| 64th Cannes Film Festival | |
| Opening: | Midnight in Paris |
| Closing: | Beloved |
| Location: | Cannes, France |
| Founded: | 1946 |
| Awards: | |
| Host: | Mélanie Laurent |
| Number: | 20 (In Competition) 21 (Un Certain Regard) 9 (Short Film) |
| Date: | 11 – 22 May 2011 |
| Website: | Website |
| Main: | Cannes Film Festival |
| Previous: | 2010 |
| Next: | 2012 |
The 64th Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 May 2011.[1] American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition[2] and French filmmaker Michel Gondry headed the jury for the short film competition.[3] South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho was the head of the jury for the Caméra d'Or prize, which is awarded to the best first-time filmmaker.[4] The American film The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick won the .
Midnight in Paris, written and directed by Woody Allen, opened the festival[5] [6] and Beloved (Les Bien-aimés), directed by Christophe Honoré and screened as out of competition, closed the festival. Mélanie Laurent hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci was presented with the third Honorary Award at the opening ceremony of the festival.[7] Though the award had been given out sporadically in the past the Honorary was supposed to presented annually after 2011. However it was not given again until the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[8] Gus Van Sant's Restless opened the Un Certain Regard section.[9] Jailed Iranian film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were honoured at the festival.[10] Goodbye by Rasoulof and Panahi's This Is Not a Film was screened at the festival, and Panahi was awarded the Carrosse d'Or. Four female directors featured in the main competition: Australian Julia Leigh, Japan's Naomi Kawase, Scottish director Lynne Ramsay and France's own Maïwenn Le Besco.[11] [12]
Danish film director Lars von Trier caused controversy with comments he made at the press conference of his film Melancholia. When he was asked about the relation between the influences of German Romanticism in the film and his own German heritage, the director made jokes about Jews and Nazis. He said he understood Adolf Hitler and admired the work of architect Albert Speer, and jokingly announced that he was a Nazi.[13] The Cannes Film Festival first issued an official apology for the remarks the same day and clarified that Trier is not a Nazi or an antisemite,[14] then declared the director "persona non grata" the following day.[15] The film remained in competition.[16]
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2010 Official Selection:[17] [18] [19] [20]
Nespresso Grand Prize[21]
The following feature films competed for the .[22] The winner has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Artist | data-sort-value="Hazanavicius" | France | ||||
| Drive | data-sort-value="Winding" | United States | ||||
| Footnote | הערת שוליים | data-sort-value="Cedar" | Israel | |||
| Hanezu | data-sort-value="Hanezu" | 朱花の月 | data-sort-value="Kawase" | Japan | ||
| data-sort-value="Ichimei" | 一命 | data-sort-value="Miike" | Japan, United Kingdom | |||
| Le Havre | data-sort-value="Kaurismäki" | Finland, France, Germany | ||||
| House of Tolerance | data-sort-value="Apollonide" | L'apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) | data-sort-value="Bonello" | France | ||
| data-sort-value="Kid with" | The Kid with a Bike | data-sort-value="Gamin" | Le Gamin au vélo | data-sort-value="Dardenne" | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
| Melancholia | data-sort-value="von Trier" | Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany | ||||
| Michael (CdO) | data-sort-value="Schleinzer" | Markus Schleinzer | Austria | |||
| Once Upon a Time in Anatolia | Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da | data-sort-value="Ceylan" | Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina | |||
| Pater | data-sort-value="Cavalier" | France | ||||
| Polisse | data-sort-value="Le Besco" | Maïwenn | ||||
| data-sort-value="Skin" | The Skin I Live In | data-sort-value="piel" | La piel que habito | data-sort-value="Almodóvar" | Spain | |
| Sleeping Beauty (CdO) | data-sort-value="Leigh" | Australia | ||||
| data-sort-value="Source" | The Source | data-sort-value="Source" | La source des femmes | data-sort-value="Mihaileanu" | France, Belgium, Italy | |
| This Must Be the Place | data-sort-value="Sorrentino" | Italy, France, Ireland | ||||
| The Tree of Life | data-sort-value="Malick" | Terrence Malick | United States | |||
| We Have a Pope | Habemus Papam | data-sort-value="Moretti" | Italy, France | |||
| We Need to Talk About Kevin | data-sort-value="Ramsay" | United Kingdom, United States | ||||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[23]
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard. The Prix un certain regard winners have been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arirang | data-sort-value="Arirang" | 아리랑 | data-sort-value="Ki-duk" | Kim Ki-duk | South Korea | ||
| Beauty | Skoonheid | data-sort-value="Hermanus" | South Africa | ||||
| Bonsai | data-sort-value="Jimenez" | Chile | |||||
| data-sort-value="Day He" | The Day He Arrives | data-sort-value="Bukchonbanghyang" | 북촌방향 | data-sort-value="Sang-soo" | South Korea | ||
| Elena | data-sort-value="Yelena" | Елена | data-sort-value="Zvyagintsev" | Russia | |||
| Goodbye | data-sort-value="Be omid" | به امید دیدار | data-sort-value="Rasoulof" | Iran | |||
| Hard Labor (CdO) | Trabalhar Cansa | data-sort-value="Rojas" | Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra | Brazil | |||
| data-sort-value="Hunter" | The Hunter | data-sort-value="Okhotnik" | Охотник | data-sort-value="Bakuradze" | Bakur Bakuradze | Russia | |
| Loverboy | data-sort-value="Mitulescu" | Romania | |||||
| Martha Marcy May Marlene (CdO) | data-sort-value="Durkin" | United States | |||||
| data-sort-value="Minister" | The Minister | data-sort-value="Exercice" | L'Exercice de l'État | data-sort-value="Scholler" | Pierre Schöller | France, Belgium | |
| Miss Bala | data-sort-value="Naranjo" | Gerardo Naranjo | Mexico | ||||
| Oslo, August 31st | Oslo, 31. august | data-sort-value="Trier" | Norway | ||||
| Hors Satan | data-sort-value="Dumont" | France | |||||
| Restless | data-sort-value="Van Sant" | United States | |||||
| data-sort-value="Snows" | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | data-sort-value="Neiges" | Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro | data-sort-value="Guediguian" | France | ||
| Stopped on Track | Halt auf freier Strecke | data-sort-value="Dresen" | Andreas Dresen | Germany | |||
| Tatsumi | data-sort-value="Khoo" | Singapore | |||||
| Toomelah | data-sort-value="Sen" | Australia | |||||
| Where Do We Go Now? | data-sort-value="Halla" | هلق لوين؟ | data-sort-value="Labaki" | Lebanon, France, Egypt, Italy | |||
| data-sort-value="Yellow" | The Yellow Sea | data-sort-value="Hwanghae" | 황해 | data-sort-value="Hong-jin" | South Korea | ||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[23]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[24]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Beaver | data-sort-value="Foster" | United States, United Arab Emirates | ||||
| data-sort-value="Beloved" | Beloved (closing film) | data-sort-value="Bien-aimés" | Les Bien-aimés | data-sort-value="Honoré" | France | |
| data-sort-value="Conquest" | The Conquest | data-sort-value="Conquête" | La Conquête | data-sort-value="Durringer" | Xavier Durringer | |
| Midnight in Paris (opening film) | data-sort-value="Allen" | United States, Spain | ||||
| data-sort-value="Marshall" | United States | |||||
| Midnight Screenings | ||||||
| Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told | data-sort-value="Mehra" | India | ||||
| Days of Grace (CdO) | Dias de gracia | data-sort-value="Gout" | Everardo Gout | Mexico | ||
| Dragon | 武俠 | data-sort-value="Chan" | Hong Kong, China | |||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[23]
The following films were shown as special screenings.[25]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Days | 18 يوم | data-sort-value="Abdallah" | Ahmad Abdallah, Mariam Abou Ouf, Kamla Abu Zikri, Ahmed Alaa, Mohamed Ali, Sherif Arafa, Sherif El Bendary, Marwan Hamed, Khaled Marei and Yousry Nasralla | Egypt | |
| The Big Fix | data-sort-value="Tickell" | United States | |||
| Duch, Master of the Forges of Hell | data-sort-value="Maitre" | Le Maître des forges de l'Enfer | data-sort-value="Panh" | France | |
| Leader-Sheep | Tous au Larzac | data-sort-value="Rouaud" | Christian Rouaud | ||
| Michel Petrucciani | data-sort-value="Radford" | ||||
| No More Fear (CdO) | La khaoufa baada al'yaoum | data-sort-value="Cheikh" | Mourad Ben Cheikh | Tunisia | |
| Out of Bounds (CdO) | Labrador | data-sort-value="Aspöck" | Frederikke Aspöck | Denmark | |
| The Postman | Al-Bostagui | Egypt | |||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[23]
The following films were selected to be screened in the Cinéfondation section, which focuses on short films made by students at film schools.[26] The winner of the Cinéfondation First Prize has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | School | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit | data-sort-value="Damazo" | D. Jesse Damazo & Joe Bookman | University of Iowa, United States | ||||
| Bento Monogatari | data-sort-value="Dirkx" | Pieter Dirkx | Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Belgium | ||||
| Big Muddy | data-sort-value="Moneo" | Jefferson Moneo | Columbia University, United States | ||||
| Cagey Tigers | Tigre z klietky | Aramisova | FAMU, Czech Republic | ||||
| Changeling | data-sort-value="Wechselbalg" | Der Wechselbalg | data-sort-value="Steinmetz" | Maria Steinmetz | HFF Konrad Wolf, Germany | ||
| Drari | data-sort-value="Nazraq" | Kamal Nazraq | La Fémis, France | ||||
| Duel Before Nightfall | Duelo Antes da Noite | data-sort-value="Furtado" | Alice Furtado | Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil | |||
| Fly by Night | data-sort-value="Ya-gan" | 야간비행 / Ya-gan-bi-hang | Son Tae-gyum | Chung-Ang University, South Korea | |||
| data-sort-value="Letter" | The Letter | data-sort-value="Brief" | Der Brief | data-sort-value="Droumeva" | Doroteya Droumeva | DFFB, Germany | |
| Martha Must Fly | Al Martha lauf | data-sort-value="Rypp" | Ma'ayan Rypp | Tel Aviv University, Israel | |||
| On My Doorstep | Befetach beity | data-sort-value="Costi" | Anat Costi | Bezalel Academy, Israel | |||
| Salsipuedes | data-sort-value="Luque" | Mariano Luque | National University of Córdoba, Argentina | ||||
| Suu and Uchikawa | Suu et Uchikawa | data-sort-value="Carton" | Nathanael Carton | NYU Asia, Singapore | |||
| Till Summer Comes | data-sort-value="Estate" | L'estate che non viene | data-sort-value="Marino" | Pasquale Marino | Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy | ||
| data-sort-value="Trip" | The Trip | data-sort-value="Viagem" | A Viagem | data-sort-value="Cayatte" | Simão Cayatte | Columbia University, United States | |
| data-sort-value="Wedding" | The Wedding Party | data-sort-value="fiesta de" | La fiesta de casamiento | data-sort-value="Margolin" | Gastón Margolin & Martín Morgenfeld | Universidad del Cine, Argentina | |
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or. The Short film winner has been
highlighted:| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear | data-sort-value="Edgerton" | Australia | |||
| Cold | Kjøttsår | data-sort-value="Gamlem" | Lisa Marie Gamlem | Norway | |
| Cross | data-sort-value="Vroda" | Maryna Vroda | France, Ukraine | ||
| Ghost | data-sort-value="Ma" | Dahci Ma | South Korea | ||
| It Is Nothing | Ce n'est rien | data-sort-value="Roy" | Nicolas Roy | Canada | |
| Meathead | data-sort-value="Holst" | Sam Holst | New Zealand | ||
| Paternal Womb | data-sort-value="Tazaki" | Megumi Tazaki | Japan | ||
| Soy tan feliz | data-sort-value="Duran" | Vladimir Durán | Argentina | ||
| Swimsuit 46 | Badpakje 46 | data-sort-value="Destoop" | Wannes Destoop | Belgium | |
The following films were selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section.[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tributes | ||||
| A Bronx Tale (1993) | United States | |||
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) | United Kingdom, United States | |||
| The Conformist (1970) | Il Conformista | Italy | ||
| Molly (2011) | Moly Kane | Senegal | ||
| Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) | United States | |||
| Sugar Cane Alley (1983) | Rue Cases-Négres | France | ||
| A Trip to the Moon (1902) | Le Voyage dans la lune | |||
| Documentaries about Cinema | ||||
| Belmondo, itinéraire... | France | |||
| Corman's World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel (CdO) | Alex Stapleton | United States | ||
| Kurosawa's Way | Kurosawa, la Voie | Catherine Cadou | France | |
| The Look | Germany, France | |||
| Once Upon a Time... A Clockwork Orange | Il était une fois... Orange mécanique | Antoine de Gaudemar | France | |
| Restored Prints | ||||
| The Assassin (1961) | L’assassino | Italy | ||
| Children of Paradise (1945) | Les Enfants du paradis | France | ||
| Chronicle of a Summer (1960) | Chronique d'un été | |||
| Despair (1978) | Despair – Eine Reise ins Licht | West Germany | ||
| No Man's Land (1931) | Niemandsland | Germany | ||
| Le Sauvage (1975) | France | |||
| The Machine to Kill Bad People (1952) | La macchina ammazzacattivi | Italy | ||
| World Cinema Foundation | ||||
| The Law of the Border (1966) | Hudutların Kanunu | Turkey | ||
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.[33]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| And the Ship Sails On (1984) | E la nave va | data-sort-value="Fellini" | Italy, France | |
| Ant Scream (2011) | data-sort-value="Aziz" | Sameh Abdel Aziz | Egypt | |
| Das Boot Directors Cut (1981/79) | data-sort-value="Petersen" | West Germany | ||
| The Caine Mutiny (1954) | data-sort-value="Dmytryk" | United States | ||
| Greed in the Sun (1965) | 100.000 dollars au soleil | data-sort-value="Verneuil" | France, Italy | |
| data-sort-value="Man" | The Man from Acapulco (1973) | Le Magnifique | data-sort-value="Broca" | |
| A Night To Remember (1958) | data-sort-value="Baker" | United Kingdom | ||
| Reflets sur la Croisette (2011, a series of shorts) | data-sort-value="Putod" | Isabelle Putod | France | |
| Winter Frog (2011) | Grenouille d'hiver | data-sort-value="Sow" | Slony Sow | |
The line-up for the Critics' Week section was announced on 18 April at the section's website.[34] Declaration of War, directed by Valérie Donzelli, and Bachelor Days Are Over, directed by Katia Lewkowicz, were selected as the opening and closing films of the Semaine de la Critique section.[35]
Feature films
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Girls (CdO) | 17 filles | data-sort-value="Coulin" | France | ||
| Las Acacias (CdO) | data-sort-value="Giorgelli" | Pablo Giorgelli | Argentina | ||
| Avé (CdO) | data-sort-value="Bojanov" | Konstantin Bojanov | Bulgaria | ||
| Sauna on the Moon | 嫦娥 | data-sort-value="Peng" | Zou Peng | China | |
| data-sort-value="Slut" | The Slut (CdO) | הנותנת | data-sort-value="Ben-Asher" | Hagar Ben-Asher | Israel |
| Snowtown (CdO) | data-sort-value="Kurzel" | Australia | |||
| Take Shelter | data-sort-value="Nichols" | United States | |||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[23]
Short Films
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Ivanovitch, You're My Hero | Alexis Ivanovitch vous êtes mon héros | data-sort-value="Gouix" | France | |||
| Black Moon | data-sort-value="Siegel" | Amy Siegel | United States | |||
| Blue | data-sort-value="Kang" | Stephen Kang | New Zealand | |||
| Boy | data-sort-value="Adizes" | Topaz Adizes | United States | |||
| Finis Operis | 불멸의 사나이 | data-sort-value="Byoung-gon" | Moon Byoung-gon | South Korea | ||
| In Front of the House | 집 앞에서 | data-sort-value="Tae-ho" | Lee Tae-ho | |||
| data-sort-value="Inviolability" | The Inviolability of the Domicile Is Based On the Man Who Appears Wielding an Axe at the Door of His House | data-sort-value="Inviolabilidad" | La inviolabilidad del domicilio se basa en el hombre que aparece empuñando un hacha | data-sort-value="Piperno" | Alex Piperno | Uruguay, Argentina |
| Junior | data-sort-value="Ducournau" | France | ||||
| Permanencias | Permanências | data-sort-value="Alves" | Ricardo Alves Júnior | Brazil | ||
| Sundays | Dimanches | data-sort-value="Rosier" | Valéry Rosier | Belgium | ||
Special Screenings
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor Days Are Over (CdO) | Pourquoi tu pleures? | data-sort-value="Lewkowicz" | Katia Lewkowicz | France | |
| Declaration of War | data-sort-value="Guerre" | La Guerre est déclarée | data-sort-value="Donzelli" | ||
| My Little Princess (CdO) | data-sort-value="Ionesco" | ||||
| To Die By Your Side | Mourir auprès de toi | data-sort-value="Jonze" | Spike Jonze & Simon Cahn | ||
| Walk Away Renee | data-sort-value="Caouette" | United States, France | |||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[23]
The following films were selected to be screened in the independent Directors' Fortnight section:[36]
Feature Films
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Bird | data-sort-value="Berghe" | Gust Van Den Berghe | Belgium | |||
| Breathing (CdO) | Atmen | data-sort-value="Markovics" | Austria | |||
| Code Blue | data-sort-value="Antoniak" | Netherlands | ||||
| Chatrak | data-sort-value="Jayasundara" | India | ||||
| End of Silence (CdO) | data-sort-value="Fin du" | La Fin du silence | data-sort-value="Edzard" | Roland Edzard | France | |
| data-sort-value="Fairy" | The Fairy | data-sort-value="Fee" | La Fée | data-sort-value="Abel" | Belgium, France | |
| data-sort-value="Giants" | The Giants | data-sort-value="Geants" | Les Géants | data-sort-value="Lanners" | Belgium | |
| Heat Wave (CdO) | Après le sud | data-sort-value="Jauffret" | Jean-Jacques Jauffret | France | ||
| Heavenly Body (CdO) | Corpo Celeste | data-sort-value="Rohrwacher" | Italy | |||
| Iris in Bloom (CdO) | En ville | data-sort-value="Mrejen" | Valérie Mrejen & Bertrand Schefer | France | ||
| data-sort-value="Island" | The Island | Островът | data-sort-value="Kalev" | Bulgaria, Sweden | ||
| The Other Side of Sleep (CdO) | data-sort-value="Daly" | Ireland | ||||
| On the Edge | Sur la planche | data-sort-value="Kilani" | Morocco | |||
| Palawan Fate | Busong | data-sort-value="Solito" | Philippines | |||
| Play | data-sort-value="Ostlund" | Sweden | ||||
| Porfirio | data-sort-value="Landes" | Colombia | ||||
| Return (CdO) | data-sort-value="Johnson" | United States | ||||
| data-sort-value="Silence" | The Silence of Joan | Jeanne captive | data-sort-value="Ramos" | France | ||
| data-sort-value="Silver" | The Silver Cliff | data-sort-value="Abismo" | O Abismo Prateado | data-sort-value="Aïnouz" | Brazil | |
| Unforgivable | Impardonnables | data-sort-value="Techine" | France | |||
| Volcano (CdO) | data-sort-value="Runarsson" | Iceland | ||||
(CdO) indicates film eligible for the Caméra d'Or as directorial debut feature.[23]
Special Screenings
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Hunkele" | United States | |||
| Guilty of Romance | 恋の罪 | data-sort-value="Sono" | Japan | |
| Les jeunes gens modernes | data-sort-value="Missolz" | Jérôme de Missolz & Jean-François Sanz | France | |
| La nuit elles dansent | data-sort-value="Lavigne" | Isabelle Lavigne & Stéphane Thibault | Canada | |
| El velador | data-sort-value="Almada" | United States | ||
Short films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armand 15 ans l’été dernier | data-sort-value="Harrison" | Blaise Harrison | France | ||
| Boro in the Box | data-sort-value="Mandico" | Bernard Mandico | |||
| Cigarette at Night | data-sort-value="Hopkins" | United Kingdom | |||
| Csicska | data-sort-value="Till" | Attila Till | Hungary | ||
| Dans le jardin du temps, portrait d’Ely et Nina Bielutin | data-sort-value="Cogitore" | Clément Cogitore | France | ||
| Demain, ça sera bien | data-sort-value="Gay" | Pauline Gay | France | ||
| Fourplay: Tampa | data-sort-value="Kyle" | Henry Kyle | United States | ||
| data-sort-value="Guidance" | The Guidance of Reason | data-sort-value="Conduite" | La conduite de la Raison | France | |
| Killing the chickens to Scare the Monkeys | data-sort-value="Assur" | Jens Assur | Sweden | ||
| Mila Caos | data-sort-value="Paetau" | Simon Paetau | Germany | ||
| Nuven | data-sort-value="Cuncha" | Basil Da Cuncha | Chile | ||
| Las Palmas | data-sort-value="Nyholm" | Johannes Nyholm | Sweden | ||
| Le songe de Poliphile | data-sort-value="Henrot" | Camille Henrot | France | ||
| Vice versa one | data-sort-value="Shahrbanoo" | Sadat Shahrbanoo | Afghanistan | ||
The was won by the American film The Tree of Life directed by Terrence Malick.[37] Two of the film's producers, Bill Pohlad and Sarah Green, accepted the prize on behalf of the reclusive Malick.[37] The Tree of Life is the first American film to win the since Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004. Head of the jury, Robert De Niro, said it was difficult to choose a winner, but The Tree of Life "ultimately fit the bill". De Niro explained, "It had the size, the importance, the intention, whatever you want to call it, that seemed to fit the prize."[38]
The following films and people received the 2011 Official selection awards:[39] [40]