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The world's glitziest film festivalHeld annually on the French Riviera • Rich last attended Cannes in 2008 | |||
71st Cannes Film Festival8-19 May 2018 in France
Opening film: EVERYBODY KNOWS Closing film: THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE | 2 0 1 8 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: SHOPLIFTERSGrand Prix: BLACKkKLANSMAN Jury prize: CAPERNAUM Queer Palm: GIRL Camera d'Or: GIRL Director: Pawel Pawlikowski (COLD WAR) Screenplay: Alice Rohrwacher (HAPPY AS LAZZARO) and Nader Saeivar (3 FACES) Actress: Samal Yeslyamova (MY LITTLE ONE) Actor: Marcello Fonte (DOGMAN) Honorary Palme d'Or: Jean-Luc Godard (IMAGE BOOK) Chopard Trophy: Elizabeth Debicki and Joe Alwyn Carrosse d'Or: Martin Scorsese L'Oeil d'Or: SAMOUNI Fipresci - Competition: BURNING Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: GIRL Fipresci - Parallel Sections: ONE DAY Critics' Week: DIAMANTINO Rising Star: Felix Maritaud (SAUVAGE) Ecumenical Prize: CAPERNAUM Cinefondation: THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION |
Un Certain Regard: BORDERUn Certain Regard Jury Prize: THE DEAD AND THE OTHERS Un Certain Regard - Director: Sergei Loznitza (DONBASS) Un Certain Regard - Screenplay: Meryem Benm'Barek (SOFIA) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Victor Polster (GIRL) SACD - Critics' Week: WOMAN AT WAR SACD - Director's Fortnight: EN LIBERTE Label Europa Cinemas: TROPPA GRAZIA Art Cinema: CLIMAX Prix Francois Chalais: YOMEDDINE Gan Foundation: SIR Illy Award: SKIP DAY Soundtrack Award: Roma Zver & German Osipov (SUMMER) Palm Dog: Chihuahua (DOGMAN) Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: DIAMANTINO Dogmanitarian Award: Vanessa Davies and the Patricks | ||
| S E L E C T 2 0 1 8 F I L M S | |||
10 YEARS IN THAILAND (Assara/Weerasethakul/etc)ANGEL FACE (Filho) ARCTIC (Penna) ASAKO I & II (Hamaguchi) ASH IS PUREST WHITE (Jia) AT WAR (Brize) AYKA (Dvortsevoy) BIRDS OF PASSAGE (Guerra/Gallego) BLACKkKLANSMAN (Lee) BURNING (Lee) CAPERNAUM (Labaki) CARMEN Y LOLA (Echevarria) CLIMAX (Noe) * COLD WAR (Pawlikowski) DEAD SOULS (Wang) DEAR SON (Attia) DOGMAN (Garrone) DONBASS ( Loznitsa) EUPHORIA (Golino) EVERYBODY KNOWS (Farhadi) 
FAHRENHEIT 451 (Bahrani, US)GIRLS OF THE SUN (Husson) LE GRAND BAIN (Lellouche) O GRANDE CIRCO MISTICO (Diegues) GUY (Lutz) THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (Von Trier) |
IN MY ROOM (Kohler)KNIFE + HEART (Gonzalez) LAZZARO FELICE (Rohrwacher) LE LIVRE D'IMAGE (Godard) 
LEAVE NO TRACE (Granik, US)LETO (Serebrennikov) LITTLE TICKLES (Bescond/Metayer) LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Bi) THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE (Gilliam) POPE FRANCIS: A MAN OF HIS WORD (Wenders) SEXTAPE (Desrosieres) SHOPLIFTERS (Kore-eda)
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY (Howard, UK)SORRY ANGEL (Honore) THE SPY GONE NORTH (Yoon) THE STATE AGAINST MANDELA AND THE OTHERS (Champeaux/Porte) THREE FACES (Panahi) TO THE FOUR WINDS (Toesca) LA TRAVERSEE (Goupil) TROPPA GRAZIA (Zanasi) UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (Mitchell)
WHITNEY (Macdonald, US)THE WILD PEAR TREE (Ceylan) WILDLIFE (Dano) YOMEDDINE (Shawky) | ||
70th Cannes Film Festival17-28 May 2017 in France
| 2 0 1 7 A W A R D S | ||
Palme d'Or: THE SQUAREGrand Prix: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Jury prize: LOVELESS Queer Palm: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Camera d'Or: JEUNE FEMME Director: Sofia Coppola (THE BEGUILED) Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou (THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER) and Lynne Ramsay (YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE) Actress: Diane Kruger (IN THE FADE) Actor: Joaquin Phoenix (YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE) 70th Anniversary Prize: Nicole Kidman Honorary Palme d'Or: Jeffrey Katzenberg Chopard Trophy: Anya Taylor-Joy and George MacKay Carrosse d'Or: Werner Herzog Fipresci - Competition: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Fipresci - Un Certain Regard: CLOSENESS Fipresci - Parallel Sections: THE NOTHING FACTORY Critics' Week: MAKALA Ecumenical Jury: RADIANCE Vulcain Prize: Josefin Asberg (THE SQUARE) Cinefondation: PAUL IS HERE |
Un Certain Regard: A MAN OF INTEGRITYUn Certain Regard Jury Prize: APRIL'S DAUGHTER Un Certain Regard - Director: Taylor Sheridan (WIND RIVER) Un Certain Regard - Performance: Jasmine Trinca (FORTUNATA) SACD - Critics' Week: AVA SACD - Director's Fortnight: LET THE SUN SHINE IN and L'AMANT D'UN JOUR L'Oeil d'Or: FACES PLACES Poetry of Cinema Award: BARBARA Label Europa Cinemas: A CIAMBRA Visionary Award: GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN Art Cinema: THE RIDER Prix Canal+: THE BEST FIREWORKS EVER Prix Francois Chalais: 120 BEATS PER MINUTE Gan Foundation: GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN Soundtrack Award: Oneohtrix Point Never (GOOD TIME) Palm Dog: Einstein (THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES) Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize: Lupo (AVA) Palm Dog Manitarian Award: Leslie Caron and Tchi Tchi | ||
| R E V I E W E D 2 0 1 7 F I L M S | |||
A CIAMBRA (Carpignano, It)
BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL (Miike, Jpn)
THE BEGUILED (Coppola, US)
BRIGSBY BEAR (McCary, US)
BUSHWICK (Murnion/Milott, US)
THE DOUBLE LOVER [L'Amant Double] (Ozon, Fr)
FACES PLACES (Varda/JR, Fr)
FILMWORKER (Zierra, US)
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Baker, US)
A GENTLE CREATURE (Loznitsa, Rus)
GOOD TIME (Safdie/Safdie, US)
HAPPY END (Haneke, Fr)
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES (Mitchell, UK)
I AM NOT A WITCH (Nyoni, UK)
IN THE FADE (Akin, Ger)
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER (Cohen/Shenk, US)
JEUNE FEMME (Serraille, Fr)
JUPITER'S MOON (Mundruczo, Hun)
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (Lanthimos, UK) |
LET THE SUN SHINE IN (Denis, Fr)
LOVELESS (Zvyagintsev, Rus)
THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (Baumbach, US)
OKJA (Bong, Kor)
120 BEATS PER MINUTE (Campillo, Fr)
PATTI CAKE$ (Jasper, US)
THE PRINCE OF NOTHINGWOOD (Kronlund, Fr)
A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN (Sauvaire, UK)
REDOUBTABLE (Hazanavicius, Fr)
RISK (Poitras, Ger)
THE SQUARE (Ostlund, Swe)
TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL (Campion, Aus)
TWIN PEAKS (Lynch, US)
WESTERN (Grisebach, Ger)
WIND RIVER (Sheridan, US)
WONDERSTRUCK (Haynes, US)
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (Ramsay, UK)* review to come | ||
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