Actress Uma Thurman will preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The second competition of the Official Selection, the Un Certain Regard program showcases works which offer a unique perspective and aesthetic.
A member of the Jury headed by Robert De Niro in 2011, Uma Thurman will continue this year the experience of watching films from all around the world as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury.
In a career spanning more than 20 years, the American actress has made some daring choices and enjoyed taking risks. She made her debut aged 17, in Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons and in Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. She became Quentin Tarantino’s muse, playing in Pulp Fiction (Palme d’or winner, 1994) and in Kill Bill (volumes 1 & 2), both presented at the Festival de Cannes.
Since then, Uma Thurman has worked with many directors, including Andrew Niccol (Gattaca); Woody Allen (Sweet and Lowdown); Roland Joffé (Vatel) and Ethan Hawke (Chelsea Walls). She recently joined the cast of Lars von Trier’s new project, The House that Jack Built, alongside Matt Dillon and Bruno Ganz.
Her filmography encompasses everything from action films to science fiction; intimate dramas to light comedies. This wide variety is a testament to her free and independent spirit, nurtured by her childhood in a hippy family. Whether playing crazy, sexy or dominant, the woman whose namesake is the Hindu goddess of beauty and light has definitely entered the pantheon of movie greats, with several of her scenes attaining cult status.Cannes Film Festival
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Uma Thurman Named President of Un Certain Regard Jury at 2017 Cannes Film Festival
Actress Uma Thurman will preside over the Un Certain Regard Jury at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The second competition of the Official Selection, the Un Certain Regard program showcases works which offer a unique perspective and aesthetic.
A member of the Jury headed by Robert De Niro in 2011, Uma Thurman will continue this year the experience of watching films from all around the world as President of the Un Certain Regard Jury.
In a career spanning more than 20 years, the American actress has made some daring choices and enjoyed taking risks. She made her debut aged 17, in Stephen Frears’ Dangerous Liaisons and in Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. She became Quentin Tarantino’s muse, playing in Pulp Fiction (Palme d’or winner, 1994) and in Kill Bill (volumes 1 & 2), both presented at the Festival de Cannes.
Since then, Uma Thurman has worked with many directors, including Andrew Niccol (Gattaca); Woody Allen (Sweet and Lowdown); Roland Joffé (Vatel) and Ethan Hawke (Chelsea Walls). She recently joined the cast of Lars von Trier’s new project, The House that Jack Built, alongside Matt Dillon and Bruno Ganz.
Her filmography encompasses everything from action films to science fiction; intimate dramas to light comedies. This wide variety is a testament to her free and independent spirit, nurtured by her childhood in a hippy family. Whether playing crazy, sexy or dominant, the woman whose namesake is the Hindu goddess of beauty and light has definitely entered the pantheon of movie greats, with several of her scenes attaining cult status.
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Cannes Film Festival Announces 2017 Official Selection of Short Films
The Cannes Film Festival announced the 2017 Official Selection of short films In Competition and the Cinéfondation Selection. The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury, presided by Cristian Mungiu, will then decide on the best films both from the Short Films Competition and the Cinéfondation.
The 2017 Short Films Competition comprises 9 films (8 works of fictions and 1 animation), from Finland, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece, Iran, USA, Poland, China, Colombia and Sweden. These films are all in the running for the 2017 Short Film Palme d’or, to be awarded by Cristian Mungiu, President of the Jury, at the official award ceremony of the 70th Festival de Cannes on 28th May.
To mark its 20th year, the Cinéfondation Selection has chosen 16 films (14 works of fiction and 2 animations), from among the 2,600 works submitted this year by film schools from all over the world. Fourteen countries from three continents are represented. Four of the films selected come from schools taking part for the first time. The three Cinéfondation prizes will be awarded at a ceremony preceding the screening of the prize-winning films on Friday 26th May in the Buñuel Theatre.
THE SHORT FILMS COMPETITION 2017
Teppo Airaksinen – KATTO (Ceiling) Finland Lucrèce Andreae – PÉPÉ LE MORSE – animation (Grandpa Walrus) France Mahdi Fleifel – A DROWNING MAN United Kingdom, Denmark, Grece Alireza Ghasemi – LUNCH TIME Iran Fiona Godivier – ACROSS MY LAND USA Grzegorz Molda – KONIEC WIDZENIA (Time to go) Poland Qiu Yang – XIAO CHENG ER YUE (A Gentle Night) China Andrés Ramirez Pulido – DAMIANA Colombia Julia Thelin – PUSH IT SwedenTHE CINÉFONDATION SELECTION 2017
Yuval Aharoni – BEN MAMSHICH (Heritage) – Steve Tisch School of Film & Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel Bahman Ark, Bahram Ark – HEYVAN (Animal) – Iranian National School of Cinema, Iran Michal Blasko – ATLANTÍDA, 2003 (Atlantis, 2003) – FTF VŠMU, Slovakia Stijn Bouma – LEJLA – Sarajevo Film Academy, Bosnia-Herzegovina Eduardo Brandao Pinto – VAZIO DO LADO DE FORA (Empty on the Outside) – Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Aya Igashi – TOKERU – Toho Gakuen Film Techniques Training College, Japan Payal Kapadia – AFTERNOON CLOUDS – Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), India Léa Krawczyk – À PERDRE HALEINE – La Poudrière, France Marian Mathias – GIVE UP THE GHOST – NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USA Valentina Maurel – PAUL EST LÀ (Paul is Here) – INSAS, Belgium Imge Özbilge – CAMOUFLAGE – KASK, Belgium Roberto Porta – PEQUEÑO MANIFIESTO EN CONTRA DEL CINE SOLEMNE (Little Manifesto Against Solemn Cinema) – Universidad del Cine (FUC), Argentina Rory Stewart – WILD HORSES – NFTS, UK Áron Szenpeteri – LÁTHATATLANUL (Invisibly) – Színház-és Filmművészeti Egyetem, Hungaria Tommaso Usberti – DEUX ÉGARÉS SONT MORTS – La Fémis, France WANG Yi-Ling – YIN SHIAN BIEN JIAN GON LU (Towards the Sun) – National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan
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Cannes Film Festival Unveils 2017 Official Selections – Noah Baumbach, Sofia Coppola, Todd Haynes and More
The Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Selection of the 70th edition during the Press Conference held earlier this morning by Pierre Lescure and Thierry Frémaux in Paris. The festival will take place May 17 to 28, 2017.
Official Selection COMPETITION
Opening film: Arnaud Desplechin – LES FANTÔMES D’ISMAËL Out of Competition Fatih Akin – AUS DEM NICHTS (IN THE FADE) Noah Baumbach – THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) Bong Joon-Ho – OKJA Robin Campillo – 120 BATTEMENTS PAR MINUTE Sofia Coppola – THE BEGUILED Jacques Doillon – RODIN Michael Haneke – HAPPY END Todd Haynes – WONDERSTRUCK Michel Hazanavicius – LE REDOUTABLE Hong Sangsoo GEU-HU (THE DAY AFTER) Naomi Kawase – HIKARI (RADIANCE) Yorgos Lanthimos – THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER Sergei Loznitsa – A GENTLE CREATURE Kornél Mundruczo – JUPITER’S MOON François Ozon – L’AMANT DOUBLE Lynne Ramsay – YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie – GOOD TIME Andrey Zvyagintsev – NELYUBOV (LOVELESS)Official Selection UN CERTAIN REGARD
Opening film: Mathieu Amalric – BARBARA Cecilia Atan, Valeria Pivato – LA NOVIA DEL DESIERTO (THE DESERT BRIDE) 1st film Kantemir Balagov – TESNOTA (CLOSENESS) 1st film Kaouther Ben Hania – AALA KAF IFRIT (BEAUTY AND THE DOGS) Laurent Cantet – L’ATELIER Sergio Castellitto – FORTUNATA (LUCKY) Michel Franco – LAS HIJAS DE ABRIL (APRIL’S DAUGHTER) Valeska Grisebach – WESTERN Stephan Komandarev – POSOKI (DIRECTIONS) Gyorgy Kristof – OUT 1st film Kurosawa Kiyoshi – SANPO SURU SHINRYAKUSHA (BEFORE WE VANISH) Karim Moussaoui – EN ATTENDANT LES HIRONDELLES (UNTIL THE BIRDS RETURN) 1st film Mohammad Rasoulof – LERD (DREGS) Léonor Serraille JEUNE FEMME 1st film Taylor Sheridan – WIND RIVER 1st film Annarita Zambrano – APRÈS LA GUERRE (AFTER THE WAR) 1st filmOfficial Selection OUT OF COMPETITION
Miike Takashi – MUGEN NO JŪNIN (BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL) John Cameron Mitchell – HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES 1h42 Agnès Varda Jr. – VISAGES, VILLAGESOfficial Selection MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire – A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN Byun Sung-Hyun – BULHANDANG (THE MERCILESS) Jung Byung-Gil – AK-NYEO (THE VILLAINESS)Official Selection SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk – AN INCONVENIENT SEQUE Raymond Depardon – 12 JOURS (12 DAYS) Anahita Ghazvinizadeh – THEY 1st film Hong Sangsoo – KEUL-LE-EO-UI KA-ME-LA (CLAIR’S CAMERA) Eugene Jarecki – PROMISED LAND Claude Lanzmann – NAPALM Jude Ratman – DEMONS IN PARADISE 1st film Vanessa Redgrave – SEA SORROWOfficial Selection VIRTUAL REALITY (Film / Installation / Exhibition)
Alejandro G. Inarritu – CARNE Y ARENAOfficial Selection 70TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
Jane Campion, Ariel Kleiman – TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL Abbas Kiarostami – 24 FRAMES David Lynch – TWIN PEAKS Kristen Stewart – COME SWIM
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Actress Sandrine Kiberlain to Preside Over Caméra d’or Jury at Cannes Film Festival
Actress Sandrine Kiberlain will preside over the Jury for this year’s Caméra d’or at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Accompanied by her jury of industry professionals, the French actress will award a prize to a director’s first work from the Official Selection, the Directors’ Fortnight or the Semaine de la Critique.
In a career spanning 25 years and boasting around 40 films, the actress has made a simple and subtle but undeniable impression on the French filmmaking scene. She first shot to prominence in The Patriots by Éric Rochant (winner of the Romy-Schneider prize) then confirmed those first impressions with En avoir (ou pas) by Laetitia Masson (César for Most Promising Actress). Since then, she has continued to make an impact far and wide, taking risks in her stride and turning her hand with ease to dramas (Mademoiselle Chambon), quirky comedies (9 Month Stretch, César for Best Actress), arthouse films (False Servant) and mass-market films (Little Nicolas).
As the young director of an acclaimed short film in 2016, Bonne Figure, she has worked under greats such as Benoît Jacquot (Seventh Heaven), Claude Miller (Alias Betty), Nicole Garcia (A view of Love), Alain Resnais (Life of Riley) and André Téchiné (Being 17).
Kiberlain was a member of the feature film jury at the 2001 Festival de Cannes, and has accompanied A Self-made Hero (1996) and Polisse (2011) in Competition, as well as For Sale (1998) as part of Un Certain Regard.
Following on from Wim Wenders, Tim Roth, Abbas Kiarostami and more recently Agnès Varda and Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain and her jury members will award the Caméra d’or prize at the Closing Ceremony of the Festival de Cannes on Sunday 28 May. Since 1978 the award has gone to Stranger than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch (1984), Suzaku by Naomi Kawase (1997), The White Balloon by Jafar Panahi (1995), Hunger by Steve McQueen (2008) and Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin (2012). Last year, Houda Benyamina won the Caméra d’or for her film Divines screened in the Directors’ Fortnight.
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Thessaloniki Takes 5 Greek “Works In Progress” Films to Marché du Film of Cannes Film Festival
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5 Greek “works in progress” films have been selected by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival to participate in the “Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes” event which will take place on Tuesday, May 23rd, during the Marché du Film of the 70th Cannes Film Festival (May 17 – 28, 2017).
The participation of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival’s Agora Industry in the “Goes to Cannes” of this year’s edition of Cannes’ Marché du Film, one of the world’s largest film markets discovering up-and-coming directors from all over the world, is collaboration between the TIFF and the Greek Film Centre with the Festival de Cannes. Greece is the only country in Southeastern Europe and the Balkans that participates in the event.
The 5 Works in Progress (both fiction and documentary) that will be presented to the sales agents, distributors and programmers who attend this year’s Cannes’ Marché du Film are the following:
1. HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Fiction, 85’, 2017 – Greece, France, Cyprus, Germany)
Director-Writer: Christos Georgiou
Production Company: View Master Films, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH, Manny Films, Lychnari Productions Limited, Pallas Film, Producer: Costas Lambropoulos, Thanassis Karathanos, Co-producers: Birgit Kemner, Christos Georgiou, Martin Hampel, Language: Greek, Key partners: Greek Film Center, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animeé, Cultural Services – Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus (Advisory Film Committee), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, FFA – German Federal Film Board, ERT and Eurimages – Council of Europe
Stage: Almost completed
Looking for: Sales agent, distributors, festivals
Synopsis: When George runs out of the police riot bus and sees his daughter among the demonstrators facing him, he and his wife decide that father and daughter should go to their country home for a few days, to keep her safe and see if they can salvage their relationship.
2. POLYXENI (Fiction, 100’, 2017 – Greece)
Director-Writer: Dora Masklavanou
Production Company: Blonde S.A., Producer: Fenia Cossovitsa, Languages: Greek, Turkish, Key partners: Greek Film Centre, ERT S.A., Nova
Stage: Post-production
Looking for: Sales agent, festivals
Synopsis: In 1955 a couple of prominent Greek Istanbulites adopt an orphan Greek girl from the town of their origin. They offer her a powerful family name and ensure her devotion. Twelve-year-old Polyxeni is separated from her younger brother. She embarks on a new life and a future that looks bright. She receives an education, comes of age and falls in love. She has a lust for life, while unsuspicious of the devious plan of annihilation that others are weaving behind her back, targeting her large inheritance.
3. VIRUS (Fiction, 120’, 2017 – Greece, France, Latvia)
Director: Angelos Frantzis, Writers: Angelos Frantzis, Spyros Krimbalis
The film won the 2|35 award for post-production services at the Agora Industry’s Crossroads
Co-production Forum of the 52nd Thessaloniki IFF.
Production Company: Heretic, Producers: Giorgos Karnavas, Konstantinos Kontovrakis, Co-producer: Mathieu Bompoint (Mezzanine Films), Languages: Greek, English, Russian, Key partners: Greek Film Centre, ERT S.A., CNC, Latvian National Film Centre, Blonde S.A., Alatas Films, 235
Stage: Post-production
Looking for: Gap financing, sales agent, distributors, festivals
Synopsis: Anna and Petros are a young Greek couple that moved recently to a remote Siberian town for Petros’ new job. Their lives are disrupted by Anna’s pregnancy that seems to have no explanation, as they haven’t had sex since they moved to Russia. The questions raised by the mysterious event are relentless; was she cheating? Is she the victim of a conspiracy? Or maybe a Saint? As Petros is desperately looking for a rational answer and Anna resorts to religion to make sense of her situation, two opposing worlds, faith and reason, come to a violent clash.
4. DOLPHIN MAN (Documentary, 87’, 2017 – Greece, France, Canada, Japan, Italy)
Director: Lefteris Charitos, Writers: Yuri Averof, Lefteris Charitos
Production Company: Anemon Productions, Les Films Du Balibari, Storyline Entertainment, Impleo, Producers: Rea Apostolides, Yuri Averof, Estelle Robin, Ed Barreveld, Seiko Kato, Languages: English, Greek, French, Japanese, Italian, Key partners: Arte, CNC, Greek Film Centre, WOWOW, ERT, Knowledge, TVO, Canal Z, SVT, Region Pays de la Loire, World Sales: Films Transit
Stage: Post-production
Looking for: Final funding, theatrical distribution partners
Synopsis: Dolphin Man tells the life story of Jacques Mayol, the greatest free-diver in recorded history, whose life became the inspiration for Luc Besson’s cult-movie Le Grand Bleu. It draws us into Mayol’s world, capturing his compelling journey from Japan to Europe, North America and India, while immersing viewers into the sensory and transformative experience of free-diving. Mayol was the first diver to reach 100 meters below the sea and revolutionized free-diving by introducing yoga and Zen techniques. He traveled across the world, promoting an urgent vision of our need to reconnect with nature. The film weaves together stunning contemporary underwater photography of the world’s leading free-divers with intimate testimonies of Mayol’s closest friends and family and rare film archive.
5. LP (ΛΠ) (Documentary, 70’, 2017 – Greece)
Director-Writer: Cristo Petrou
Production Company: Heretic, Producer: Giorgos Karnavas, Languages: Greek, English, Key partners: Greek Film Center, ERT S.A., World Sales: Heretic Outreach
Stage: Editing
Looking for: Finishing funding, festival premiere
Synopsis: ΛΠ is a documentary about Lena Platonos, one of Greece’s most idiosyncratic musicians and one of the world’s forerunners in electronic music. Born on 10.21.1951 under the sign of Libra, she was trained as a classical pianist in Vienna and Berlin but eventually got involved with electronic music when synthesizers became accessible to musicians. However, Lena didn’t receive the international recognition she deserved. 30 years later, the release of her works by the American label Dark Entries in 2015 under critical acclaim gave us the perfect excuse to ask musicians from a wide range of contemporary music to experiment with her music, while interviewing her and all the people who were involved in the making of her records in the ’80s.
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Cannes Film Festival Unveils Controversial Poster Featuring Italian Actress Claudia Cardinale
Here it is, the official poster of the 70th Cannes Film Festival featuring “full of joy” Italian film actress Claudia Cardinale.
The poster immediately received criticism in the French media and on social media accusing the festival of airbrushing the original image, taken in 1959, to make the actress look thinner.
Pour ceux qui veulent comparer avec la photo originale. #Cannes2017 #Cannes70 (v. @IMtheRookie) pic.twitter.com/f5MPsrD1Jq
— So Film (@So_Film) March 29, 2017
Claudia Cardinale appeared not bothered at all, reportedly calling the brouhaha “fake row“. She told the Huffington Post: “This image has been retouched to accentuate this effect of lightness and transpose me into a dream character. This concern for realism has no place here and, as a committed feminist, I see no affront to the female body. There are many more important things to discuss in our world. It’s only cinema.” ‘I am honored and proud to be flying the flag for the 70th Festival de Cannes,’ says Claudia Cardinale, and delighted with this choice of photo. It’s the image I myself have of the Festival, of an event that illuminates everything around. That dance on the rooftops of Rome was back in 1959. No one remembers the photographer’s name… I’ve also forgotten it. But this photo reminds me of my origins, and of a time when I never dreamed of climbing the steps of the world’s most famous cinema hall. Happy anniversary!’ With Monica Bellucci as Mistress of Ceremonies and Pedro Almodóvar as the President of the Jury, the Festival de Cannes will kick off on Wednesday May, 17, 2017 and runs through May 28, 2017.Why the need to alter Claudia Cardinale’s body so dramatically for #Cannes2017 official poster? pic.twitter.com/jvMEfejZUc
— Anna Rose Holmer (@BARFH) March 29, 2017
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Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu to Serve as President of the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury at 2017 Cannes Film Festival
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Cristian Mungiu[/caption]
Romanian director, screenwriter and producer Cristian Mungiu will preside over the Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury of the upcoming 70th Cannes Film Festival taking place May 17 to 28, 2017.
Cristian Mungiu who previously served as a member of Steven Spielberg’s jury in 2013, will follow in the footsteps of Naomi Kawase, Abderrahmane Sissako, Abbas Kiarostami and Jane Campion.
Cristian Mungiu enjoys a long history with the Festival, having won the Palme with his second feature film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, he went on to garner the Best Screenplay and Best Actress prizes for Beyond the Hills and the Best Director prize for Graduation.
Born in 1968 in Iași, Cristian Mungiu started out as a journalist and then a teacher after studying English at university. He then attended the Film and Theatre Academy in Bucharest, where he made a number of short films. He continued his training as an assistant director with Bertrand Tavernier for Captain Conan (1996) and Radu Mihăileanu for Train of Life (1998). His first feature film, Occident, was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight in 2002 and was a triumph back in Romania.
“Cristian Mungiu is a glorious member of that Romanian school showcased by Thierry Frémaux in the 2000s”, says Gilles Jacob, President of the Cinéfondation. “Just to look at the intelligence and interactive ramifications of a screenplay like Graduation is to understand that Cristian is the dream examiner for the big Festival exam – the Cinéfondation and the short films. I wonder who will pass? Good luck to all the candidates!”
For his part, Cristian Mungiu’s first reaction was to say: “Value and originality have never achieved easy recognition in the cinema. And it’s even harder to recognize the value and originality of very young directors. But the Cinéfondation is known for having succeeded in doing just that to great effect. The Cinéfondation has always given young directors the help and recognition they needed at the very outset of their career, so that they could express themselves with courage and find their own voice. Long may that continue to achieve the same impact. It’s an endeavor in which I’m proud to be playing a part.”
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Cannes Film Festival Winners: I, DANIEL BLAKE Wins 2016 Palme d’or | TRAILERS
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I, DANIEL BLAKE by British filmmaker Ken Loach, won the 2016 Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Ken Loach enters the elite circle of two-time Palme d’or winners, having already won the award for The Wind That Shakes The Barley in 2006.
In I, DANIEL BLAKE, Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life.
He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away.
Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLEPQ9FYU0U
JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE (It’s Only the End of the World) by Xavier DOLAN is the winner of the Grand Prix award.
After 12 years of absence, a writer goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fueled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people’s incapacity to listen and love.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkhQpVVulU
The complete list of winners of 2016 Cannes Film Festival
FEATURE FILMS
Palme d’or
I, DANIEL BLAKE by Ken LOACH
Grand Prix
JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE (It’s Only the End of the World) by Xavier DOLAN
Award for Best Director Ex-Aequo
Cristian MUNGIU for BACALAUREAT (Graduation)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimmuogOOks
Olivier ASSAYAS for PERSONAL SHOPPER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hghXP4F3Qs
Award for Best Screenplay
Asghar FARHADI for FORUSHANDE (The Salesman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-o5I5UWBh0
Jury Prize
AMERICAN HONEY by Andrea ARNOLD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEFbvNP288
Award for Best Actress
Jaclyn JOSE in MA’ ROSA by Brillante MENDOZA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-YxXlwNw4
Award for Best Actor
Shahab HOSSEINI in FORUSHANDE (The Salesman) by Asghar FARHADI
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SHORT FILMS
Palme d’or
TIMECODE by Juanjo GIMENEZ
Special disctinction
A MOÇA QUE DANÇOU COM O DIABO (The Girl Who Danced With the Devil) by João Paulo MIRANDA MARIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m997lLIrAEM
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CAMÉRA D’OR
DIVINES by Houda BENYAMINA presented during The Directors’ Fortnight
The Jury of the CST has awarded the VULCAN AWARD OF THE TECHNICAL ARTIST to:
SEONG-HIE RYU, for the artistic direction, with great inspiration, for the film MADEMOISELLE (The Handmaiden/Agassi) by PARK Chan-Wook.
Image: The Jury and the Winners of the 69th Festival of Cannes © Antonin Thuillier / AFP via Cannes Film Festival
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MIMOSAS Wins Top Prize at Cannes 2016 International Critics’ Week
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Mimosas by Oliver Laxe[/caption]
MIMOSAS directed by Oliver Laxe, is the winner of the Nespresso
Grand Prize in the International Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival.
A caravan escorts an elderly and dying Sheikh through the Moroccan Atlas. His last wish is to be buried with his closed ones. But death does not wait. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain, refuse to continue transporting the corpse. Saïd and Ahmed, two rogues travelling with the caravan, say they know the way and promise to take the corpse to its destiny.
In another world, Shakib is chosen to travel to the mountains with a mission: to help the improvised caravaneers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r854X85Q49s
2016 International Critics’ Week awards.
Nespresso
Grand Prize
Mimosas by Oliver Laxe
France 4
Visionary Award
Album by Mehmet Can Mertoglu
A couple in their late 30’s sets out to prepare a fake photo album of a pseudo pregnancy period in order to prove their biological tie to the baby they’re planning to adopt.
Leica Cine Discovery Prize for short films
Prenjak by Wregas Bhanuteja
PARTNER AWARDS
Gan Foundation Award for Distribution
Sophie Dulac, French distributor for One Week and a Day (Shavua Ve Yom) by Asaph Polonsky
SACD
Award
Davy Chou and Claire Maugendre, co-writers of Diamond Island
Canal+ Award for short films
L’enfance D’un Chef by Antoine de Bary
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Shahrbanoo Sadat’s WOLF AND SHEEP Wins Director’s Fortnight at Cannes Film Festival
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Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat is the winner the 2016 Director’s Fortnight’s top prize, the Art Cinema Award, at the Cannes Film Festival for her debut feature WOLF AND SHEEP.
In an interview with the Danish Film Institute, Sadat notes that the Danish-produced Wolf and Sheep, was inspired by her feeling of being an outsider during her childhood in a small isolated village in Central Afghanistan. Her goal was to tell a story that doesn’t revolve around war, the election, or other political issues dominating the media, but depicts Afghan everyday life as she knows it.
“When I watched other films about Afghanistan, I always missed something. I know it’s a cliché, but I wanted to show the real Afghanistan. I wasn’t sure how to make a good film, but I knew what I didn’t want to make a film about. Women’s rights, the election and bombings were all on my blacklist. I wanted a local to see it and say, ‘That’s my life’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz0aCZJha9w
“Wolf and Sheep,” takes place in a rural village like the one Sadat grew up in and follows a group of shepherd children in the mountains. The boys practice with their slings to fight wolves, while the girls smoke secretly and play wedding. They gossip about 11-year-old Sediqa, an outsider, whom they think is cursed. Finally, she makes friends with 11-year Qodrat, who becomes a gossip topic, after his mother remarries with an old man with two wives. The story is inspired by a combination of Sadat’s own childhood and the childhood of her best friend, Anwar Hashimi, who lived in the same village before Sadat and had a similar experience of becoming an outsider after his mother remarried.
Winners and Awards of 2016 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight / Quinzaine des Realisateurs
Art Cinema Award to a feature film
“Wolf & Sheep,” dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat
SACD Award to a French-language feature film
“The Together Project” (aka “L’Effet Aquatique”) dir. Solveig Anspach
SACD special mention
“Divines” dir. Houda Benyamina
The Europa Cinemas Label to a European feature film
“Mercenary” (aka “Mercenaire”) dir. Sacha Wolff
Illy Prize to a short film
“Chasse Royal” dirs. Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret
Illy special mention
“The Beast” (aka “Zvir”) dir. Miroslav Sikavica
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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mä Wins 2016 Un Certain Regard Prize at Cannes Film Festival
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The Jury and the Winners – Un Certain Regard Awards (Cannes Film Festival)[/caption]
HYMYILEVÄ MIES (The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki) by Juho Kuosmanen won the 2016 Un Certain Regard Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Summer 1962, Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a problem – he has fallen in love with Raija.
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FUCHI NI TATSU (Harmonium) by Fukada Kôji[/caption]
FUCHI NI TATSU (Harmonium) by Fukada Kôji is the winner of Jury Prize.
Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio’s family life…
Un Certain Regard 2016 presented in competition 18 films hailing from 20 different countries. Seven of the works were first films. The Opening film was ESHTEBAK (Clash) by Mohamed Diab.
Under the presidency of Marthe Keller (actress – Switzerland), the Jury was comprised of Jessica Hausner (director, producer – Austria), Diego Luna (actor, director, producer – Mexico), Ruben Östlund (director – Sweden) and Céline Sallette (actress – France).
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HYMYILEVÄ MIES (The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki) by Juho Kuosmanen[/caption]
Prize of Un Certain Regard
HYMYILEVÄ MIES
(The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki)
by Juho Kuosmanen
Jury Prize
FUCHI NI TATSU
(Harmonium)
by Fukada Kôji
Prize for Best Director
Matt Ross
for CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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Captain Fantastic[/caption]
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he’s taught them.
Prize for Best Screenplay
Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin
for VOIR DU PAYS (The Stopover)
At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of decompression leave with their unit at a five-star resort in Cyprus, among tourists. But it’s not that easy to forget the war and leave the violence behind.
Un Certain Regard Special Prize
LA TORTUE ROUGE
(The Red Turtle)
by Michael Dudok de Wit
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THE RED TURTLE[/caption]
Through the story of a man shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds, THE RED TURTLE recounts the milestones in the life of a human being.
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HELL OR HIGH WATER Starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine Sets August Release Date
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HELL OR HIGH WATER[/caption]
The action drama HELL OR HIGH WATER starring Academy Award®-winner Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine, will open in limited release on August 12, followed by nationwide release on August 19, after World Premiering at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Hell Or High Water is directed by David Mackenzie (“Young Adam,” “Starred Up”) and in addition to Bridges (“Crazy Heart,” “True Grit”), and Pine (“Star Trek,” “Into The Woods”), also stars Ben Foster (“3:10 To Yuma,” “The Messenger”) and Gil Birmingham (“The Lone Ranger,” “Twilight”).
A story about the collision of the Old and New West, two brothers — Toby (Chris Pine), a straight-living, divorced father trying to make a better life for his son; and Tanner (Ben Foster), a short-tempered ex-con with a loose trigger finger — come together to rob branch after branch of the bank that is foreclosing on their family land. The hold-ups are part of a last-ditch scheme to take back a future that powerful forces beyond their control have stolen from under their feet. Vengeance seems to be theirs until they find themselves in the crosshairs of a relentless, foul-mouthed Texas Ranger (Jeff Bridges) looking for one last triumph on the eve of his retirement. As the brothers plot a final bank heist to complete their plan, a showdown looms at the crossroads where the last honest law man and a pair of brothers with nothing to live for except family collide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQoqsKoJVDw