate that he thought his Nazi nonsense was good film advertising. Hopefully it wasn't in the end either, although you have to rely on Trier's new film being judged solely from an artistic point of view. Regardless of its creator, who probably lives in the idea that he is allowed to do anything and can get away with anything.
In an interview with Spiegel Online von Trier tried to justify himself and resisted the comparison with Mel Gibson. He would have called himself a "Nazi" because this is a common synonym in Danish for people of German descent. As a Dane, he believed he could speak more openly on the subject. In retrospect, he described his statements as “wrong” and “stupid”.
In another interview with DER SPIEGEL magazine (39/11), von Trier explained the situation at the press conference. “The problem with the press conference in Cannes was that when I said I was a Nazi, nobody asked what I meant. Then I could have explained that I believe there is a little Nazi in each of us. This explanation was missing. I thought I was speaking to people who know me. I understood too late that I was speaking to the whole world. ”And further:“ Each of us knows the feeling of unscrupulousness in his little life. It would therefore be a lie to claim that we do not understand Hitler's unscrupulousness. It is precisely important that we understand him as a human being. "
The incident led to cancellations of the film Melancholia by Israeli and Argentine film distributors.
At the beginning of October 2011, von Trier was first questioned by the Danish police because of his controversial statements. According to his own statements, he is facing charges for playing down war crimes .
Un Certain Regard
In the Un Certain Regard series , works by little-known filmmakers are shown, which are awarded a prize worth 30,000 euros. This year's jury was headed by the Serbian-French filmmaker Emir Kusturica (winner of the Golden Palm 1985 and 1995). Other jury members were the French actress Élodie Bouchez ( Actor Award 1998), the British film critic Peter Bradshaw ( The Guardian ), the American Goeffrey Gilmore (creative employee at Tribeca Enterprises ) and the Mexican festival director Daniela Michel ( Morelia Festival ).
The German contribution Halt on open track by Andreas Dresen made it into the official selection . The director had already received an invitation to this section for Cloud 9 in 2008 and won the main prize Prix Un Certain Regard together with Kim Ki-duks Arirang . The series opened with the romantic drama Restless by Gus Van Sant . As a graduation film, Elena was chosen by Andrei Svyagintsev . On May 7, 2011, the recording of Mohammad Rasoulof's Bé Omid é Didar ( Good Bye ) was announced. The collaboration with Jafar Panahi arrested in Iran director told similar Asghar Farhadi on the Berlinale 2011 excellent Jodaeiye Nader az Simin of a young lawyer in Tehran who is trying to get an exit visa. The shooting took place in the winter of 2010/11. During the film festival, the travel ban imposed on Rasoulof was lifted, but only after his film had already been presented. The film was awarded the section's directorship award.
Short film competition
The jury of the short film competition, in which a Golden Palm was also awarded, was headed by the French film director Michel Gondry . Other jury members were the French actress Julie Gayet and the film directors Jessica Hausner (Austria), Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania) and João Pedro Rodrigues (Portugal). The program was released on April 18th.
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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| Badpakje | Wannes Destoop | Belgium | 15 ' |
| Bear | Nash Edgerton | Australia | 8th' |
| Ce n'est rien | Nicolas Roy | Canada | 11 ' |
| Cross | Maryna Vroda | France | 14 ' |
| Ghost | Ma Dahci | South Korea | 10 ' |
| Kjøttsår | Lisa Marie Gamlem | Norway | 11 ' |
| Meathead | Sam Holst | New Zealand | 10 ' |
| Paternal Womb | Megumi Tazaki | Japan | 15 ' |
| Soy Tan Feliz | Vladimir Duran | Argentina | 14 ' |
Cinéfondation
For the Cinéfondation series, launched in 1998, short films from around the world are selected, including both animation and real-life films. The program helps young film students promote and complete their projects. In 2011, 1589 films from 360 film schools in 82 countries were submitted. 16 films from eleven countries, including two animated films, were selected. While an Italian contribution was featured for the first time, the German film schools included The Letter from Doroteya Droumeva and The Changeling by Maria Steinmetz. The first named film received the main prize.
The jury was the short film jury around Michel Gondry, who awarded prizes to the three best competition entries on May 20th.
| Movie | Director | Country (university) | Length (in min.) |
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| A Viagem ( The Trip ) |
Simão Cayatte | USA ( Columbia University ) | 19 ' |
| The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit | D. Jesse Damazo Joe Bookman |
USA ( University of Iowa ) | 15 ' |
| Befetach Beity ( On My Doorstep ) |
Anat Costi | Israel ( Bezalel Academy ) | 6 ' |
| Bento Monogatari ( Lunchbox Story ) |
Pieter Dirkx | Belgium ( Sint-Lukas University ) | 27 ' |
| Big Muddy | Jefferson Moneo | USA (Columbia University) | 15 ' |
| Cagey Tigers | Aramisova | Czech Republic ( FAMU ) | 23 ' |
| The letter ( The Letter ) |
Doroteya Droumeva | Germany ( dffb ) | 30 ' |
| Drari | Kamal Lazraq | France ( La fémis ) | 39 ' |
| Duelo antes da Noite ( Duel Before Nightfall ) |
Alice Furtado | Brazil (Universidade Federal Fluminense) | 20 ' |
| L'estate che non viene (Till Summer Comes) |
Pasquale Marino | Italy (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) | 17 ' |
| La Fiesta de Casamiento (The Wedding Party) |
Gastón Margolin Martin Morgenfeld |
Argentina (Universidad del Cine) | 19 ' |
| Al Martha Lauf ( Martha Must Fly ) |
Ma'ayan Rypp | Israel ( Tel Aviv University ) | 26 ' |
| Salsipuedes | Mariano Luque | Argentina (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) | 44 ' |
| Suu et Uchikawa ( Suu and Uchikawa ) |
Nathanael Carton | Singapore (NYU Asia) | 11 ' |
| The Changeling ( Changeling ) |
Maria Steinmetz | Germany ( HFF "Konrad Wolf" ) | 8th' |
| Ya-Gan-Bi-Hang ( Fly by Night ) |
Tae-gyum Son | South Korea (Chung-Ang University) | 21 ' |
Side rows
Semaine de la critique
At the same time as the Golden Palm was awarded, the Semaine de la critique , which has existed since 1962 ( Semaine internationale de la critique until 2007 ), was dedicated to discovering new talent. Organized by the Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma , only first films or second works by young directors compete. In the past, the competition consisted of seven feature films and seven short film works, which have been awarded various prizes since 1990. In 2011 the number of short films was increased to eleven. The "International Critics' Week" was accompanied by special screenings of numerous other short films.
This year's 50th Semaine internationale de la critique opened with a special screening of Valérie Donzelli's feature film Life is ours and ends with Pourquoi tu pleures? , a feature film by Katia Lewcowisz .
Feature films
| Movie | Director | country | Actor (selection) |
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| Las Acacias | Pablo Giorgelli | Argentina, Spain | German de Silva , Hebe Duarte , Nayra Calle Mamani |
| Avé | Konstantin Bojanov | Bulgaria, France | Anjela Nedyalkova , Ovanes Torosyan , Martin Brambach |
| 17 filles |
Dolphins Coulin Muriel Coulin |
France | Louise Grinberg , Juliette Darche , Roxane Duran |
| Hanotenet (The Slut) |
Hagar Ben Asher | Israel, Germany | Hagar Ben Asher, Ishai Golan , Icho Avital |
| Sauna on Moon | Zou Peng | People's Republic of China | Wu Yuchi , Yang Xiaomin , Lei Ting |
| Snowtown (Les Crimes de Snowtown) |
Justin Kurzel | Australia | Lucas Pittaway , Daniel Henshall , Louise Harris |
| Take shelter | Jeff Nichols | United States | Michael Shannon , Jessica Chastain , Tove Stewart |
Short films
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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| Alexis Ivanovitch vous êtes mon heros | Guillaume Gouix | France | 20 ' |
| Black moon | Amie seal | United States | 15 ' |
| Blue | Stephen Kang | New Zealand | 14 ' |
| boy | Topaz Adizes | United States | 9 ' |
| Bul-Myul-Ui-Sa-Na-le (Finis Operis) |
Moon Byoung-gon | South Korea | 7 ' |
| Dimanches | Valery Rosier | Belgium | 16 ' |
| In front of the house | Lee Tae-Ho | South Korea | 14 ' |
| La inviolabilidad del domicilio se basa en el hombre que aparece empunando un hacha en la puerta de su casa | Alex Piperno | Uruguay, Argentina | 7 ' |
| Junior | Julia Ducournau | France | 20 ' |
| Permanências | Ricardo Alves Júnior | Brazil | 34 ' |
Quinzaine des réalisateurs
The side series Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (German: "Two weeks of directors") was launched in 1969 based on the May riots that had taken place a year earlier and is organized by the Société des réalisateurs de films (SRF). Feature films (documentaries and feature films) as well as a large number of short films from all over the world will be shown without a prize being awarded.
Feature films
Short films
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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| Armand 15 ans l'été | Blaise Harrison | France | 50 ' |
| Bielutin - Dans le jardin du temps | Clement Cogitore | France | 30 ' |
| Boro In The Box | Bertrand Mandico | France | 40 ' |
| Cigarette at night | Duane Hopkins | United Kingdom | 5 ' |
| La Conduite de la Raison | Aliocha | France | 21 ' |
| Csicska | Attila Till | Hungary | 20 ' |
| Demain, ça sera bien | Pauline Gay | France | 16 ' |
| Fourplay: Tampa | Kyle Henry | United States | 17 ' |
| Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys | Jens Assur | Sweden, Thailand | 23 ' |
| Las Palmas | Johannes Nyholm | Sweden | 13 ' |
| Mila Caos | Simon Paetau | Germany, Cuba | 18 ' |
| Nuvem | Basil da Cunha | Portugal, Switzerland | 30 ' |
| Le Songe de Poliphile | Camille Henrot | France | 10 ' |
| Yeke Varune | Shahrbanoo Sadat | Afghanistan | 10 ' |
Caméra d'Or
The Caméra d'Or ( Golden Camera ) has been awarded since 1978 for the best debut film by a director, regardless of which section he is represented in. This year, the international jury was headed by the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho . He was supported by the jury members Danièle Heymann (film critic, France), Eva Vezer (head of the Hungarian Film Union, "Magyar Filmunio"), the cameraman Robert Alazraki , Daniel Colland (manager of the Cinedia Laboratoires), the director Jacques Maillot and the film critic Alex Masson (Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma). The Argentine-Spanish contribution Las Acacias by Pablo Giorgelli , which was shown in the Semaine internationale de la critique section, was awarded. The film tells the story of a truck driver who is on the way between Asunción and Buenos Aires and is accompanied by an unknown mother with an infant.
Award winners
Official selection
competition
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Golden Palm for the best film (presented by Jane Fonda , award winner announced by Jury President Robert De Niro ) |
The Tree of Life - Director: Terrence Malick |
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Grand Jury Prize (presented by Emir Kusturica , announced by De Niro) |
Bir Zamanlar Anadolu`da - Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Le Gamin au Vélo - Director: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
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Best Director (presented by Nicole Garcia , announced by De Niro) |
Nicolas Winding Refn ( Drive ) |
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Best Screenplay (presented by Rosario Dawson , announced by De Niro) |
Joseph Cedar ( Hearat Shulayim ) |
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Best Actress (presented by Édgar Ramírez , announced by De Niro) |
Kirsten Dunst ( Melancholia ) |
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Best Actor (Presented by Catherine Deneuve , announced by De Niro) |
Jean Dujardin ( The Artist ) |
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Jury Prize (presented by Chiara Mastroianni , announced by De Niro) |
Polisse - Director: Maïwenn |
Short film competition and Golden Camera
| category | Award winners |
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Golden Palm for the best short film (presented by Ludivine Sagnier and Michel Gondry ) |
Cross - directed by Maryna Vroda |
| Jury Prize (presented by Ludivine Sagnier and Michel Gondry) |
Badpakje 46 - Director: Wannes Destoop |
| Golden Camera ( Caméra d'Or ) for the best debut film (presented by Marisa Paredes and Bong Joon-ho ) |
Las Acacias - Director: Pablo Giorgelli |
- Honorary award ( Palme d'honneur ): Bernardo Bertolucci
Un Certain Regard
- Main prize: Stop on the open track - Director: Andreas Dresen and Arirang - Director: Kim Ki-duk
- Special Jury Prize: Elena - Director: Andrei Svjaginzew
- Director's Award: Mohammad Rasoulof ( Bé Omid é Didar )
Cinéfondation
- 1st Prize: The Letter - Director: Doroteya Droumeva
- 2nd prize: Drari - director: Kamal Lazraq
- 3rd prize: YA-GAN-BI-HANG ( Fly by Night ) - Director: Son Tae-gyum
Semaine de la critique
- Grand Prix Nespresso de la Semaine de la Critique: Take Shelter - Director: Jeff Nichols
- Honorable Mention: Snowtown - Director: Justin Kurzel
- Grand Prix Canal + du court métrage: Blue - Director: Stephan Kang
Quinzaine des réalisateurs (no main prize is awarded in this section)
- Art Cinema Award: Les Géants - Director: Bouli Lanners
- Prix SACD (best French-language film): Les Géants - Director: Bouli Lanners
- Label Europa Award (combined with a guaranteed theatrical release in Europe): Breathing - Director: Karl Markovics
Further prices
- FIPRESCI Prize : Le Havre - Director: Aki Kaurismäki
- Ecumenical Jury Prize: This Must Be the Place - Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Further films and program items
The French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo was honored at a gala evening on May 17th . This honor went hand in hand with the premiere of Vincent Perrots and Jeff Domenech's documentary Belmondo, Itinéraire ... (English-language title: Belmondo, The Career ).
Newly restored films will be shown again in the Cannes Classics series . In addition to a restored version of Jerry Schatzberg's Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) by Universal Pictures , a restored copy of Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange (1971) by Warner Bros. was on display on May 19 . Leading actor Malcolm McDowell took part in the premiere , who a day later also held a Leçon de cinéma as part of the screening of the documentary Il était une fois Orange Mécanique by Antoine de Gaudemar and Michel Ciment . The full Cannes Classics program was announced on April 22nd. Further directorial work by, among others, Bernardo Bertolucci ( Der große Errtum , 1970), Marcel Carné ( Children of Olympus , 1945), Rainer Werner Fassbinder ( Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht , 1978), Georges Méliès ( Die Reise zum Mond , 1902), Elio Petri ( Do you trust Alfredo to murder?, 1961), Jean-Paul Rappeneau ( The beautiful wild ones , 1975) and Roberto Rossellini ( The machine that kills the bad guys , 1948) were shown.
On April 28, the festival management announced that a guest country would be welcomed to Cannes every year from 2011 onwards. In the 64th edition, this was Egypt . The beginning of 2011 it was there also with use of new media to mass protests come in the resignation of President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak resulted. The tribute to Egyptian cinema took place on May 18 with the screening of ten short films under the joint title 18 jours and a subsequent official meal with the Egyptian minister of culture and the Egyptian ambassador to France. The films were made during the days of the protests. A restored version of Hussein Kamal's Al Bostagui (1968) was also shown in the Cannes Classics section and Sameh Abdel Aziz ' Le Cri d'une fourmi (2011) at the Cinéma de la Plage . There was also a music concert by the Egyptian musicians West El Balad , which opened the Fête des Sélections on May 18th, as well as a special screening of Plus jamais peur des Tunisian Mourad Ben Cheikh. This is a documentary film about the revolution in Tunisia 2010/2011 .
On May 7, 2011, a few days before the festival started, it was announced that Jafar Panahis and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's In Film Nist ( This is not a Film ) and Mohammad Rasoulof's Bé Omid é Didar ( Good Bye ) would be premiered. The Iranians Panahi and Rasoulof were imprisoned in their home country in spring 2010 and sentenced in December 2010 by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran to several years' imprisonment and a ban on their profession. In May 2010 , the festival management appointed Panahi as a member of the competition jury despite his imprisonment. An empty chair during the opening ceremony was a reminder of the Iranian filmmaker. The competing German film festival Berlinale also tried unsuccessfully in spring 2011 to win Panahi as a jury member and dedicated a retrospective to him. The 75-minute In Film Nist was shown during a special screening on May 20. The content is a day in Panahi's life shortly before the old Iranian New Year and Spring Festival Nouruz , which had to wait months for its judgment. He was supported by the documentary filmmaker and former assistant director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. Mohammad Rasoulof's Bé Omid é Didar was included in the Un Certain Regard section and premiered there on May 14th.
The Cannes Film Market (French: Marché du film ) took place parallel to the festival from May 11th to 20th . This is the most important meeting point for professionals from the film industry from all over the world and at the same time the largest of its kind. For ten days, film rights were bought and sold, television rights were sold and co-producers were won for future projects. In 2011, ten percent more registrations were recorded compared to the previous year and as of April 14th, 3000 companies from around 100 countries were counted. 1200 screenings were to be held. For the first time, productions from Bangladesh, Georgia and Puerto Rico were also announced.
Web links
- Official website (including French and English)
- Official press kit for the 2011 edition (English)
- Compilation of press reactions (German)
Individual evidence
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