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Un Certain Regard
(; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films with unusual styles and non-traditional stories seeking international recognition. At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, ''Killer (1998 film), Killer'' by Darezhan Omirbaev was named the first ever winner. While The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, ''The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo'' by Diego Céspedes is the most recent winner. Winners In 1998, the was introduced to the section to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works by presenting one of the films with a grant to aid its distribution in France. Since 2005, the prize consists of Euro, €30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmin Dizdar
Jasmin Dizdar (born 8 June 1961) is a British-Bosnian film director, screenwriter and author known for his feature film '' Beautiful People'' (1999) and his World War II thriller '' Chosen'' (2016). Early life Dizdar was born on 8 June 1961 and grew up in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. With the guidance and encouragement of his primary school literature teacher, he sent his short story “History Hour” to a regional competition and won an award for best short story. During his time at secondary school, he was an actor in the Bosnian theatre play ''Hanka'', based on the novel by Isak Samokovlija, as well as being adapted for the 1955 film ''Hanka'' directed by Yugoslav film director Slavko Vorkapić. The play premiered in Zenica's Old National Theatre. As a teenager, Dizdar joined a local film club where he wrote, edited and directed short documentaries, drama and experimental films, and began to take interest in film theory, particularly Russian structuralist film theory. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Cannes Film Festival
The 57th Cannes Film Festival took place from 12 to 23 May 2004. American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino served as jury president for the main competition. While American filmmaker Michael Moore won the Palme d'Or for the documentary film '' Fahrenheit 9/11'', becoming the first (and only) documentary to win the festival's main prize. The festival opening film was '' Bad Education'' directed by Pedro Almodóvar, while '' De-Lovely'' directed by Irwin Winkler was the closing film. Laura Morante was mistress of the ceremonies. Juries Main competition * Quentin Tarantino, American filmmaker - Jury President * Emmanuelle Béart, French actress and director * Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-American novelist * Tsui Hark, Hong Kong director * Benoît Poelvoorde, Belgian actor * Jerry Schatzberg, American director * Tilda Swinton, British actress * Kathleen Turner, American actress * Peter von Bagh, Finnish film historian ''Un Certain Regard'' * Jeremy Thomas, British producer - Jury ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Tullio Giordana
Marco Tullio Giordana (born 1 October 1950) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Milan, during the 1970s he approached the cinema by collaborating on the screenplay of Roberto Faenza's 1977 documentary ''Forza Italia!'', while his debut behind the camera comes two years later, in 1979 with the feature film To Love the Damned, presented at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. In 1981, he made an ambitious project, ''The Fall of the Rebel Angels (film), The Fall of the Rebel Angels'', presented at the 38th Venice International Film Festival. In 1996 he participated with other directors, Gianni Amelio, Marco Risi, Alessandro D'Alatri and Mario Martone in the RAI and UNICEF project ''Beyond childhood – Five directors for UNICEF''. In 2000 he returned to the 57th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival with ''One Hundred Steps'', a film of denunciation on the life and death of Pepp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of Youth
''The Best of Youth'' () is a 2003 Italian romantic drama film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana and written by Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli. A family saga set in Italy from 1966 through 2003, it chronicles the life of the middle-class Carati family, focusing primarily on brothers Nicola ( Luigi Lo Cascio) and Matteo ( Alessio Boni) as their life paths separate during youth, encompassing major political and social events in post–World War II Italian history. Originally conceived as a Rai television miniseries, it premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prize Un Certain Regard. It was then given a theatrical release in Italy as two 3-hour films (titled ''Act I'' and ''Act II''), before being aired with broader success on Rai 1 in a slightly longer four-episode television version later that year. In the U.S., the film was released by Miramax in its theatrical version. The title of the film, an ungrammatical rendition of ''La miglior gioventù'' ("th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Cannes Film Festival
The 56th Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2003. French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer Patrice Chéreau was the President of the Jury for the main competition. Monica Bellucci hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. American filmmaker Gus Van Sant won the ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for the drama film ''Elephant (2003 film), Elephant'', based on the Columbine High School massacre. Ingmar Bergman was awarded with the Honorary Palme d'Or for his contributions to cinema throughout his career. The festival opened with ''Fanfan la Tulipe (2003 film), Fanfan la Tulipe'' by Gérard Krawczyk, ''and closed with Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin'' by Richard Schickel. Juries The following people were appointed as the Jury for the various sections below: Main competition * Patrice Chéreau, French filmmaker, actor and producer - Jury President * Erri De Luca, Italian poet * Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, screenwriter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (; ; , born 16 July 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, film producer and Professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong has directed several features and dozens of short films. Friends and fans sometimes refer to him as "Joe" (a nickname that he, like many with similarly long Thai names, has adopted out of convenience). His feature films include '' Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'', winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or; '' Tropical Malady'', which won the Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; '' Blissfully Yours'', which won the top prize in the '' Un Certain Regard'' program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; '' Syndromes and a Century'', which premiered at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there; and '' Cemetery of Splendour'', which premiered in the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blissfully Yours
''Blissfully Yours'' () is a 2002 Thai romance film written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It won the prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious painful rash covering his upper body. His girlfriend, Roong, and a middle-aged woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. Min pretends that he cannot speak because he is not fluent in Thai and speaking would reveal him to be an illegal immigrant. The doctor treats him, but because he does not have proper ID documents, refuses to supply him with the medical papers necessary to get a work permit. Roong pays Orn to help Min. Orn's prescribed medication is also mentioned, and while the doctor insists it is prescribed for stress relief, Orn claims her neighbor told her it was a powerful anti-depressant. Orn mentions that the medicine curbs her sexual appetite and that she might like to have another child with her husband. The doctor advises her not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2002 Cannes Film Festival
The 55th Cannes Film Festival took place from 15 to 26 May 2002. American filmmaker David Lynch served as jury president for the main competition. Virginie Ledoyen hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski won the '' Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, for the drama film '' The Pianist''. While American filmmaker Woody Allen was awarded with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or, given to a director who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won the regular Palme d'Or. The festival opened with ''Hollywood Ending'' by Woody Allen, and closed with Claude Lelouch's '' And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen''. Juries Main Competition * David Lynch, American filmmaker - Jury President * Bille August, Danish filmmaker * Christine Hakim, Indonesian actress * Claude Miller, French filmmaker * Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker * Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker * Sharon Stone, American actress * Régis Wargnier, French filmmaker * Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Caumon
Yves Caumon (born 27 May 1964) is a cinema of France, French Film director, director. He is Professor in Toulouse's University in France. He worked as assistant-director with Agnès Varda, and Jean-Paul Civeyrac. He directed several short movies as ''A la Hache'' with Valérie Crunchant, ''Les filles de mon pays'' (Prix Jean Vigo 2000)... Yves Caumon is one of the French film directors in the new "New Wave" in French cinema such as Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Philippe Ramos, François Ozon. His first movie ''Boyhood Loves, Amour d’enfance'' was awarded with ''Prix Un certain regard'' in the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. His movie ''Cache-cache'' (''Hide and seek'') was in the French contingent in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Filmography Short Story *1998 ''La beauté du monde'' *2000 ''Les filles de mon pays'' (prix Jean Vigo) *2002 ''A la hache'' with Valérie Crunchant Movies *2001 ''Boyhood Loves, Amours d’enfance'' (Prix Un certain regard at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival) *20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyhood Loves
''Boyhood Loves'' () is a 2001 French drama film directed by Yves Caumon. It was the director's first feature film. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Un Certain Regard Award. Plot Paul is still a student at 28 years old, often visiting his family farm. This time he goes home because his father is dying. Once there, Paul finds himself trapped: he feels guilty for having abandoned his family. He tries to make up for with generous and altruistic actions. Cast * Mathieu Amalric Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He has won several César Awards and the Lumière Awards. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film '' Quantum of Solace'', in which he pla ... - Paul * Lauryl Brossier - Odile * Fabrice Cals - Thierry * Michèle Gary - Odette * Roger Souza - Paul's father * Bernard Blancan - Aimé * Nicole Miana - Odile's mother * Frédéric Bon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Cannes Film Festival
The 54th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 20 May 2001. Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann was named Jury President for the main competition. Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti won the ''Palme d'Or'' for the drama film '' The Son's Room''. The festival opened with '' Moulin Rouge!'' by Baz Luhrmann, and closed with '' Savage Souls'' by Raúl Ruiz. Juries Main competition * Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress and director - Jury President * Mimmo Calopresti, Italian filmmaker and actor * Charlotte Gainsbourg, English-French actress and singer * Terry Gilliam, British filmmaker and actor * Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor and filmmaker * Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress * Philippe Labro, French director and author * Julia Ormond, British actress * Moufida Tlatli, Tunisian filmmaker and editor * Edward Yang, Taiwanese filmmaker ''Un Certain Regard'' * Ariane Ascaride, French actress - Jury President * Virginie Apiou, French film critic * François-Guillaume L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
