Cannes International Film Festival 2016
The 69th Cannes International Film Festival took place from May 11-22, 2016. For the third time, they were under the direction of President Pierre Lescure , while Thierry Frémaux, as General Delegate, was responsible for the artistic direction.
The jury president of the international competition, which among other things will award the Palme d'Or for the best film at the festival, was the Australian filmmaker George Miller this year . The main prize was awarded to the social drama Ich, Daniel Blake (I, Daniel Blake) by Briton Ken Loach , who won the competition for the second time since 2006 .
The French actor Laurent Lafitte was chosen to host the opening ceremony and the final award gala .
The film festival opened with Woody Allen's Café Society with Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg in the lead roles, which was shown out of competition. Allen had already opened the film festival with Hollywood Ending in 2002 and Midnight in Paris in 2011 . Since Manhattan (1979), Café Society was the 14th film the director had shown outside of the competition in Cannes.
In the official sections, including the International Competition, the final program was officially presented on April 14, 2016. The tragic comedy Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade competed for the Golden Palm . It was the first contribution by a German filmmaker since Wim Wenders' Palermo shoot in 2008 . Furthermore, Thierry Frémaux invited five film productions from Amazon Studios for the first time , including Woody Allen's film, the latest works by Jim Jarmusch and Nicolas Winding Refn , but no films from the competing streaming service Netflix . Amazon had promised regular cinema premieres for the films, not streaming premieres.
The winner was the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud , who was awarded the Palme d'Or as an honorary prize for his life's work . Léaud received the award at the closing ceremony on May 22nd.
Due to the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris and the declared state of emergency in France, the security precautions for the festival were strengthened, including the Israeli anti-terrorist expert Nitzan Nuriel was involved in the preparation. Due to the tightened protocols, the screenings of four films from the parallel section Quinzaine des realisateurs had to be canceled.
Festival poster
| Official festival poster |
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| Hervé Chigioni / Gilles Frappier , 2016 (using still images from the film The Contempt (1963)) |
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Link to the picture |
The festival poster was created from stills from the film Contempt (1963) by Jean-Luc Godard . It shows the French actor Michel Piccoli in the role of the screenwriter Paul Javal as he climbs the steps to Villa Malaparte on the island of Capri . The steps should represent a kind of ascent to the infinite horizon of a movie screen.
Official selection
International competition
Competition jury
The Australian director, screenwriter and film producer George Miller was presented in early February 2016 as the successor to last year's jury presidents Ethan and Joel Coen . Miller had presented the fourth part of his apocalyptic end-time vision Mad Max: Fury Road outside the competition at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival , which was to win the most awards at the 2016 Academy Awards . In the past, he had already awarded the Golden Palm twice as a jury member - in 1988 under the chairmanship of the Italian director Ettore Scola (main prize: Pelle, the Conqueror ) and in 1999 under the chairmanship of the Canadian director David Cronenberg (main prize: Rosetta ).
The jury president was supported by several jury members who were named on April 27, 2016 when awarding the festival prizes:
- Arnaud Desplechin , French director and screenwriter (five-time participant in the Golden Palm competition)
- Kirsten Dunst , American actress ( Actor Award in Cannes 2011)
- Valeria Golino , Italian actress, director, screenwriter and producer
- Mads Mikkelsen , Danish actor ( Actor Award in Cannes 2012)
- László Nemes , Hungarian director and screenwriter ( Grand Jury Prize 2015)
- Vanessa Paradis , French actress
- Katayoon Shahabi , Iranian film producer
- Donald Sutherland , Canadian actor
Feature films
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Statistics (as of 2016) * = former winner of the Golden Palm |
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| Director | Invitations | |
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| Ken Loach * | 13 | |
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Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne *, Jim Jarmusch |
7th | |
| Pedro Almodovar , Olivier Assayas | 5 | |
| Bruno Dumont , Nicole Garcia , Brillante Mendoza , Cristian Mungiu *, Nicolas Winding Refn | 3 | |
| Xavier Dolan , Asghar Farhadi , Jeff Nichols , Park Chan-wook , Sean Penn , Paul Verhoeven | 2 | |
| Maren Ade , Kleber Mendonça Filho , Alain Guiraudie , Cristi Puiu | 1 | |
An overview of the 21 feature film productions that competed for the Golden Palm:
Except competition and special performances
Out of competition, the following films were presented as part of the official program:
- Disney's The BFG - Director: Steven Spielberg
- Café Society - Director: Woody Allen (opening film)
- Money Monster - Director: Jodie Foster
- The Nice Guys - Director: Shane Black
- The Wailing - Director: Na Hong-jin
Midnight performances ("Séances de minuit")
- Blood Father - Director: Jean-François Richet
- Train to Busan (Busan-haeng) - Director: Yeon Sang-ho
- Gimme Danger - Director: Jim Jarmusch
Special performances ("Séances Spéciales")
- Le Cancre - Director: Paul Vecchiali
- Chouf - Director: Karim Dridi
- Exile - Director: Rithy Panh
- La Forêt de Quinconces - Director: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
- Hissène Habré, une tragédie tchadienne (Hissène Habré, A Chadian Tragedy) - Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- Hands of Stone - Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz (in honor of Robert De Niros )
- La mort de Louis XIV (Last Days of Louis XIV) - Director: Albert Serra
- L'ultima spiaggia (The Last Resort) - Directed by Thanos Anastopoulos and Davide Del Degan
- Wrong Elements - Director: Jonathan Littell
Un Certain Regard
In the series Un Certain Regard (German “A certain look”) works by less well-known filmmakers are shown, which will be awarded a prize worth 30,000 euros.
Short film competition
The jury of the short film competition was chaired by the Japanese director and screenwriter Naomi Kawase . Kawase was four times invited to the International Competition of the Cannes Film Festival and was awarded in 2007 for Mogari No Mori the Grand Jury Prize awarded. For her feature film debut Moe no Suzaku (1996), Kawase had received the Caméra d'Or for the best debut film in Cannes as the youngest director to date .
The following jury members assisted the jury president in awarding the festival prizes:
- Marie-Josée Croze , Canadian-French actress (Actor Award in Cannes 2003)
- Jean-Marie Larrieu , French director and screenwriter (participant in the 2005 Palme d'Or competition)
- Santiago Loza , Argentinian director, playwright and screenwriter (participant in the 2010 Un Certain Regard series )
- Radu Muntean , Romanian director and screenwriter (two-time participant in the Un Certain Regard series )
A total of 5008 short films were submitted, 458 more than in 2015. The following ten short films made the official selection:
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:15 pm sfârşitul lumii (4:15 PM The End of the World) |
Cătălin Rotaru Gabi Virginia Sarga |
Romania | 15 ' |
| Après Suzanne | Félix Moati | France | 15 ' |
| Dreamlands | Sara Dunlop | United Kingdom | 14 ' |
| Fight on a Swedish Beach | Simon Vahlne | Sweden | 14 ' |
| Imago | Raymund Gutierrez | Philippines | 15 ' |
| Laine sur le dos | Lotfi Achour | Tunisia, France | 15 ' |
| Madre (Mother) |
Simón Mesa Soto | Colombia, Sweden | 14 ' |
| A Moça Que Dançou Com o Diabo (The Girl who Danced with the Devil) |
João Paulo Miranda Maria | Brazil | 14 ' |
| Il Silenzio (The Silence) |
Farnoosh Samadi Ali Asgari |
Italy | 15 ' |
| Timecode | Juanjo Giménez | Spain | 15 ' |
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 is aimed at film students. The short film jury led by Naomi Kawase acted as the jury. Three prizes were awarded.
A total of around 2300 works were submitted. Of these, the following 18 short films (including four animated films) made the official selection:
| Movie | Director | Country (university) | Length (in min) |
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| 1 kilogram | Park Young-ju | South Korea (Korea National University of Arts, Seoul) | 29 ' |
| Ailleurs (Somewhere) |
Mélody Boulissière | France ( École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs , Paris) | 6 ' |
| The Alan Dimension | Jac Clinch | United Kingdom ( National Film and Television School , Beaconsfield) | 8th' |
| Anna | Or Sinai | Israel (The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Jerusalem) | 24 ' |
| Aram | Fereshteh Parnian | France ( Université Lumière Lyon 2 ) | 17 ' |
| Whatever the weather (Whatever the Weather) |
Remo Scherrer | Switzerland ( Lucerne University of Art & Design) | 17 ' |
| Business | Malena Vain | Argentina (Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires) | 20 ' |
| La culpa probablemente (The Guilt, Probably) |
Michael Labarca | Venezuela ( Universidad de los Andes , Mérida) | 22 ' |
| Dobro (Fine) |
Marta Hernaiz Pidal | Bosnia and Herzegovina (film.factory) | 15 ' |
| Gabber lover | Anna Cazenave Cambet | France ( La fémis , Paris) | 13 ' |
| Gudh (nest) |
Saurav Rai | India (Satyajit Ray Film & TV Institute, Kolkata) | 28 ' |
| In the Hills | Hamid Ahmadi | United Kingdom ( London Film School ) | 21st |
| A nyalintás nesze (The Noise of Licking) |
Nadja Andrasev | Hungary (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest) | 9 ' |
| Poubelle (Trash) |
Alexandre Gilmet | Belgium ( INSAS , Brussels) | 19 ' |
| Las razones del mundo (The Reasons in the World) |
Ernesto Martínez Bucio | Mexico (Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, Mexico City) | 37 ' |
| La Santa che Dorme (The Sleeping Saint) |
Laura Samani | Italy ( Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia , Rome) | 19 ' |
| Submarine | Mounia Akl | United States ( Columbia University School of the Arts, New York) | 21 ' |
| Toate fluviile curg în mare (All Rivers Run to the Sea) |
Alexandru Badea | Romania (IL Caragiale UNATC, Bucharest) | 24 ' |
Semaine de la critique
In parallel to the award of the Golden Palm, the Semaine de la critique (May 12-20 , 2016) sub-section, which has existed since 1962, 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 film works, which have been awarded various prizes since 1990. The “International Critics' Week” is accompanied by special screenings of numerous short films.
In 2016, the French actress and filmmaker Valérie Donzelli was appointed jury president . She was assisted by the directors Alice Winocour (France), Nadav Lapid (Israel), David Robert Mitchell (USA) and Santiago Miter (Argentina) in awarding the prizes .
The program selection was officially announced on April 18, 2016.
Feature films
| Movie | Director | country | Actor (selection) |
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| Album | Mehmet Can Mertoğlu | Turkey, France, Romania | Şebnem Bozoklu , Murat Kılıç , Muttalip Müjdeci |
| Diamond Island | Davy Chou | Cambodia, France, Germany, Thailand, Qatar | Sobon Nuon , Cheanick Nov , Madeza Chhem |
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Raw (grave) |
Julia Ducournau | France, Belgium | Garance Marillier , Ella Rumpf , Rabah Naït Oufella |
| Mimosas | Óliver Laxe | Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar | Ahmed Hammoud , Shakib Ben Omar , Said Aagli |
| Shavua ve yom (One Week and a Day) |
Asaph Polonsky | Israel | Shai Avivi , Evgenia Dodina , Tomer Kapon |
| Tramontane | Vatche Boulghourjian | Lebanon, France, United Arab Emirates, Qatar | Barakat Jabbour , Julia Kassar , Michel Adabashi |
| A yellow bird | K. Rajagopal | Singapore, France | Sivakumar Palakrishnan , Huang Lu , Seema Biswas |
Short films
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min) |
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| Arnie | Rina B. Tsou | Taiwan, Philippines | 24 ' |
| Ascensão | Pedro Peralta | Portugal | 18 ' |
| Campo de Viboras | Cristèle Alves Meira | Portugal, France | 20 ' |
| O Delírio é A Redenção Dos Aflitos | Fellipe Fernandes | Brazil | 21 ' |
| L'enfance d'un chef | Antoine de Bary | France | 15 ' |
| limbo | Konstantina Kotzamani | Greece, France | 30 ' |
| Oh what a wonderful feeling | François Jaros | Canada | 15 ' |
| Prenjak | Wregas Bhanuteja | Indonesia | 13 ' |
| Le soldier vierge | Erwan Le Duc | France | 39 ' |
| Superbia | Luca Tóth | Hungary | 16 ' |
Special performances
- Opening film: Victoria - Men & Other Mishaps (Victoria) - Director: Justine Triet (France)
- Graduation films:
- Bonne figure - Director: Sandrine Kiberlain (France)
- En Moi - Director: Laetitia Casta (France)
- Kitty - Director: Chloë Sevigny (United States)
- Séance 50 + 5:
- Los pasos del agua - Director: César Augusto Acevedo (Colombia)
- Myomano Shel Tzalam Hatonot (From The Diary Of A Wedding Photographer) - Director: Nadav Lapid (Israel)
- Special performances:
- I tempi felici verranno presto (Happy Times Will Come Soon) - Director: Alessandro Comodin (Italy)
- Apnée - Director: Jean-Christophe Meurisse (France)
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 selection was officially announced on April 19, 2016.
Feature films
Short films
| Movie | Director | country | Length (in min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abigail |
Isabel Penoni Valentina Homem |
Brazil | 17 ' |
| Chasse royale |
Lise Akoka novels Gueret |
28 ' | |
| Decorado | Alberto Vásquez | France | 11 ' |
| Habat Shel Hakala | Tamar Rudoy | Israel | 15 ' |
| happy end | Jan Saska | Czech Republic | 6 ' |
| Hitchhiker | Jero Yun | South Korea | 20 ' |
| import | Ena Sendijarević | Netherlands | 17 ' |
| Kindil el Bahr | Damien Ounouri | 40 ' | |
| Lethé | Dea Kulumbegashvili | Georgia | 15 ' |
| Listening to Beethoven | Garri Bardine | 10 ' | |
| Zvir | Miroslav Sikavica | Croatia | 14 ' |
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 was chaired by the French filmmaker Catherine Corsini . She was supported by jury members Jean-Christophe Berjon (member of the Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma ), Alexander Rodnianski (invited Russian film producer), Isabelle Frilley (member of FICAM ) and Jean-Marie Dreujou (member of the AFC ). The award went to the film Divines by the Franco-Moroccan Houda Benyamina from the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series .
Award winners
- Competition - Best Feature Film
- Golden Palm for the best film: I, Daniel Blake - Director: Ken Loach
- Grand Jury Prize: Xavier Dolan ( Juste la fin du monde )
- Jury Prize: Andrea Arnold ( American Honey )
- Best Directors: Cristian Mungiu ( Bacalaureat ) and Olivier Assayas ( Personal Shopper )
- Best Actress: Jaclyn Jose (Ma'Rosa)
- Best Actor: Shahab Hosseini (Forushande)
- Best Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi (Forushande)
Competition - Best Short Film:
- Golden Palm: Timecode - Director: Juanjo Giménez
- Honorable Mention: A Moça Que Dançou Com o Diabo (The Girl who Danced with the Devil) - Director: João Paulo Miranda Maria
Best first work:
- Caméra d'Or: Divines - Director: Houda Benyamina
Prices of the "Un Certain Regard" section :
- Main prize: The happiest day in the life of Olli Mäki (Hymyilevä mies) - Director: Juho Kuosmanen
- Jury Prize: Fuchi ni tatsu (Harmonium) - Director: Kōji Fukada
- Best Director: Captain Fantastic - Once Wilderness and Back (Captain Fantastic) - Director: Matt Ross
- Best Screenplay: Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin - Seeing the World (Voir du Pays)
- Special prize: The red turtle (La tortue rouge) - Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Prices of the section "Semaine de la critique":
- "Grand Prix Nespresso de la Semaine de la Critique": Mimosas - Director: Óliver Laxe
- "France 4 Visionary Award": Albüm - Director: Mehmet Can Mertoğlu
- “Leica Cine Discovery Prize” - Best Short Film: Prenjak - Director: Wregas Bhanuteja
- Gan Foundation Award for Distribution: Sophie Dulac , French distributor for Shavua ve yom (One Week and a Day) - Director: Asaph Polonsky
- “Prix SACD”: Diamond Island - Direction and script: Davy Chou and Claire Maugendre
- “Grand Prix Canal +” for the best short film: L'enfance d'un chef - director: Antoine de Bary
Further prices
- Competition: Toni Erdmann - Director: Maren Ade
- Series Un Certain Regard : Caini (dogs) - Director: Bogdan Mirica
- Series Semaine de la critique : Raw (Grave) - Director: Julia Ducournau
- Ecumenical Jury Prize: Simply the End of the World - Director: Xavier Dolan
- Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury: American Honey - Director: Andrea Arnold
Web links
- Official website of the Cannes Film Festival (including French and English)
- Official website of the side series Semaine de la critique (French and English)
- Official website of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs series (French and English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Miller to preside the Jury of the 69th Festival de Cannes at festival-cannes.com, February 2, 2016 (accessed March 28, 2016).
- ↑ Laurent Lafitte, Master of ceremonies at the 69th Festival de Cannes at festival-cannes.com, March 11, 2016 (accessed on March 28, 2016).
- ↑ Woody Allen's Café Society to open the 69th Festival International du Film ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.com, March 29, 2016 (accessed March 29, 2016).
- ↑ Festival 2016: Official Selection at festival-cannes.com (accessed on March 28, 2016).
- ↑ a b Kamalzadeh, Dominik: Cannes Film Festival: Storming the Cinema Palace at derstandard.at, May 11, 2016 (accessed on May 11, 2016).
- ↑ The honory Palme d'or awarded to Jean-Pierre Léaud at festival-cannes.com, May 10, 2016 (accessed May 10, 2016).
- ↑ Official poster for the 69th Festival de Cannes ( Memento of the original from March 26, 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 24, 2016 (accessed March 28, 2016).
- ↑ The Jury of the 69th Festival de Cannes at festival-cannes.fr, April 27, 2016 (accessed on May 2, 2016).
- ↑ Official Selection at festival-cannes.fr (accessed April 14, 2016).
- ↑ Updated Selection Line-up - Cannes 2016 at festival-cannes.fr, April 22, 2016 (accessed on May 2, 2016).
- ↑ Hands of Stone as a special screening to pay a tribute to Robert De Niro at festival-cannes.fr, May 3, 2016 (accessed May 3, 2016).
- ↑ Naomi Kawase, President of The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury at festival-cannes.com, March 15, 2016 (accessed March 28, 2016).
- ↑ The Short Films and Cinéfondation Jury 2016 at festival-cannes.com, April 29, 2016 (accessed on May 2, 2016).
- ↑ a b Official press release at festival-cannes.com, April 11, 2016 (accessed April 14, 2016).
- ↑ Jury 2016 (accessed on 28 March 2016) at semainedelacritique.com.
- ↑ Information at semainedelacritique.com (accessed on March 28, 2016).
- ↑ Information at quinzaine-realisateurs.com (accessed on March 28, 2016).
- ↑ The Caméra d'or Jury 2016 at festival-cannes.fr, April 28, 2016 (accessed on May 2, 2016).
- ↑ Caméra d'or: "Divines", de Houda Benyamina at liberation.fr, May 22, 2016 (accessed on May 23, 2016).
- ↑ 69th Festival de Cannes Awards at festival-cannes.com, May 22, 2016 (accessed May 23, 2016).
- ↑ Un Certain Regard Award at festival-cannes.com, May 21, 2016 (accessed May 22, 2016).
- ↑ Critics' Week awards at screendaily.com, May 20, 2016 (accessed May 23, 2016).
- ↑ 69th Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI PRIZE . In: fipresci.org (accessed June 12, 2019).
- ^ Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes 2016 . In: inter-film.org, (accessed June 12, 2019).
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