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Jury Prize
After the presentation of the awards at the the closing ceremony, the award winners met for a press conference. One by one, they answered questions from journalists. Excerpts.
Michael Haneke, winner of the Palme d'or for Love (Amour)
The story I tell is based on the promise my wife and I made to each other: not to separate in a situation like the one in the film. We see that all the time and it is a widespread problem. I experienced it in my own family and that is what pushed me to mak...
Tonight, during the Closing Ceremony of this 65th Festival de Cannes, the official Jury presided over by Nanni Moretti revealed the award winners.
Bérénice Bejo hosted Audrey Tautou and Adrien Brody on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d’or to the best film among the 22 in Competition.
Claude Miller’s Thérèse Desqueyroux starring Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, was screened at the end of the ceremony.
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Filmmaker and 2010 Palme d’Or winner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul is presenting the new MUBI edition LomoKino camera in Cannes today (Saturday 19 May), and discussing his new short film ASHES, which he shot on a LomoKino.
The first ever clone of the popular hand-cranked analogue movie camera is designed by MUBI and endorsed and signed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His 20 minute short film ASHES shot on the camera is a first step into production by MUBI, the global online film pla...
Eddy Brière © Les Films du 24 - UGC Distribution
Thérèse Desqueyroux by Claude Miller, with Audrey Tautou in the title role, Gilles Lellouche and Anaïs Demoustier, will be screened at the closing ceremony of the 65th Festival de Cannes on 27 May in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals.
Claude Miller’s final film is an adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel “Thérèse Desqueyroux”. On the 4th of April of this year, shortly after finishing t...
POLISSE (France, 2011) by Actress/Director Maiwenn Le Besco screened in competition at 64th Cannes Film Festival
Easily one of the best films I have seen all year which screened at this year's Abu Dhabi Film Festival, ADFF 2011, was POLISSE (France, 2011). POLISSE opened at Cannes and won the Special Jury Prize.
CANNES PRESS SYNOPSIS:
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underag...
Click to view the trailers of the winning films.
Palme d'Or
THE TREE OF LIFE by Terrence MALICK
The Tree of Life - Official Trailer [VO-HD] par Eklecty-City
Grand Prix
BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
THE KID WITH A BIKE by Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE
Award for the Best Director
Nicolas WINDING REFN for DRIVE
Jury Prize
POLISS by MAÏWENN
Best Performance for an Actor
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Click to view the trailers of the winning films.
Palme d'Or
THE TREE OF LIFE by Terrence MALICK
The Tree of Life - Official Trailer [VO-HD] par Eklecty-City
Grand Prix
BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA (Once Upon A Time In Anatolia) by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
THE KID WITH A BIKE by Jean-Pierre & Luc DARDENNE
Award for the Best Director
Nicolas WINDING REFN for DRIVE
Jury Prize
POLISS by MAÏWENN
Best Performance for an Actor
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The official Jury of this 64th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Robert De Niro, revealed this evening the prizes winners during the Closing Ceremony.
Mélanie Laurent hosted Jane Fonda on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d'or to the best film among the 20 in Competition.
Christophe Honoré's closing film Beloved starring Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel and Milos Forman, was screened at the end of the...
The official Jury of this 64th Festival de Cannes, presided over by Robert De Niro, revealed this evening the prizes winners during the Closing Ceremony. Mélanie Laurent hosted Jane Fonda on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d'or to the best film among the 20 in Competition. Christophe Honoré's closing film Beloved starring Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Garrel and Milos Forman, was screened at the end of the ceremony in the presence ...
The Jury of the Competition, presided over by Robert De Niro (actor, director, producer) welcomes to its ranks:
Martina GUSMAN (actress and producer, Argentina)
Nansun SHI (producer, Hong Kong/China)
Uma THURMAN (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA)
Linn ULLMANN (writer,literary critic, Norway)
Olivier ASSAYAS (director, France)
Jude LAW (actor, producer, UK)
Mahamat Saleh HAROUN (director, Chad)
Johnnie TO (director, producer, Hong Kong/China)
Martina Gusman stud...
TOKYO ~ Angry Man, a film about domestic violence, has won top prize at the Hiroshima Animated Film Festival.
Based on the book by Gro Dahle and Svein Nyhus, the film focuses on a small frightened child who desperately wishes to tell someone about what is going on at home, but doesn’t know who to talk to or what to do.
In awarding the Grand Prix to the film’s director, Anita Killi, the festival jury described Angry Man as a “beautifully made mixed media film” which...
This year's Zlin Film Festival, which is currently running in the UNESCO Heritage city in the northeast corner of the Czech Republic, is providing its visitors and local audiences with an encyclopedic survey of the best Czech and Slovak films of the past 50 years (mirroring the Festival's own 50th anniversary this year). Participating in these festivities is a dapper gentleman of a certain age who has spent a lifetime in the worlds of film in his native Czech Republic and, for t...
Oscar-winning director Istvan Szabo will be attending this year's Zlin Film Festival, the first major film event after Cannes. The Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a number of special events, takes place in the UNESCO heritage city of Zlin in eastern Czech Republic from May 30 to June 6. Website: www.zlinfest.cz/en
Szabo was born in Budapest in 1938 to an upper middle class Jewish family. His family were hidden by family friends during the Holo...
On the occasion of the selection of his latest film for the 2010 Cannes IFF Competition section, the 51st TIFF would like to announce a complete Retrospective to the work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, organized by the Independence Days section with the invaluable help of the director himself. The Thessaloniki Film Festival has long been a promoter of Weerasethakul's work, having previously screened several of his films.
The Thai film director's newest, Uncle Boonmee wh...
The Jury Prize was awarded to two films:
- Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
- Thirst by Park Chan-Wook
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The Jury Un Certain regard 2009 will be presided by the Italian director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino, awarded the Jury Prize in 2008 for il Divo.
He will be surrounded by Julie Gayet (actress, France), Piers Handling (director of the Toronto Festival, Canada), Uma Da Cunha (journalist and festival programmer, India) and Marit Kapla (journalist, Göteborg Festival, Sweden).
The opening film of Un Certain Regard, programmed for Thursday May 14th in the Salle Debussy, will be Nobody...
The Atelier du Festival, organised by the Cinéfondation, has selected for its second edition, 18 filmmakers:Teboho Mahlatsi (South Africa), Santiago Palavecino (Argentina), Christina Andreef (Australia), Bernard Bellefroid (Belgium), José Luis Torres Leiva (Chile), Wang Bing (China), Goran Rušinovic (Croatia), Luiso Berdejo (Spain), Cruz Angeles (United States), Richard Press (United States), Fabrice Genestal (France), Michelange Quay (Haiti), Dev Benegal (India), Dover Kosahvili (Israel), C...
FRAGILE, directed by Jaume Balagueró, won 4 awards (from a total of 6 nominations) at the 13th Gérardmer Fantasy Film Festival, one of Europe’s most important fantasy/horror genre festivals, which took place from January 25th to 29th 2006 in France. The film is distributed by Studio Canal in France.These awards were:"Prix du Jury" (Jury Prize)"Prix du Jury Jeunes" (Young Jury Prize) "Prix du Public l'Est Républicain - La Liberté de l'Est" (Audience Award)"Prix 13ème Rue" (Prize awarded by...
LE PETIT LIEUTENANT WINS EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL AT VENICE FESTIVALXavier Beauvois' LE PETIT LIEUTENANT was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label today by a jury of four Europa Cinemas exhibitors at the closing ceremony of the second Giornate degli Autori/Venice Days section at the Venice Film festival. Sold internationally by StudioCanal, LE PETIT LIEUTENANT is a Why Not Productions presentation of a Why Not Production, StudioCanal, France 2 Cinema production with the participation of Canal Plus and T...
As predicted, Michael Moore takes home the Palme d'or for 'Fahrenheit 911',"the temperature in which freedom burns", the first documentary film to win the highest award at Cannes since Jacques Costeau's 'Silent World' in 1956.Upon receiving the honor Moore exclaimed: "What have you done? I'm completely overwhelmed by this. Merci."The film is an unusual documentary with interviews, news clips and free lance journalism, that reports the news that doesn't get reported by major networks about the Bu...
As predicted, Michael Moore takes home the Palme d'or for 'Fahrenheit 911',"the temperature in which freedom burns", the first documentary film to win the highest award at Cannes since Jacques Costeau's 'Silent World' in 1956.Upon receiving the honor Moore exclaimed: "What have you done? I'm completely overwhelmed by this. Merci."The film is an unusual documentary with interviews, news clips and free lance journalism, that reports the news that doesn't get reported by major networks about the Bu...
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