The 69th Cannes Film Festival wrapped up yesterday. The festival held in Cannes France is one of the most publicized and prestigious festivals worldwide and previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from around the world. Check out the award winners below courtesy of Collider.
Palme d’Or: I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach
Grand Prize: It’s Only the End of the World by Xavier Dolan
Best Direction: Olivier Assayas (Personal Shopper) & Cristian Mungiu (Graduation)
Best Screenplay: The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi
Best Actress: Jaclyn Jose in Ma’Rosa by Brillante Mendoza
Jury Prize: American Honey by Andrea Arnold
Best Actor: Shahab Hosseini in The Salesman by Asghar Farhadi
Honorary Palme: Jean-Pierre Léaud
Caméra d’Or: Divines by Houda Benyamina
Palme d’Or Short Film: Timecode By Juanjo Gimenez
Short Film Special Distinction: The Girl Who Danced With The Devil by João Paolo Miranda Maria
For a full list of all the films that played during the festival (via Wikipedia), see below.
Competition
The films competing in the main competition section for the Palme d’Or were announced at a press conference on 14 April 2016: The Salesman, directed by Asghar Farhadi was added to the competition lineup on 22 April 2016.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Honey | American Honey | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, United States |
| Aquarius | Aquarius | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil |
| Elle | Elle | Paul Verhoeven | France, Germany, Belgium |
| From the Land of the Moon | Mal de pierres | Nicole Garcia | France |
| Graduation | Bacalaureat | Cristian Mungiu | Romania, France |
| The Handmaiden | 아가씨 Agasshi | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| I, Daniel Blake † | I, Daniel Blake | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France |
| It’s Only the End of the World | Juste la fin du monde | Xavier Dolan | Canada, France |
| Julieta | Julieta | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Last Face | The Last Face | Sean Penn | United States |
| Loving | Loving | Jeff Nichols | United States, United Kingdom |
| Ma’ Rosa | Ma’ Rosa | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines |
| The Neon Demon | The Neon Demon | Nicolas Winding Refn | United States |
| Paterson | Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | United States |
| Personal Shopper | Personal Shopper | Olivier Assayas | France |
| The Salesman | فروشنده Forushande | Asghar Farhadi | Iran |
| Staying Vertical | Rester Vertical | Alain Guiraudie | France |
| Sieranevada | Sieranevada | Cristi Puiu | Romania, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia |
| Slack Bay | Ma Loute | Bruno Dumont | France, Germany |
| Toni Erdmann | Toni Erdmann | Maren Ade | Germany, Austria |
| The Unknown Girl | La Fille inconnue | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Belgium |
Un Certain Regard
The films competing in the Un Certain Regard section were announced at a press conference on 14 April 2016: Clash, directed by Mohamed Diab, has been announced as the opening film for the Un Certain Regard section. Hell or High Water, directed by David Mackenzie was added to the Un Certain Regardlineup on 22 April 2016.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| After the Storm | 海よりもまだ深く Umi yori mo Mada Fukaku | Hirokazu Koreeda | Japan |
| Apprentice | Apprentice | Boo Junfeng | Singapore, France, Germany |
| Beyond the Mountains and Hills | מעבר להרים ולגבעות Me’Ever Laharim Vehagvaot | Eran Kolirin | Israel |
| Captain Fantastic | Captain Fantastic | Matt Ross | United States |
| Clash (opening film) | اشتباك Eshtebak | Mohamed Diab | Egypt, France, Germany, UAE |
| The Dancer * | La Danseuse | Stéphanie Di Giusto | France |
| Dogs * | Câini | Bogdan Mirică | Romania, Bulgaria |
| The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki * † | Hymyilevä Mies | Juho Kuosmanen | Finland |
| Harmonium | 淵に立つ Fuchi ni Tatsu | Kōji Fukada | Japan |
| Hell or High Water | Hell or High Water | David Mackenzie | United States |
| Inversion | وارونگی Varoonegi | Behnam Behzadi | Iran |
| The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis * | La larga noche de Francisco Sanctis | Francisco Márquez, Andrea Testa | Argentina |
| Pericle | Pericle il Nero | Stefano Mordini | Italy |
| Personal Affairs * | أمور شخصية Omor Shakhsiya | Maha Haj | Israel |
| The Red Turtle * | La Tortue rouge | Michael Dudok de Wit | France, Japan |
| The Transfiguration * | The Transfiguration | Michael O’Shea | United States |
| The Stopover | Voir du pays | Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin | France |
| The Student | (М)Ученик (M)Uchenik | Kirill Serebrennikov | Russia |
Out of competition
The following films were selected to screen out of competition:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The BFG | The BFG | Steven Spielberg | United States, United Kingdom, Canada |
| Café Society (opening film) | Café Society | Woody Allen | United States |
| The Wailing | 곡성 Gokseong | Na Hong-jin | South Korea |
| Money Monster | Money Monster | Jodie Foster | United States |
| The Nice Guys | The Nice Guys | Shane Black | United States |
- Midnight screenings
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Father | Blood Father | Jean-François Richet | France |
| Gimme Danger | Gimme Danger | Jim Jarmusch | United States |
| Train to Busan | 부산행 Bu-san-haeng | Yeon Sang-ho | South Korea |
- Special screenings
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chouf | شوف Chouf | Karim Dridi | France, Tunisia |
| Exile | Exil | Rithy Panh | Cambodia |
| Hands of Stone | Hands of Stone | Jonathan Jakubowicz | United States, Panama |
| Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy | Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad |
| Fool Moon | La Forêt de Quinconces | Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | France |
| Last Days of Louis XIV | La Mort de Louis XIV | Albert Serra | Spain |
| The Last Resort | L’ultima spiaggia | Thanos Anastopoulous, Davide Del Degan | Italy |
| Le Cancre | Le Cancre | Paul Vecchiali | France |
| Peshmerga | Peshmerga | Bernard-Henri Lévy | France |
| Wrong Elements | Wrong Elements | Jonathan Littell | France, Belgium |
Short films
Out of 5,008 entries, the following films were selected to compete for the Short Film Palme d’Or.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law of the Lamb | La Laine sur le dos /صوف على الظهر Souf alla al-dhahr | Lotfi Achour | Tunisia, France |
| Dreamlands | Dreamlands | Sarah Dunlop | United Kingdom |
| Timecode † | Timecode | Juanjo Giménez | Spain |
| Imago | Imago | Raymond Gutierrez | Philippines |
| Mother | Madre | Simón Mesa Soto | Colombia |
| The Girl Who Danced with the Devil | A moça que dançou com o diabo | João Paulo Miranda Maria | Brazil |
| Après Suzanne | Après Suzanne | Félix Moati | France |
| 4:15 P.M. The End of the World | 4:15 PM Sfarsitul Lumii | Catalin Rotaru, Gabi Virginia Sarga | Romania |
| The Silence | Il Silenzio | Farnoosh Samadi Frooshani, Ali Asgari | Italy |
| Fight on a Swedish Beach | Fight on a Swedish Beach | Simon Vahlne | Sweden |
Cinéfondation
The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following 18 entries (14 fiction films and 4 animation films) were selected out of 2,300 submissions. More than one-third of the films selected represent schools participating in Cinéfondation for the first time. It is also the first time that a film representing Bosnian and Venezuelan film schools have been selected. More than half of the films selected were directed by women.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| In the Hills | In the Hills | Hamid Ahmadi | London Film School, UK |
| Submarine | Submarine | Mounia Akl | Columbia University School of the Arts, USA |
| The Noise of Licking | A nyalintás nesze | Nadja Andrasev | MOME, Hungary |
| All Rivers Run to the Sea | Toate fluviile curg în mare | Alexandru Badea | UNATC, Romania |
| Somewhere | Ailleurs | Mélody Boulissière | E.N.S.A.D., France |
| Gabber Lover | Gabber Lover | Anna Cazenave Cambet | La Fémis, France |
| The Alan Dimension | The Alan Dimension | Jac Clinch | NFTS, UK |
| Trash | Poubelle | Alexandre Gilmet | INSAS, Belgium |
| Fine | Dobro | Marta Hernaiz Pidal | film.factory, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| The Guilt, Probably | La culpa probablemente | Michael Labarca | Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela |
| The Reasons in the World | Las razones del mundo | Ernesto Martínez Bucio | CCC, Mexico |
| 1 Kilogram | 1 Kilogram | Park Young-Ju | K-ARTS, South Korea |
| Aram | Aram | Fereshteh Parnian | Lumière University Lyon 2, France |
| Nest | Gudh | Saurav Rai | Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India |
| The Sleeping Saint | La santa che dorme | Laura Samani | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy |
| Whatever The Weather | bei Wind und Wetter | Remo Scherrer | Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst, Switzerland |
| Anna † | Anna | Or Sinai | Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Israel |
| Business | Business | Malena Vain | Universidad del Cine, Argentina |
