2010 Cannes Film Festival

63rd Cannes Film Festival
The festival's official poster featuring French actress Juliette Binoche[1]
Opening filmRobin Hood
Closing filmThe Tree
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or:
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Hosted byKristin Scott Thomas
No. of films19 (Main Competition)
Festival date12–23 May 2010
Websitewww.festival-cannes.com
Cannes Film Festival

The 63rd Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 23 May 2010.[2][3] American filmmaker Tim Burton served as jury president for the main competition.[4][5] Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.

The festival opened with Robin Hood by Ridley Scott,[6] and closed with The Tree by Julie Bertuccelli.[7] English actress Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies.[8]

Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Associated Press and Getty TV boycotted the press conference that announced the line-up for the festival, due to a dispute over access to the red carpet.[9] In a press release, the agencies said that they "may be forced to suspend their presence at the festival altogether" if an agreement was not reached.[9] Days before the festival was to begin, concerns were expressed that attendees might be delayed, or would not attend, due to plane flights to surrounding areas in France being delayed or canceled due to volcanic ash in the sky.[10]

Two days before the beginning of the festival, the just finished film Route Irish by Ken Loach, was added to the main competition.[11]

Juries

Tim Burton, President of the 2010 Competition Jury

Main competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2010 Official Selection:

Un Certain Regard

Camera d'Or

Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[14][15]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
Another Year Mike Leigh United Kingdom
Biutiful Alejandro González Iñárritu Mexico, Spain
Burnt by the Sun 2 Утомлённые солнцем 2 Nikita Mikhalkov Russia
Certified Copy Copie conforme Abbas Kiarostami France, Italy, Belgium
Chongqing Blues 日照重慶 Wang Xiaoshuai China
Fair Game Doug Liman United States, United Arab Emirates
The Housemaid 하녀 Im Sang-soo South Korea
My Joy Счастье моё Sergei Loznitsa Ukraine,Germany, Netherlands
Of Gods and Men Des hommes et des dieux Xavier Beauvois France
On Tour Tournée Mathieu Amalric France, Germany
Our Life La nostra vita Daniele Luchetti Italy, France
Outrage アウトレイジ Takeshi Kitano Japan
Outside the Law Hors-la-loi Rachid Bouchareb Algeria, France, Tunisia, Belgium
Poetry 시 Lee Chang-dong South Korea, France
The Princess of Montpensier La princesse de Montpensier Bertrand Tavernier France
Route Irish Ken Loach United Kingdom, France, Belgium
A Screaming Man Un homme qui crie Mahamat Saleh Haroun Chad, France, Belgium
Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project Szelíd Teremtés – A Frankenstein Terv Kornél Mundruczó Hungary
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[16]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
Adrienn Pál Pál Adrienn Ágnes Kocsis Hungary
Aurora Cristi Puiu Romania
Blue Valentine Derek Cianfrance United States
Carancho Pablo Trapero Argentina, Chile, Spain, France, South Korea
Chatroom Hideo Nakata United Kingdom
The City Below Unter dir die Stadt Christoph Hochhäusler Germany
Film Socialisme Jean-Luc Godard France
Hahaha 하하하 Hong Sang-soo South Korea
Heartbeats Les amours imaginaires Xavier Dolan Canada
I Wish I Knew 海上传奇 Jia Zhangke China
Life, Above All Oliver Schmitz South Africa
Lights Out Qu'est-il arrivé à Simon Werner? Fabrice Gobert France
The Lips Los labios Iván Fund, Santiago Loza Argentina
October Octubre Daniel Vega, Diego Vega Peru
Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) Lodge Kerrigan United States, France
R U There David Verbeek Netherlands, Taiwan
The Strange Case of Angelica O estranho caso de Angélica Manoel de Oliveira Portugal
Tuesday, After Christmas Marţi, după Crăciun Radu Muntean Romania
Udaan Vikramaditya Motwane India

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[16]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu Andrei Ujică Romania
Black Heaven L'Autre monde Gilles Marchand France, Belgium
Carlos Olivier Assayas France, Germany
Kaboom Gregg Araki United States
Robin Hood (opening film) Ridley Scott United States, United Kingdom
Tamara Drewe Stephen Frears United Kingdom
The Tree (closing film) Julie Bertuccelli France, Australia
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Oliver Stone United States
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Woody Allen

Special Screenings

The following films were shown as special screenings.[16][7]

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
5 x Favela 5 x Favela, por nós mesmos Wagner Novais, Manaira Carneiro, Rodrigo Felha, Cacau Amaral, Luciano Vidigal, Cadu Barcelos and Luciana Bezerra Brazil
Abel Diego Luna Mexico
Chantrapas Otar Iosseliani France, Georgia
Countdown to Zero Lucy Walker United States
Draquila – Italy Trembles Draquila - L'Italia che trema Sabina Guzzanti Italy
Gilles Jacob, Citizen Cannes Gilles Jacob, l'arpenteur de la croisette Serge Le Peron France
Inside Job Charles H. Ferguson United States
The Pack La meute Franck Richard France, Belgium
Nostalgia for the Light Nostalgia de la luz Patricio Guzmán France, Chile
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow Sophie Fiennes United Kingdom

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[16][17]

English title Original title Director(s) School
Anywhere Out of the World Coucou-Les-Nuages Vincent Cardona La fémis, France
Cooked Jens Blank NFTS, United Kingdom
Dakujem, dobre Mátyás Prikler FTF-VŠMU, Slovakia
The Fifth Column Hinkerort Zorasune Vatche Boulghourjian NYU, United States
Frozen Land Tae-yong Kim Sejong University, South Korea
Here I Am Itt Vagyok Bálint Szimler SzFE, Hungary
I Already Am Everything I Want to Have Ja Vec Jesam Sve Ono Što Želim Da Imam Dane Komljen FDU, Serbia
Ijsland Iceland Gilles Coulier Sint-Lukas University, Belgium
El Juego Benjamín Naishtat Le Fresnoy, France
Los Minutos, Las Horas Marques Ribeiro EICTV, Cuba
Miramare Michaela Müller ALU, Croatia
The Painting Sellers Taulukauppiaat Juho Kuosmanen Aalto University, Finland
Shelley Andrew Wesman Harvard University, United States

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[16][7]

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
Barking Island Chienne d'histoire Serge Avédikian France
Bathing Micky Micky bader Frida Kempff Sweden
Blocks Blokes Marially Rivas Chile
First Aid Ezra rishona Yarden Karmin Israel
Maya Pedro Pío Cuba
Muscles Edward Housden Australia
Rosa Monica Lairana Argentina
Station Estação Marcia Faria Brazil
To Swallow a Toad Jurģis Krāsons Latvia

Cannes Classics

Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema and restored masterworks from the past.[18][19][20]

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
Documentaries
...But Film is My Mistress ...Men filmen är min älskarinna Stig Björkman Sweden
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff Craig McCall United Kingdom
Hollywood Don't Surf! Greg MacGillivray, Sam George United States
Toscan Isabelle Partiot-Pieri France
Restored Prints
The 317th Platoon (1964) La 317ème section Pierre Schoendoerffer France
The African Queen (1951) John Huston United States, United Kingdom
The Battle of the Rails (1946) La Bataille du rail René Clément France
La campagne de Cicéron (1989) Jacques Davila
The Great Love (1969) Le grand amour Pierre Etaix
Happy Go Lucky (1946) Au petit bonheur Marcel L'Herbier
Khandhar (1983) Mrinal Sen India
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) O Beijo da Mulher-Aranha Hector Babenco Brazil, United States
The Leopard (1963) Il Gattopardo Luchino Visconti Italy
Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock United States
The Tin Drum (1979) Die Blechtrommel Volker Schlöndorff West Germany, Poland,
Yugoslavia, France
Tristana (1970) Luis Buñuel Spain, France, Italy
World Cinema Foundation
The Eloquent Peasant (1970) الفلاح الفصيح Shadi Abdel Salam Egypt
Il ruscello di Ripasottile (1941) Roberto Rossellini Italy
Two Girls on the Street (1939) Két Lány Az Utcán André de Toth Hungary
Revenge (1989) Yermek Shinarbayev Soviet Union
Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973) Ritwik Ghatak Bangladesh

Cinéma de la Plage

The Cinéma de la Plage is a part of the Official Selection of the festival. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public.[21]

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
From Here to Eternity (1953) Fred Zinnemann United States
The Girl Hunters (1963) Roy Rowland United Kingdom
Rock'n'roll... Of Corse! (2010) Stéphane Bébert, Lionel Guedj France
The Silent World (1956) Le Monde du silence Louis Malle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau France, Italy
That Night in Varennes (1982) La Nuit de Varennes Ettore Scola
The Two Escobars (2010) Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist United States

Parallel sections

Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 49th Critics' Week (49e Semaine de la Critique):[22]

Feature film competition

Short film competition

  • A distração by Ivan Cavi Borges, Gustavo Melo (Brazil)
  • Berik by Daniel Joseph Borgman (Denmark)
  • Deeper Than Yesterday by Ariel Kleiman (Australia)
  • Love Patate by Gilles Cuvelier (France)
  • Native Son by Scott Graham (United Kingdom)
  • The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Lion by Alois Di Leo (United Kingdom)
  • Vasco by Sébastien Laudenbach (France)

Special screening

Short and medium length
  • Bastard by Kirsten Dunst (United States)
  • The Clerk’s Tale by James Franco (United States)
  • L'Amour-propre by Nicolas Silhol (France)
  • Cynthia todavía tienes las llaves by Gonzalo Tobal (Argentina)
  • Fracture by Nicolas Sarkissian (France)

Directors' Fortnight

The documentary film Benda Bilili! about disabled Kinshasa street musicians Staff Benda Bilili had its world premiere at the festival, with the group in attendance and performing at the Director's Fortnight opening party.[23]

The following films were screened for the 2010 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[24]

Feature films

Short films

Official Awards

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the 2010 Palme d'Or
Xavier Beauvois, winner of the 2010 Gran Prix
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun at the festival for his film A Screaming Man

The Palme d'Or was won by the Thai film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.[25] It was the first time that an Asian movie won the award since 1997.[26] Tim Burton, chairman of the jury that determined the award, stated about its decision: "You always want to be surprised by films and this film did that for most of us."[27] French film Of Gods and Men was the runner up.[28] The Xavier Beauvois-directed film had been considered a favourite for the Palme d'Or along with Mike Leigh's Another Year.[29] During the ceremony special attention was paid to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi in hopes of increasing international pressure on the Iranian government to release Panahi from jail.

The following films and people received the 2010 Official selection awards:[30][31]

In Competition

Un Certain Regard

Cinéfondation

  • First Prize: The Painting Sellers by Juho Kuosmanen
  • 2nd Prize: Anywhere Out of the World by Vincent Cardona
  • 3rd Prize:
    • The Fifth Column by Vatche Boulghourjian
    • I Already Am Everything I Want to Have by Dane Komljen

Golden Camera

Short films

Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prizes

Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist

Ecumenical Jury

Critics' Week

Regards Jeunes Prize

Prix François Chalais

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