2006 Cannes Film Festival
59th edition of the Cannes film festival
The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar-wai served as jury president for the main competition, the first Chinese to preside over the jury.[ 2] English filmmaker Ken Loach won the Palme d'Or for the war drama film The Wind That Shakes the Barley .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
The official poster for the festival features a still image from the Wong Kar-wai 's 2000 film In the Mood for Love , which won the Best Actor award at the 53rd edition of the festival.
The festival opening film was The Da Vinci Code directed by Ron Howard .[ 7] While Transylvania by Tony Gatlif was the closing film.[ 8]
This edition also marked the first time in three years that no American film, actor, actress, or filmmaker won any awards in Cannes.
2006 Un Certain Regard poster featuring an original drawing by Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein .[ 9]
Juries
The following people were appointed as juries in the various selection below:[ 10]
Main competition
Wong Kar-wai , Hong Kong filmmaker - Jury President
Monica Bellucci , Italian actress
Helena Bonham Carter , British actress
Samuel L. Jackson , American actor
Patrice Leconte , French actor, director and screenwriter
Lucrecia Martel , Argentinian filmmaker
Tim Roth , British actor
Elia Suleiman , Palestinian filmmaker
Zhang Ziyi , Chinese actress
Un Certain Regard
Monte Hellman , American director - Jury President
Lars-Olav Beier, German critic
Maurizio Cabonat, Italian critic
Jean-Pierre Lavoignat, French critic
Marjane Satrapi , Iranian author
Laura Winters, American critic
Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition
Camera d'Or
Jean-Pierre Dardenne , Belgian filmmaker - Jury Co-President
Luc Dardenne , Belgian filmmaker - Jury Co-President
Natacha Laurent, French director of the cinémathèque of Toulouse
Frédéric Maire, Swiss president of Locarno Festival
Luiz Carlos Merten, Brazilian critic
Jean-Pierre Neyrac, French technician
Alain Riou, French critic
Jean-Paul Salomé , French director
Jean-Louis Vialard, French cinematographer
Official Selection
Main Competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[ 11] The Palme d'Or winner has been highlighted .
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
Babel
Alejandro González Iñárritu
United States, Mexico, Morocco, France
The Caiman
Il caimano
Nanni Moretti
Italy
Charlie Says
Selon Charlie
Nicole Garcia
France
Chronicle of an Escape
Crónica de una fuga
Israel Adrián Caetano
Argentina
Climates
İklimler
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey
Colossal Youth
Juventude em Marcha
Pedro Costa
Portugal
Days of Glory
Indigènes
Rachid Bouchareb
France, Morocco, Belgium, Algeria
The Family Friend
L'amico di famiglia
Paolo Sorrentino
Italy
Fast Food Nation
Richard Linklater
United States, United Kingdom
Flanders
Flandres
Bruno Dumont
France
Lights In The Dusk
Laitakaupungin valot
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, Germany, France
Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola
United States, France, Japan
Pan’s Labyrinth
El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro
Spain, Mexico
Red Road
Andrea Arnold
United Kingdom, Denmark
The Right of the Weakest
La Raison du plus faible
Lucas Belvaux
Belgium
Southland Tales
Richard Kelly
United States, Germany
Summer Palace
頤和園
Lou Ye
China
Volver
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
When I Was a Singer
Quand j'étais chanteur
Xavier Giannoli
France
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Ken Loach
Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland
Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard :[ 11]
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
2:37
Murali K. Thalluri
Australia
977
Девять семь семь
Nikolay Khomeriki
Russia
Bled Number One
Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Algeria, France
French California
La Californie
Jacques Fieschi
France
Luxury Car
江城夏日
Wang Chao
China, France
Murderers
Meurtrières
Patrick Grandperret
France
The Page Turner
La Tourneuse de pages
Denis Dercourt
Paraguayan Hammock
Hamaca paraguaya
Paz Encina
Paraguay
Paris, je t'aime
Gurinder Chadha , Bruno Podalydès , Gus Van Sant ,Coen brothers , Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas , Christopher Doyle , Isabel Coixet , Suwa Nobuhiro , Sylvain Chomet , Alfonso Cuarón , Olivier Assayas ,Oliver Schmitz , Richard LaGravenese , Vincenzo Natali , Wes Craven , Tom Tykwer , Gérard Depardieu , Frédéric Auburtin , Alexander Payne
France, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein
Re-cycle
鬼域
The Pang Brothers
Hong Kong, Thailand
Retrieval
Z odzysku
Sławomir Fabicki
Poland
Salvador
Salvador (Puig Antich)
Manuel Huerga
Spain, United Kingdom
A Scanner Darkly
Richard Linklater
United States
Serambi
Garin Nugroho , Tonny Trimarsanto, Viva Westi, Lianto Luseno
Indonesia
Suburban Mayhem
Paul Goldman
Australia
Taxidermia
György Pálfi
Hungary, Austria, France
Ten Canoes
Rolf de Heer
Australia
To Get to Heaven, First You Have to Die
Чтобы Добраться до Небес Сначала, Вы должны Умереть
Jamshed Usmonov
Tajikistan
The Unforgiven
용서받지 못한 자
Yoon Jong-bin
South Korea
Uro
Stefan Faldbakken
Norway
The Violin
El violin
Francisco Vargas
Mexico
The Way I Spent the End of the World
Cum mi-am petrecut sfârșitul lumii
Cătălin Mitulescu
Romania
The Wedding Director
Il regista di matrimoni
Marco Bellocchio
Italy
You Am I
Aš esi tu
Kristijonas Vildziunas
Lithuania
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[ 11]
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
An Inconvenient Truth
Davis Guggenheim
United States
Avida
Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
France
Bamako
Abderrahmane Sissako
Mali, France, United Sta
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Bill Couturié
United States
The Boy on the Galloping Horse
Chłopiec na galopującym koniu
Adam Guziński
Poland
Clerks II
Kevin Smith
United States
A Curtain Raiser (short)
Un lever de rideau
François Ozon
France
The Da Vinci Code (opening film)
Ron Howard
United States, Malta, France, United Kingdom
El-banate dol
Tahani Rached
Egypt
Election 2
黑社會:以和爲貴
Johnnie To
Hong Kong
Halim
حليم
Sherif Arafa
Egypt
The House Is Burning
Holger Ernst
Germany
I Only Wanted to Live
Volevo solo vivere
Mimmo Calopresti
Italy
Ici Najac, à vous la terre
Jean-Henri Meunier
France
Oh La La!
Nouvelle chance
Anne Fontaine
Over the Hedge
Tim Johnson , Karey Kirkpatrick
United States
Requiem for Billy the Kid
Requiem pour Billy the Kid
Anne Feinsilber
France
Room 666 (1982)
Chambre 666
Wim Wenders
France, West Germany
Les signes (short)
Eugène Green
France
Shortbus
John Cameron Mitchell
United States
SIDA (short)
Gaspar Noé
France
Silk
詭絲
Su Chao-pin
Taiwan
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Sydney Pollack
United States
Stanley's Girlfriend (short)
Monte Hellman
Transylvania (closing film)
Tony Gatlif
France
United 93
Paul Greengrass
United States, United Kingdom, France
The Water Diary (short)
Jane Campion
France
X-Men: The Last Stand
Brett Ratner
United States
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle
Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon
France
Cinéfondation
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation :[ 11]
Doorman by Etienne Kallos
Een ingewikkeld verhaal, eenvoudig verteld by Jaap van Heusden
Elastinen parturi by Milla Nybondas
Emile's Girlfriend (Ha'chavera shell Emile ) by Nadav Lapid
Even Kids Started Small by Yaniv Berman
Firn by Axel Koenzen
Ge & Zeta by Gustavo Riet
Une goutte d'eau by Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Graceland by Anocha Suwichakornpong
Hunde by Matthias Huser
Jaba by Andreas Bolm
Justiça ao insulto by Bruno Jorge
Mother by Siân Heder
Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker by Stefan Mueller
Snow by Dustin Feneley
Tetris by Anirban Datta
Le virus by Ágnes Kocsis
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or :[ 11]
Cannes Classics
The Cannes Classics section highlights heritage cinema, re-discovered films, restored prints and theatrical, television or DVD releases of great films of the past.[ 12]
Documentaries about Cinema [ 12]
Il était une fois...Rome ville ouverte by Marie Genin, Serge July
John Ford / John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend by Sam Pollard
Marcello, una vita dolce by Annarosa Morri, Mario Canale
Restored prints [ 14]
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 45th International Critics' Week (45e Semaine de la Critique):[ 15]
Feature film competition
Short film competition
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 2006 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[ 16]
Short films
The Aluminum Fowl by James Clauer
Bugcrush by Carter Smith
By the Kiss by Yann Gonzalez
Dans le rang by Cyprien Vial
L'Étoile de mer by Sophie Letourneur
Menged by Daniel Taye Workou
Rapace by João Nicolau
Un rat by Bosilka Simonovitch
Sepohon Rambutan indah kepunyaanku di tanjung rambutan by Bin HajiSaari U-Wei
Le Soleil et la mort voyagent ensemble by Frank Beauvais
Wong Kar-wai , 2006 Jury President
Ken Loach , winner of the Palme d'Or at the event.
Bruno Dumont , Gran Prix winner
Official Awards
The following films and people received the 2006 Official selection awards:[ 17] [ 3]
Main Competition
Un Certain Regard
Cinéfondation
First Prize : Ge & Zeta by Gustavo Riet
Second Prize : Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker by Stefan Mueller
Third Prize :
Short Films Competition
Short Film Palme d'Or : Sniffer by Bobbie Peers
Jury Prize : Primera nieve by Pablo Aguero
Special Mention : Conte de quartier by Florence Miailhe
Independent Awards
Award of the Youth
Critics' Week
Directors' Fortnight
References
External links
Awards Awards given by independent entities Parallel events By year