Sunday, May 22, 2016

69th Festival de Cannes


The mother of all festivals which makes it the most important festival in the world. Actually it's four festivals in one, besides the Official Competition, there are also Un Certain Regard, the Semaine Internationale de la Critique (Critic's Week) and the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors' Forthnight). The festival also has the biggest film market including the Producer's Network for upcoming films. 

The winners including the coveted Palme D'Or will be decided by the jury that includes George Miller
 (President), 
Arnaud Desplechin, Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, Mads Mikkelsen, Laszlo Nemes, Vanessa Paradis, Katayoon Shahabi, Donald Sutherland.

THE OFFICIAL COMPETITION
Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade
Julieta, Pedro Almodóvar
American Honey, Andrea Arnold PRIX DU JURY    
The Unknown Girl, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas Best Director
It’s Only The End Of The World,  Xavier Dolan GRAND PRIX    
Ma Loute, Bruno Dumont

The Salesman, Asghar Farhadi Best Script & Actor
Paterson, Jim Jarmusch
Rester Vertical, Alain Guiraudie
Aquarius, Kleber Mendonca Filho
Mal de Pierres, Nicole Garcia
I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach PALME D'OR
Ma’Rosa, Brillante Mendoza Best Actress
Loving, Jeff Nichols
Bacalaureat, Cristian Mungiu Best Director
Agassi, Park Chan-Wook
The Last Face, Sean Penn
Sieranevada, Cristi Puiu
Elle, Paul Verhoeven
The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn

OUT OF COMPETITION

Cafe Society, Woody Allen
The BFG, Steven Spielberg
Money Monster, Jodie Foster
The Nice Guys, Shane Black
Gok Sung, Na Hong-Jin

UN CERTAIN REGARD
Varoonegi, Behnam Behzadi
Apprentice, Boo Junfeng
Voir Du Pays, Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin Best Script
La Danseuse, Stephanie Di Giusto
Clash, Mohamed Diab
La Tortue Rouge, Michael Dudok de Wit
Fuchi Bi Tatsu, Fukada Koji PRIX DU JURY
Omar Shakhsiya, Maha Haj
Me’Ever Laharim Vehagvaot, Eran Kolirin
After The Storm, Kore-Eda Hirokazu
Hymyileva Mies, Juho Kuosmanen PRIX DU CERTAIN REGARD
La Large Noche de Francisco Sanctis, Francisco Marquez and Andrea Testa
Caini, Bogdan Mirica
Pericle Il Nero, Stefano Mordini
The Transfiguration, Michael O’Shea
Captain Fantastic, Matt Ross Best Director
Uchenik, Kirill Serebrennikov

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS

Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch
The Train to Busan, Yeon Sang-Ho
A Chad Tragedy, Mahamat-Saleh Aroun
The Death of Louis XIV, Albert Serra
L’Ultima Spiaggia, Thanos Anastopolous and Davide Del Degan

For more info: www.festival-cannes.com




















Semaine de la Critique

ALBÃœM, Mehmet Can MertoÄŸlu
DIAMOND ISLAND, Davy Chou
GRAVE, Julia Ducournau
MIMOSAS, Oliver Laxe GRAND PRIX 
ONE WEEK AND A DAY, Asaph Polonsky
TRAMONTANE, Vatche Boulghourjian
A YELLOW BIRD, K. Rajagopal
 




















La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

Divines - Houda Benyamina CAMERA D'OR
Dog Eat Dog - Paul Schrader
Fai Bei Sogni - Marco Bellocchio
Fiore - Claudio Giovannesi
L’Économie du couple - Joachim Lafosse
L’Effet aquatique - Sólveig Anspach
La Pazza Gioia - Paolo Virzì
Les Vies de Thérèse - Sébastien Lifshitz
Ma vie de courgette - Claude Barras
Mean Dreams - Nathan Morlando
Mercenaire - Sacha Wolff
Neruda - Pablo Larraín
Poesía Sin Fin - Alejandro Jodorowsky
Raman Raghav 2.0 - Anurag Kashyap
Risk - Laura Poitras
Tour de France - Rachid Djaïdani
Two Lovers and a Bear - Kim Nguyen
Wolf and Sheep - Shahrbanoo Sadat ART CINEMA PRIX