2009 Cannes Film Festival Film festival
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival took place from 13 May to 24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert served as jury president for the main competition. Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or , the festival's top prize, for the drama film The White Ribbon .[ 2]
The festival opened with Up by Pete Docter ,[ 3] [ 4] marking the first time that an animated film opened the festival, and closed with Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Jan Kounen .[ 5]
American filmmaker Clint Eastwood became the second recipient of the Honorary Palme d'Or .[ 6]
Juries
The members of the main competition jury.
Main competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2009 Official Selection:[ 7]
Un Certain Regard
Caméra d'Or
Roschdy Zem , French actor and filmmaker - Jury President
Diane Baratier, French cinematographer
Olivier Chiavassa, member of the fédération des Industries Techniques
Sandrine Ray , French director
Charles Tesson, French critic
Edouard Waintrop, Festival Fribourg
Cinéfondation and short films
Official Selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or :[ 9]
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Antichrist
Lars von Trier
Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden
Bright Star
Jane Campion
United Kingdom, Australia, France
Broken Embraces
Los abrazos rotos
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
Butchered
Kinatay
Brillante Mendoza
Philippines, France, Japan, Netherlands
Enter the Void
Gaspar Noé
France, Germany, Italy
Face
臉
Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan, France
Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold
United Kingdom
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
United States, Germany
In the Beginning
À l'origine
Xavier Giannoli
France
Looking for Eric
Ken Loach
United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Mapa de los sonidos de Tokyo
Isabel Coixet
Spain
A Prophet
Un prophète
Jacques Audiard
France, Italy
Spring Fever
春风沉醉的晚上
Lou Ye
China, France
Taking Woodstock
Ang Lee
United States
Thirst
박쥐
Park Chan-wook
South Korea, United States
The Time That Remains
Elia Suleiman
Palestine, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, France
Wild Grass
Les herbes folles
Alain Resnais
France
Vincere
Marco Bellocchio
Italy, France
Vengeance
復仇
Johnnie To
Hong Kong, France
The White Ribbon
Das weiße Band
Michael Haneke
Germany
Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard :[ 9]
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[ 9]
Special Screenings
The following films were selected for the Special Screenings:[ 10]
Cinéfondation
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation :[ 9] [ 11]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
School
#1
Noamir Castéra
ENSAV La Cambre, Belgium
Bába
Zuzana Kirchnerová
FAMU , Czech Republic
The Boxer
El boxeador
Juan Ignacio Pollio
Universidad del Cine , Argentina
By the Grace of God
Ralitza Petrova
NFTS , United Kingdom
Chapa
Thiago Ricarte
FAAP, Brazil
Diploma
Yaelle Kayam
The Sam Spiegel Film & TV School, Israel
Don't Step Out of the House
남매의 집
Jo Sung-hee
Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea
Goodbye
Fang Song
Beijing Film Academy , China
Gutter
Dan Ransom Day
New York University , United States
The Horn
뿔
Yim Kyung-dong
Kaywon School of Art, South Korea
Kasia
Elisabet Llado
IAD, Belgium
The Naturalist
Il Naturalista
Giulia Barbera
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia , Italy
The Setback
Le Contretemps
Dominique Baumard
La fémis , France
Significant Others
Malzonkowie
Dara Van Dusen
PWSFTViT , Poland
Segal
Yuval Shani
Tel-Aviv University , Israel
The Sylpphid
Sylfidden
Dorte Bengtson
Den Danske Filmskole , Denmark
Traverser
Hugo Frassetto
La Poudrière, France
Short Film Competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or :[ 9]
Cannes Classics
The Festival Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema[ 12] and restored masterworks from the past.[ 13]
English title
Original title
Director(s)
Production Country
Documentaries
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot
Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea
France
Images from the Playground
Bilder från lekstugan
Stig Björkman
Sweden
Pietro Germi - The Good, the Beautiful and the Brave
Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo
Claudio Bondi
Italy
Two of the New Wave
Deux de la Vague
Emmanuel Laurent
France
Restored Prints
The 400 Blows (1959)
Les quatre cents coups
François Truffaut
France
Accident (1967)
Joseph Losey
United Kingdom
L'Avventura (1960)
Michelangelo Antonioni
France, Italy
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
Signore & signori
Pietro Germi
Italy
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
牯嶺街少年殺人事件
Edward Yang
Taiwan
Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Les yeux sans visage
Georges Franju
France
Far from Vietnam (1967)
Loin du Vietnam
Chris Marker , Joris Ivens ,Claude Lelouch , Jean-Luc Godard ,William Klein , Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais
France
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore [fr ] (1982)
An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr
Axel Corti
Austria, West Germany
The Housemaid (1960)
하녀
Kim Ki-young
South Korea
The Molly Maguires (1970)
Martin Ritt
United States
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot
Jacques Tati
France
The Night of Counting the Years (1969)
المومياء
Shadi Abdel Salam
Egypt
Once Upon a Time... the Revolution (1971)
Giù la testa
Sergio Leone
Italy
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Jean-Luc Godard
France
The Red Shoes (1948)
Michael Powell , Emeric Pressburger
United Kingdom
Victim (1961)
Basil Dearden
Wake in Fright (1971)
Ted Kotcheff
Australia
The Wave (1936)
Redes
Emilio Gómez Muriel , Fred Zinnemann
Mexico
Cinéma de la Plage
The Cinéma de la Plage is a part of the Official Selection. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public.[ 14]
Parallel Sections
Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 48th Critics' Week (48e Semaine de la Critique ):[ 15]
Feature film competition
Short film competition
Special screenings
Hierro by Gabe Ibáñez (Spain)
Lascars (Round da Way ) by Albert Pereira-Lazaro, Emmanuel Klotz (France)
The Ordinary People (Rien de personnel ) by Mathias Gokalp (France)
Short films
1989 by Camilo Matiz (Colombia)
6 Hours by Seong-hyeok Moon (South Korea)
La Baie du renard by Grégoire Colin (France)
Elo by Vera Egito (Brazil)
Espalhadas pelo Ar (Spread Through the Air ) by Vera Egito (Brazil)
Faiblesses by Nicolas Giraud (France)
Les Miettes (Crumbs ) by Pierre Pinaud (France)
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 2009 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs ):[ 16]
Feature films
Special screenings
Short films
American Minor by Charlie White (8 min)
Anna by Rúnar Rúnarsson (35 min)
El ataque de los robots de Nebulosa-5 by Chema García Ibarra (7 min)
Canção de amor e saúde by João Nicolau (35 min)
Cicada by Amiel Courtin-Wilson (9 min)
Drömmar från skogen by Johannes Nyholm (9 min)
Dust Kid by Jung Yumi (10 min)
The Fugitives by Guillaume Leiter (25 min)
The History of Aviation by Bálint Kenyeres (15 min)
Jagdfieber (The Hunting Fever ) by Alessandro Comodin (22 min)
John Wayne Hated Horses by Andrew T. Betzer (10 min)
Nice by Maud Alpi (25 min)
SuperBarroco by Renata Pinheiro (17 min)
Thermidor by Virgil Vernier (17 min)
Official Awards
Isabelle Huppert , President of the 2009 Competition JuryMichael Haneke , winner of the 2009 Palme d'Or
Jacques Audiard , winner of the 2009 Grand PrixThe following films and people received the 2009 Official selection awards:[ 17] [ 2]
In Competition
Un Certain Regard
Cinéfondation
First Prize : Bába by Zuzana Kirchnerová
Second Prize : Goodbye by Fang Song
Third Prize :
Diploma by Yaelle Kayam
Nammae Ui Jip by Jo Sung-hee
Short Films Competition
Independent awards
Critics' Week
Regards Jeunes Prize
References
External links
Awards Awards given by independent entities Parallel events By year