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)
Number of films	20 (En Competition)[2] 19 (Un Certain Regard)[3] 9 (Short Film)[4]
Festival date	May 13 – May 24, 2009
Official website

The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 13 to May 24, 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury. ^[5] It was announced on March 19, 2009, that Pixar's film Up would open the festival.^[6] This marked the first time that an animated film opened the festival and also the first time a film in 3-D had opened the festival.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Films in competition

The following films competed for the Palme d'Or.^[2]

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
Fish Tank		Andrea Arnold	United Kingdom
Inglourious Basterds		Quentin Tarantino	United States
In the Beginning	A 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
The Wild Grass	Les herbes folles	Alain Resnais	France
To Conquer	Vincere	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
Vengeance	復仇	Johnnie To	Hong Kong
Face	臉	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan
The White Ribbon	Das weiße Band	Michael Haneke	Austria

[edit] Un Certain Regard

The following films competed in the Un Certain Regard section:^[3]

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	Politist, Adjectiv	Corneliu Porumboiu	Romania
Precious	"Push"	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

[edit] Films out of competition

The following films were shown out of competition:^[7]

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

[edit] Special screenings

The following films were given a special screening:^[8]

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	Une vie toute neuve	Ounie Lecomte	South Korea

[edit] Cinéfondation

The following films competed in the Cinéfondation section:^[9]

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	Nammae Ui Jip	Jo Sung-hee	South Korea
Segal		Yuval Shani	Israel
The Sylpphid	Sylfidden	Dorte Bengtson	Denmark
The Horn		Yim Kyung-dong	South Korea
Traverser		Hugo Frassetto	France

[edit] Short films

The following films competed for the Palme d'Or du court métrage:^[4]

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

[edit] Juries

[edit] Awards

The winners of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival were:^[13][14]

• Palme d'Or – Das weiße Band by Michael Haneke^[15]
• Grand Prix – Un prophète by Jacques Audiard^[15]
• Prix de la mise en scène – Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay^[15]
• Prix du Jury^[15]
  • Bakjwi by Park Chan-wook
  • Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
• Prix du scénario – Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng by Lou Ye^[15]
• Prix d'interprétation féminine – Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist^[15]
• Prix d'interprétation masculine – Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds^[15]
• Lifetime Achievement Award for his work – Alain Resnais^[15]
• Palme d'Or du court métrage Arena by João Salaviza^[15]
• Short Film Special Distinction – The Six Dollar Fifty Man by Louis Sutherland^[15]
• Prix Un Certain Regard – Kynodontas by Yorgos Lanthimos^[16]
• Un Certain Regard – Jury Prize – Politist, Adjectiv by Corneliu Porumboiu^[16]
• Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize^[16]
  • Kasi as gorbehaie Irani khabar nadare by Bahman Ghobadi
  • Le père de mes enfants by Mia Hansen-Løve
• Cinéfondation^[17]
  • 1^st Prize - Bába by Zuzana Kirchnerová
  • 2^nd Prize - Goodbye by Fang Song
  • 3^rd Prize - Diploma by Yaelle Kayam and Nammae Ui Jip by Jo Sung-hee
• Caméra d'Or - Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton^[15][18][19]
• Caméra d'Or - Special Distinction - Ajami by Scandar Copti^[18]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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