2009 Cannes Film Festival

62nd Cannes Film Festival

The poster shows a still from the film L'Avventura by Michelangelo Antonioni.[1]
Opening film	Up
Closing film	Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or (The White Ribbon)
Hosted by	Édouard Baer[2]
Number of films	20 (En Competition)[3] 19 (Un Certain Regard)[4] 9 (Short Film)[5]
Festival date	13–24 May 2009
Website	http://www.festival-cannes.com

The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 May – 24 May 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury.^[6] It was announced on 19 March 2009, that Pixar's film Up would open the festival.^[7] This marked the first time that an animated film or a film in 3-D opened the festival.

American director Clint Eastwood became the second recipient of the Honorary Palme d'Or, an award given to directors who had established a significant body of work without ever winning a competitive Palme d'Or.^[8]

Festival line-up

	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Opener	Up *		Pete Docter and Bob Peterson	United States
Closer	Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky		Jan Kounen	France

* First animated film ever to open the festival.

Films in competition

The following films competed for the Palme d'Or.^[3]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Antichrist		Lars von Trier	Denmark
Bright Star		Jane Campion	United Kingdom
Broken Embraces	Los abrazos rotos	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
Butchered	Kinatay	Brillante Mendoza	Philippines
Enter the Void	Soudain le vide	Gaspar Noé	France
Face	Visage	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan
Fish Tank		Andrea Arnold	United Kingdom
Inglourious Basterds		Quentin Tarantino	United States
In the Beginning	À l'origine	Xavier Giannoli	France
Looking for Eric		Ken Loach	United Kingdom
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo	Mapa de los sonidos de Tokyo	Isabel Coixet	Spain
A Prophet	Un prophète	Jacques Audiard	France
Spring Fever	春风沉醉的晚上 Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng	Lou Ye	China
Taking Woodstock		Ang Lee	United States
Thirst	박쥐 Bakjwi	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
The Time That Remains	الزمن الباقي	Elia Suleiman	Palestine
Wild Grass	Les herbes folles	Alain Resnais	France
Vincere		Marco Bellocchio	Italy
Vengeance	復仇	Johnnie To	Hong Kong
The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band	Michael Haneke	Austria

Un Certain Regard

The following films competed in the Un Certain Regard section:^[4]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Adrift	À Deriva	Heitor Dhalia	Brazil
Air Doll	Kūki Ningyō	Hirokazu Koreeda	Japan
Dogtooth	Kynodontas	Yorgos Lanthimos	Greece
Eyes Wide Open	עיניים פקוחות	Haim Tabakman	Israel
The Father of My Children	Le père de mes enfants	Mia Hansen-Løve	France
Independence	Independencia	Raya Martin	Philippines
Irene		Alain Cavalier	France
Mother	마더	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea
No One Knows About Persian Cats	کسی از گربه های ایرانی خبر نداره	Bahman Ghobadi	Iran
Nymph	Nang Mai	Pen-Ek Ratanaruang	Thailand
Police, Adjective	Poliţist, Adjectiv	Corneliu Porumboiu	Romania
Precious	Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire	Lee Daniels	United States
Samson and Delilah		Warwick Thornton	Australia
The Silent Army	Wit Licht	Jean van de Velde	Netherlands
Tale in the Darkness	Skazka pro temnotu	Nikolay Khomeriki	Russia
Tales from the Golden Age	Amintiri din epoca de aur	Cristian Mungiu, Hanno Höfer, Constantin Popescu, and Ioana Uricaru	Romania
To Die like a Man	Morrer Como Um Homem	João Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal
Tomorrow at Dawn	Demain dès l'aube	Denis Dercourt	France
Tsar	Царь	Pavel Lungin	Russia
The Wind Journeys	Los viajes del viento	Ciro Guerra	Colombia

Films out of competition

The following films were shown out of competition:^[9]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Agora		Alejandro Amenábar	Spain
The Army of Crime	L'armée du crime	Robert Guédiguian	France
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky		Jan Kounen	France
Don't Look Back	Ne te retourne pas	Marina de Van	France
Drag Me to Hell		Sam Raimi	United States
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus		Terry Gilliam	United Kingdom
A Town Called Panic	Panique au village	Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar	Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Up		Pete Docter	United States

Special screenings

The following films were given a special screening:^[10]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
Ashes and Blood	Cendres et sang	Fanny Ardant	France
Jaffa		Keren Yedaya	Israel
The Thorn in the Heart	L'épine dans le coeur	Michel Gondry	France
Manila		Adolfo Alix, Jr., Raya Martin	Philippines
Tell Me Who You Are	Min Ye	Souleymane Cissé	Mali
My Neighbor, My Killer	Mon voisin, mon tueur	Anne Aghion	France
The Eye of the Storm	No Meu Lugar	Eduardo Valente	Brazil
Petition		Zhao Liang	China
Group Portrait With Kids and Motorcycles	Portrait de Groupe Avec Enfants et Motocyclettes	Pierre-William Glenn	France
A Brand New Life	여행자 (Yeo-haeng-ja), Une vie toute neuve	Ounie Lecomte	South Korea

Cannes Classics

The Festival uses Cannes Classics to place the spotlight on rediscovered or restored masterworks from the past, or ones that have been re-released in theatres or on DVD.^[11]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
The Red Shoes (1948)	The Red Shoes	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	United Kingdom
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)	Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian	Edward Yang	Taiwan
The Night of Counting the Years (1969)	Al-Momia	Shadi Abdel Salam	Egypt
The Wave (1936)	Redes	Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann	Mexico
Images from the Playground (2009)	Bilder från lekstugan	Stig Björkman	Sweden
Accident (1967)	Accident	Joseph Losey	United Kingdom
Two of the New Wave (2009)	Deux de la Vague	Emmanuel Laurent	France
Pietro Germi - The Good, the Beautiful and the Brave (2009)	Pietro Germi - Il bravo, il bello, il cattivo	Claudio Bondi	Italy
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009)	Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno	Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea	France
God Does Not Believe in Us Any More (1982)	An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr	Axel Corti	Austria, Germany
Once Upon a Time... the Revolution (1971)	Giù la testa	Sergio Leone	Italy
The Adventure (1960)	L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni	France, Italy
The Housemaid (1960)	하녀	Kim Ki-young	South Korea
The 400 Blows (1959)	Les quatre cents coups	François Truffaut	France
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)	Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot	Jacques Tati	France
Eyes Without a Face (1960)	Les yeux sans visage	Georges Franju	France
Far from Vietnam (1967)	Loin du Vietnam	Chris Marker, Joris Ivens, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, William Klein, Agnès Varda and Alain Resnais	France
Pierrot le fou (1965)	Pierrot le fou	Jean-Luc Godard	France
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)	Signore & signori	Pietro Germi	Italy
The Molly Maguires (1970)	The Molly Maguires	Martin Ritt	United States
Victim (1961)	Victim	Basil Dearden	United Kingdom
Wake in Fright (1971)	Wake in Fright	Ted Kotcheff	Australia

Cinéfondation

The following films competed in the Cinéfondation section:^[12]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
#1		Noamir Castéra	Belgium
Bába		Zuzana Kirchnerová	Czech Republic
By the Grace of God		Ralitza Petrova	United Kingdom
Chapa		Thiago Ricarte	Brazil
Diploma		Yaelle Kayam	Israel
The Boxer	El boxeador	Juan Ignacio Pollio	Argentina
Goodbye		Fang Song	China
Gutter		Dan Ransom Day	United States
The Naturalist	Il Naturalista	Giulia Barbera	Italy
Kasia		Elisabet Llado	Belgium
The Setback	Le Contretemps	Dominique Baumard	France
Significant Others	Malzonkowie	Dara Van Dusen	Poland
Don't Step Out of the House	남매의 집 Nammae Ui Jip	Jo Sung-hee	South Korea
Segal		Yuval Shani	Israel
The Sylpphid	Sylfidden	Dorte Bengtson	Denmark
The Horn	뿔 Bbul	Yim Kyung-dong	South Korea
Traverser		Hugo Frassetto	France

Short films

The following films competed for the Palme d'Or du court métrage:^[5]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
After Tomorrow		Emma Sullivan	United Kingdom
Arena		João Salaviza	Portugal
Ciao mama	Ciao mama	Goran Odvorcic	Croatia
Silence	Klusums	Laila Pakalniņa	Latvia
The Man in the Blue Gordini	L'Homme À la Gordini	Jean-Christophe Lie	France
Lars and Peter	Lars og Peter	Daniel Borgman	Denmark
Missing	Mizzen	Joachim de Vries	Netherlands
Worstward Ho	Rumbo a Peor	Àlex Brendemühl	Spain
The Six Dollar Fifty Man		Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland	New Zealand

Juries

International competition Isabelle Huppert, French actress (President)[13] Asia Argento, Italian actress Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkish film director Lee Chang-dong, South Korean film director James Gray, American film director Hanif Kureishi, British screenwriter Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress Robin Wright Penn, American actress Sharmila Tagore, Indian actress

Cinéfondation and short films John Boorman, English film director (President)[14] Bertrand Bonello, French film director Férid Boughedir, Tunisian film director Leonor Silveira, Portuguese actress Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model

Un Certain Regard Paolo Sorrentino, Italian film director (President)[15] Uma Da Cunha, Indian casting director and production consultant[16] Julie Gayet, French actress and film producer Piers Handling, Canadian Director and CEO of TIFF Marit Kapla, Swedish culture journalist

Awards

The members of the international competition's jury.

The winners of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival were:^[17][18]

• Palme d'Or – Das weiße Band by Michael Haneke^[19]
• Grand Prix – Un prophète by Jacques Audiard^[19]
• Prix de la mise en scène – Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay^[19]
• Prix du Jury^[19]
  • Bakjwi by Park Chan-wook
  • Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
• Prix du scénario – Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng by Lou Ye^[19]
• Prix d'interprétation féminine – Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist^[19]
• Prix d'interprétation masculine – Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds^[19]
• Lifetime Achievement Award for his work – Alain Resnais^[19]
• Palme d'Or du court métrage Arena by João Salaviza^[19]
• Short Film Special Distinction – The Six Dollar Fifty Man by Louis Sutherland^[19]
• Prix Un Certain Regard – Kynodontas by Yorgos Lanthimos^[20]
• Un Certain Regard – Jury Prize – Politist, Adjectiv by Corneliu Porumboiu^[20]
• Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize^[20]
  • Kasi as gorbehaie Irani khabar nadare by Bahman Ghobadi
  • Le père de mes enfants by Mia Hansen-Løve
• Cinéfondation^[21]
  • 1st Prize - Bába by Zuzana Kirchnerová
  • 2nd Prize - Goodbye by Fang Song
  • 3rd Prize - Diploma by Yaelle Kayam and Nammae Ui Jip by Jo Sung-hee
• Caméra d'Or - Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton^[19][22][23]
• Caméra d'Or - Special Distinction - Ajami by Scandar Copti^[22]

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External links

• Official Cannes Festival Site (in English)
• 2009 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:2009 at Internet Movie Database
• 62th [sic] Cannes Film Festival 2009
• 62ème Festival de Cannes