| 65th Cannes Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Moonrise Kingdom |
| Closing: | Thérèse Desqueyroux |
| Location: | Cannes, France |
| Founded: | 1946 |
| Awards: | Palme d'Or |
| Host: | Bérénice Bejo |
| Number: | 22 (In Competition) 20 (Un Certain Regard) 10 (Short Film) |
| Date: | 16 – 27 May 2012 |
| Main: | Cannes Film Festival |
| Previous: | 2011 |
| Next: | 2013 |
The 65th Cannes Film Festival was held from 16 to 27 May 2012.[1] Italian film director Nanni Moretti was the president of the jury for the main competition[2] and British actor Tim Roth was the president of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section.[3] French actress Bérénice Bejo hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.[4]
The festival Opening Film was Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. And the Closing Film was Claude Miller's final movie Thérèse Desqueyroux.[5] The main announcement of the line-up took place on 19 April. The official poster of the festival features Marilyn Monroe, to mark the 50th anniversary of her death.[6]
The Palme d'Or was awarded to Austrian director Michael Haneke for his film Amour. Haneke had won the Palme in 2009 for The White Ribbon. The jury awarded the Grand Prix to Matteo Garrone's Reality, while Ken Loach's The Angels' Share received the Jury Prize.
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2012 Official Selection:[7] [8]
The following independent juries awarded films in the frame of the Critics' Week.
Nespresso Grand Prize[11]
France 4 Visionary Award
Nikon Discovery Award for Short Film
The official selection was announced on 19 April at Grand Hôtel in Paris. Among comments after the announcement, journalists noted the unusually high number of Hollywood films in the line-up, the absence of any female director in the main competition, as well as the absence of competing first-time feature film directors.[12] [13] The festival's artistic leader Thierry Frémaux responded that people should not focus only on the competition films: "The selection is an ensemble; you have to consider the whole package."
The following films were selected as In Competition.[14] [15] The Palme d'Or winner has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After the Battle | data-sort-value="Baad" | بعد الموقعة | data-sort-value="Nasrallah" | Egypt, France | |
| The Angels' Share | data-sort-value=" Loach" | United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy | |||
| Beyond the Hills | După dealuri | data-sort-value="Mungiu" | Romania, France, Belgium | ||
| Cosmopolis | data-sort-value="Cronenberg" | Canada, France, Italy, Portugal | |||
| Holy Motors | data-sort-value="Carax" | France, Germany | |||
| data-sort-value="Hunt" | The Hunt | Jagten | data-sort-value="Vinterberg" | Denmark, Sweden | |
| In Another Country | data-sort-value="Da-Reun" | 다른 나라에서 | South Korea | ||
| In the Fog | data-sort-value="V tumane" | В тумане | data-sort-value="Loznitsa" | Belarus, Germany, Russia, Latvia, Netherlands, United States | |
| Killing Them Softly | data-sort-value="Dominik" | United States | |||
| Lawless | data-sort-value="Hillcoat" | ||||
| Like Someone in Love | data-sort-value="Raiku" | ライク・サムワン・イン・ラブ | data-sort-value="Kiarostami" | France, Japan | |
| Amour | data-sort-value="Haneke" | Michael Haneke | France, Germany, Austria | ||
| Moonrise Kingdom (opening film) | data-sort-value="Anderson" | United States | |||
| Mud | data-sort-value="Nichols" | ||||
| On the Road | Sur la route | data-sort-value="Salles" | France, Brazil, United Kingdom, United States, Mexico, Canada | ||
| The Paperboy | data-sort-value="Daniels" | United States | |||
| Paradies: Liebe | data-sort-value="Seidl" | Austria, Germany, France | |||
| Post Tenebras Lux | data-sort-value="Reygadas" | Mexico, France, Germany, Netherlands | |||
| Reality | data-sort-value="Garrone" | Italy, France | |||
| Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | data-sort-value="Audiard" | France, Belgium | ||
| data-sort-value="Taste of" | The Taste of Money | data-sort-value="Donui" | 돈의 맛 | South Korea | |
| You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! | Vous n'avez encore rien vu | data-sort-value="Resnais" | France, Germany | ||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[16]
The following films were screened in the Un Certain Regard section. The Un Certain Regard Prize winner has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="11.25" | 自決の日 三島由紀夫と若者たち | data-sort-value="Wakamatsu" | Japan | |||
| 7 Days in Havana | 7 días en La Habana | data-sort-value="Medem" | Cuba, Spain, France | |||
| After Lucia | Después de Lucía | data-sort-value="Franco" | Michel Franco | Mexico | ||
| Antiviral (CdO) | data-sort-value="Cronenberg" | Canada, France | ||||
| Beasts of the Southern Wild (CdO) | data-sort-value="Zeitlin" | United States | ||||
| Children of Sarajevo | Djeca | data-sort-value="Begić" | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey | |||
| Confession of a Child of the Century | data-sort-value="Confession" | La confession d'un enfant du siècle | data-sort-value="Verheyde" | France, Germany, United Kingdom | ||
| Gimme the Loot (CdO) | data-sort-value="Leon" | United States | ||||
| Horses of God | data-sort-value="Chevaux" | يا خيل الله | data-sort-value="Ayouch" | Morocco, Belgium | ||
| Le grand soir | data-sort-value="Delepine" | Benoît Delépine & Gustave Kervern | France, Belgium | |||
| Laurence Anyways | data-sort-value="Dolan" | Canada | ||||
| Miss Lovely (CdO) | data-sort-value="Ahluwalia" | India | ||||
| Mystery | data-sort-value="Fucheng" | 浮城谜事 | data-sort-value="Ye" | China | ||
| Our Children | Aimer à perdre la raison | data-sort-value="Lafosse" | Belgium, France | |||
| data-sort-value="Pirogue" | The Pirogue | data-sort-value="Pirogue" | La Pirogue | data-sort-value="Toure" | Senegal | |
| data-sort-value="Playa" | La Playa D.C. (CdO) | data-sort-value="Playa" | La Playa | data-sort-value="Arango" | Colombia, France, Brazil | |
| Renoir | data-sort-value="Bourdos" | France | ||||
| Student | data-sort-value="Omirbaev" | Kazakhstan | ||||
| Three Worlds | Trois mondes | data-sort-value="Corsini" | France | |||
| White Elephant | Elefante blanco | data-sort-value="Trapero" | Argentina, Spain, France | |||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[16]
The following films were screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruel Summer | data-sort-value="West" | United States, Qatar | |||
| Hemingway & Gellhorn | data-sort-value="Kaufman" | United States | |||
| data-sort-value="Darnell" | |||||
| Me and You | Io e te | data-sort-value="Bertolucci" | Italy | ||
| Thérèse Desqueyroux (closing film) | data-sort-value="Miller" | France | |||
| Midnight Screenings | |||||
| Dracula 3D | data-sort-value="Argento" | Italy, France, Spain | |||
| For Love's Sake | data-sort-value="Ai to" | 愛と誠 | data-sort-value="Miike" | Japan | |
| Maniac | data-sort-value="Khalfoun" | United States, France | |||
| The Sapphires (CdO) | data-sort-value="Blair" | Australia | |||
| 65th Anniversary | |||||
| Film Anniversary: A Special Day | Le Film anniversaire: Une journée particulière - Histoire(s) de festival N°4 | Gilles Jacob, Samuel Faure | France | ||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[16]
The following films were screened in the Special Screenings section:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Central Park Five | data-sort-value="Burns" | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon | United States | |||
| Les invisibles | data-sort-value="Lifshitz" | France | ||||
| Journal de France | data-sort-value="Nougaret" | |||||
| The Oath of Tobruk | data-sort-value="Serment" | Le serment de Tobrouk | data-sort-value="Lévy" | Bernard-Henri Lévy, Marc Roussel | ||
| Mekong Hotel | data-sort-value="Weerasethakul" | Thailand | ||||
| data-sort-value="Music" | The Music According to Antonio Carlos Jobim | data-sort-value="Musica" | A Música Segundo Tom Jobim | data-sort-value="Santos" | Brazil | |
| Polluting Paradise | data-sort-value="Mull" | Der Müll im Garten Eden | data-sort-value="Akın" | Germany | ||
| The Resistance | Peng Zhang Li | China, United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Bouzereau" | United Kingdom, Italy, Germany | |||||
| Trashed | data-sort-value="Brady" | Candida Brady | United States | |||
| Villegas (CdO) | data-sort-value="Tobal" | Gonzalo Tobal | Argentina, Netherlands, France | |||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[16]
The Cinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following entries were selected, out of more than 1,700 submissions from 320 different schools. The winner of the Cinéfondation First Prize has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | School | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abigail | data-sort-value="Reilly" | Matthew James Reilly | NYU, United States | |||
| The Ballad of Finn + Yeti | data-sort-value="O'Connor" | Meryl O'Connor | UCLA, United States | |||
| data-sort-value="Barber" | The Barber | Riyoushi | data-sort-value="Akino" | Shoichi Akino | Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan | |
| Behind Me Olive Trees | Derrière moi les oliviers | data-sort-value="Abou Jamra" | Pascale Abou Jamra | ALBA, Lebanon | ||
| data-sort-value="Camp in" | The Camp in Răzoare | Tabăra din Răzoare | data-sort-value="Iftime" | Cristi Iftime | UNATC, Romania | |
| Could See a Puma | Pude ver un puma | data-sort-value="Williams" | Eduardo Williams | UCINE, Argentina | ||
| Dog Leash | Resen | data-sort-value="Tsicko" | Eti Tsicko | TAU, Israel | ||
| Head over Heels | data-sort-value="Reckart" | NFTS, United Kingdom | ||||
| data-sort-value="Hosts" | The Hosts | data-sort-value="Anfitriones" | Los anfitriones | data-sort-value="Moulet" | Miguel Angel Moulet | EICTV, Cuba |
| Land | Terra | data-sort-value="Messina" | CSC, Italy | |||
| Matteus | data-sort-value="Huyghe" | Leni Huyghe | Sint-Lukas Brussels, Belgium | |||
| data-sort-value="Raptures" | The Raptures | data-sort-value="Ravissements" | Les Ravissements | data-sort-value="Cahn" | Arthur Cahn | La Fémis, France |
| data-sort-value=Road To"" | The Road To | Doroga na | data-sort-value="Igumentseva" | Taisia Igumentseva | VGIK, Russia | |
| Slug Invasion | data-sort-value="Helgeland" | Morten Helgeland | The Animation Workshop, Denmark | |||
| Tambylles | data-sort-value="Hogenauer" | Michal Hogenauer | FAMU, Czech Republic | |||
Out of 4,500 submissions, the following films were selected for the short film competition.[17] The Short film Palme d'Or winner has been
highlighted.| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Prod. country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chair | Grainger David | United States | |||
| Cockaigne | data-sort-value="Verhamme" | Emilie Verhamme | Belgium | ||
| Gasp | data-sort-value="Bettinga" | Eicke Bettinga | Germany | ||
| Herd Leader | Chef de meute | data-sort-value="Robichaud" | Canada | ||
| My Holy Glance | Mi Santa Mirada | data-sort-value="Aponte" | Alvaro Aponte-Centeno | Puerto Rico | |
| Night Shift | data-sort-value="Mandivwalla" | Zia Mandivwalla | New Zealand | ||
| Silent | Sessiz-Bêdeng | data-sort-value="Yesilbas" | L. Rezan Yesilbas | Turkey | |
| This Way Before Me | Ce Chemin Devant Moi | data-sort-value="Bourokba" | France | ||
| Waiting for P.O. Box | Falastein, sandouk al intezar lil burtuqal | data-sort-value="Chekhes" | Bassam Chekhes | Syria | |
| Yardbird | data-sort-value="Spiccia" | Michael Spiccia | Australia | ||
The following films were screened in the Cannes Classics section.[18] [19] The Hungarian "montage film" , directed by György Pálfi, was selected as the closing film for the Cannes Classics section.[20] [21] [22]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documentaries about Cinema | ||||
| Claude M Loves the Cinema | Claude Miller, cinéaste de l'intime | data-sort-value="Barnault" | Emmanuel Barnault | France |
| Me and My Dad | data-sort-value="Boorman" | United Kingdom, Ireland | ||
| Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis | data-sort-value="Barson" | Gregg Barson | United States | |
| data-sort-value="Weide" | ||||
| Restored Prints | ||||
| An All-Colored Vaudeville Show (1935) | Roy Mack | United States | ||
| The Ballad of Narayama (1958) | 楢山節考 | Keisuke Kinoshita | Japan | |
| Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) | Cléo de 5 à 7 | Agnès Varda | France, Italy | |
| (2012) | Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim | György Pálfi | Hungary | |
| A Great Day in Harlem (1994) | Jean Bach | United States | ||
| The Great Spy Chase (1964) | Les Barbouzes | Georges Lautner | France, Italy | |
| Jammin' the Blues (1944) (short) | Gjon Mili | United States | ||
| Jaws (1975) | Steven Spielberg | |||
| Journey to Italy (1954) | Viaggio in Italia | Roberto Rossellini | Italy, France | |
| Lawrence of Arabia (1962) | David Lean | United Kingdom | ||
| Once Upon a Time in America (1984) | C'era una volta in America | Sergio Leone | Italy, United States | |
| The Ring (1927) | Alfred Hitchcock | United Kingdom | ||
| Runaway Train (1985) | Andrei Konchalovsky | United States | ||
| Tess (1979) | Roman Polanski | France, United Kingdom | ||
| Twenty Years Later (1984) | Cabra Marcado para Morrer | Eduardo Coutinho | Brazil | |
| Xica (1976) | Xica da Silva | Carlos Diegues | ||
| World Cinema Foundation | ||||
| After the Curfew (1954) | Lewat Djam Malam | Usmar Ismail | Indonesia | |
| Kalpana (1954) | कल्पना | Uday Shankar | India | |
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.[23]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Casino Royale (2006) | data-sort-value="Campbell" | United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Czech Republic | ||||
| Diamonds Are Forever (1971) | data-sort-value="Hamilton" | United Kingdom | ||||
| Dr. No (1962) | data-sort-value="Young" | |||||
| From Russia with Love (1963) | data-sort-value="Young" | |||||
| data-sort-value="Joker" | The Joker (1960) | data-sort-value="Farceur" | Le farceur | data-sort-value="Broca" | France | |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) | data-sort-value="Hunt" | United Kingdom | ||||
| Project A (1982) | A計劃 | data-sort-value="Chan" | Hong Kong | |||
| Red Tails (2012) | data-sort-value="Hemingway" | United States | ||||
The line-up for the Critics' Week was announced on 23 April at the section's website. The feature competition consists entirely of directorial debuts, something the section's artistic director Charles Tesson stressed was not intentional, but only the way it turned out when the submissions had been judged by quality. The following films were selected.[24]
Feature films - The winner of the Grand Prix Nespresso has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquí y Allá (CdO) | data-sort-value="Esparza" | Antonio Méndez Esparza | Spain, United States, Mexico | ||||
| Au galop (CdO) | data-sort-value="Lencquesaing" | France | |||||
| Beyond the Walls (CdO) | Hors les murs | data-sort-value="Lambert" | David Lambert | Belgium, Canada, France | |||
| God's Neighbors (CdO) | data-sort-value="Voisins" | Les Voisins de Dieu | data-sort-value="Yaesh" | Meni Yaesh | Israel, France | ||
| Peddlers (CdO) | Halahal | data-sort-value="Bala" | India | ||||
| Sofia's Last Ambulance (CdO) | data-sort-value="Metev" | Ilian Metev | Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria | ||||
| data-sort-value="Wild" | The Wild Ones (CdO) | data-sort-value="Salvajes" | Los Salvajes | data-sort-value="Fadel" | Alejandro Fadel | Argentina | |
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[16]
Short and Medium Length Films
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circle Line | data-sort-value="Soonhwanseon" | 순환선 | South Korea | |||
| data-sort-value="Dickslap" | The Dickslap | data-sort-value="Bifle" | La Bifle | data-sort-value="Saurel" | Jean-Baptiste Saurel | France |
| Doppelgänger | data-sort-value="Duplo" | O Duplo | data-sort-value="Rojas" | Brazil | ||
| Family Dinner | data-sort-value="Constantinescu" | Sweden | ||||
| Hazara | data-sort-value="Levi" | Shay Levi | Israel | |||
| Horizon | Orizont | data-sort-value="Negoescu" | Paul Negoescu | Romania | ||
| It's Not a Cowboy Movie | Ce n'est pas un film de cow-boys | data-sort-value=Parent" | Benjamin Parent | France | ||
| Red River, Song Hong | Fleuve rouge, Song Hong | data-sort-value="Lansaque" | Stéphanie Lansaque & François Leroy | |||
| data-sort-value="Sunday" | A Sunday Morning | data-sort-value="Dimanche" | Un dimanche matin | data-sort-value="Manivel" | Damien Manivel | |
| Yeguas y cotorras | data-sort-value="Garagiola" | Natalia Garagiola | Argentina | |||
Special Screenings
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augustine | data-sort-value="Winocour" | France | |||
| Broken | data-sort-value="Norris" | United Kingdom | |||
| Maddened by His Absence | J'enrage de son absence | data-sort-value="Bonnaire" | France, Luxembourg, Belgium | ||
The line-up for the Directors' Fortnight was announced at a press conference on 24 April.[25] The following films were selected:[26]
Feature Films - The winner of the Art Cinema Award has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | data-sort-value="Stoll" | Uruguay, Germany, Argentina | ||||
| Alyah (CdO) | data-sort-value="Wajeman" | Elie Wajeman | France | |||
| Camille Rewinds | Camille redouble | data-sort-value="Lvovsky" | ||||
| Clandestine Childhood | Infancia clandestina | data-sort-value="Avila" | Benjamin Ávila | Argentina, Spain, Brazil | ||
| Dangerous Liaisons | China, South Korea | |||||
| Dream and Silence | Sueño y silencio | data-sort-value="Rosales" | Spain, France | |||
| Ernest & Celestine | Ernest et Célestine | data-sort-value="Aubier" | France, Belgium, Luxembourg | |||
| Fogo | data-sort-value="Olaizola" | Yulene Olaizola | Mexico, Canada | |||
| Gangs of Wasseypur | data-sort-value="Kashyap" | India | ||||
| Granny's Funeral | Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé | data-sort-value="Podalydès" | France | |||
| Hold Back (CdO) | Rengaine | data-sort-value="Djaïdani" | Rachid Djaïdani | |||
| data-sort-value="King" | The King of Pigs (CdO) | data-sort-value="Dae-gi" | 돼지의 왕 | South Korea | ||
| Night Across the Street | data-sort-value="Noche" | La noche de enfrente | data-sort-value="Ruiz" | France, Chile | ||
| No | data-sort-value="Larraín" | Pablo Larraín | Chile, United States | |||
| Opération Libertad | data-sort-value="Wadimoff" | Nicolas Wadimoff | Switzerland, France | |||
| data-sort-value="Repentant" | The Repentant | data-sort-value="Taaib" | التائب | data-sort-value="Allouache" | Algeria | |
| Room 237 (CdO) | data-sort-value="Ascher" | United States | ||||
| Sightseers | data-sort-value="Wheatley" | United Kingdom | ||||
| data-sort-value="Towrope" | The Towrope (CdO) | data-sort-value="Sirga" | La Sirga | data-sort-value="Vega" | William Vega | Colombia, France, Mexico |
| The We and the I | data-sort-value="Gondry" | United States | ||||
| Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram (CdO) | data-sort-value="Bakhshi" | Massoud Bakhshi | Iran | |||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[16]
Short Films - The winner of the Premier Prix Illy for Short Filmmaking has been
highlighted:| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Curse | data-sort-value="Boulifa" | Fyzal Boulifa | United Kingdom, Morocco | |||
| Drawn from Memory | Portret z pamięci | data-sort-value="Bortkiewicz" | Marcin Bortkiewicz | Poland | ||
| Enraged Pigs | Porcos Raivosos | data-sort-value="Sette" | Leonardo Sette, Isabel Penoni | Brazil | ||
| Königsberg | data-sort-value="Mayrhofer" | Philipp Mayrhofer | France | |||
| data-sort-value="Living Also" | The Living Also Cry | data-sort-value="vivos" | Os Vivos Tambem Choram | data-sort-value="Cunha" | Basil da Cunha | Switzerland, Portugal |
| data-sort-value="Living Dead" | The Living Dead | data-sort-value="Mortos" | Os mortos-vivos | data-sort-value="Silveira" | Brazil | |
| Rodri | data-sort-value="Lolli" | Franco Lolli | France | |||
| Tram | data-sort-value="Pavlátová" | France, Czech Republic | ||||
| With Jeff | Avec Jeff, à moto | data-sort-value="Juste" | Canada | |||
| Wrong Cops | data-sort-value="Dupieux" | France | ||||
The Palme d'Or was won by the French-language film Amour directed by Michael Haneke. Haneke previously won the award for The White Ribbon in 2009.[27] Love tells the story of an elderly couple preparing for death.[28] During his acceptance speech, the director said "A very, very big thanks to my actors who have made this film. It's their film. They are the essence of this film."[27]
Moretti said that none of the winners had been selected unanimously, and described such an outcome as "a middle ground that would have pleased no one". He revealed that Holy Motors, Paradise: Love and Post Tenebras Lux were the entries that most had divided the jury.[29]
The following films and people received the 2012 Official selection awards:[30] [31]