Cannes International Film Festival 2009
The 62nd Cannes International Film Festival took place from May 13-24, 2009. The film festival was opened for the first time with an animated film, the Disney - Pixar production Oben (original title: Up ). Jan Kounen's romantic drama Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky was chosen as the graduation film. Both films were shown out of competition. The main prize, the Golden Palm , went to the contribution The White Ribbon by Austrian Michael Haneke .
After eight years, the office of jury president was again held by a woman, the French actress Isabelle Huppert . The selection of films was dominated both in the competition for the Golden Palm , the main prize of the festival, and in the sub-sections by European auteur films . The German-language film was represented this year alone with Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. Invitations for German or Swiss filmmakers were not issued.
The economic crisis made itself felt at the festival, among other things, through a decline in hotel reservations. Well-known receptions such as those of the Vanity Fair magazine or the German film organization German Films have been canceled or were significantly smaller than in previous years. The film market in Cannes, where film producers and distributors have the opportunity to find partners to finance their film projects or to buy work that has already been completed, complained of extreme reluctance to buy and new deals.
Official selection
International competition
Competition jury
Isabelle Huppert was presented on January 2, 2009 as the successor to last year's jury president Sean Penn . The French film and theater actress had already been a member of the jury of the film festival in 1984, while she had been awarded the Acting Prize in 1978 for Violette Nozière and in 2001 for The Piano Player . After Olivia de Havilland (1965), Sophia Loren (1966), Michèle Morgan (1971), Ingrid Bergman (1973), Jeanne Moreau (1975 and 1995), Françoise Sagan (1979), Isabelle Adjani (1997) and Liv Ullmann (2001 ) was held by a woman for the tenth time as the jury president. With the decision in favor of the 55-year-old, Huppert's “service to artistic cinema” was recognized, as the festival director Thierry Frémaux announced. At the opening of the film festival, the jury president announced programmatically: “We are not here to judge films. We are here to love films. ”She hopes that the works“ not only touch emotionally, but also stimulate thought. ”
Huppert was assisted by eight jury members. It was almost exclusively filmmakers:
- Asia Argento - Italian actress and director
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Turkish director and screenwriter ( Grand Jury Prize 2003, Best Director 2008)
- Lee Chang-dong - South Korean director and screenwriter
- James Gray - American director and screenwriter
- Hanif Kureishi - British novelist and screenwriter
- Shu Qi - Taiwanese actress
- Robin Wright Penn - American actress
- Sharmila Tagore - Indian actress
The jury, which originally consisted of eight members, was expanded to include Tagore on May 4, 2009.
Competitors for the Golden Palm
The other jury members as well as the official program were presented on April 23, 2009 at a press conference in Paris. The participation of the director Quentin Tarantino with Inglourious Basterds was already considered certain in advance . The new film by the American, who received the Palm of Gold for Pulp Fiction in 1994 , is about a group of Jewish-American soldiers who are supposed to kill as many German occupiers as possible in France during World War II . Inglourious Basterds was shot mainly in Berlin . In addition to Brad Pitt and the French Mélanie Laurent , the German-Austrian actor Christoph Waltz and numerous German actors such as Diane Kruger , Daniel Brühl , Til Schweiger and Gedeon Burkhard are represented.
After the criticism arose in recent years that American productions had dominated the film festival, as in the previous year, most film productions came from Europe (eleven films), followed by Asia (five films) and the United States (two). According to Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux, many American film productions could not have been completed on time due to the strike by Hollywood screenwriters . The field of participants is supplemented by contributions from Israel and Australia, while film productions from Latin America or Africa are not represented.
“This is a year with the big names in cinema,” said Frémaux about this year's competition. With the exception of the Spanish film director Isabel Coixet ( Map of the Sounds of Tokyo ) , the other 19 directors were represented at least once in the competition for the Palme d'Or. In addition to Tarantino, three more of these have already been awarded the main prize: the New Zealander Jane Campion (1993 for Das Piano ), the Briton Ken Loach (2006 for The Wind That Shakes the Barley ) and the Dane Lars von Trier (2000 for Dancer in the Dark ). Campion received an invitation to Cannes for Bright Star . The film depicts the love affair between the 23-year-old poet John Keats (1795-1821) and the five years younger Fanny Brawne, played by the British Ben Whishaw and the Australian Abbie Cornish . In his competition entry Looking for Eric, Loach focuses on a soccer-loving mail carrier (played by Steve Evets) who gets into a life crisis and receives help from the former soccer player Eric Cantona . In his Antichrist , which is somewhere between drama and horror film, von Trier tells of a couple (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe ) who try to save their marriage during a holiday together in a remote forest. In addition to Coixet and Campion, a third female director is represented in the competition, Andrea Arnold . In the drama Fish Tank , the British actress tells the story of a 15-year-old (played by amateur actress Katie Jarvis) whose life is beginning to be changed by her mother's new boyfriend.
Another favorite was the Austrian Michael Haneke , who received an invitation to Cannes for the German co-production The White Ribbon . The film is set on the eve of the First World War and describes the mysterious incidents in a village school choir. Haneke is represented in the competition for the fifth time, having won the Grand Jury Prize and the Director's Prize in 2001 for piano player and in 2005 for Caché . A German director was not represented. Fatih Akin's film Soul Kitchen had received an invitation to the official program, but the director needed more time for editing and a possible re-shoot and therefore canceled the festival directors. Last year Wim Wenders competed unsuccessfully with Palermo Shooting for the Palme d'Or. The number of well-known auteur filmmakers was so large that the American Jim Jarmusch , who had been represented seven times in the competition (Grand Jury Prize 2005) for his crime drama The Limits of Control, surprisingly received no invitation.
After winning last year, French directors were most frequently represented in the competition with a total of four film productions. Besides Xavier Giannolis À l'origine and Wild Grass by Alain Resnais was able to Jacques Audiard make up the main prize hopes. In his crime drama A Prophet , he traces the path of an orphan boy of Maghrebian descent (played by Tahar Rahim ) who, with the help of the Corsican mafia, becomes an influential criminal. Gaspar Noé , who caused an uproar in Cannes in 2002 with the depictions of violence in his film Irreversible , was represented with the English-language drama Enter the Void , which deals with the relationship between a pair of siblings. The Asian contributions were Lou Yes secretly staged film Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng (Spring Fever) , the vampire story Bak-Jwi (Thirst) by South Korean Park Chan-wook , the Filipino thriller Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza and Johnnie Tos Vengeance , in the Johnny Hallyday portrays a former professional killer in Hong Kong , while the Taiwanese Tsai Ming-liang was able to engage such well-known actors as Mathieu Amalric , Jeanne Moreau and Fanny Ardant for his film Visage (Face) . Tsai's compatriot Ang Lee , Oscar winner and two-time Golden Lion winner , presented a comedy about the music festival of the same name with the US production Taking Woodstock .
Pedro Almodóvar's competition entry Los abrazos rotos (English: Torn Hugs ) was already launched in Spain, in which he again entrusted Penélope Cruz with the lead role. The director's most expensive film to date tells of the relationship between an unsuccessful actress who ends tragically, and was recognized in Almodóvar's homeland primarily because of the strong male roles. The Italian Marco Bellocchio took on the fate of Benito Mussolini's secret wife , Ida Dalser (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno ), with Vincere , while the Palestinian director Elia Suleiman traces the history of the State of Israel with The Time That Remains .
Feature films
An overview of the 20 feature film productions that were represented in the international competition for the Golden Palm . These were selected from 1670 proposals from 120 countries.
Un Certain Regard
In the Un Certain Regard series , works by little-known filmmakers will be shown, which will be awarded a prize worth 30,000 euros. In 2009, there was no feature film from Germany, Austria or Switzerland, after Andreas Dresen's drama Cloud Neun was invited and awarded the previous year . This year's jury was led by the Italian film director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino , who last year was represented with Il Divo in the competition for the Golden Palm and received the jury's prize. Sorrentino was supported by French actress Julie Gayet , Piers Handling , director of the Toronto International Film Festival , Indian journalist and festival organizer Uma Da Cunha and Swede Marit Kapla , director of the Gothenburg International Film Festival . The series was opened with the Iranian contribution Kasi az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh (No One Knows About Persian Cats) by Bahman Ghobadi , who deals with the indie rock scene in Tehran . Also represented was the Romanian Cristian Mungiu , winner of the Golden Palm 2007. With the joint effort Amintiri din Epoca de Aur (Eng: "Stories from the Golden Age" ) Mungiu looks back on the Ceaușescu years.
Movie | Director | country | Actor (selection) |
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À Deriva (Adrift) | Heitor Dhalia | Brazil | Camilla Belle , Vincent Cassel |
Amintiri din Epoca de Aur (Tales From the Golden Age) |
Hanno Höfer Razvan Marculescu Cristian Mungiu Constantin Popescu Ioana Uricaru |
Romania | Diana Cavaliotti, Radu Iacoban, Tania Popa |
Demain dès l'aube | Denis Dercourt | France | Vincent Perez , Jérémie Renier , Adeline Zarudiansky |
Eyes wide open | Haim Tabakman | Israel | documentary |
Independencia (Independence) | Raya Martin | Philippines, France, Germany | Tetchie Agbayani, Sid Lucero |
Irène | Alan Cavalier | France | |
Kasi az Gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh (No One Knows About Persian Cats) | Bahman Ghobadi | Iran | |
Kūki ningyō (Air Doll) | Hirokazu Koreeda | Japan | Bae Doo-na , Jō Odagiri, Susumu Terajima |
Kynodontas ( Dogtooth ) | Yorgos Lanthimos | Greece | Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia |
Morrer como um homem (Mourir Comme Un Homme) | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal | |
Mother | Bong Joon-ho | South Korea | Bin Won, Ku Jin, Hye-ja Kim |
Nang Mai (Nymph) | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang | Thailand | |
Le père de mes enfants | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany | Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing , Dominique Frot |
Politist, Adjective (Policier, Adjectif) | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania | Dragoș Bucur , Vlad Ivanov, Cosmin Selesi |
Precious | Lee Daniels | United States | Gabourey Sidibe , Lenny Kravitz , Mo'Nique |
Samson & Delilah | Warwick Thornton | Australia | Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson |
The Silent Army | Jean van de Velde | Netherlands | |
Skazka pro temnotu (Tale in the Darkness) | Nikolai Chomeriki | Russia | |
Tzar (Le Tsar) | Pavel Lungin | Russia, France | |
Los Viajes del Viento (Les Voyages Du Vent) | Ciro Guerra | Colombia | Agustin Nieves, Erminia Martinez, José Luis Torres |
Short film competition
The jury of the short film competition, in which a Golden Palm is also awarded, was chaired this year by British director and screenwriter John Boorman . Boorman, who was awarded the directorial prize in Cannes in 1970 and 1988 , was supported by the French director Bertrand Bonello , his Tunisian colleague Ferid Boughedir and the actresses Leonor Silveira from Portugal and Zhang Ziyi from China. The jury also awards the prize in the Cinéfondation series every year .
Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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After Tomorrow | Emma Sullivan | Great Britain | 15 ′ |
arena | João Salaviza | Portugal | 15 ′ |
Ciao mama | Goran Odvorcic | Croatia | 10 ′ |
Klusums | Laila Pakalnina | Latvia | 14 ′ |
Larsog Peter | Daniel Borgman | Denmark | 15 ′ |
L'Homme à la Gordini | Jean-Christophe Lie | France | 10 ′ |
Miss | Jochem De Vries | Netherlands | 12 ′ |
Rumbo | Alex Brendemühl | Spain | 12 ′ |
The six dollar fifty man |
Mark Albiston Louis Sutherland |
New Zealand | 15 ′ |
Cinéfondation
For the Cinéfondation series, launched in 1998, seventeen short films from 13 different countries were selected, including both animation and real- life films . The program helps young film students promote and complete their projects. The short film jury led by John Boorman acted as the jury.
Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
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#1 | Noamir Castéra | Belgium | 4 ′ |
Baba | Zuzana Kirchnerová-Spidlová | Czech Republic | 20 ′ |
By the Grace of God (Par la grace de dieu) | Ralitza Petrova | United Kingdom | 37 ′ |
Chapa | Thiago Ricarte | Brazil | 15 ′ |
Le contretemps | Dominique Baumard | France | 39 ′ |
Diploma (diplomas) | Yaelle Kayam | Israel | 22 ′ |
El boxeador (Le boxeur) | Juan Ignacio Pollio | Argentina | 10 ′ |
Goodbye | Song catch | China | 31 ′ |
Gutter | Dan Ransom Day | United States | 17 ′ |
The horn | Yim Kyung-dong | South Korea | 23 ′ |
Kasia | Elisabet Lladó | Belgium | 11 ′ |
Małżonkowie | Dara van Dusen | Poland | 12 ′ |
Nammae ui jip | Jo Sung-hee | South Korea | 43 ′ |
Il naturalista | Giulia Barbera Gianluca Lo Presti Federico Parodi Michele Tozzi |
Italy | 5 ′ |
Segal | Yuval Shani | Israel | 23 ′ |
Sylfidden (La sylphidde) | Dorte Bengtson | Denmark | 7 ′ |
Traverses | Hugo Frassetto | France | 5 ′ |
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. The competition always includes seven feature films and seven short film works, which have been awarded various prizes since 1990. The “International Critics' Week” is accompanied by special screenings of numerous short films.
Feature films
Movie | Director | country | Actor (selection) |
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Goodbye Gary | Nassim Amaouche | France | Jean-Pierre Bacri, Dominique Reymond, Yasmine Belmadi |
Altiplano |
Peter Brosens Jessica Woodworth |
Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands | Magaly Solier Romero , Jasmin Tabatabai , Olivier Gourmet |
Huacho | Alejandro Fernández Almendras | Chile, France, Germany | Clemira Aguayo, Alejandra Yáñez, Cornelio Villagrán |
Lost Persons Area | Caroline Strubbe | Belgium | Lisbeth Gruwez, Sam Louwyck, Kimke Desart |
Time for pescar | Álvaro calculator | Uruguay, Spain | Gary Piquer, Jouko Ahola, Antonella Costa |
Ordinary People | Vladimir Perisic | Serbia, France | Relja Popovic, Boris Isakovic, Miroslav Stevanovic |
Sirta la gal ba | Shahram Alidi | Iraq | Omar Chawshin, Maryam Boubani, Fakher Mohammad Barzani |
Short films
Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
---|---|---|---|
C'est gratuit for the filles |
Marie Amachoukeli Claire Burger |
France | 23 ′ |
Logorama | H5 | France | 16 ′ |
Noche adentro | Pablo Lamar | Paraguay | 17 ′ |
Runaway | Cordell Barker | Canada | 9 ′ |
Slitage | Patrick Eklund | Sweden | 18 ′ |
Together | Eicke Bettinga | Germany, Great Britain | 14 ′ |
Tulum | Dalibor Matanić | Croatia | 15 ′ |
Quinzaine des réalisateurs
The side series Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (German: Two Weeks of Directors ) was launched in 1969 on the basis of 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 section opened with Francis Ford Coppola's film Tetro , which the two-time winner of the Palme d'Or had originally submitted for the official competition. After the organizers of the festival only offered the American director a place outside the competition, Coppola gave Tetro to the side series.
Feature films
Movie | Director | country | Actor (selection) |
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Ajami |
Scandar Copti Yaron Shani |
Israel | |
Amreeka | Cherien Dabis | United States | Hiam Abbass , Alia Shawkat |
Les beaux gosses | Riad Sattouf | France | Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Tremolières |
Carcasses | Denis Coté | Canada | documentary |
Daniel y Ana | Michel Franco | Mexico | Dario Yazbek Bernal, Marimar Vega, Chema Torre |
Eastern Plays | Came Kalew | Bulgaria | Hristo Hristov, Ovanes Torosian, Saadet Isil Aksoy |
La Famille Wolberg | Axelle Ropert | France | François Damiens, Valérie Benguigui, Valentin Vigourt |
Go Get Some Rosemary |
Benny Safdie Joshua Safdie |
United States | Ronald Bronstein |
Here | Tzu-Nyen Ho | Singapore | John Low, Jo Tan |
Humpday | Lynn Shelton | United States | Mark Duplass , Joshua Leonard , Alycia Delmore |
I love you Phillip Morris |
Glenn Ficarra John Requa |
United States | Jim Carrey , Ewan McGregor , Leslie Mann |
J'ai tué ma mère de | Xavier Dolan | Canada | Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément |
Jal Aljido Motamyunseo (Like You Know It All) | Hong Sangsoo | South Korea | Jung-woo Ha, Tae-woo Kim, Ko Hyeon-jeong |
Karaoke | Chan Fui (Chris) Chong | Malaysia | |
La Merditude des choses | Felix Van Groeningen | Belgium | Johan Heldenbergh, Koen De Graeve, Pauline Grossen |
Navidad | Sebastian Lelio | Chile | Manuela Martelli, Diego Ruiz, Alicia Rodriguez |
Ne change rien | Pedro Costa | Portugal | Jeanne Balibar , Rodolphe Burger |
Oxhide II | Liu Jia Yin | China | |
La Pivellina |
Tizza Covi Rainer Frimmel |
Austria, Italy | |
Polytechnique | Denis Villeneuve | Canada | Maxim Gaudette , Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse |
Le Roi de l'évasion | Alain Guiraudie | France | |
La Terre de la folie | Luc Moullet | France | |
Tetro | Francis Ford Coppola | Argentina, Spain, Italy | Alden Ehrenreich, Maribel Verdú , Carmen Maura |
Yuki and Nina |
Nobuhiro Suwa Hippolyte Girardot |
France, Japan | Noë Sampy, Arielle Moutel, Tsuyu Shimizu |
Short films
Movie | Director | country | Length (in min.) |
---|---|---|---|
A Repüles Története | Balint Kenyeres | Hungary, France | 15 ′ |
American minor | Charlie White | United States | 8th' |
Anna | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Denmark | 35 ′ |
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 | Chema Garcia Ibarra | Spain | 17 ′ |
Canção de amor e saúde | João Nicolau | Portugal, France | 35 ′ |
Cicada | Amiel Courtin-Wilson | Australia | 9 ′ |
Drommar Från Skogen | Johannes Nyholm | Sweden | 9 ′ |
Dust Kid | Yumi Jung | South Korea | 10 ′ |
Les Fugitives (The Fugitives) | Guillaume head | France | 25 ′ |
Hunting Fever - The Hunting Fever | Alessandro Comodin | Belgium | 20 ′ |
John Wayne Hated Horses | Andrew T. Betzer | United States | 10 ′ |
Nice | Maud Alpi | France | 25 ′ |
SuperBarraco | Renata Pinheiro | Brazil | 17 ′ |
Thermidor | Virgil Vernier | France | 17 ′ |
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. The international jury is headed by the French actor Roschdy Zem , who received the Cannes Acting Award in 2006 together with the male actors from Days of Fame . In addition to Zem, the camerawoman Diane Baratier , Olivier Chiavassa , director of the film studio Laboratoires Eclair , the director Sandrine Ray , the critic Charles Tesson and Edouard Waintrop , director of the Freiburg International Film Festival, sit on the jury.
The following 20 films shown in Cannes are debut works:
- Adieu Gary by Nassim Amaouche ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- Les Beaux Gosses by Riad Sattouf ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- Daniel y Ana by Michel Franco ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- Eastern Plays by Kamen Kalev ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- Eyes Wide Open by Haim Tabakman (Official Selection - "Un Certain Regard")
- La Famille Wolberg by Axelle Ropert ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- Here by Tzu-Nyen Ho ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- Hierro by Gabe Ibáñez ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- Huacho by Alejandro Fernández Almendras ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- I Love You Phillip Morris by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- J'ai tué ma mère by Xavier Dolan ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- Karaoke by Chan Fui ("Quinzaine des Réalisateurs")
- Lascars by Emmanuel Klotz and Albert Pereira Lazaro ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- Lost Persons Area by Caroline Strubbe ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- Mal dia para pescar by Alvaro Brechner ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- Ordinary People by Frédéric Heinrich ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- Panique au village by Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier (Official Selection - "Séance de Minuit")
- Rien de personnel by Mathias Gokalp ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
- Samson & Delilah by Warwick Thornton (Official Selection - "Un Certain Regard")
- Sirta la gal ba by Shahram Alidi ("Semaine Internationale de la Critique")
Films and programs out of competition
Outside the official competition in addition to the opening film was the top and the closing film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky and Alejandro Amenábar's Agora , Robert Guédiguians L'Armée du crime and Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus shown. Gilliam's directorial work is the last film by Heath Ledger , who died in 2008. After the death of the Australian actor, who was posthumously awarded an Oscar for his performance in The Dark Knight in 2009, Johnny Depp , Colin Farrell and Jude Law were hired to perform in Ledger's part took over the not yet shot scenes.
The latest works by Souleymane Cissé (Min ye) , Sam Raimi (Drag Me to Hell) and Michel Gondry (Épine dans le cœur) were shown in midnight and special performances . The American director Martin Scorsese presented the series Cannes Classics , in which scenes from Henri-Georges Clouzot's film L'enfer (Eng .: “Hell” ) were shown, which Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea in their documentary L'Enfer d 'Henri-Georges Clouzot used. The shooting of the film, with Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani in the leading roles, had been interrupted in 1964 after a heart attack by Clouzot and never restarted , while Claude Chabrol remade the script in 1994 with Emmanuelle Béart and François Cluzet . Also in this section was a restored version of Michelangelo Antonioni's Die Play with Love , who inspired this year's official festival poster. You can see the back view of his blonde leading actress Monica Vitti , who is standing in a black dress at a doorstep and looking out onto a large, empty square flooded with sunlight.
The Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne , two-time winners of the Palme d'Or, held a “Cinema Master Class” during the film festival, in which they discussed their work as filmmakers and screenwriters. In doing so, they followed well-known directors such as Martin Scorsese , Stephen Frears , Wong Kar-wai , Nanni Moretti , Sydney Pollack and Quentin Tarantino , who had given insight into their work at the film festival in recent years.
Award winners
competition
- Goldene Palme (Palme d'or) for the best film: The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story by Michael Haneke
- Grand prize of the jury (Grand prix du jury) : Un prophète by Jacques Audiard
- Jury Prize (Prix du Jury) : Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold and Bak-Jwi by Park Chan-wook
- Best Director: Brillante Mendoza ( Kinatay )
- Best Actor: Christoph Waltz ( Inglourious Basterds )
- Best Actress: Charlotte Gainsbourg ( Antichrist )
- Best Screenplay: Mei Feng (Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng)
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Alain Resnais (Les herbes folles)
Short film competition
- Golden Palme (Palme d'or) for the best short film: Arena by João Salaviza
- Honorable Mention: The Six dollar fifty man by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland
Golden camera
- Golden Camera ( Caméra d'Or ) for the best debut film: Samson & Delilah by Warwick Thornton
Un Certain Regard
- Main prize: Kynodontas of Yorgos Lanthimos
- Jury Prize: Politist, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu
- Special prize in the Un Certain Regard 2009 series: Kasi az gorbehaye Irani Khabar Nadareh by Bahman Ghobadi and Le Père de mes enfants by Mia Hansen-Løve
Cinéfondation
- 1st prize: Baba by Zuzana Kirchnerová-Spidlová
- 2nd prize: Goodbye from Song Fang
- 3rd prize: Diploma from Yaelle Kayam and Nammae ui jip from Jo Sung-hee
Semaine de la critique
- Grand Prix de la Semaine de la critique: Adieu Gary by Nassim Amaouche
- Side prize: Sirta la gal ba by Shahram Alidi
Quinzaine des réalisateurs
- Art Cinema Award: I Killed My Mother by Xavier Dolan
- Regards Jeunes 2009: I Killed My Mother by Xavier Dolan
- Prix SACD: I Killed My Mother by Xavier Dolan
- Europa Cinemas Prize: La Pivellina by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
- Prix SFR: Montparnasse by Mikhaël Hers
Further prices
- Prix Vulcain de l'artiste technicien : Map of the Sounds of Tokyo by Isabel Coixet
- Ecumenical Jury Prize : Looking for Eric by Ken Loach
- Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury: The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke
- FIPRESCI Prize : Michael Haneke's White Ribbon
Web links
- Official website (French / English)
- Compilation of the press reactions on film-zeit.de (German)
- Reporting by the Franco-German TV station ARTE (German)
- Reporting on the 2009 film festival at allocine.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anke Westphal: Cannes Film Festival opens with 3D animation film . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 20, 2009, p. 23
- ↑ a b Prize winners ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2011 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 (English); Retrieved May 24, 2009
- ^ Daniel Kothenschulte: Numbers for the colliery . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 13, 2009, p. 31
- ↑ a b Christoph Egger: Gladly with a pinch of horror . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 13, 2009, p. 41
- ↑ a b Film festival opened in Cannes ( Memento from May 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, May 13, 2009; Retrieved May 14, 2009
- ↑ Karin Zintz: Cannes Film Festival Beauty and class, but not a clear favorite . SDA , May 22, 2009 2:56 PM CET
- ↑ Isabelle Huppert heads the jury at the Cannes Film Festival . Agence France-Presse , January 2, 2009
- ^ A b L'actrice Sharmila Tagore rejoint le jury de Cannes . In: Le Monde , May 6, 2009, p. 22
- ↑ Tatiana Siegel: Cannes berth for 'Basterds' . In: Daily Variety , April 2, 2009, p. 1
- ↑ a b c Old masters and cult directors argue for the golden palm in Cannes . Agence France-Presse, April 23, 2009, Paris
- ^ Arifa Akbar: Cannes Film Festival snubs British movies for the second year running . In: The Independent , April 24, 2008, p. 4
- ^ David Germain: Spielberg joins regulars for Cannes film fest . Associated Press , May 13, 2008 1:41 PM GMT
- ↑ Fatih Akin puts Cannes down . In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 17, 2009, edition 104/2009, p. 14
- ↑ Johannes Wetzel: Who will get the Golden Palm? In: Berliner Zeitung , April 24, 2009, p. 31
- ↑ Brigitte Kramer: Relaxed hugs at perlentaucher.de , March 18, 2009, accessed April 25, 2009
- ^ Fran Yeoman: Cantona plays for England in big match against Tarantino for top Cannes prize . In: The Times , April 24, 2009, p. 24
- ↑ Iran film to open newcomers' section at Cannes . Agence France-Presse , May 4, 2009, 4:26 PM GMT, Paris
- ↑ And refuses the cheap, ethereal . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 16, 2009, p. 29
- ^ Profile of L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot at festival-cannes.com (English); Retrieved May 23, 2009
- ^ Profile of L'avventura at festival-cannes.com (English); Retrieved May 23, 2009
- ↑ Belgian brothers share film-making wisdom at Cannes . AFP , Cannes, May 19, 2009 4:01 PM GMT
- ↑ Official press release of April 10, 2008 (English)
- ↑ Masterclass on festival-cannes.fr