| 63rd Cannes Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Robin Hood |
| Closing: | The Tree |
| Location: | Cannes, France |
| Founded: | 1946 |
| Awards: | Palme d'Or |
| Host: | Kristin Scott Thomas |
| Number: | 19 (En Competition) 19 (Un Certain Regard) 9 (Short Film) |
| Date: | 12–23 May 2010 |
| Website: | www.festival-cannes.com |
| Main: | Cannes Film Festival |
| Previous: | 2009 |
| Next: | 2011 |
The 63rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in Cannes, France.[1] [2] The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946.[3] [4] It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the festival; films screened in competition compete for the Palme d'Or award. The award in 2010 was won by Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a Thai film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This was determined by the festival's jury members who reviewed films screened in competition. American film director Tim Burton was the president of the jury for the international competition, and other members of the jury for that competition included actors, screenwriters and composers, such as Kate Beckinsale, Emmanuel Carrère, Benicio del Toro, and Alexandre Desplat.[5] [6] Other categories for films screened in competition that have their own separate juries for other awards are for Short Films and the Un Certain Regard category.
Ridley Scott's Robin Hood opened the festival[7] and Julie Bertuccelli's The Tree was the closing film. The full film lineup for the festival was announced on 15 April 2010.[8] English actress Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies.[9]
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.[10] 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.[10] 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.[11] Two days before the beginning of the festival, the just finished film Route Irish, directed by Ken Loach, was added to the main competition.[12]
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2010 Official Selection:[13]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[15] [2] [16]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Another Year | data-sort-value="Leigh" | United Kingdom | ||||
| Biutiful | data-sort-value="Inarritu" | Mexico, Spain | ||||
| Burnt by the Sun 2 | data-sort-value="Utomlyonnye" | Утомлённые солнцем 2 | data-sort-value="Mikhalkov" | Russia | ||
| Certified Copy | Copie conforme | data-sort-value="Kiarostami" | France, Italy, Belgium | |||
| Chongqing Blues | data-sort-value="Rizhao" | 日照重慶 | data-sort-value="Xiaoshuai" | China | ||
| Fair Game | data-sort-value="Liman" | United States, United Arab Emirates | ||||
| data-sort-value="Housemaid" | The Housemaid | data-sort-value="Ha-nyeo" | 하녀 | data-sort-value="Sang-soo" | South Korea | |
| My Joy | data-sort-value="Schastye" | Счастье моё | data-sort-value="Loznitsa" | Ukraine,Germany, Netherlands | ||
| Of Gods and Men | data-sort-value="hommes et" | Des hommes et des dieux | data-sort-value="Beauvois" | France | ||
| On Tour | Tournée | data-sort-value="Amalric" | France, Germany | |||
| Our Life | data-sort-value="nostra" | La nostra vita | data-sort-value="Luchetti" | Italy, France | ||
| Outrage | data-sort-value="Autoreiji" | アウトレイジ | data-sort-value="Kitano" | Japan | ||
| Outside the Law | Hors-la-loi | data-sort-value="Bouchareb" | Algeria, France, Tunisia, Belgium | |||
| Poetry | data-sort-value="Shi" | 시 | data-sort-value="Chang-dong" | South Korea, France | ||
| data-sort-value="Princess" | The Princess of Montpensier | data-sort-value="princesse" | La princesse de Montpensier | data-sort-value="Tavernier" | France | |
| Route Irish | data-sort-value="Loach" | United Kingdom, France, Belgium | ||||
| data-sort-value="Screaming" | A Screaming Man | data-sort-value="homme qui" | Un homme qui crie | data-sort-value="Haroun" | Chad, France, Belgium | |
| Szelíd Teremtés – A Frankenstein Terv | data-sort-value="Mundruczó" | Hungary | ||||
| Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives | data-sort-value="Lung" | ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ | data-sort-value="Weerasethakul" | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | |
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrienn Pál | Pál Adrienn | data-sort-value="Kocsis" | Ágnes Kocsis | Hungary | ||
| Aurora | data-sort-value="Puiu" | Romania | ||||
| Blue Valentine | data-sort-value="Cianfrance" | United States | ||||
| Carancho | data-sort-value="Trapero" | Argentina, Chile, Spain, France, South Korea | ||||
| Chatroom | data-sort-value="Nakata" | United Kingdom | ||||
| data-sort-value="City" | The City Below | Unter dir die Stadt | data-sort-value="Hochhäusler" | Germany | ||
| Film Socialisme | data-sort-value="Godard" | Jean-Luc Godard | France | |||
| Hahaha | data-sort-value="Hahaha" | 하하하 | data-sort-value="Sang-soo" | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | |
| Heartbeats | data-sort-value="amours" | Les amours imaginaires | data-sort-value="Dolan" | Canada | ||
| I Wish I Knew | 海上传奇 | data-sort-value=" Zhangke" | China | |||
| Life, Above All | data-sort-value="Schmitz" | South Africa | ||||
| Lights Out | Qu'est-il arrivé à Simon Werner? | data-sort-value="Gobert" | Fabrice Gobert | France | ||
| data-sort-value="Lips" | The Lips | data-sort-value="labios" | Los labios | data-sort-value="Fund" | Argentina | |
| October | Octubre | data-sort-value="Vega" | Daniel Vega, Diego Vega | Peru | ||
| Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs) | data-sort-value=Kerrigan"" | United States, France | ||||
| R U There | data-sort-value="Verbeek" | David Verbeek | Netherlands, Taiwan | |||
| data-sort-value="Strange" | The Strange Case of Angelica | data-sort-value="estranho" | O estranho caso de Angélica | data-sort-value="Oliveira" | Portugal | |
| Tuesday, After Christmas | Marţi, după Crăciun | data-sort-value="Muntean" | Romania | |||
| Udaan | data-sort-value="Motwane" | India | ||||
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Autobiography" | The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu | Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu | data-sort-value="Ujică" | Romania | |
| Black Heaven | data-sort-value="Autre" | L'Autre monde | data-sort-value="Marchand" | France, Belgium | |
| Carlos | data-sort-value="Assayas" | France, Germany | |||
| Kaboom | data-sort-value="Araki" | United States | |||
| Robin Hood (opening film) | data-sort-value="Scott" | United States, United Kingdom | |||
| Tamara Drewe | data-sort-value="Frears" | United Kingdom | |||
| The Tree (closing film) | data-sort-value="Bertuccelli" | France, Australia | |||
| data-sort-value="Stone" | United States | ||||
| You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger | data-sort-value="Allen" | ||||
The following films were shown as special screenings.
| 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 | Mexico | |||
| Chantrapas | France, Georgia | |||
| Countdown to Zero | United States | |||
| Draquila – Italy Trembles | Draquila - L'Italia che trema | Italy | ||
| Gilles Jacob, Citizen Cannes | Gilles Jacob, l'arpenteur de la croisette | Serge Le Peron | France | |
| Inside Job | United States | |||
| The Pack | La meute | Franck Richard | France, Belgium | |
| Nostalgia for the Light | Nostalgia de la luz | France, Chile | ||
| Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow | United Kingdom | |||
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | School | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anywhere Out of the World | Coucou-Les-Nuages | Vincent Cardona | La fémis, France | ||
| Cooked | data-sort-value="Blank" | Jens Blank | NFTS, United Kingdom | ||
| Dakujem, dobre | data-sort-value="Prikler" | Mátyás Prikler | FTF-VŠMU, Slovakia | ||
| data-sort-value="Fifth" | The Fifth Column | Hinkerort Zorasune | data-sort-value="Boulghourjian" | NYU, United States | |
| Frozen Land | data-sort-value="Kim" | Tae-yong Kim | Sejong University, South Korea | ||
| Here I Am | Itt Vagyok | data-sort-value="Szimler" | Bálint Szimler | SzFE, Hungary | |
| I Already Am Everything I Want to Have | Ja Vec Jesam Sve Ono Što Želim Da Imam | data-sort-value="Komljen" | Dane Komljen | FDU, Serbia | |
| Ijsland | Iceland | data-sort-value="Coulier" | Sint-Lukas University, Belgium | ||
| El Juego | data-sort-value="Naishtat" | Le Fresnoy, France | |||
| Los Minutos, Las Horas | data-sort-value="Ribeiro" | Marques Ribeiro | EICTV, Cuba | ||
| Miramare | data-sort-value="Muller" | Michaela Müller | ALU, Croatia | ||
| data-sort-value="Painting" | The Painting Sellers | Taulukauppiaat | data-sort-value="Kuosmanen" | Juho Kuosmanen | Aalto University, Finland |
| Shelley | data-sort-value="Wesman" | Andrew Wesman | Harvard University, United States | ||
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking Island | Chienne d'histoire | data-sort-value="Avédikian" | Serge Avédikian | France | |
| Bathing Micky | Micky bader | data-sort-value="Kempff" | Sweden | ||
| Blocks | Blokes | data-sort-value="Rivas" | Marially Rivas | Chile | |
| First Aid | Ezra rishona | data-sort-value="Karmin" | Yarden Karmin | Israel | |
| Maya | data-sort-value="Pío" | Pedro Pío | Cuba | ||
| Muscles | data-sort-value="Housden" | Edward Housden | Australia | ||
| Rosa | data-sort-value="Lairana" | Monica Lairana | Argentina | ||
| Station | Estação | data-sort-value="Faria" | Marcia Faria | Brazil | |
| To Swallow a Toad | data-sort-value="Krāsons" | Jurģis Krāsons | Latvia | ||
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 | Sweden | ||
| Craig McCall | United Kingdom | |||
| Hollywood Don't Surf! | United States | |||
| Toscan | Isabelle Partiot-Pieri | France | ||
| Restored Prints | ||||
| The 317th Platoon (1964) | La 317ème section | France | ||
| The African Queen (1951) | United States, United Kingdom | |||
| The Battle of the Rails (1946) | La Bataille du rail | France | ||
| La campagne de Cicéron (1989) | Jacques Davila | |||
| The Great Love (1969) | Le grand amour | |||
| Happy Go Lucky (1946) | Au petit bonheur | |||
| Khandhar (1983) | India | |||
| Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) | O Beijo da Mulher-Aranha | Brazil, United States | ||
| The Leopard (1963) | Il Gattopardo | Italy | ||
| Psycho (1960) | United States | |||
| The Tin Drum (1979) | Die Blechtrommel | West Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, France | ||
| Tristana (1970) | Spain, France, Italy | |||
| World Cinema Foundation | ||||
| The Eloquent Peasant (1970) | الفلاح الفصيح | Egypt | ||
| Il ruscello di Ripasottile (1941) | Italy | |||
| Two Girls on the Street (1939) | Két Lány Az Utcán | Hungary | ||
| Revenge (1989) | Soviet Union | |||
| Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (1973) | Bangladesh | |||
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) | data-sort-value="Zinnemann" | United States | ||||
| The Girl Hunters (1963) | data-sort-value="Rowland" | United Kingdom | ||||
| Rock'n'roll... Of Corse | (2010) | data-sort-value="Bebert" | Stéphane Bébert, Lionel Guedj | France | ||
| data-sort-value="Silent" | The Silent World (1956) | data-sort-value="Monde" | Le Monde du silence | data-sort-value="" | France, Italy | |
| That Night in Varennes (1982) | data-sort-value="Nuit" | La Nuit de Varennes | data-sort-value="" | |||
| The Two Escobars (2010) | data-sort-value="Zimbalist" | United States | ||||
The following films were screened for the 49th Critics' Week (49e Semaine de la Critique):[22]
Feature film competition
Short film competition
Special screening
Short and medium length
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
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]