In Competition
Out of Competition
Un Certain Regard
Director's Fortnight
French Cinema Selections
Critic's Week Selections
Short Films
Cannes Retrospective
Films in Competition: Opening Night: "Ridicule" - Patrice LeConte (100 min.)
Closing Night: "Flirting With Disaster" - David O. Russell (out of competition) (92 min.)"Breaking the Waves" - Lars von Trier (158 min.)
"Comment Je Me Suis Disputé" ("Ma Vie Sexuelle") - Arnaud Desplechin (178 min.)
"Crash" - David Cronenberg (103 min.)
"Fargo" - Joel and Ethan Coen (97 min.)
"Goodbye South, Goodbye" - Hou Hsiao Hsien (120 min.)
"Un Heros Très Discret" - Jacques Audiard (107 min.)
"Le Huitième Jour" - Jaco van Dormael (118 min.)
"Kansas City" - Robert Altman (115 min.)
"Kauas Pilvet Karkaavat" ("The Clouds Escape") - Aki Kaurismaki(96 min.)
"Po di Sangui" - Flora Gomes (130 min.)
"The Quiet Room" ("La Chambre Tranquille") - Rolf de Heer (99 min.)
"La Seconda Volta" - Mimmo Calopresti (80 min.) - First Film
"Secrets and Lies" - Mike Leigh (142 min.)
"Stealing Beauty" - Bernardo Bertolucci (116 min.)
"Sunchaser" - Michael Cimino (118 min.)
"Temptress Moon" - Chen Kaige (130 min.)
"Tierra" - Julio Medem (125 min.)
"Trois Vies et Une Seule Mort" - Raùl Ruiz (123 min.)
"Trop Tard" - Lucian Pintilie (100 min.)
"The Van" - Stephen Frears (92 min.)
"Les Voleurs" - André Techine (100 min.)
Out of Competition:"Les Affinites Electives" - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (98min.)
"Girl 6" - Spike Lee (98 min.)
"Microcosmos" - Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou (75 min.)
"Trainspotting" - Danny Boyle (93 min.)Plus: "Film Surprise"...
Un Certain Regard:Opening Night: "I Shot Andy Warhol" - Mary Harron (100 min.) - First Film
Closing Night: "Conte d'Été" - Eric Rohmer (107 min.)"Bastard out of Carolina" - Anjelica Huston (97 min.) - First Film
"Buenos Aires Vice Versa" - Alejandro Agresti (122 min.)
"La Bouche de Jean-Pierre" - Lucile Hadzihalilovic (52 min.)
"Compagna di Viaggio" ("Compagne de Voyage") - Peter Del Monte (110 min.)
"Cwal" ("Le Grand Galop") - Krzysztof Zanussi (104 min.)
"Few of Us" - Sharunas Bartas (105 min.)
"Fourbi" - Alain Tanner (114 min.)
"Gabbeh" - Mohsen Makhamalbaf (75 min.)
"Haifa" - Rashid Masharawi (75 min.)
"Irma Vep" - Olivier Assayas (95 min.)
"Looking for Richard" - Al Pacino (113 min.) - First Film
"Love Serenade" - Shirley Barrett (100 min.) - First Film
"Lulu" - Srinivas Krishna (96 min.)
"Mossane" - Safi Faye (105 min.)
"No way to Forget" - Richard Frankland (110 min.)
"The Pallbearer" ("Le Porteur de Cercueil") - Matthew Reeves (94 min.) - First Film
"Pasts" ("Le Courrier") - Laila Pakalnina (20 min.)
"The Pillow Book" - Peter Greenaway (120 min.)
"Pramis" ("Le Ferry") - Laila Pakalnina (16 min.)
"Un Samedi sur la Terre" - Diane Bertrand (95 min.) - First Film
"Some Mother's Son" - Terry George (112 min.) - First Film
"Sydney" - Paul Thomas Anderson (93 min.) - First Film
"The Waste Land" - Deborah Warner (35 min.)
Seventeen feature films, of which eleven are world premières and six are first films:
"Salut Cousin!" - Merzak Allouache - Algeria-France-Belgium-Luxembourg - With Gad Elmaleh, Mess Hattou, Magaly Berdy, Ann-Gisel Glass (world première)
"La Promesse" - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne - Belgium-France-Tunisia-Luxembourg - with Jérémie Renier, Assita Ouedraogo, Oilivier Gourmet (world première)
"Edipo Alcalde" ("Oedipe Maire") - Jorge Ali Triana - Colombia-Mexico-Spain - with Jorge Perugorria, Angela Molina, Francisco Rabal (world première)
"Pasajes" - Daniel Calparsoro - Spain - with Najria Nimri, Charo Lopez, Iva Gabella, Alfredo Villa (world première)
"Inside" - Arthur Penn - USA - with Nigel Hawthorne, Eric Stoltz, Louis Gossett, Jr.
"Lone Star" - John Sayles - USA - with Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, Elisabeth Peña, Joe Morton
"Trees Lounge" - Steve Buscemi - USA - with Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Mark Boone, Jr. (world première)
"Les Mille et Une Recettes du Cuisinier Amoureux" - Nana Djordjadze - Georgia-France - with Pierre Richard, Nino Kirtadze (world première)
"Vaska" ("Hagyjallogva Vaska") - Peter Gothar - Hungary - with Makszim Szergejev, Jevgenyij Szigyihin
"Dire L'Indicible: La Quête d'Elie Wiesel" ("Mondani a Mondhatlant: Elie Wiesel Üzenete") - Judit Elek - Hungary-France - (documentary)
"White Night" ("Nuit Blanche") - Amon Zadok - Israel - with Shalom Shmuelov, Sharon Alexander, Liora Rivlin
"Kids Return" - Takeshi Kitano - Japan - with Ken Kaneko, Masanobu Ando, Reo Morimoto (world première)
"Beautiful Thing" - Hettie MacDonald - UK - with Linda Henry, Glen Berry, Scott neal, Ben Daniels
"Jude" - Michael Winterbottom - UK - with Kate Winslet, Christopher Eccleston (world première)
"Le Prisonnier du Caucase" ("Kavkazski Plennik") - Sergueï Bodrov - Russia - with Oleg Menchikov, Sergueï Bodrov, Jr. (world première)
"Macadam Tribu" - José Laplaine - Zaire-France - with Lydia Ewande, Hassane Kouyate, Sidy Camara (world première)
"Flame" ("Flamme") - Ingrid Sinclair - Zimbabwe - with Marian Kunonga, Ulla Mahaka (world première)
Director's Fortnight Prize: CICAE (Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art & Essai) will award, for the fifth consecutive year, a prize to one of the Director's Fortnight or French Cinema selections. The three past winners were"Moi Ivan, Toi Abraham" by Yolande Zauberman (1993), "Les Silences du Palais" by Moufida Tlatli (1994), and "Le Ballon Blanc" by Jafar Panahi (1995).
French Cinema (Cinemas en France)
Official Selection
Seven feature films (all world premières) of which five are first films, and 4 short films
Feature films:
"A Toute Vitesse" - Gaël Morel - with Elodie Bouchez, Pascal Cervo, Stéphane Rideau, Meziane Bardadi (world première)
"Le Cri de la Soie" - Yvon Marciano - with Marie Tintignant, Sergio Castellito, Anémone (world première)
"Encore" - Pascal Bonitzer with Jackie Berroyer, Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi, Natach Régnier, Laurence Côte (world première)
"Jeunesses Sans Dieu" - Catherine Corsini - with Marc Barbé, Roland Amstutz, Samuel Dupuo, Pascal Cervo, Martin Amic (world première)
"Parfait Amour" - Catherine Breillat - with Isabelle Renauld, Francis Renaud (world première)
"Select Hôtel" - Laurent Bouhnik - with Julie Gayet, Jean-Michel Fête (world première)
"Y Aura-t-il de la Neige a Noël?" - Sandrine Veysset - with Dominique Reymond, Daniel Duval (world première)
Short films:
"La Faim" - Siegfried
"La Fille et L'Amande" - Bénédicte Brunet
"Vacances a Blériot" - Bruno Bontzolakis
"Virage Nord" - Sylvain Labrosse
French Cinema Prize: Kodak will award a prize to one of the short films in the selection. This prize will be awarded during the Festival.
Critic's Week (Semaine de la Critique)
"A Drifting Life" - Lin Chen-Sheng -with Lee Kang-Sheng, Vicky Wei, Grace Chen, Chen Shi-Huang (first film)
"Mi Ultimo Hombre" - Tatiana Gaviola - with Claudio di Girolamo, Willy Semler, Liliana Garcia, Francisco Reyes (first film)
"Sous-Sol" - Pierre Gang - with Louis Portal, Isabelle Pasco, Richard Moffatt, Patrice Gaudin, Daniel Gadouas (first film)
"The Daytrippers" - Greg Mottola - with Hope Davis, Pat McNamara, Anne Meara, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber (first film)
"The Empty Mirror" - Barry J. Hershey - Norman Rodway, Joel Grey, Camila Soerberg, Glenn Shadix (first film)
"Yuri" - Yoonho Yang - with Shinyang Park, Eunjung Lee, Youngdong Moon (first film)
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