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2002 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 55th Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Opening filmHollywood Ending
Closing filmAnd Now... Ladies
and Gentlemen
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or: The Pianist[2]
Hosted byVirginie Ledoyen
No. of films22 (En Competition)[3]
22 (Un Certain Regard)
17 (Out of Competition)
16 (Cinéfondation)
11 (Short Film Competition)
Festival date15 May 2002 (2002-05-15) – 26 May 2002 (2002-05-26)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 55th Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May 2002. The Palme d'Or went to The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski.[4][5][6][7]

The festival's "Opening Film" was Hollywood Ending, directed by Woody Allen,[8] Claude Lelouch's And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen was selected as the "Closing Film".[9][10][11] Virginie Ledoyen was the mistress of ceremonies.[12]

During the festival, director Woody Allen was also presented with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or, given to a director who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won the regular Palme d'Or.[13]

2002 Un Certain Regard poster.[14]

Juries

David Lynch, Jury President
Anne Fontaine, Un Certain Regard Jury President

Main Competition

Un Certain Regard

  • Anne Fontaine, Luxembourger filmmaker - Jury President
  • Fabienne Bradfer, film critic
  • Jean-Sébastien Chauvin, film critic
  • Louis Guichard, film critic
  • Fabrice Pliskin, film critic
  • David Tran, film critic
  • Pierre Vavasseur, critic

Cinéfondation and Short Film Competition

Camera d'Or

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
24 Hour Party People Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom
About Schmidt Alexander Payne United States
The Adversary L'Adversaire Nicole Garcia France
All or Nothing Mike Leigh United Kingdom
Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore United States, Canada, Germany
Chi-hwa-seon Im Kwon-taek South Korea
Demonlover Olivier Assayas France
Divine Intervention يد إلهية Elia Suleiman Palestine, France, Morocco, Germany
Irréversible Gaspar Noé France
Kedma Amos Gitai Israel
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers Marie-Jo et ses deux amours Robert Guédiguian France
The Man Without a Past Mies vailla menneisyyttä Aki Kaurismäki Finland
My Mother's Smile L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) Marco Bellocchio Italy
The Pianist Roman Polanski France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
Punch-Drunk Love Paul Thomas Anderson United States
Russian Ark Русский ковчег Alexander Sokurov Russia, Germany, Canada, Finland
The Son Le Fils Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Belgium, France
Spider David Cronenberg Canada, United Kingdom
Sweet Sixteen Ken Loach United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Ten ده Abbas Kiarostami Iran
The Uncertainty Principle O Princípio da Incerteza Manoel de Oliveira Portugal
Unknown Pleasures 任逍遥 Jia Zhangke China

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[3]

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[3]

  • 17 minute intarziere by Catalin Mitulescu (Romania)
  • Chogyeoul Jumshim by Byung-Hwa Kang (South Korea)
  • Honey Moon by Sung-Jin Park (South Korea)
  • K-G I Nod Och Lust by Jens Jonsson (Sweden)
  • Khoj by Tridib Poddar (India)
  • La derniere journee d'Alfred Maassen by David Lammers (Netherlands)
  • La mort en exil by Ayten Mutlu Saray (Switzerland)
  • P.S. by Arni Asgeirsson (Poland)
  • Um Sol Alaranjado by Eduardo Valente (Brazil)
  • Questions d'un ouvrier mort by Aya Somech (Israel)
  • Request by Jinoh Park (South Korea)
  • Seule maman a les yeux bleus by Eric Forestier (France)
  • Shearing by Eicke Bettinga (United Kingdom)
  • Soshuu no neko by Masaaki Uchida (Japan)
  • The Look Of Happiness by Marianela Maldonado (United Kingdom)
  • Vals by Edgar Bartenev (Russia)

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 41st International Critics' Week (41e Semaine de la Critique):[16]

Feature film competition

Short film competition

  • Le Jour où je suis né by Kunitoshi Manda (Japan)
  • Lettre au fils by Philippe Welsh (France)
  • Malcom by Baker Karim (Sweden)
  • Meeting Evil (Möte med ondskan) by Reza Parsa (Sweden)
  • 2 Minutes (2 Minutter) by Jacob Tschernia (Denmark)
  • Le Vigile by Frédéric Pelle (France)
  • From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two (De Mesmer, con amor o Té para dos) by Salvador Lubezki & Alejandro Lubezki (Mexico)

Special screenings

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2002 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[17]

Short films
  • A-20 by Geoff Hughes, Brad Warren (United States)
  • Après l’enfance by Thomas Lilti (France)
  • Bang Nhau… Egaux by Stéfan Sao Nélet (France)
  • Bob the slob by Nate Theis (United States)
  • Bus 44 by Dayyan Eng (Hong Kong, United States)
  • L’Arrivée by Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)
  • Comme ça j’entends la mer by Hélène Milano (France)
  • Comme un seul homme by Jean-Louis Gonnet (France)
  • Deux cents dirham] by Laila Marrakchi (France, Morocco)
  • Entering indifference by Vincent Dieutre (France)
  • Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty by Soopum Sohn (South Korea, United States)
  • Insomniac by Matt Woo], Vanja Varasac (United States)
  • La Vie sur un fil by Steven Lippman (United States)
  • Mémoires incertaines by Michale Boganim (France, United Kingdom)
  • Mexicano by Toby McDonald (United Kingdom)
  • Muno by Bouli Lanners (Belgium)
  • Next Door by Jeff Rich (United States)
  • Présent inachevé by Johan Van der Keuken (Netherlands)
  • Phantom by Matthias Müller (Germany)
  • Portraits filmés 2002 by Valérie Mréjen (France)
  • Samson by Graham Dubose (United States)
  • The Girl in the Red Dress by Aletta Collins (United Kingdom)

Awards

Roman Polanski, Palme d'Or winner
Aki Kaurismäki, Gran Prix winner

Official awards

The following films and people received the 2002 Official selection awards:[2][4][5]

Un Certain Regard

Cinéfondation

  • First Prize: Um Sol Alaranjado by Eduardo Valente
  • Second Prize: Seule maman a les yeux bleus by Eric Forestier
  • Third Prize: Questions d'un ouvrier mort by Aya Somech

Golden Camera

Short Films

1939 Palme d'Or

The inaugural Cannes Film Festival was to have been held in 1939, but was cancelled by the outbreak of the Second World War. The organizers of the 2002 festival assembled a jury of six members, including Dieter Kosslick and Alberto Barbera, to watch seven of the twelve features which had been entered in the 1939 competition, namely: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, La piste du nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. Union Pacific was retrospectively voted the winner of the 1939 Palme d'Or.[19]

Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prizes[20][21]

Ecumenical Jury[22][5]

Award of the Youth[5]

Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week[23]

Awards in the frame of Directors' Fortnight[18]

Association Prix François Chalais

References

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  4. ^ a b "55ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  5. ^ a b c d "Cannes 2002 Chroniques". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Cannes Film Festival Winners Announced". hollywood.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  7. ^ "2002 Cannes Film Festival". Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Hollywood Ending gets its international fest premiere before Cannes at San Francisco". screendaily.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017. needs subscription
  9. ^ "Festivals: 2002 Cannes Film Festival Special Screenings Lineup". indiewire.com. 24 March 2001. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Lelouch 'Ladies' to end Cannes". Variety.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  11. ^ "Cannes 2002 – A Preview". urbancinefile.com. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  12. ^ "Ledoyen to reign again". Variety.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  13. ^ "A Honorary Palme at the opening ceremony of the Festival de Cannes". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 24 January 2016.
  14. ^ "Cannes 2002". cinema-francais.fr. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  15. ^ "All Juries 2002". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  16. ^ "41e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 2002". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  17. ^ "Quinzaine 2002". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g "Cannes Film Festival, Awards for 2002". imdb.com. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  19. ^ Vaucher, Andrea R.; Elley, Derek (24 April 2002). "Croisette crowd craves its faves". Variety. Retrieved 18 November 2019.; McCarthy, Todd (May 26, 2002). "'Pianist' tickles Cannes". Variety. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  20. ^ "A web resource on Tareque Masud and his film "Matir Moyna" compiling many of his film reviews and interviews". Ctmasud.web.aplus.net. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  21. ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 2002". ipresci.org. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  22. ^ "Jury Œcuménique Palmarés 2002". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  23. ^ "41e Semaine internationale de la critique : Palmarès". Unifrance (in French). Retrieved 23 June 2017.

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