Cannes 2007

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Director Frears to head Cannes festival jury

British director Stephen Frears, whose latest film "The Queen" focuses on the royal family and the death of Princess Diana, will head the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the organizers said on Thursday.

"Of course it's an honor, but it's also a treat to be able to watch terrific films from all over the world in such heady surroundings," Frears said in a statement.

"God Save Cannes (as well as the Queen)."

Frears first grabbed attention with his 1985 film "My Beautiful Launderette," a success he followed up with "Prick Up Your Ears" and "Dangerous Liaisons," the latter firmly establishing his international reputation.

Frears, who will preside over the 60th Cannes Film Festival from May 16-27, succeeds Wong Kar-Wai, the first Chinese national to chair the event's panel.

[atticus jones]

his earier cntributions on BBC's Play for Today, though most xaxers are too young to memember, are quite nice and should be checked out along with many of the social realist dramas presented in the series...

ol jo hopkins wrote for the run and sadly cracked his dome fell ina pool and died here in the valley a few years back (98)...talking to a stranger ('66) is worth doing and an intersting take on telling one story from different perspectives..but i digress

thanks for the canned response

see you in france if yu get the chance

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Secret film will mark Cannes' 60th
Big directors to unspool more than 30 shorts
Source: Variety

PARIS -- In a departure from tradition, a number of films that will be shown at the Cannes Festival this year have never been seen before and, further, will never be available for release.

The films, in fact, are of two or three minutes duration and were directed by past winners of the coveted Palme d'Or. The filmmakers were asked to do the films by Gilles Jacob and Thierry Fremaux as part of the 60th year anniversary of the festival, which kicks off May 15.

Fest prexy Jacob has been working on the project for more than a year and a half.

The 30-odd shorts, by the likes of Gus Van Sant, Wong Kar Wai, Theo Angelopoulos and last year's Palme d'Or winner Ken Loach, who shot his film in London, rep a compilation honoring not the fest itself, but world cinema, per Jacob's desire.

Others known to be contributing include Michael Cimino, Wim Wenders, Lars von Trier, Amos Gitai, Abbas Kiarostami, Manoel de Oliveira, Chen Kaige, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang.

Pedro Almodovar was unable to take part in the project.

The Cannes project is such a jealously guarded secret that even the directors involved don't know who their fellow participants are, let alone what order their films are going to be placed in.

"We were just told to shoot and hand it in," said one source.

The feature-length film will screen at a special anniversary gala on May 20, which Cannes organizers said will be relatively low key.

"We don't want the festivities to overshadow Cannes' main business of showcasing films," a spokesman for the festival said. "The idea is to put cinema itself at the center of our celebrations."

Other likely helming suspects could include Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Nanni Moretti and the Dardenne brothers.

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Cannes plans take shape
Scorsese to multitask at festival
By VARIETY

"The Golden Compass," U2, the Coen brothers and Martin Scorsese have joined the festivities at the 60th Cannes Film Festival, while "Zodiac" could be the closing-night film.

Fest kicks off May 16.

After New Line's big success with its "Lord of the Rings" preview in 2001, "Compass," selected scenes of which will be shown, brings the cachet of star Daniel Craig and director Chris Weitz. (Nicole Kidman may not be making the trip since she'll be filming in Australia.)

Scorsese will be the guest of honor. "He has a long history with the festival, and we want our friends with us to celebrate the 60th anniversary," festival artistic director Thierry Fremaux said Wednesday.

Helmer, winner of the 1976 Palme d'Or for "Taxi Driver," will multitask during his sojourn on the Croisette, presenting the fest's Cinema Lesson, handing out the Camera d'Or for first film, and launching his World Cinema Foundation for the preservation of classic pics from around the world.

In addition, Scorsese's documentary on the Rolling Stones will be for sale at the market and there will be an out-of-competition showing of Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington's U2 concert doc.

James Gray's "We Own the Night," from 2929 Prods. and Universal, and "No Country for Old Men," from the Coen brothers, were both confirmed for the fest Wednesday. Gray's film is the New York filmmaker's first in seven years.

Films confirmed before Wednesday include "Ocean's Thirteen" (Daily Variety, March 15) and "Death Proof," Quentin Tarantino's contribution to "Grindhouse" (Daily Variety, March 30). (Robert Rodriguez may present a midnight showing of his half of "Grindhouse," "Planet Terror.")

The rest of the lineup is a guessing game at this point.

The big decisions on official selections will be made in the next two weeks as the Cannes team views multiple pics. But insiders say that strong contenders include films by Gus Van Sant ("Paranoid Park"), Woody Allen ("Cassandra's Dreams"), Todd Haynes ("I'm Not There"), Michael Winterbottom ("A Mighty Heart"), Paulo Morelli ("City of Men," a sequel to "City of God," directed by Fernando Meirelles, who is a producer of this new film), Harmony Korine ("Mister Lonely") and Julian Schnabel ("Diving Bell and Butterfly"). There's also buzz that David Fincher's "Zodiac" will close the fest.

A popular guess to make the fest is Michael Moore's "Sicko," given the Moore-Cannes lovefest with "Fahrenheit 9/11." However, Moore is apparently racing to finish the film in time for Cannes consideration.

This year's festival is likely to see a strong Asian influence, and there are several big pics in line for spots.

Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" is a major contender, assuming it's finished in time. But the fest is keen to avoid the kind of screw-up that occurred when his last film, which he was completing at the last minute, finally arrived for its competition screening one day late.

Possibilities from China include Jiang Wen's "The Sun Also Rises," starring Joan Chen, Jaycee Chan, Jiang and Anthony Wong, and Wang Xiaoshui's "Left Right."

Contenders from Japan include Takeshi Kitano's "Kantoku Banzai," as well as Shinji Aoyama's "Sad Vacation."

From Hong Kong, there's three-part actioner "Triangle," helmed by celebrated directors Tsui Hark, Johnnie To and Ringo Lam.

"Jodha Akbar" will be there representing India, possibly in a special section dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Indian independence, which coincides with Cannes' 60th. Pic starring Aishwarya Rai (a former Cannes juror) and superstar Hrithik Roshan was helmed by "Lagaan's" Ashutosh Gowariker.

Korea has three genuinely competition-worthy titles from Lee Chang-dong ("Secret Sunshine"), Kim Ki-duk ("Breath") and Im Kwon-taek ("Cheon-neon-hak," aka "Thousand Year Crane" or "Across the Years"). But it seems unlikely that all three will make the Competition.

From other parts of the world, there's Italian Marco Risi's "Maradonna, the Hand of God."

Gael Morel's "Apres Lui," starring Catherine Deneuve as a woman who forms a relationship with her son's friend after the son is killed in a car accident, looks a likely pick. So does Claude Miller's "Le Secret," adapted from the novel by Philippe Grimberg, with French thesp-pop heartthrob Patrick Bruel.

As for events, there will be a big Cannes launch for the Queensland, UNESCO and CNN-backed Asia-Pacific Film Awards, to be held in November.

The World Cinema Foundation will bow with the screening of an as-yet-unannounced recently restored classic movie in the presence of Scorsese and helmers including Abbas Kiarostami and Souleymane Cisse.

Fremaux said Scorsese's presence as guest of honor was a one-off initiative.

"He's a very special guest. He is also attached to the transmission of knowledge to the next generation, which is why we are so pleased that he will give the Cinema Lesson and hand out the Camera d'Or to a filmmaker of the future."

Scorsese was the festival's jury topper in 1998.

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no word on Blood, (or director Alexander Payne's next film I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry!).  which probably means it's not done, wont be done, and PT wont be hurried.  which means we're probably looking at a December date instead of a Fall one.

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no word on Blood, (or director Alexander Payne's next film I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry!).  which probably means it's not done, wont be done, and PT wont be hurried.  which means we're probably looking at a December date instead of a Fall one.

I heard the score isn't completed.

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Director Tarantino in competition in Cannes

Quentin Tarantino leads the U.S. challenge at the Cannes Film Festival this year, taking his movie "Death Proof" into the main competition where he will face heavyweight compatriots the Coen Brothers and Gus Van Sant.

Organizers unveiling the selection for the 60th edition of the world's biggest film festival on Thursday also announced that Michael Moore, controversial winner of the Palme d'Or prize in 2004, will be back on the southern French coast.

His documentary "Sicko," about the U.S. health care system, is not in the main competition but Moore's presence in Cannes, where he won the top prize in 2004 for his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11," will generate valuable publicity.

Gilles Jacob, veteran president of the festival, said the Organizers aimed to reinforce "a certain proud idea of cinema" with a program that would combine "heritage and modernity ... great names and young hopefuls."

Tarantino, a previous Cannes winner with "Pulp Fiction," will be hoping for a better reception than he had at the U.S. box office where "Grindhouse," the version of the film already showing in cinemas, fared poorly.

"Death Proof" is a special adaptation of his section of "Grindhouse," a double-bill with Robert Rodriguez.

OPENING FILM

The opening film in Cannes will be Chinese film maker Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights," starring Jude Law, Ed Harris, Natalie Portman and jazz singer Norah Jones in a story about a woman travelling across America.

The choice is a shift away from last year's choice of opening film, the critically panned but commercially successful blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code."

Wong will be up against U.S. directors including previous Golden Palm winners Tarantino, the Coen Brothers ("No Country for Old Men") and Van Sant ("Paranoid Park"), and Sarajevo-born Emir Kusturica ("Promise Me This"), a two-time winner.

U.S. film maker David Fincher ("Zodiac") is in the main 22-movie lineup as is German-Turkish director Fatih Akin, whose film "Gegen die Wand" ("Head On") was the hit of the 2004 Berlin Film Festival. He is presenting "Auf der Anderen Seite."

There are no British entrants in the central competition, after the country's Ken Loach won the Golden Palm last year with Irish civil war drama "The Wind That Shakes the Barley."

Out of competition but launching in Cannes will be "Ocean's 13," the third in the heist series starring George Clooney, and "A Mighty Heart," a movie based on the 2002 kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan starring Angelina Jolie.

A special 3-D concert film of Irish rock group U2 and "The War," an epic 15-hour documentary on the U.S. experience in World War Two directed by Lynn Novick and Ken Burns, will be among the attractions during the festival.

On the jury, headed this year by British director Stephen Frears, will be Turkish Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk and Australian actress Toni Collette.

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[w/o horse]

Ken Burns is a paradoxically short and simple name for a man who can't make anything under fifteen goddamn hours.

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Cannes plans Curtis bash
'Control' opens Directors Fortnight
Source: Variety

PARIS -- Bono and members of New Order and Depeche Mode will be among guests -- and may even perform -- at the opening-night bash of the Cannes Film Festival sidebar Directors' Fortnight on May 17, after a gala screening of the Ian Curtis biopic "Control."

Black-and-white film about the life and suicide at 23 of the lead singer of cult ''80s band Joy Division marks pop photographer and video director Anton Corbijn's helming debut. Becker Intl. produced.

Pic's based on "Touching From a Distance," a book by the musician's widow, Deborah Curtis, played in the film by Samantha Morton, and recounts the love triangle that both she and his mistress believe drove him to take his life.

The Curtis story is one of the strands in Michael Winterbottom's "24 Hour Party People," the Factory Records faux docu that screened in competition in Cannes in 2002, but "Control" is a totally different film, said Directors' Fortnight topper Olivier Pere.

"It is a surprising love story about someone who was very ordinary and very modest. It is very close to English cinema from the '60s and '70s, with a political and social backdrop," Pere said.

However, it does feature concert scenes and a dozen Joy Division songs, as well as other pop music from the era.

To mark the 27th anniversary of Curtis' death on May 18, 1981, Corbijn has invited his pop star friends to attend the Directors' Fortnight screening and party afterward, when there will be a minute's silence to remember Curtis.

Some of them could well perform at the opening-night party alongside Sam Riley, the actor who plays Curtis and sings some of the songs in the film with his own rock band.

Gallic distrib La Fabrique de Films is hosting the party along with Warner Music, which will be releasing the soundtrack of the movie, and Becker Intl.

"We don't know exactly what is going to happen, but New Order haven't played together for years," said La Fabrique topper Franck Ribiera on Wednesday.

[Ravi]

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Mini India in attendance
Bollywood is heading in a mild exodus to the Festival de Cannes, showing signs of a welcome change
Posted On Monday, May 14, 2007
Uma da Cunha

India's participation in this 60th Cannes in the 60th year of Indian Independence is being publicized in advance, with e-mail and hard copy intimation of details and plans. This year offers an unprecedented number of parties, events and panel discussions hosted by Indians.

There's another important presence too: the Government of India. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, will host the India Dinner on May 18 at the Majestic Hotel Beach. This third such party is a talked-about event with its Indian flavour and breezy entertainment. On May 19, Nina Gupta, Managing Director of NFDC, is hosting a Happy Hour at the Producer Networking session. NFDC is a partnering country this year at this special Cannes market event and will present 8 Indian producers at its session on May 22.

Much of India's strong presence in Cannes is with the benign support of the  I&B Ministry and the expertise and backing provided by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).  The well-appointed CII Pavilion is where Indian delegates gather for business and contacts.

Among private companies, Prime Focus is throwing a barbecue bash.  The newly-formed Indian Independent Filmmakers Worldwide (IFFW) not only have their own offices on the Croissette to meet, greet and network, they too are throwing a beach party on May 21 to announce their UK and US chapters and the new work of five member filmmakers.

Around 70 Indian companies will be in Cannes to establish their world profile in their field–– led by the regulars, Adlabs, UTV, iDreams, Eros Entertainment, the Jumani brothers (WEG), Sunil Doshi of Handmade Films and The Entertainment Society of Goa.  Participating for the first time are Moser Baer, Studio 18, Shemaroo and Saregama, among others.

New blockbusters are to be red-carpet sensations. A last-minute dampener was news that director Ashutosh Gowarikar and stars Aishwarya Rai and Hrithik Roshan may not attend the Cannes unveiling of UTV's Jodha Akbar.  The glamour quotient though will be evident with John Abraham and Bipasha Basu adding to the hype around Goal. Senior Bachchan is expected as well for R Balakrishnan's debut film, Cheeni Kum.

The more serious dampener is that for the fourth year running India has no film in the five official sections at this 60 / 60 Cannes. Bollywood rides high on the profitable ethnic box-office worldwide. But it  is not making the quality films that festivals look for. The last Berlin, Venice and Locarno fests had no Indian film in its main sections either. There's consolation though in other ways.

India is the Focus Country at this year's All The Cinemas Of the World with its chief programmer Serge Sobczynski selecting seven recent Indian films in collaboration with the Directorate of Film Festivals. The films are Bhavna Talwar's Dharm (a world premiere), Mridool Toolsodas and Vinay Subramanian's Missed Call, Mani Ratnam's Guru, Vasantha Balan's Veyil, Rajkumar Hirani's Lage Raho Munnabhai and Rituparno Ghosh's Dosar.

Norah Jones makes her big-screen debut in Wong Kar-wai's first English-language feature, My Blueberry Nights (in competition), the Festival's inaugural film on May 16. To have Ravi Shankar's daughter on stage opening night is something to which Indians will relate. Other slender India links are in Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, shot in media glare last year in Mumbai and Pune. It stars Angelina Jolie, producer is husband Brad Pitt and will premiere in Cannes, out of competition. Its Indian actors, Irrfan Khan and Aly Khan, are attending.

India scores better in the field of documentaries and shorts. Screening in Cannes are Raka Dutta's graduating film Chinese Whispers for the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute and Aditi Singh directed by France's Michael Kummer. The two films will screen in the Cinefondation programme, which promotes work produced at film schools the world over. They will also show at the Short Film Corner in Cannes, set up in 2004 to encourage the short filmmaker in every way, among 17 films selected from or about India.

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Cannes directors peer into cinema's past, future

From Roman Polanski to Nanni Moretti, the Coen brothers and Jane Campion, renowned directors offer glimpses into the history and future of cinema in a tribute to the 60th year of the Cannes Film Festival.

"Chacun son Cinema" (To Each His Own Cinema) was produced especially for the festival and in it 35 directors were each given the chance to make a three-minute short film about cinema.

Some of the films moved audiences to tears, others made them laugh; some offered political points, others told of love.

As a whole, the movie gave audiences an idea of why many of the directors did what they did, how they regarded the world's top film festival on the French Riviera and, in some cases, what they viewed as the threats to cinema.

"The lesson is really about the possibility of seeing cinema as a collective adventure," Brazil's Walter Salles told reporters about his short, which shows two men in a South American village considering whether to see seminal French New Wave film, "400 Blows."

Polanski's segment was humorous and showed a couple viewing an erotic film in a dark theatre and complaining about a man in the back, moaning and groaning. Little did they know, the man had fallen from the balcony and hurt his back.

New Zealand's Campion offered "The Lady Bug," about a misunderstood female bug who wants to dance on a theatre stage but is squashed by a cleaning man who finds her a nuisance.

WANTED: MORE WOMEN DIRECTORS

At a news conference following the film, where more than 30 of the directors were present, Campion was asked how it felt to be the only woman on stage.

She said it was "sad" more female directors were not given the chance to make movies but added that many of the male directors felt the same way.

"I think the feminine is such a strong and important aspect to our humanity," Campion said.

Directors Joel and Ethan Coen offer a short called "World Cinema," in which an American cowboy walks into an arthouse theatre and is talked into seeing a Turkish movie.

In the end, the cowboy likes what he sees and wants to discuss it with a bohemian-looking theatre worker.

Italian Moretti takes audiences through a list of movies that caused him to become a cinema-lover, then jokes that his son might want to see a Hollywood thriller rather than his own films, such as "The Son's Room" which won Cannes' top award, the Palme d'Or, in 2001.

Directors Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg offered bleak looks at the future of an art form that was either dead or dying due to greater use of cell phones, video cameras and the abundance of live, thoughtless television.

Egoyan's film sparked a lively conversation in the news conference between himself and Polanski, who argued new technologies have long threatened the cinema, yet directors have adapted with new, challenging entertainment.

"I remember the same type of debate when tapes and cassettes came out," Polanski said.

Egoyan noted Polanski's films had spurred him to make movies and that "for a young audience, now, (your movies) would be seen on a small screen and they wouldn't be the same."

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Polanski Walks Out on News Conference

Director Roman Polanski walked out of a news conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday after berating journalists for asking "empty" questions.

Polanski, whose film "The Pianist" won the top prize at Cannes in 2002, was onstage with nearly 30 major directors from Mexico's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu to Germany's Wim Wenders to China's Wong Kar-wai who were showing short films in homage to cinema.

The shorts were packaged as a feature called "To Each His Own Cinema."

Several questions at the news conference focused on the future of cinema in the digital age. Polanski's walkout did not seem to be a response to any single question.

When the moderator announced that journalists had just two minutes left, Polanski, 73, took the microphone.

"It's a shame to have such poor questions, such empty questions," Polanski said. "And I think that it's really the computer which has brought you down to this level. You're no longer interested in what's going on in the cinema.

"Frankly, let's all go and have lunch," he suggested, before walking out.

None of the other directors followed.




A group of international directors pose during a photo call for the film "Chacun Son Cinema" (To each his own Cinema) at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday, May 20, 2007. Front row from left, Malaysian director Tsai Ming Liang, American director Gus Van Sant, French director Roman Polanski, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, Israeli director Amos Gitai, Canadian director Atom Egoyan, Brazilian director Walter Salles, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Cannes Film Festival President Gilles Jacob, second row, from left, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, Japanese director Takeshi Kitano, American director Michael Cimino, New Zealander director Jane Campion, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien and French director Raymond Depardon, (third row, from L) Danish director Bille August, German director Wim Wenders, British director Ken Loach, US directors Ethan and Joel Coen, Italian director Nanni Moretti and French director Claude Lelouch, back row, from left, Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky, Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki, Chinese director Chen Kaige, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, Canadian director David Cronenberg, Belgian director Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgian director Luc Dardenne, Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai, French director Olivier Assayas and Chilean director Raoul Ruiz.

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"Frankly, let's all go and have lunch," he suggested, before walking out.

None of the other directors followed.

they knew ratner was around

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In 'Control': Biopic tops Fortnight nods
Source: Hollywood Reporter

CANNES -- Anton Corbijn's "Control" was the big winner as the Festival de Cannes's Director's Fortnight wrapped its 10-day run Friday, taking three awards on the same day the Weinstein Co. acquired North American rights to the film.

Corbijn's Joy Division biopic won the CICAE Art & Essai prize for best film, the "Regards Jeunes" Prize awarded to the best first or second feature film and the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the sidebar.

"Control" generated critical raves and buyer interest after making its world premiere as Fortnight section's opening-night film. It is the first feature from Dutch-born photographer-turned-director Corbijn.

The stark black and white drama, which stars Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara and Craig Parkinson, tells the story of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of seminal Brit band Joy Division, who committed suicide in 1980 at the age of 23.

"Control" will receive distribution support from European Cinemas' network of 690 cinemas in 55 countries.

Independent film body the CICAE (Confederation Internationale des Cinemas d'Art & Essai) also gave honorable mention nods to Jan Bonny's "Gegenuber" (Counterparts) from Germany and Lenny Abrahamson's "Garage" from Ireland.

A total 23 feature films vied this year for the prestigious Director's Fortnight prizes, including six French titles and 17 foreign films, with more than 35,000 cinephiles making their way to screenings of the selection on the Croisette.

The sidebar's titles will screen May 30 to June 5 at Paris' Cinema des Cineastes.

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COMPETITION

Palme d'Or: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," directed by Cristian Mungiu

Grand Prix (runner-up): "The Mourning Forest" (Mogari No Mori), directed by Naomi Kawase

Prix de la Mise en Scene (Best Director): Julian Schnabel for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et Le Papillon)

Prix du 60th Anniversaire: Gus Van Sant, director of "Paranoid Park"

Prix du Scenario (Best Screenplay Award): Fatih Akin for "The Edge of Heaven" (Auf Der Anderen Siete)

Camera d'Or (For best first feature): "Meduzot," directred by Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen

Camera d'Or Special Mention: "Control," directed by Anton Corbijn

Prix du Jury (Jury Prize) (tie): "Persepolis," directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud; and "Stellet Licht," directed by Carlos Reygadas

Prix d'interpretation feminine (Best Actress): Jeon Do-yeon for "Secret Sunshine" by Lee Chang-dong

Prix d'interpretation masculine (Best Actor): Constantine Lavronenko for "Izgnanie" by Andrei Zviaguintsev

Court-Metrage (Short Film):
Palme d'Or (short film): "Ver Llover," directed by Elisa Miller
Prix Du Jury: - TBA -


UN CERTAIN REGARD
Prix Un Certain Regard - Fondation Gan Pour le Cinema: "California Dreamin'" (Nesfarsit), directed by Christian Nemescu
Prix Special du Jury Un Certain Regard: "Actresses," directed by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Jury Coup de Coeur: "Bikur Hatizmoret" (The Band's Visit) directed by Eran Kolirin


CINEFONDATION
Premier Prix: "Ahora Todos Parecen Contentos" (Now Everybody Seems to Be Happy), directed by Gonzalo Tobal (Universidad del Cine, Argentina)
Second Prize: "Ru Dao" (Way Out), directed by Chen Tao (Beijing Film Academy, China)
Third Prize (shared): "A Reunion," directed by Hong Sung-Hoon (The Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), South Korea) and "Minus," directed by Pavle Vuckovic (Fakultet Dramskih Umetnosti, Serbia)


OTHER AWARDS:

Directors' Fortnight:
Prix Regards Jeunes (Young Eyes Prize): "Control," directed by Anton Corbijn
Prix Art et Essai: "Garage," directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Label Europa Cinéma Prize: "Control," directed by Anton Corbijn
SACD Prize for Best Short Film: "Meme pas Mort," directed by Claudine Natkin

International Critics' Week:
Grand Prize: "XXY," directed by Lucia Puenzo
The SACD French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Award: "Meduzot," directed by Etgar Keret Shira Geffen
The Canal + Grand Prize - Best Short Film: "Madame Tutli-Putli," directed by Chris Lavis and Maciek Sczerbowski

FIPRESCI - Official Selection Prize: "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days," directed by Cristian Mungiu
FIPRESCI - Critics' Week and Directors' Fortnight Prize: "Elle s'appelle Sabine," directed by Sandrine Bonnaire

Ecumenical Jury Prize: "The Edge of Heaven," directed by Fatih Akin

Youth Prize: "The Band's Visit," directed by Eran Kolirin

French National Education Administration Prize: "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days," directed by Cristian Mungiu

Prix France-Culture (career achievement): Rithy Panh