Cannes Festival 2009 – 62nd Cannes Festival Programme
Festival de Cannes -- Du 13 au 24 mai 2009
The Cannes Festival 2009 (62nd Annual Cannes Festival) will be held from May 13 -- May 24, 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert will be this year’s President of the Jury. It was announced on March 19, 2009 that Pixar’s film Up would open the festival. This marks the first time that an animated film will open the festival de cannes and also the first time a film in 3-D will open the programme cannes 2009.
Recession or economic slow down, swine flu or war in Iran or fight by Tamils in Sri Lanka, Cannes Film Festival 2009 opens grandly. The annual event has a good line-up of movies competing fiercely for the Palme d’Or and there are so many big named directors in the fray including Ken Loach, Pedro Almodovar, Lars Von Trier, Campion, Marco Bellocchio, Park Chan-Wook, Haneke, Lee, Amenabar, Quentin Tarantino, Gilliam Kore-Eda, and Gondy to name a few. But you cannot expect something really surprising at the annual shiny cinema event in Paris. So what are the films that we can watch out at this year’s Cannes?
2009 Cannes Film Festival Awards Winners Results
The winners of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival are:
Palme d’Or – Das weiße Band by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix – Un prophète by Jacques Audiard
Prix de la mise en scène – Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay
Prix du Jury
- Fish Tank by Andrea Arnold
- Thirst by Park Chan-wook
Prix du scénario – Chūn fēng chén zuì de wǎn shàng by Lou Ye
Prix d’interprétation féminine – Charlotte Gainsbourg for Antichrist
Prix d’interprétation masculine – Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds
Lifetime Achievement Award for his work – Alain Resnais
Palme d’Or du court métrage Arena by João Salaviza
Short Film Special Distinction – The Six Dollar Fifty Man by Louis Sutherland
Prix Un Certain Regard – Kynodontas by Yorgos Lanthimos
Un Certain Regard – Jury Prize – Politist, Adjectiv by Corneliu Porumboiu
Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize
- Kasi as gorbehaie Irani khabar nadare by Bahman Ghobadi
- Le père de mes enfants by Mia Hansen-Løve
Cinéfondation
- 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
Caméra d’Or -- Special Distinction -- Ajami by Scandar Copti
Films in Competition
- Abrazos Rotos(Broken Embraces): Director- Pedro Almodovar
- Antichrist: Director- Lars Von Trier
- Bright Star: Director- Jane Campion
- Enter The Void: Director- Gasper Noe
- Faces: Director- Tsai Ming-liang
- Fish Tank: Director- Andrea Arnold
- Kinatay: Director- Brillante Mendoza
- Les Herbes folles: Director- Alain Resnais
- In The Beginning: Director- Xavier Giannoli
- Inglorious Basterds: Director- Quentin Tarantino
- Looking For Eric: Director- Ken Loach
- Map of the Sounds of Tokyo: Director- Isabel Coixet
- A Prophet: Director- Jacques Audiard
- Spring Fever: Director- Lou Ye
- Taking Woodstock: Director- Ang Lee
- The Time That Remains: Director- Elia Suleiman
- Thirst: Director- Park Chan Wook
- Vengeance: Director- Johnny To
- Vincere: Director- Marco Bellocchio
- The White Ribbon: Director- Michael Haneke
The opening film is Up and its director is Peter Docter who is not in the fray and the closing film is Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky whose director is Jan Kounen.
Midnight Screenings include:
- Drag Me To Hell: Director- Sam Raimi
- A Town Called Panic: Director- Stephane Aubier and Vincent Patar
- Ne Te Retourne Pas: Director- Marina de Van
Special screenings include:
- Martin Manila: Director- Adolfo Alix, Jr.
- L’Epine Dans Le Coeur: Director- Michel Gondry
- Min Ye: Director- Souleymane Cisse
- Kalat Hayam: Director- Keren Yedaya
- Petition: Director- Zhao Liang
- My Neighbor, My Killer: Director- Anne Aghion
Stars walk the red carpet at the 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival 05-13-2009
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -- Red Carpet At Cannes Film Festival 2009
Also check, Aishwarya Rai at Cannes Film Festival 2009 Photos
