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The 2001 Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

 went to the Italian
Italy
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 film The Son's Room
The Son's Room
The Son's Room is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son...

by Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

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Jury

  • Liv Ullmann
    Liv Ullmann
    Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...

    , President (Norway
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

    )
  • Mimmo Calopresti
    Mimmo Calopresti
    Mimmo Calopresti is an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has directed 16 films since 1987. His film The Second Time was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival....

     (Italy
    Italy
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    )
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...

     (United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
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    )
  • Terry Gilliam
    Terry Gilliam
    Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...

     (United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

    )
  • Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....

     (France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    )
  • Sandrine Kiberlain
    Sandrine Kiberlain
    Sandrine Kiberlain is a French actress and singer. She has often worked with the director Laetitia Masson, and has also worked with Benoît Jacquot.Kiberlain received the Prix Romy Schneider in 1995...

     (France)
  • Philippe Labro
    Philippe Labro
    Philippe Labro, is a French author, journalist and film director, born in Montauban on 27 August 1936. He has worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1 and Antenne 2...

     (France)
  • Julia Ormond
    Julia Ormond
    Julia Karin Ormond is an English actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage.-Early life and education:...

     (United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

    )
  • Moufida Tlatli
    Moufida Tlatli
    Moufida Tlatli is a Tunisian film director. She was the first Arab woman to direct a full featured-film in the Arab World.- Biography :She was born in Sidi Bou Saïd suburb of the capital Tunis in 1947...

     (Tunisia
    Tunisia
    Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

    )
  • Edward Yang
    Edward Yang
    Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...

     (Taiwan
    Taiwan
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    )

Films in Competition

  • Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu
    Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
    is a 2001 Japanese film by director Shōhei Imamura. This was Imamura's last feature film. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...

    by Shōhei Imamura
    Shohei Imamura
    was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...

  • Distance
    Distance (film)
    Distance is a 2001 film by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu, starring Arata, Tadanobu Asano, Iseya Yusuke, Terajima Susumu, and Natsukawa Yui.-Plot:...

    by Hirokazu Koreeda
    Hirokazu Koreeda
    is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. His films explore themes of memory, death, and coming to terms with loss.Koreeda originally planned to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University instead worked as an assistant director on documentaries for TV Man Union...

  • Éloge de l'amour by Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard
    Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....

  • Il mestiere delle armi by Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi
    Ermanno Olmi is a renowned Italian film director.-Biography:Olmi was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. He is married to Loredana Detto, who played Antonietta Masetti in Il Posto....

  • Je rentre à la maison by Manoel de Oliveira
    Manoel de Oliveira
    Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, GCSE is a Portuguese film director born in Cedofeita, Porto. He began working on films in the late 1920s, but did not receive international recognition until the early 1970s. Since the late 1980s he has been one of the most prolific working film directors and...

  • La chambre des officiers
    The Officers' Ward (film)
    The Officers' Ward , is a 2001 French film, directed by François Dupeyron and starring Eric Caravaca as the central character. It based on the novel by Marc Dugain...

    by François Dupeyron
    François Dupeyron
    François Dupeyron is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 17 films since 1977. His film La chambre des officiers was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

  • La Pianiste
    The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel. The film is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.- Plot :...

    by Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...

  • La répétition
    Replay (2001 film)
    Replay is a 2001 French drama film directed by Catherine Corsini. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Emmanuelle Béart - Nathalie* Pascale Bussières - Louise* Dani Levy - Matthias * Jean-Pierre Kalfon - Walter Amar...

    by Catherine Corsini
    Catherine Corsini
    Catherine Corsini is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed 15 films since 1982. Her film La répétition was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* La mésange * Ballades...

  • La stanza del figlio
    The Son's Room
    The Son's Room is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son...

    by Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

  • Moulin Rouge!
    Moulin Rouge!
    Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 romantic jukebox musical film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. Following the Red Curtain Cinema principles, the film is based on the Orphean myth, La Traviata, and La Bohème...

    by Baz Luhrmann
    Baz Luhrmann
    Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...

  • Mulholland Dr.
    Mulholland Drive (film)
    Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

    by David Lynch
    David Lynch
    David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...

  • Ni na bian ji dian
    What Time Is It There?
    What Time Is It There? is a 2001 film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, and Lu Yi-Ching.-Plot:The film tells two parallel stories, one about the life of a street vendor following the death of his father; the other about a woman he meets briefly as she heads...

    by Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang
    Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...

  • No Man's Land
    No Man's Land (2001 film)
    No Man's Land is a 2001 tragic war drama that is set in the midst of the Bosnian war. The film is a parable and marked the debut of Bosnian writer and director Danis Tanović...

    by Danis Tanović
    Danis Tanovic
    Danis Tanović is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter.Tanović is best known for having directed and written the script for the 2001 Bosnian movie No Man's Land which won an Academy Award. He was a member of the jury at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Biography:Danis Tanović was born in the...

  • Pau i el seu germà
    Pau and His Brother
    Pau and His Brother is a 2001 Spanish-French drama film directed by Marc Recha. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* David Selvas - Pau* Nathalie Boutefeu - Marta* Marieta Orozco - Sara* Luis Hostalot - Emili...

    by Marc Recha
    Marc Recha
    Marc Recha is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 13 films since 1988. His film Pau i el seu germà was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* El darrer instant...

  • Qiānxī Mànbō
    Millennium Mambo
    Millennium Mambo directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a 2001 film.-Synopsis:The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new Millennium. She...

    by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...

  • Roberto Succo
    Roberto Succo (film)
    Roberto Succo is a 2001 film directed by Cédric Kahn and based on the true story of the eponymous serial killer. The film was adapted from the book Je te tue. Histoire vraie de Roberto Succo assassin sans raison by Pascale Froment...

    by Cédric Kahn
    Cédric Kahn
    Cédric Kahn is a French screenwriter and film director. His films include L'Ennui , from the Alberto Moravia novel Boredom and Red Lights , from the Georges Simenon novel...

  • Safar-e Ghandehar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...

  • Shrek
    Shrek
    Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!...

    by Andrew Adamson
    Andrew Adamson
    Andrew Ralph Adamson, MNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter based mainly in Los Angeles, where he made the blockbuster animation films, Shrek and Shrek 2 for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He was director, executive producer, and scriptwriter for C. S....

  • Telets
    Taurus (film)
    Taurus is a 2001 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov, portraying Vladimir Lenin. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Leonid Mozgovoy as Vladimir Lenin* Mariya Kuznetsova as Krupskaya...

    by Alexander Sokurov
    Alexander Sokurov
    Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a semi-documentary, Russian Ark , filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust , which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.- Life and work...

  • The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Man Who Wasn't There
    The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Alexi-Malle and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, and Jon...

    by Joel Coen
  • The Pledge
    The Pledge (film)
    The Pledge is a 2001 American mystery film directed by Sean Penn. It is based on the 1958 novella Das Versprechen: Requiem auf den Kriminalroman , by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt...

    by Sean Penn
    Sean Penn
    Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...

  • Tsuki no sabaku
    Desert Moon (2001 film)
    is a 2001 film written, directed and edited by Japanese film director Shinji Aoyama. It was in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Synopsis:The film's main theme is the conflict between work and family commitments in modern Japan...

    by Shinji Aoyama
    Shinji Aoyama
    is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.-Biography:...

  • Va savoir
    Va savoir
    Va savoir is a 2001 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jacques Rivette. It stars Jeanne Balibar, Marianne Basler, Hélène de Fougerolles, and Catherine Rouvel. In the normal version, Va Savoir is 154 minutes...

    by Jacques Rivette
    Jacques Rivette
    Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1....


Un Certain Regard

  • Amour d'enfance
    Boyhood Loves
    Boyhood Loves is a 2001 French drama film directed by Yves Caumon. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard Award.-Cast:* Mathieu Amalric - Paul* Lauryl Brossier - Odile...

    by Yves Caumon
    Yves Caumon
    Yves Caumon is a French director. He is Professor in Toulouse's University in France. He worked as assistant-director with Agnès Varda, and Jean-Paul Civeyrac....

  • Aruku, hito
    Man Walking on Snow
    Man Walking on Snow is a 2001 Japanese drama film directed by Kobayashi Masahiro. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ken Ogata - Nobuo Honma* Yasufumi Hayashi - Yasuo* Teruyuki Kagawa - Ryoichi...

    by Kobayashi Masahiro
    Kobayashi Masahiro
    is a Japanese film director.-Biography:Masahiro Kobayashi was born on January 6, 1954 in Tokyo, Japan). He began his career as a folk singer, and then turned to scriptwriting. A great admirer of François Truffaut, he directed his first feature, Closing Time, in 1996 and in 1997 became the first...

  • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    Atanarjuat
    Atanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut...

    by Zacharias Kunuk
    Zacharias Kunuk
    Zacharias Kunuk, is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced completely in Inuktitut...

  • Carrément à l'Ouest
    Carrément à l'Ouest
    Carrément à l'Ouest is a 2001 French comedy drama directed and written by Jacques Doillon. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:*Lou Doillon as Fred*Caroline Ducey as Silvia...

    by Jacques Doillon
    Jacques Doillon
    Jacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women...

  • Clément
    Clément (film)
    Clément is a 2001 French drama film directed by Emmanuelle Bercot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Olivier Guéritée - Clément* Emmanuelle Bercot - Marion* Kevin Goffette - Benoît...

    by Emmanuelle Bercot
  • Domani
    Tomorrow (2001 film)
    Tomorrow is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Archibugi. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marco Baliani - Paolo Zerenghi* Ornella Muti - Stefania Zerenghi...

    by Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi
    Francesca Archibugi is an award-winning Italian film director and scriptwriter.- Biography :Born and raised in Rome in an intellectual family , she started to study acting with Alessandro Fersen and graduated in Film Direction from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Cinecittà...

  • Fah talai jone
    Tears of the Black Tiger
    Tears of the Black Tiger is a 2000 Thai western film written and directed by Wisit Sasanatieng. The story of a tragic romance between Dum, a fatalistic, working-class hero, who has become an outlaw, and Rumpoey, the upper-class daughter of a provincial governor, it is equal parts homage to and...

    by Wisit Sasanatieng
    Wisit Sasanatieng
    Wisit Sasanatieng is a Thai film director and screenwriter of Chinese descent...

  • Ganhar a Vida
    Get a Life (film)
    Get a Life is a 2001 Portuguese drama film directed by João Canijo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rita Blanco - Cidàlia* Adriano Luz - Adelino* Teresa Madruga - Celestina* Alda Gomes - Alda...

    by João Canijo
    João Canijo
    João Canijo is a Portuguese film director. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Três Menos Eu * Lovely Child/ Filha da Mãe João Canijo (born 1957) is a Portuguese film director. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un...

  • H Story
    H Story
    H Story is a 2001 Japanese drama film directed by Nobuhiro Suwa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Nobuhiro Suwa
    Nobuhiro Suwa
    is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University.-Biography:...

  • Hatouna Mehuheret
    Late Marriage
    Late Marriage is a 2001 Israeli film directed by Dover Kosashvili. The film centers on Zaza , the 31-year-old child of tradition-minded Georgian Jewish immigrants who are anxiously trying to arrange a marriage for him. Unbeknownst to them, he is secretly dating a 34-year-old divorcée, Judith...

    by Dover Kosashvili
    Dover Kosashvili
    Dover Kosashvili is an Israeli film director and screenwriter of Georgian descent. He has directed five films since 1998. His film Late Marriage was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival....

  • Hijack Stories
    Hijack Stories
    Hijack Stories is a 2000 South African crime film directed by Oliver Schmitz. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Tony Kgoroge - Sox Moraka* Rapulana Seiphemo - Zama* Percy Matsemela - Fly...

    by Oliver Schmitz
    Oliver Schmitz
    Oliver Schmitz is a South African film director and screenwriter.His film Mapantsula was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. His 2010 film Life, Above All was selected as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards...

  • Jol
    The Road (2001 film)
    The Road is a 2001 Kazakhstani drama film directed by Darezhan Omirbaev. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jamshed Usmonov - Amir Kobessov* Saule Toktybayeva - Amir's mother...

    by Darezhan Omirbaev
    Darezhan Omirbaev
    Darezhan Omirbaev is a Kazakhstani film director and screenwriter. He has directed eight films since 1982. His film Tueur à gages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Un Certain Regard Prize....

  • Kairo
    Kairo (film)
    is a 2001 Japanese horror film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. The film was based on his novel of the same name, and was released in the United States in 2005 as Pulse. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    Kiyoshi Kurosawa
    is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa...

  • La libertad
    Freedom (2001 film)
    Freedom is a 2001 Argentine drama film directed by Lisandro Alonso. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Misael Saavedra - Lumberjack* Humberto Estrada - Foreman* Rafael Estrada - Foreman's son...

    by Lisandro Alonso
  • Lan Yu by Stanley Kwan
    Stanley Kwan
    Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong Second Wave film director and producer.Kwan landed a job at the TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College...

  • Le parole di mio padre
    The Words of My Father
    The Words of My Father is a 2001 Italian drama film directed by Francesca Comencini. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Fabrizio Rongione - Zeno Cosini* Chiara Mastroianni - Ada...

    by Francesca Comencini
    Francesca Comencini
    Francesca Comencini is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She attended the Lycée français Chateaubriand school with her sisters. She has directed 14 films since 1984. Her film Le parole di mio padre was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Lovely Rita
    Lovely Rita (film)
    Lovely Rita is a 2001 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Barbara Osika - Rita* Christoph Bauer - Fexi* Peter Fiala - Bus driver...

    by Jessica Hausner
    Jessica Hausner
    Jessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

  • Maimil
    The Chimp (2001 film)
    The Chimp is a 2001 Kyrgyz film directed by Aktan Abdykalykov. It was Kyrgyzstan's submission to the 74th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee...

    by Aktan Abdykalykov
    Aktan Abdykalykov
    Aktan Abdykalykov is a screenwriter and director from Kyrgystan.-Filmography:*2010 - The Light Thief *2001 - Maimyl *1998 - Beshkempir...

  • No Such Thing by Hal Hartley
    Hal Hartley
    Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer composer, who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and 1990s...

  • Pattiyude Divasam
    A Dog's Day
    A Dog's Day is a 2001 Indian political satire film directed by Murali Nair.-Plot:A local ruler bows down to the pressure from democratic forces and is forced to hand over a part of his province to a democratically elected leader. He also presents his pet dog to a poor peasant and his wife...

    by Murali Nair
  • 'R Xmas
    'R Xmas
    'R Xmas is a 2001 American crime film directed by Abel Ferrara. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Its release was delayed by StudioCanal but it was eventually released on DVD...

    by Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara
    Abel Ferrara is an American film screenwriter and director. He is best known as an independent filmmaker of such films as The Driller Killer , Ms. 45 , King of New York , Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral .-Early life:Ferrara was born in the Bronx of Italian and Irish descent...

  • Storytelling
    Storytelling (film)
    Storytelling is a 2001 film, directed by Todd Solondz. It features original music by Belle & Sebastian, later compiled on an album of the same name...

    by Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz
    Todd Solondz is an American independent film screenwriter and director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking, socially conscious satire. Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", a reflection of his own background...

  • The Anniversary Party
    The Anniversary Party
    The Anniversary Party is a 2001 American comedy-drama film written, directed, produced by, and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming.-Plot:...

    by Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Jennifer Jason Leigh
    Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American film and stage actress, best known for her roles in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Single White Female, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Georgia and Short Cuts...

    , Alan Cumming
    Alan Cumming
    Alan Cumming, OBE is a Scottish stage, television and film actor, singer, writer, director, producer and author. His roles have included the Emcee in Cabaret, Boris Grishenko in GoldenEye, Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler in X2: X-Men United, Mr. Elton in Emma, and Fegan Floop in the Spy Kids trilogy...

  • Ty da ia da my s tobo by Alexandre Veledinsky

Films out of Competition

  • ABC Africa
    ABC Africa
    ABC Africa is a 2001 Iranian documentary feature film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival....

    by Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami
    Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...

  • Apocalypse Now Redux
    Apocalypse Now Redux
    Apocalypse Now Redux is a 2001 extended version of the epic war film Apocalypse Now, which was originally released in 1979. Unlike other new cuts of the film, Redux is usually considered by fans and critics, as well as director Francis Ford Coppola a completely new movie altogether...

    by Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

  • Avalon
    Avalon (2001 film)
    is a 2001 science-fiction film by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii. The name of the film originates from the island Avalon in the legend of King Arthur.-Overview:...

    by Mamoru Oshii
    Mamoru Oshii
    Mamoru Oshii is a Japanese filmmaker, television director, and writer. Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of popular anime, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer, Ghost in the Shell, and Patlabor 2...

  • CQ
    CQ (film)
    CQ is a 2001 film written and directed by Roman Coppola. It was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.It is a homage to 1960s European spy/sci-fi spoofs like Barbarella and Danger: Diabolik and the documentary spoof David Holzman's Diary. The cinematography is done by Robert...

    by Roman Coppola
    Roman Coppola
    Roman Coppola is an American film director and music video director.-Early life:Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine while his father was in Paris...

  • Human Nature
    Human Nature (film)
    Human Nature is a 2001 American comedy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. The film stars Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans, Miranda Otto and Patricia Arquette...

    by Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...

  • My Voyage to Italy
    My Voyage to Italy
    My Voyage to Italy is a personal documentary by acclaimed Italian-American director Martin Scorsese. The film is a voyage through Italian cinema history, marking influential films for Scorsese and particularly covering the Italian neorealism period....

    by Martin Scorsese
    Martin Scorsese
    Martin Charles Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. In 1990 he founded The Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation, and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation...

  • Les âmes fortes
    Savage Souls (film)
    Savage Souls is a 2001 French drama film directed by Raúl Ruiz. It was screened out of competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Laetitia Casta - Thérèse* Frédéric Diefenthal - Firmin* Arielle Dombasle - Madame Numance...

    by Raúl Ruiz
  • Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures by Claude Lanzmann
    Claude Lanzmann
    Claude Lanzmann is a French filmmaker and professor at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Biography:Lanzmann attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne...

  • The Center of the World
    The Center of the World
    The Center of the World is an American film directed by Wayne Wang, which was digitally shot and released in 2001. It stars Peter Sarsgaard as a Dot-com millionaire who hires a drummer/stripper to stay with him in Las Vegas for three days for US$10,000...

    by Wayne Wang
    Wayne Wang
    Wayne Wang is a Chinese American film director.-Biography:Wang was born and raised in Hong Kong, and named after his father's favorite movie star, John Wayne...

  • Trouble Every Day by Claire Denis
    Claire Denis
    Claire Denis is a French film director and Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.-Early life:...


Awards

  • Palme d'Or
    Palme d'Or
    The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

    : La stanza del figlio
    The Son's Room
    The Son's Room is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son...

    by Nanni Moretti
    Nanni Moretti
    Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

  • Grand Prize of the Jury
    Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...

    : La Pianiste
    The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel. The film is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.- Plot :...

    by Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke
    Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...

  • Best Actor
    Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....

    : Benoît Magimel
    Benoît Magimel
    Benoît Magimel is a French actor. A prolific actor who was 14 when he appeared in his first film, Magimel has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema....

     for La Pianiste
    The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel. The film is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.- Plot :...

  • Best Actress
    Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....

    : Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...

     for La Pianiste
    The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel. The film is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.- Plot :...

  • Best Director
    Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....

    :
    • David Lynch
      David Lynch
      David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...

       for Mulholland Dr.
      Mulholland Drive (film)
      Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lynch the Prix de la mise en scène at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

    • Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There
      The Man Who Wasn't There
      The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Billy Bob Thornton stars in the title role. Also featured are James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Alexi-Malle and Coen regulars Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, and Jon...

  • Short Film Palme d'Or
    Short Film Palme d'Or
    The Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....

    : Bean Cake by David Greenspan
    David Greenspan
    David Greenspan is an award-winning American actor and playwright. In 1997 he received an Obie Award for his work in the off-broadway revival of Boys in the Band....

  • Best Screenplay
    Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival...

    : No Man's Land
    No Man's Land (2001 film)
    No Man's Land is a 2001 tragic war drama that is set in the midst of the Bosnian war. The film is a parable and marked the debut of Bosnian writer and director Danis Tanović...

    by Danis Tanović
    Danis Tanovic
    Danis Tanović is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter.Tanović is best known for having directed and written the script for the 2001 Bosnian movie No Man's Land which won an Academy Award. He was a member of the jury at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Biography:Danis Tanović was born in the...

  • Technical Grand Prize: Qiānxī Mànbō
    Millennium Mambo
    Millennium Mambo directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a 2001 film.-Synopsis:The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new Millennium. She...

    by Du-Che Tu
  • Caméra d'Or
    Caméra d'Or
    The Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....

    : Atanarjuat
    Atanarjuat
    Atanarjuat is a 2001 Canadian film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut...

    by Zacharias Kunuk
    Zacharias Kunuk
    Zacharias Kunuk, is a Canadian Inuk producer and director most notable for his film Atanarjuat, the first Canadian dramatic feature film produced completely in Inuktitut...

  • Cinéfondation
    Cinéfondation
    La Cinéfondation is a foundation under the aegis of the Cannes Film Festival, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers....

     Award: Portrait by Sergei Luchishin
  • Un Certain Regard
    Un Certain Regard
    Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

     Award: Amour d'enfance
    Boyhood Loves
    Boyhood Loves is a 2001 French drama film directed by Yves Caumon. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Un Certain Regard Award.-Cast:* Mathieu Amalric - Paul* Lauryl Brossier - Odile...

    by Yves Caumon
    Yves Caumon
    Yves Caumon is a French director. He is Professor in Toulouse's University in France. He worked as assistant-director with Agnès Varda, and Jean-Paul Civeyrac....

  • Critics Week Grand Prize: Zir-e noor-e maah by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi
  • Canal+ Award: Eat by Bill Plympton
    Bill Plympton
    William "Bill" Calvin Plympton is an American animator, former cartoonist, director, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog.- Biography :Bill Plympton was born in...

  • Kodak Short Film Award: Bintou
    Bintou
    Bintou is a 2001 Burkinabé short film directed by Fanta Régina Nacro. It formed part of the 2002 collection Mama Africa.-Plot:...

    by Fanta Régina Nacro
    Fanta Régina Nacro
    Fanta Régina Nacro is a film director from Burkina Faso. She received her first degree in audiovisual science and techniques from INAFEC in 1986 and also earned a Master’s Degree in Film and Audiovisual Studies at the Sorbonne....

  • Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention Le système Zsygmondy by Luc Moullet
    Luc Moullet
    Luc Moullet is a French film critic and filmmaker, and a member of the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave. Moullet's films are known for their humor, anti-authoritarian leanings and rigorously primitive aesthetic, which is heavily influenced by his love of American B-movies.Though such influential...

  • Young Critics Award - Best Short: Le dos au mur by Bruno Collet
  • Young Critics Award - Best Feature: Bolivia
    Bolivia (film)
    Bolivia is an Argentine and Dutch drama film directed by Israel Adrián Caetano, his first feature-length film. The screenplay is written by Caetano, based upon the Romina Lafranchini story, about his wife...

    by Adrián Caetano
    Israel Adrián Caetano
    Israel Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...

  • Gras Savoye Award: HK by Xavier De Choudens
  • FIPRESCI Prize
    FIPRESCI
    The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...

    :
    • Martha... Martha by Sandrine Veysset
      Sandrine Veysset
      -Background and early career:She was born in Avignon. Veysset studied French literature until she dropped out of school to pursue filmmaking. A friend introduced her to Léos Carax and she was hired as his driver while he was shooting Les Amants du Pont-Neuf in 1989...

       (Director's Fortnight)
    • La stanza del figlio
      The Son's Room
      The Son's Room is a 2001 Italian film directed by Nanni Moretti. It depicts the psychological effects on a family and their life after the death of their son...

      by Nanni Moretti
      Nanni Moretti
      Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

       (Competition)
    • Le Pornographe
      The Pornographer
      The Pornographer is a 2001 French drama film directed and written by Bertrand Bonello who co-wrote music score with Laurie Markovitch. The film features explicit sexual scenes by pornographic actress Ovidie...

      by Bertrand Bonello
      Bertrand Bonello
      Bertrand Bonello is a French film director. His background is in classical music, and he lives between Paris and Montreal.Le Pornographe won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...

       (International Critics Week)
    • Kôrei by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
      Kiyoshi Kurosawa
      is a Japanese filmmaker. He is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre.-Biography:Born in Kobe on July 19, 1955, Kiyoshi Kurosawa is not related to director Akira Kurosawa...

       (Un Certain Regard)
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
    Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
    The Prize of the Ecumenical Jury is an independent film award for feature films at the Cannes Film Festival since 1974. The Ecumenical Jury is one of three juries at the Cannes Film Festival, along with the official jury and the FIPRESCI jury. The award was created by Christian film makers, film...

    : Safar-e Ghandehar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf
    Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Pauline and Paulette
    Pauline and Paulette
    Pauline and Paulette is a 2001 Belgian comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Lieven Debrauwer....

    by Lieven Debrauwer
  • France Culture Award:
    • Foreign Cineaste of the Year: Guizi lai le by Jiang Wen
      Jiang Wen
      Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "sixth generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum...

    • French Cineaste of the Year: À ma sœur!
      Fat Girl
      À ma sœur! is a 2001 French film directed by Catherine Breillat and starring Roxane Mesquida. It was released in some English speaking countries under the alternative titles For My Sister or Fat Girl....

      by Catherine Breillat
      Catherine Breillat
      Catherine Breillat is a French filmmaker, novelist and Professor of Auteur Cinema at the European Graduate School.-Life and career:Breillat was born in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, but grew up in Niort...

  • Award of the Youth:
    • Foreign Film: Slogans
      Slogans (film)
      Slogans is a 2001 Albanian film directed by Gjergj Xhuvani. It was the first Albanian film to be selected to screen on the Director's Fortnight at Cannes Filmfestival 2001 and has gone on to win many other festival awards...

      by Gjergj Xhuvani
      Gjergj Xhuvani
      Gjergj Xhuvani is an Albanian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from Tirana's Academy of Arts in 1986....

    • French Film: Clément
      Clément (film)
      Clément is a 2001 French drama film directed by Emmanuelle Bercot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Olivier Guéritée - Clément* Emmanuelle Bercot - Marion* Kevin Goffette - Benoît...

      by Emmanuelle Bercot
  • François Chalais Award
    François Chalais Prize
    The Francois Chalais Prize is given at the Cannes Film Festival, beginning in 1997. It was created to pay tribute to French journalist and film historian François Chalais, under the auspices of his wife Mei Chen...

    : Made in the USA by Sólveig Anspach
    Sólveig Anspach
    Sólveig Anspach is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter. She has directed eight films since 1998. Her film Stormy Weather was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...


External links

  • 2001 Cannes Film Festival
  • Cannes Film Festival:2001 at Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...

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