Cannes International Film Festival 2012
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| Bronx agency (Paris) , 2012 (using a photograph by Otto Bettmann ) |
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The 65th Cannes International Film Festival took place from May 16-27, 2012. The film festival opened with Wes Anderson's US independent film Moonrise Kingdom . The French contribution Thérèse by director Claude Miller , who died in April 2012, was named as the final film . The international jury, which u. a. the Golden Palm , the main prize of the festival, was presented this year by the Italian Nanni Moretti . The main prize went to Michael Haneke's feature film Liebe ( Amour ) .
Originally the festival was supposed to take place from May 9th to 20th. Due to the close proximity to the French presidential election (runoff on May 6th), the event was postponed by one week. The official sections showed more than 54 films from 26 countries. All of them are world premieres. While two Austrian directors, Michael Haneke ( Amour ) and Ulrich Seidl ( Paradies: Liebe ), competed for the main prize for the first time, filmmakers from Germany or Switzerland were not invited to the official competition. However, Germany was involved in various co-productions. The German director Fatih Akin presented his film Müll im Garten Eden , a long-term documentary about an environmental scandal in the Turkish Black Sea town of Çamburnu .
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.
The official festival poster was presented at the end of February 2012. As in previous years, an actress was chosen as the motif - a black and white photograph of the American Marilyn Monroe , who is sitting in a car blowing out a candle on a cake. The photo is from Otto Bettmann . The beginning of August 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of Monroe's death.
The French actress Bérénice Bejo hosted the opening ceremony on May 16 and the award gala on May 27, as announced in April 2012 as hostess ("maîtresse de cérémonie"). Bejo, who was represented in Cannes in 2011 with the later Oscar- winning silent film homage The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius , followed her compatriot Mélanie Laurent .
Official selection
International competition
Competition jury
In January 2012, screenwriter, film director and actor Nanni Moretti was presented as the successor to last year's jury president Robert De Niro . He is considered one of the most political and idiosyncratic filmmakers in Italy. Moretti is a classic auteur filmmaker who was involved in most of his often autobiographical films as a producer, director, writer and leading actor. The specialist review titled him as the Italian Woody Allen . By 2011 he was invited to the competition in Cannes six times and won the main prize of the film festival in 2001 for his family drama My Son's Room . In 1997 , for the 50th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, he was already a member of the jury headed by Isabelle Adjani . Thierry Frémaux , the festival's artistic director, stated that a European jury president had to be selected for the 65th anniversary in 2012. Frémaux characterized Moretti as "captivating", "modern" and "intelligent". Moretti repeatedly announced that he wanted to act as a “democratic” jury president with reduced authority over the other jury members.
As in previous years, the jury president was supported by eight jury members whose names were presented on April 25th. It was almost exclusively filmmakers:
- Hiam Abbass - Israeli-Arab actress
- Andrea Arnold - British director and screenwriter ( Jury Prize 2006 and 2009)
- Emmanuelle Devos - French actress
- Jean Paul Gaultier - French fashion designer
- Diane Kruger - German actress ("Maîtresse de cérémonie" from Cannes 2007 )
- Ewan McGregor - British actor
- Alexander Payne - American director, screenwriter and producer (competitor in Cannes 2002 competition )
- Raoul Peck - Haitian director, screenwriter and producer (competitor in Cannes 1993 )
After an official meal on May 16, the jury announced that they would meet every two days to discuss the films they had seen.
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| Director | Invitations | |
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| Ken Loach * | 11 | |
| Michael Haneke * | 6th | |
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Abbas Kiarostami *, Alain Resnais |
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| David Cronenberg | 4th | |
| Jacques Audiard , Hong Sang-soo , Carlos Reygadas , Walter Salles | 3 | |
| Leos Carax , Matteo Garrone , Im Sang-soo , Sergei Loznitsa , Cristian Mungiu *, Ulrich Seidl , Thomas Vinterberg | 2 | |
| Wes Anderson , Lee Daniels , Andrew Dominik , John Hillcoat , Yousry Nasrallah , Jeff Nichols | 1 | |
Competitors for the Golden Palm
The official competition program was presented to the public on April 19, 2012 by Thierry Frémaux and Festival President Gilles Jacob in Paris. According to Frémaux, the selection process would have lasted until the evening, the day before. 22 film productions by directors from 15 countries competed for the Palme d'Or . In contrast to last year, directorial works by women filmmakers were not selected. Thierry Frémaux had rejected a list of 24 competition films published on the Internet at the beginning of April as false.
The youngest competitor at the age of 33 was the American Jeff Nichols ( Mud ), the oldest at 89 years was the French Alain Resnais ( Vous n'avez encore rien vu ). Eleven of the 22 entries were produced or co-produced in Europe, seven in North America, two in South Korea, and one each in Egypt and Mexico. Six of the 22 directors ( Wes Anderson , Lee Daniels , Andrew Dominik , John Hillcoat , Yousry Nasrallah , Jeff Nichols) were in the competition for the first time. The British Ken Loach (2006 for The Wind That Shakes the Barley ), the Austrian Michael Haneke (2009 for The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story ), the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami (1997 for The Taste of the Cherry ) and the Romanian Cristian Mungiu (2007 for 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ) had already won the main prize in the past. Loach told in the social comedy The Angels' Share of a young father with a Whiskey - Distillery way to strike in times of economic crisis, a new way of life. In his French-language film Amour, Haneke focuses on a retired Parisian musician couple (played by Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant ) who are confronted with the diagnosis of stroke . Kiarostami made his film Like Someone In Love in Japan and tells of a young woman who finances her studies with prostitution and befriends an older client. Mungiu looks at two befriended women (portrayed by the cinema debutantes Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan ) in an Orthodox convent in Romania. One would like to take the other to Germany, whereupon she has to defend herself against the priesthood and is suspected of being possessed. In addition to Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl was another Austrian represented in the competition. In Love , the first part of his planned Paradise trilogy, he tells of older European women who travel to Kenyan beaches as sex tourists .
As in the previous year, French film directors were represented most frequently - Jacques Audiard , Leos Carax and Alain Resnais . Audiard used short stories by the Canadian writer Craig Davidson as the basis for his film De rouille et d'os , which is about an unemployed young thug ( Matthias Schoenaerts ) who falls in love with an orca trainer ( Marion Cotillard ) in the south of France Accident is seriously injured. With Holy Motors , Carax presented his first feature film in 13 years. Denis Lavant plays a mysterious man who changes his identities - from employer, murderer and beggar to his father. In Vous n'avez encore rien vu, Resnais tells the story of a late playwright who posthumously invites his former actors to look at the different versions of his version of Eurydice .
Other European contributions included hunts by the Dane Thomas Vinterberg , in which a newly divorced man and kindergarten teacher (played by Mads Mikkelsen ) is suspected of sexual abuse of a five-year-old girl. The Italian contribution Reality by Matteo Garrone revolves around a reality show that a fishmonger ( Aniello Arena ) is impressed with. V Tumane by the Ukrainian Sergei Loznitsa , who lives in Germany, is set in the Second World War and is about two partisans who are supposed to kill an alleged traitor.
The contributions from North America included Cosmopolis by Canadian director David Cronenberg with Robert Pattinson in the lead role, based on the novel by Don DeLillo . In it, the reader accompanies a wealthy punter in his limousine through New York City for a day . The American productions Killing Them Softly , Lawless , On the Road and The Paperboy were also film adaptations . In the thriller Killing Them Softly by the Australian Andrew Dominik , Brad Pitt is supposed to investigate the robbery of a poker game shielded by the mafia, which was committed by two junkies. After a historical novel by Matt Bondurant staged Dominik's compatriot John Hillcoat Tom Hardy and Shia LaBeouf as brothers, that the time of the Great Depression as a smuggler in Virginia come and operate with the authorities in conflict. With On the Road, the Brazilian Walter Salles filmed the novel of the same name by beatnik writer Jack Kerouac about a group of young people (played by Sam Riley , Garrett Hedlund and Kristen Stewart ) traveling across the United States. Based on a novel by Pete Dexter, Lee Daniels ' The Paperboy centers on two investigative journalists (played by Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey ) who were hired in the 1960s to rescue a prison inmate from the death penalty. Moonrise Kingdom and Mud were based on original scripts . Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom opened the Cannes Film Festival. The story is set on the New England coast in 1965 and tells of two twelve-year-olds (played by Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman ) who fall in love and run into the wilderness, whereupon the community (played by, among others, Edward Norton , Bruce Willis , Bill Murray , Tilda Swinton , Frances McDormand , Harvey Keitel , Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban ) takes on the chase. Jeff Nichols' drama Mud tells of two teenagers who stumble upon a fugitive (Matthew McConaughey) and help him escape from a Mississippi island.
The film directors Hong Sang-soo and Im Sang-soo from Asia were included. The former shot together with Isabelle Huppert In Another Country about mother and daughter who are moving from Seoul to the coast. In Sang-soo, The Taste of Money focuses on an ambitious young man who, as a private secretary, gains access to the finances of a rich South Korean family. As the only African contribution, the Egyptian Yousry Nasrallah received an invitation to Cannes for Baad el mawkeaa , who in his film dramatized the events surrounding the revolution in Egypt in 2011 on Tahrir Square .
Terrence Malick's The Funeral , and Derek Cianfrances The Place Beyond the Pines and Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master could not be completed in time for the film festival . Even Wong Kar-Wai's Yut doi young si ( The Grandmaster ) and Woody Allen's To Rome with Love were not included.
Press reviews and criticism
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The French press unanimously praised the competition program shortly after the film title became known. The French daily Le Figaro described it as "tempting and exciting" and pointed to the "ambitious" American independent films and the "eclectic selection" of French contributions. At the same time there was talk of a repetition of the already excellent 2011 vintage. The “bal des têtes” of the same names in the competition would be replaced in favor of hopeful newcomers. Liberation also characterized the 2012 vintage as “tempting”, “respected” and “attractive”, but missed the “big surprise or controversy” on paper. The French selection appears “much smarter” compared to last year, and at the same time the lack of female directors, documentaries, cartoons or feature film debuts was noticed. The English-language contributions appeared more numerous than usual, "if not downright intrusive". Le Monde judged that the competition presented itself as a “self-portrait” of the festival with “recognized masters (Kiarostami, Haneke, Resnais), confirmed directors (Salles, Audiard, Nasrallah, Hong) and talents recently discovered on the Croisette (Mungiu, Garrone , Nichols). “There is a strong US presence and a decrease in Asian films.
The industry journal Daily Variety registered such a "robust" competitive presence in US films as it has not been since 2007 . The Los Angeles Times stated that the selection of American films correlated with the resurgent independent film in the United States. The artistic director Thierry Frémaux was surprised in an interview with the British trade magazine Screen International himself by the high number of matching US contributions. In previous years, American cinema would have been divided into major studio films and independent films in Sundance format, with little in between. That made it difficult for the management to find suitable contributions for Cannes.
The film director Coline Serreau criticized the film director Coline Serreau in a protest letter published on May 12th in Le Monde entitled A Cannes, les femmes montrent leurs bobines, les hommes leurs films ( Eng .: "Women show their faces in Cannes, men their films") , the actress Fanny Cottençon and the filmmaker Virginie Despentes with a lot of puns the program policy of the festival, since no director had found her way into the competition program. By the time the festival started, more than 1,300 people had signed their online petition, an initiative that goes back to the feminist association La Barbe (English: “The Beard”). Thierry Frémaux rejected the criticism and spoke out against a quota system. Immediately after the presentation of the competition films, he stated that suitable works by women were not in the selection and that he did not want to practice positive discrimination: “The greatest respect we women can show is to see them as directors. I don't want to say, 'This film was selected because the director is a woman.' But because the film is good, ”says Frémaux.
Feature films
An overview of the 22 feature film productions that competed for the Golden Palm. These were selected from proposals received in 1779.
Except competition and special performances
In addition to the competition, the following films were presented as part of the Official Program:
- Hemingway & Gellhorn - Director: Philip Kaufman (with Nicole Kidman , Clive Owen )
- Me and You ( Io e te ) - Director: Bernardo Bertolucci (with Jacopo Olmo Antinori , Tea Falco )
- Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath (animation)
- The Sapphires - Directed by Wayne Blair (with Chris O'Dowd , Deborah Mailman , Jessica Mauboy )
- Thérèse (Thérèse Desqueyroux) - Director: Claude Miller (with Audrey Tautou , Gilles Lellouche , Anaïs Demoustier ) (graduation film)
Midnight performances ("Séances de minuit")
- Ai to makoto - Director: Takashi Miike (with Satoshi Tsumabuki , Tsuyoshi Ihara , Emi Takei )
- Dracula 3D - Director: Dario Argento (with Rutger Hauer , Asia Argento , Thomas Kretschmann )
Performance to mark the 65th anniversary of the film festival
- Une journée particulière - directed by Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure
Special performances ("Séances Spéciales")
- The Central Park Five - Directed by Ken Burns and David McMahon (documentary)
- Les Invisibles - Director: Sébastien Lifshitz (documentary)
- Journal de France - Directed by Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret (documentary)
- Mekong Hotel - Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (with Jenjira Pongpas , Maiyatan Techaparn and Sakda Kaewbuadee )
- The Garbage in the Garden of Eden ( Polluting Paradise ) - Director: Fatih Akin (Documentary)
- A Música Segundo Tom Jobim ( The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim ) - directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Dora Jobim (documentary)
- Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir - Director: Laurent Bouzereau (documentary)
- Le Serment de Tobrouk ( The Oath of Tobruk ) - Directors: Bernard-Henri Lévy and Marc Roussel (documentary)
- Trash - Directed by Candida Brady (documentary with Jeremy Irons )
- Villegas - Director: Gonzalo Tobal (with Esteban Bigliardi , Esteban Lamothe and Mauricio Minetti )
Un Certain Regard
In the series Un Certain Regard (Eng. "A certain look") works by little-known filmmakers are shown, which are awarded a prize worth 30,000 euros. This year's jury was headed by the British Tim Roth , who u. a. as an actor with the films Reservoir Dogs - Wild Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction ( Palme d'Or 1994) in Cannes, where he presented his directorial debut The War Zone in 1999. The other members of the jury were the French actress Leïla Bekhti , the French filmmaker Tonie Marshall , the Argentine film critic Luciano Monteagudo and Sylvie Pras , director of the cinemas of the Center Georges-Pompidou and artistic director of the La Rochelle film festival .
The program with 20 films was announced on April 19, 2012. The series opened on May 17th with Lou Yes Mystery . The final film was the biography Renoir by the French Gilles Bourdos . The main prize was won by the Mexican Post Después de Lucia by Michel Franco .
Short film competition
The jury of the short film competition, which also receives a Golden Palm , was headed by the Belgian film director, screenwriter and producer Jean-Pierre Dardenne . Together with his brother Luc , he had received five invitations to the official Cannes competition until 2011 and won the festival's main prize in 1999 for Rosetta and in 2005 for Das Kind . Other jury members were Canadian actress Arsinée Khanjian , Brazilian director and screenwriter Karim Ainouz , writer and filmmaker Emmanuel Carrère from France and cinematographer and filmmaker Yu Lik-wai from China.
The contributions were published together with those from the Cinéfondation series on April 17, 2012. A total of ten films were selected from 4,500 entries, including the German entry Gasp by Eicke Bettinga . Filmmakers from Syria and Puerto Rico have received invitations for the first time . The main prize went to the Turkish entry Sessiz-Be Deng . Director L. Rezan Yeşilbaş had the drama set in 1984 and tells the story of a mother and three children who visited their husband, who was in prison in the city of Diyarbakır , in the southeastern Anatolian city of Diyarbakır .
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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| Ce chemin devant moi | Mohamed Bourokba | France | 15 ' |
| The chair | Grainger David | United States | 12 ' |
| Chef de Meute | Chloé Robichaud | Canada | 13 ' |
| Cockaigne | Emilie Verhamme | Belgium | 13 ' |
| Falastein, Sandouk Al Intezar Lil Burtuqal ( Waiting for PO Box ) | Bassam Chekhes | Syria | 15 ' |
| Gasp | Eicke Bettinga | Germany | 15 ' |
| Mi santa mirada | Alvaro Aponte-Centeno | Puerto Rico | 15 ' |
| Night Shift | Zia Mandviwalla | New Zealand | 15 ' |
| Sessiz-Be Deng ( Silent ) | L. Rezan Yeşilbaş | Turkey | 14 ' |
| Yardbird | Michael Spiccia | Australia | 13 ' |
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 2012 more than 1,700 films from 320 film schools were submitted. 15 films from 14 countries were selected, including for the first time a contribution from a Lebanese film school.
The short film jury led by Jean-Pierre Dardenne acted as the jury.
| Movie | Director | Country (university) | Length (in min.) |
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| Abigail | Matthew James Reilly | United States ( New York University ) | 17 ' |
| Los Anfitriones ( The Hosts ) |
Miguel Angel Moulet | Cuba ( Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión ) | 16 ' |
| The Ballad of Finn + Yeti | Meryl O'Connor | United States ( University of California, Los Angeles ) | 18 ' |
| Derrière Moi Les Oliviers ( Behind Me Olive Trees ) |
Pascale Abou Jamra | Lebanon (Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts) | 20 ' |
| Doroga na ( The Road to ) |
Taisia Igmentseva | Russia ( WGIK ) | 32 ' |
| Head over heels | Timothy Reckart | United Kingdom ( National Film and Television School ) | 10 ' |
| Matteus | Leni Huyghe | Belgium ( Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel ) | 18 ' |
| Pude ver un puma ( Could See a Puma ) |
Eduardo Williams | Belgium ( Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel ) | 17 ' |
| Les Ravissements ( The Raptures ) |
Arthur Cahn | France ( La fémis ) | 50 ' |
| Resen ( Dog Leash ) |
Eti Tsicko | Israel ( Tel Aviv University ) | 26 ' |
| Riyoushi ( The Barber ) |
Shoichi Akino | Japan ( Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku ) | 39 ' |
| Slug invasion | Morten Helgeland | Denmark (The Animation Workshop) | 6 ' |
| Tabăra din Răzoare ( The Camp in Razoare ) |
Cristi Iftime | Romania ( National University of Theater and Film Arts "Ion Luca Caragiale" ) | 22 ' |
| Tambylles | Michael Hogenauer | Czech Republic ( FAMU ) | 58 ' |
| Terra ( land ) |
Piero Messina | Italy (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) | 23 ' |
Side rows
Semaine de la critique
In parallel to the award of the Golden Palm, the Semaine de la critique , which has existed since 1962 (until 2007 Semaine internationale de la critique ), is 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 films, which have been awarded various prizes since 1990. The "International Critics' Week" was accompanied by special screenings of numerous short films.
The program of the 51st Semaine internationale de la critique was announced on April 23, 2012.
Feature films
| Movie | Director | country | Actor (selection) |
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| Aquí y allá | Antonio Méndez Esparza | Spain, United States, Mexico | Teresa Ramírez Aguirre , Pedro De los Santos Juárez , Lorena Guadalupe Pantaleón Vázquez |
| Au galop | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | France | Valentina Cervi , Marthe Keller , Alice de Lencquesaing |
| Les Voisins de Dieu (God's Neighbors) |
Meni Yaesh | Israel, France | Roy Assaf , Gal Friedman , Itzik Golan , Rotem Ziesman-Cohen |
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Hors les murs (Beyond the Walls) |
David Lambert | Belgium, Canada, France | Guillaume Gouix , Matila Malliarakis , Mélissa Désormeaux Poulin , David Salles |
| Peddlers | Vasan Bala | India | Gulshan Devaiah , Siddharth Mennon , Kriti Malhotra |
| Los Salvajes | Alejandro Fadel | Argentina | Leonel Arancibia , Roberto Cowal , Sofía Brito |
| Sofia's Last Ambulance (Poslednata Lineika na Sofia) |
Ilian Metev | Germany, Bulgaria, Croatia | Krassimir Yordanov , Mila Mikhailova , Plamen Slavkov |
Short films
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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| La Bifle (The Dickslap) |
Jean-Baptiste Saurel | France | 25 ' |
| Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys | Benjamin Parent | France | 12 ' |
| Circle Line | Shin Suwon | South Korea | 26 ' |
| O Duplo (doppelganger) |
Juliana Rojas | Brazil | 25 ' |
| Family Dinner (Middag med familjen) |
Stefan Constantinescu | Sweden | 14 ' |
| Fleuve rouge, Song Hong (Red River, Song Hong) |
Stéphanie Lansaque François Leroy |
France | 15 ' |
| Hazara | Shay Levi | Israel | 19 ' |
| Horizon (Orizont) |
Paul Negoescu | Romania | 11 ' |
| Un dimanche matin | Damien Manivel | France | 18 ' |
| Yeguas y cotorras | Natalia Garagiola | Argentina | 28 ' |
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.
The program was announced on April 24, 2012.
Feature films
Short films
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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| Avec Jeff, à moto (With Jeff) |
Marie-Eve Juste | Canada | 15 ' |
| Koenigsberg | Philipp Mayrhofer | France | 18 ' |
| Os Mortos-vivos (The Living Dead) |
Anita Rocha da Silveira | Brazil | 19 ' |
| Os vivos tambem choram (Les Vivants pleurent aussi) |
Basil da Cunha | Switzerland, Portugal | 30 ' |
| Porcos Raivosos (Enraged Pigs) |
Isabel Penoni Leonardo Sette |
Brazil | 10 ' |
| Portret z pamieci (Drawn From Memory) |
Marcin Bortkiewicz | Poland | 25 ' |
| Rodri | Franco Lolli | France | 23 ' |
| The Curse | Fyzal Boulifa | United Kingdom, Morocco | 16 ' |
| tram | Michaela Pavlátová | France, Czech Republic | 7 ' |
| Wrong cops | Quentin Dupieux | France | 13 ' |
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 Brazilian film director Carlos Diegues . He was supported by the jury members Gloria Satta (journalist, Italy), Rémy Chevrin (cameraman, France), Hervé Icovic (member of the French Fédération des Industries du Cinéma, de l'Audiovisuel et du Multimédia ), Michel Andrieu (film director, France) and Francis Gavelle (Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma). A total of 22 film productions were eligible for the award. The award went to the American contribution Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin .
Further films and program items
Since 2004, newly restored films have been shown in the Cannes Classics series . In 2012, 13 feature films, two short films, one concert film and four documentaries were shown. I.a. The American The Film Foundation, chaired by Martin Scorsese , performed a reconstructed version of Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984). The version, which is based on Leone's first cut, is 25 minutes longer. The premiere of this version should be attended by the actors Robert De Niro , Elizabeth McGovern , Jennifer Connelly , producer Arnon Milchan and family members of the director. Pathé presented a restoration of his film Tess (1979), accompanied by Roman Polański himself , which Polański and leading actress Nastassja Kinski were supposed to attend. A version of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) edited by Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment and a reconstruction of Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The World Champion (1927) by the British Film Institute were also shown.
The US film director Philip Kaufman was supposed to hold a so-called “Master Class” during the film festival, in which he discussed his work as a filmmaker. The French film composer Alexandre Desplat and the American filmmaker Norman Lloyd Kaufman were to do the same under the titles A personal history of film music and A History Lesson .
On May 18, actor and political activist Sean Penn was supposed to hold the Haiti: Carnival benefit event , which founded the JP / HRO aid organization after the 2010 Haiti earthquake . The Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani was the moderator for the first charity event of the film festival since 1996 . The organizations Artists for Peace and Justice of the film director Paul Haggis and the Happy Heart's Fund of the Czech model Petra Němcová should also participate .
The L'Atelier series has supported worldwide film projects since 2005. Film directors and their producers will be invited to Cannes, where meetings with professionals will take place in order to advance the funding of the projects. In 2012, 15 projects from 14 countries were supported.
Awards
Official selection winners
The award ceremony for the official competition, the short film competition and the awarding of the Golden Camera took place on the last day of the festival between 7 and 8 p.m. in the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès .
competition
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Golden Palm for the best film (presented by Audrey Tautou and Adrien Brody , award winner announced by jury president Nanni Moretti ) |
Amour - Director: Michael Haneke |
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Grand Jury Prize (presented by Leila Hatami , announced by Moretti) |
Reality - Directed by Matteo Garrone |
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Best Director (presented by Leïla Bekhti and Tim Roth , announced by Moretti) |
Carlos Reygadas ( Post Tenebras Lux ) |
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Best Screenplay (presented by Nastassja Kinski , announced by Moretti) |
Cristian Mungiu ( După dealuri ) |
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Best Actress (presented by Gong Li , announced by Moretti) |
Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan ( După dealuri ) |
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Best Actor (Presented by Alec Baldwin , announced by Moretti) |
Mads Mikkelsen ( hunted ) |
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Jury Prize (presented by Laura Morante and Patrick Bruel , announced by Moretti) |
The Angels' Share - Director: Ken Loach |
At the jury's final press conference on May 27th, Jury President Nanni Moretti stated that he had met and exchanged views with his jury colleagues more than eight times during the festival. He criticized that some directors in the competition were more “in love” with their film style than with their characters. The jury selected films that were less “sophisticated” or “more authentic”. There would have been major differences of opinion among the jury members for the co-favorite films Holy Motors by Leos Carax , Paradies: Liebe by Ulrich Seidl and Post Tenebras Lux by Carlos Reygadas . The latter film, for which Andrea Arnold and Raoul Peck , among others , had campaigned, was finally honored with the directing award.
The Palme d'Or which also mitfavorisierte post has been Amour by Michael Haneke won awards, which had been lying in international and French criticism mirrors the front. Even before the film's title was announced, Nanni Moretti had highlighted the “fundamental participation” of the two main actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva at the official award ceremony . He stated that Love was also awarded Acting and Screenwriting Awards. However, according to the guidelines of the festival , the Palme d'Or, the Grand Jury Prize and the Director's Prize cannot be combined with any other prize.
A few days after the award ceremony, the French press revealed that four of the six award-winning films ( Reality , Post Tenebras Lux , După dealuri , The Angels' Share ) are productions, co-productions or rental films by the French company Le Pacte . Company boss Jean Labadie had with Le Pacte u. a. Habemus Papam , the last film by Jury President Nanni Moretti, co-produced and distributed in France. In addition, as the former managing director of Bac Films , Labadie was also involved in distributing all of Moretti's previous works. The artistic director of the festival, Thierry Frémaux , rejected the suspicion of possible manipulation and defended Moretti. When the Italian was appointed jury president, according to Frémaux, the selection of the films had only started. He and festival president Gilles Jacob would monitor compliance with the rules during the secret jury discussion and the selection of the award winners. Each jury member would only have one vote and a prize would be awarded in two democratic voting rounds. According to Frémaux, the quality of the film is crucial, not its distributor. He saw next to Le Pacte u. a. the companies Wild Bunch , Ad Vitam (five films in the official selection), Why Not , MK2 , Elzevir , Diaphana and Memento are also strongly represented at the festival due to their high-quality work in world cinema.
Short film competition and Golden Camera
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Golden Palm for the best short film (presented by Kylie Minogue and Jean-Pierre Dardenne ) |
Sessiz-Be Deng - Director: L. Rezan Yeşilbaş |
| Golden Camera ( Caméra d'Or ) for the best debut film (presented by Ludivine Sagnier , Carlos Saura and Carlos Diegues ) |
Beasts of the Southern Wild - Director: Benh Zeitlin |
Un Certain Regard
- Grand Prize: Después de Lucía - Director: Michel Franco
- Special jury prize: Le grand soir - directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
- Special Prize: Djeca - Director: Aida Begic
- Actor Award : Émilie Dequenne ( Aimer à perdre la raison ) and Suzanne Clément ( Laurence Anyways )
Cinéfondation
- 1st prize: Doroga na - director: Taisia Igmentseva
- 2nd Prize: Abigail - Director: Matthew James Reilly
- 3rd Prize: Los Anfitriones - Director: Miguel Angel Moulet
Side rows
Semaine de la critique
- Grand Prix Nespresso de la Semaine de la Critique: Aquí y allá - Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
- Visionary Prize from France 4 : Sofia's Last Ambulance - Director: Ilian Metev
- Gaul's Society of Authors, Directors and Composers: Les Voisins de Dieu - Director: Meni Yaesh
- Guaranteed theatrical release by ACID / CCAS: Los Salvajes - Director: Alejandro Fadel
- Grand Prix Canal + for Best Short Film: Circle Line - Director: Shin Suwon
Quinzaine des réalisateurs (no main prize is awarded in this section)
- Art Cinema Award: No - Director: Pablo Larraín
- Prix SACD (best French-language film): Camille redouble - director: Noémie Lvovsky
- Label Europa Award (combined with a guaranteed theatrical release in Europe): El taaib (Le Repenti) - Director: Merzak Allouache
- 1. Prix Illy du Court Metrage: The Curse - Director: Fyzal Boulifa , Special Mention: Os vivos tambem choram - Director: Basil da Cunha
Independently awarded prizes
- FIPRESCI Prize : V Tumane - Director: Sergei Loznitsa , FIPRESCI Prize for the best debut film: Rengaine - Director: Rachid Djaïdani
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury : Jagten - Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Web links
- Official website (including French and English)
- Press kit and official schedule (English)
- Festival press review (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moonrise Kingdom by Wes Anderson is the opening film of the 65th Festival de Cannes ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at festival-cannes.fr, March 9, 2012 (accessed April 18, 2012).
- ↑ Claude Miller's last film to close the Festival de Cannes at festival-cannes.fr, April 18, 2012 (accessed April 18, 2012).
- ↑ a b award winners at festival-cannes.fr (English; accessed on May 27, 2012).
- ↑ Melanie Goodfellow: Cannes Film Festival shifts dates of 2012 edition to May 16-27 . In: Screen International , September 3, 2011 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
- ↑ a b AFP : 22 films are entering the race for the "Palme d'Or" in Cannes , April 19, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
- ↑ Fatih Akin - our man for Cannes at abendblatt.de, May 16, 2012 (accessed on May 17, 2012).
- ↑ 'The Artist' star to host Cannes film ceremonies at telegraph.co.uk, April 18, 2012 (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ Nanni Moretti . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 09/2009 from February 24, 2009, supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 09/2012 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
- ↑ Nanni Moretti présidera le jury du 65e Festival de Cannes in festival-cannes.fr 20 January, 2012. (accessed on 18 April 2012).
- ↑ Video interview with the jury members at festival-cannes.fr, May 16, 2012, 10:10 min. Ff. (English / French; accessed on May 17, 2012).
- ↑ Official press conference of the jury at festival-cannes.fr, May 16, 2012, 26:00 min. Ff. (English / French; accessed on May 17, 2012).
- ↑ The Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes at festival-cannes.fr, April 25, 2012 (accessed April 25, 2012).
- ↑ Official press conference of the jury at festival-cannes.fr, May 16, 2012, 5:00 min. Ff. (English / French; accessed on May 17, 2012).
- ↑ a b Official selection at festival-cannes.fr, April 19, 2012 (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ a b c Cannes' 65th edition has strong American flavor . In: Screen International , April 20, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
- ↑ Mike Goodridge: High Horses & High Art . In: Screen International , April 5, 2012 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
- ↑ Frater, Patrick: Kiarostami advances Love ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at filmbiz.asia, January 24, 2012 (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ paradise at ulrichseidl.com (accessed on 19 April 2012).
- ↑ Holy Motors at allocine.fr (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ Vous n'avez encore rien vu at allocine.fr (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ Jakten at allocine.fr (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ Reality at allocine.fr (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ dpa : Michael Haneke is heading for the golden palm with “Liebe” at focus.de, April 19, 2012 (accessed on April 19, 2012).
- ↑ Taste of Money at allocine.fr 19 April 2012 (accessed on 19 April 2012).
- ↑ Après la bataille at allocine.fr, April 19, 2012 (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ^ A b Justin Chang : CANNES HAS its cake ... In: Daily Variety , April 20, 2012, p. 1.
- ↑ a b Peter Bradshaw: Cannes film festival 2012 lineup: the competition's still a man's world at guardian.co.uk, April 19, 2012 (accessed April 15, 2012).
- ↑ Shoard, Catherine: Cannes line-up mixes heavyweights and heartthrobs . In: The Guardian , April 20, 2012, p. 17.
- ^ Mathilde Cesbron, Olivier Delcroix, Aurélia Vertaldi: Festival de Cannes: la sélection officielle at lefigaro.fr, April 19, 2012 (accessed April 25, 2012).
- ↑ Gérard Lefort, Didier Péron: Un Festival plutôt sage at next.liberation.fr, April 19, 2012 (accessed April 25, 2012).
- ↑ Thomas Sotinel: Une sélection cannoise en forme d'autoportrait at lemonde.fr, April 20, 2012; Retrieved April 25, 2012.
- ↑ Steven Zeitchik: Cannes Film Festival . In: Los Angeles Times , April 20, 2012, Part D, p. 1.
- ↑ A Cannes, les femmes montrent leurs bobines, les hommes leurs films . In: Le Monde , May 12, 2012, p. 16.
- ↑ cf. List of signatures at labarbeacannes.blogspot.fr (accessed on May 16, 2012).
- ↑ Verena Lueken: Love from Austria . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 16, 2012, No. 114, p. 31.
- ↑ a b Anke Westphal: 22 films by 22 men . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 16, 2012, p. 31.
- ↑ Tim Roth to be president of the Un Certain Regard Jury at festival-cannes.fr, April 12, 2012 (accessed April 18, 2012).
- ↑ a b Composition of Un Certain Regard jury 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, May 14, 2012 (accessed on May 16, 2012).
- ↑ a b The Jury for the Cinéfondation and Short Films ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at festival-cannes.fr, March 28, 2012 (accessed April 18, 2012).
- ↑ a b Short films in the spotlight at the 65th Festival de Cannes at festival-cannes.fr, April 17, 2012 (accessed April 18, 2012).
- ↑ Profile at festival-cannes.fr (English; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Selection at semainedelacritique.com (accessed April 24, 2012).
- ↑ quinzaine-realisateurs.com (accessed April 24, 2012).
- ↑ Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Diegues to chair the Jury for the Caméra d'or at festival-cannes.fr, April 27, 2012 (accessed May 15, 2012).
- ↑ Cannes Classics 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, April 26, 2012 (accessed on May 16, 2012).
- ↑ Three film Masterclasses at the Festival de Cannes 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, April 30, 2012 (accessed on May 16, 2012).
- ↑ The Festival de Cannes is proud to welcome Sean Penn for a benefit event in favor of Haiti at festival-cannes.fr, May 4, 2012 (accessed on May 16, 2012).
- ^ L'Atelier 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, March 14, 2012 (accessed April 19, 2012).
- ↑ Video recording of the final press conference of the jury ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 4:20 min ff. (Italian / French / English with French and English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Video recording of the final press conference of the jury ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 5:10 min ff. (Italian / French / English with French and English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Video recording of the final press conference of the jury ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 4:30 p.m. ff. (Italian / French / English with French and English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Video recording of the final press conference of the jury ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 5:50 pm ff. (Italian / French / English with French and English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Video recording of the final press conference of the jury ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 4:20 min ff. (Italian / French / English with French and English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Jury Grid ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 60 kB) at screendaily.com (accessed on May 27, 2012).
- ↑ Cannes: Les étoiles de la critique at lefilmfrancais.com (accessed on May 27, 2010).
- ↑ Video recording of the award ceremony ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 36:05 min ff. (French with English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Video recording of the final press conference of the jury ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from May 27, 2012 at festival-cannes.fr, 7:10 pm ff. (Italian / French / English with French and English translation; accessed on May 28, 2012).
- ↑ Aureliano Tonet: Festival de Cannes: Les internautes soulignent un conflit d'intérêts pour Nanni Moretti . In: Le Monde , May 30, 2012, p. 21.
- ↑ Thierry Fremaux: " Accepter la subjectivité du Jury " . In: Le Monde , June 6, 2012, p. 22.
- ↑ a b Awards at festival-cannes.com, May 27, 2012 (accessed May 27, 2012).
- ↑ Elsa Keslassy, John Hopewell: 'Aqui y alla' wins Critics' Week top prize at variety.com, May 24, 2012 (accessed May 27, 2012).
- ↑ List of award winners at allocine.fr (French; accessed on May 27, 2012).
- ↑ Prize winners ( Memento of the original dated May 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at quinzaine-realisateurs.com (accessed May 27, 2012).
- ↑ AFP : Cannes: le prix Fipresci de la critique internationale à "Dans la brume" at google.com, May 27, 2012 (accessed on May 27, 2012).
- ↑ Josef Lederle: Ecumenical Film Prize for Thomas Vinterberg at badische-zeitung.de, May 27, 2012 (accessed on May 27, 2012).
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