2009 Cannes Film Festival
The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 13 to May 24, 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert will be this year's President of the Jury. [1] It was announced on March 19, 2009 that Pixar's film Up would open the festival.[2] This marks the first time that an animated film will open the festival and also the first time a film in 3-D will open the festival.
Feature film competition
Festival line-up
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opener | Up * | Pete Docter and Bob Peterson |  United States
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| Closer | Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky | Jan Kounen |  Netherlands
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- * First animated film ever to open the festival.
Films in competition
The following films will compete for the Palme d'Or.[3]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antichrist | Lars von Trier |  Denmark
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| Bright Star | Jane Campion |  United Kingdom
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| Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | Pedro Almodóvar |  Spain
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| Enter the Void | Soudain le vide | Gaspar Noé |  France
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| Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom
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| Inglourious Basterds | Quentin Tarantino | United States
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| In the Beginning | A l'origine | Xavier Giannoli | France
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| Butchered | Kinatay | Brillante Mendoza |  Philippines
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| Les Herbes folles | Les Herbes folles | Alain Resnais | France
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| Looking for Eric | Ken Loach | United Kingdom
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| Map of the Sounds of Tokyo | Mapa de los sonidos de Tokyo | Isabel Coixet | Spain
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| A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard | France
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| Spring Fever | Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng | Lou Ye |  China
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| Taking Woodstock | Ang Lee | United States
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| Thirst | Bakjwi | Park Chan-wook |  South Korea
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| The Time That Remains | Elia Suleiman |  Israel
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| Vengeance | 復仇 | Johnnie To |  Hong Kong
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| To Conquere | Vincere | Marco Bellocchio |  Italy
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| Face | 脸 | Tsai Ming-liang |  Taiwan
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| The White Ribbon | Das weiße Band | Michael Haneke |  Austria
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Un Certain Regard
The following films will compete in the Un Certain Regard section:[4]
- À Deriva by Heitor Dhalia
- Amintiri din epoca de aur by Hanno Höfer, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru
- Demain dès l'aube by Denis Dercourt
- Eyes Wide Open by Haim Tabakman
- Independencia by Raya Martin
- Irène by Alain Cavalier
- Kasi az gorbehaye irani khabar nadareh by Bahman Ghobadi
- Kûki ningyô by Hirokazu Koreeda
- Kynodontas by Giorgos Lanthimos
- Le père de mes enfants by Mia Hansen-Løve
- Los viajes del viento by Ciro Guerra
- Morrer Como Um Homem by João Pedro Rodrigues
- Mother by Bong Joon-ho
- Nang mai by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
- Politist, Adjectiv by Corneliu Porumboiu
- Precious by Lee Daniels
- Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton
- Skazka pro temnotu by Nikolay Khomeriki
- Wit Licht by Jean van de Velde
- Tsar by Pavel Lungin
Films out of competition
The following films will be shown out of competiton:[5]
- Agora by Alejandro Amenábar
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky by Jan Kounen
- Drag Me to Hell by Sam Raimi
- L'armée du crime by Robert Guédiguian
- Ne te retourne pas by Marina de Van
- Polytechnique by Denis Villeneuve
- Panique au village by Vincent Patar
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus by Terry Gilliam
- Up by Pete Docter
Special screenings
The following films will be given a special screening:[6]
- Cendres et sang by Fanny Ardant
- Jaffa by Keren Yedaya
- L'épine dans le coeur by Michel Gondry
- Manila by Adolfo Alix Jr., Raya Martin
- Min Ye by Souleymane Cissé
- My Neighbor, My Killer by Anne Aghion
- No Meu Lugar by Eduardo Valente
- Petition by Zhao Liang
- Portrait de Groupe Avec Enfants et Motocyclettes by Pierre-William Glenn
- Une vie toute neuve by Ounie Lecomte
Cinéfondation
The following films will compete in the Cinéfondation section:[7]
- 1 by Noamir Castéra
- Bába by Zuzana Kirchnerová
- By the Grace of God by Ralitza Petrova
- Chapa by Thiago Ricarte
- Diploma by Yaelle Kayam
- El boxeador by Juan Ignacio Pollio
- Goodbye by Fang Song
- Gutter by Dan Ransom Day
- Il Naturalista by Giulia Barbera
- Kasia by Elisabet Llado
- Le Contretemps by Dominique Baumard
- Malzonkowie by Dara Van Dusen
- Nammae Ui Jip by Jo Sung-hee
- Segal by Yuval Shani
- Sylfidden by Dorte Bengtson
- The Horn by Yim Kyung-dong
- Traverser by Hugo Frassetto
Short films
The following films will compete for the Palme d'Or du court métrage:[8]
- After Tomorrow by Emma Sullivan
- Arena by João Salaviza
- Ciao mama by Goran Odvorcic
- Klusums by Laila Pakalnina
- L'Homme À la Gordini by Jean-Christophe Lie
- Lars og Peter by Daniel Borgman
- Missen by Joachim de Vries
- Rumbo a Peor by Àlex Brendemühl
- The Six Dollar Fifty Man by Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland
Juries
International competition
- Isabelle Huppert (president)[9]
- Asia Argento
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Lee Chang-dong
- James Gray
- Hanif Kureishi
- Shu Qi
- Robin Wright Penn
- Sharmila Tagore
Cinefoundation and short films
Un Certain Regard
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes:". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-02.
- ^ "Up To Open Festival:". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-24.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: In Competition". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Un Certain Regard". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Out of Competition". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Special Screenings". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Cinéfondation". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Short Films". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Jury". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Cinefondation". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Un Certain Regard". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-05-18.