2006 Cannes Film Festival

2006 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 59th Cannes Film Festival featuring a still from Wong Kar-wai's 2000 film In the Mood for Love.[1]
Opening filmThe Da Vinci Code
Closing filmTransylvania
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or:
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Hosted byVincent Cassel
No. of films20 (En Competition)[2]
24 (Un Certain Regard)
28 (Out of Competition)
17 (Cinéfondation)
10 (Short Film)
Festival date17 May 2006 (2006-05-17) – 28 May 2006 (2006-05-28)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival
2007
2005

The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official selection Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over the jury.[3]

English director Ken Loach won the Palme d'Or with his movie The Wind That Shakes the Barley.[4][5][6][7] This edition also marked the first time in three years that no American film, actor, actress, or filmmaker won any awards in Cannes.

The festival Opening Film was The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard.[8] Transylvania by Tony Gatlif was the Closing Film. Paris, je t'aime opened the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.[9]

2006 Un Certain Regard poster featuring an original drawing by Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.[10]

Juries

The following people were appointed as juries in the various selection below:[11]

Main competition

Un Certain Regard

  • Monte Hellman, American director - Jury President
  • Jean-Pierre Lavoignat, French critic
  • Lars-Olav Beier, German critic
  • Laura Winters, American critic
  • Marjane Satrapi, Iranian author
  • Maurizio Cabonat, Italian critic

Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition

Camera d'Or

  • Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgian filmmakers - Jury Presidents
  • Alain Riou, French critic
  • Frédéric Maire, Swiss president of Locarno Festival
  • Jean-Paul Salomé, French director
  • Jean-Louis Vialard, French cinematographer
  • Jean-Pierre Neyrac, French technician
  • Luiz Carlos Merten, Brazilian critic
  • Natacha Laurent, French director of the cinémathèque of Toulouse

Official Selection

Main Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[2] 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:[2]

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[2]

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[2]

  • 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 film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[2]

  • Banquise by Cédric Louis, Claude Barras
  • Conte de quartier by Florence Miailhe
  • Film noir by Osbert Parker
  • Nature's Way by Jane Shearer
  • O monstro by Eduardo Valente
  • Ongeriewe by Robin Kleinsmidt
  • Poyraz by Belma Bas
  • Primera nieve by Pablo Aguero
  • Sexy Thing by Denie Pentecost
  • Sniffer by Bobbie Peers

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]

Tribute[13]

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

  • Alguma coisa assim by Esmir Filho
  • Iron by Hiroyuki Nakano
  • Kristall by Christoph Girardet, Matthias Müller
  • Kvinna vid grammofon by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Ola Simonsson
  • L’écluse by Olivier Ciechelski
  • News by Ursula Ferrara
  • Printed Rainbow by Gitanjali Rao

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][4]

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:

Caméra d'Or

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

FIPRESCI Prizes

Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Award of the Youth

Critics' Week

Directors' Fortnight

Prix François Chalais

References

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  6. ^ "Fast Facts: 59th Cannes Film Festival Winners". Fox News. 29 May 2006. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
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  8. ^ "Da Vinci Code to open 2006 Cannes film festival". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  9. ^ "Cannes 2006 – Preview". urbancinefile.com.au. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  10. ^ "Posters 2006". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
  11. ^ "All Juries 2006". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  12. ^ a b "Cannes Classics — Documentaries about Cinema". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Cannes Classics — Tribute". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Cannes Classics — Restored prints". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  15. ^ "45e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 2006". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  16. ^ "Quinzaine 2006". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  17. ^ "Awards 2006: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014.
  18. ^ "Awards 2006: Un Certain Regard". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016.
  19. ^ "FIPRESCI Awards 2006". fipresci.org. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  20. ^ "Jury Œcuménique Palmarés 2006". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  21. ^ "Association Prix François Chalais Cannes 2006". francois-chalais.fr. Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

Media

  • INA: List of winners of the 2006 Festival (commentary in French)

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