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2002 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 55th Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Opening filmHollywood Ending
Closing filmAnd Now... Ladies
and Gentlemen
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or:
The Pianist
Hosted byVirginie Ledoyen
No. of films22 (Main Competition)
Festival date15 May 2002 (2002-05-15) – 26 May 2002 (2002-05-26)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 55th Cannes Film Festival took place from 15 to 26 May 2002.[2][3][4] American filmmaker David Lynch served as jury president for the main competition. Virginie Ledoyen hosted the opening and closingf ceremonies.[5]

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.[6]

The festival opened with Hollywood Ending by Woody Allen, [7] and closed with Claude Lelouch's And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen.[8][9][10]

2002 Un Certain Regard poster.[11]

Juries

Main Competition

Un Certain Regard

  • Anne Fontaine, Luxembourger filmmaker - Jury President
  • Fabienne Bradfer, film critic
  • Jean-Sébastien Chauvin, film critic
  • Louis Guichard, film critic
  • Fabrice Pliskin, film critic
  • David Tran, film critic
  • Pierre Vavasseur, critic

Cinéfondation and Short Film Competition

Camera d'Or

Official Selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[13]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
24 Hour Party People Michael Winterbottom United Kingdom
About Schmidt Alexander Payne United States
The Adversary L'Adversaire Nicole Garcia France
All or Nothing Mike Leigh United Kingdom
Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore United States, Canada, Germany
Chi-hwa-seon Im Kwon-taek South Korea
Demonlover Olivier Assayas France
Divine Intervention يد إلهية Elia Suleiman Palestine, France, Morocco, Germany
Irréversible Gaspar Noé France
Kedma Amos Gitai Israel
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers Marie-Jo et ses deux amours Robert Guédiguian France
The Man Without a Past Mies vailla menneisyyttä Aki Kaurismäki Finland
My Mother's Smile L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) Marco Bellocchio Italy
The Pianist Roman Polanski France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
Punch-Drunk Love Paul Thomas Anderson United States
Russian Ark Русский ковчег Alexander Sokurov Russia, Germany, Canada, Finland
The Son Le Fils Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Belgium, France
Spider David Cronenberg Canada, United Kingdom
Sweet Sixteen Ken Loach United Kingdom, Germany, Spain
Ten ده Abbas Kiarostami Iran
The Uncertainty Principle O Princípio da Incerteza Manoel de Oliveira Portugal
Unknown Pleasures 任逍遥 Jia Zhangke China

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[13]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
Angel on the Right Фариштаи китфи рост Jamshed Usmonov Tajikistan
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 巴尔扎克与小裁缝 Dai Sijie China, France
Blissfully Yours สุดเสน่หา Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand
The Box of Life صندوق الدنيا Ossama Mohammed Syria, France
El bonaerense Pablo Trapero Argentina, France, Chile, Netherlands
Carnage Carnages Delphine Gleize France
The Confession İtiraf Zeki Demirkubuz Turkey
Cry Woman 哭泣的女人 Liu Bingjian China
Double Vision 雙瞳 Chen Kuo-fu Taiwan, Hong Kong
Fate Yazgı Zeki Demirkubuz Turkey
Glowing Eyes La chatte à deux têtes Jacques Nolot France
Madame Satã Karim Aïnouz Brazil, France
Marooned in Iraq گم‌گشته‌ای در عراق Bahman Ghobadi Iran
A Piece of Sky Une part du ciel Bénédicte Liénard France, Belgium
Rachida Yamina Bachir Algeria
Raising Victor Vargas Peter Sollett United States
Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard 17 fois Cécile Cassard Christophe Honoré France
Ten Minutes Older Spike Lee, Aki Kaurismäki, Chen Kaige,
Jim Jarmusch, Werner Herzog,
Víctor Erice,Wim Wenders
China, Finland, France, Germany,
Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom,
United States
Terra incognita Ghassan Salhab Lebanon, France
To Stay Alive بمانی Dariush Mehrjui Iran
Tomorrow La Scala! Francesca Joseph United Kingdom
Waiting for Happiness في انتظار السعادة Abderrahmane Sissako Mauritania, France

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[13]

English Title Original Title Director(s) Production Country
16 December Mani Shankar India
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (closing film) Claude Lelouch France, United Kingdom
Ararat Atom Egoyan Canada, France
Carlo Giuliani, Boy Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo Francesca Comencini Italy
City of God Cidade de Deus Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund Brazil, France, Germany, United States
Devdas Sanjay Leela Bhansali India
Femme Fatale Brian De Palma France, Germany, United States
From the Other Side De l'autre côté Chantal Akerman Finland, France
Histoires de festival Gilles Jacob France
Hollywood Ending (opening film) Woody Allen United States
The Kid Stays in the Picture Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein
The Last Letter La dernière lettre Frederick Wiseman United States, France
Murder by Numbers Barbet Schroeder United States
Searching for Debra Winger Rosanna Arquette
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones George Lucas
To Be and to Have Être et avoir Nicolas Philibert France
Women in the Mirror 鏡の女たち Yoshishige Yoshida Japan

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[13]

  • 17 minute intarziere by Catalin Mitulescu (Romania)
  • Chogyeoul Jumshim by Byung-Hwa Kang (South Korea)
  • Honey Moon by Sung-Jin Park (South Korea)
  • K-G I Nod Och Lust by Jens Jonsson (Sweden)
  • Khoj by Tridib Poddar (India)
  • La derniere journee d'Alfred Maassen by David Lammers (Netherlands)
  • La mort en exil by Ayten Mutlu Saray (Switzerland)
  • P.S. by Arni Asgeirsson (Poland)
  • Um Sol Alaranjado by Eduardo Valente (Brazil)
  • Questions d'un ouvrier mort by Aya Somech (Israel)
  • Request by Jinoh Park (South Korea)
  • Seule maman a les yeux bleus by Eric Forestier (France)
  • Shearing by Eicke Bettinga (United Kingdom)
  • Soshuu no neko by Masaaki Uchida (Japan)
  • The Look Of Happiness by Marianela Maldonado (United Kingdom)
  • Vals by Edgar Bartenev (Russia)

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[13]

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 41st International Critics' Week (41e Semaine de la Critique):[14]

Feature film competition

Short film competition

  • Le Jour où je suis né by Kunitoshi Manda (Japan)
  • Lettre au fils by Philippe Welsh (France)
  • Malcom by Baker Karim (Sweden)
  • Meeting Evil (Möte med ondskan) by Reza Parsa (Sweden)
  • 2 Minutes (2 Minutter) by Jacob Tschernia (Denmark)
  • Le Vigile by Frédéric Pelle (France)
  • From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two (De Mesmer, con amor o Té para dos) by Salvador Lubezki & Alejandro Lubezki (Mexico)

Special screenings

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2002 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[15]

Short films
  • A-20 by Geoff Hughes, Brad Warren (United States)
  • Après l’enfance by Thomas Lilti (France)
  • Bang Nhau… Egaux by Stéfan Sao Nélet (France)
  • Bob the slob by Nate Theis (United States)
  • Bus 44 by Dayyan Eng (Hong Kong, United States)
  • L’Arrivée by Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)
  • Comme ça j’entends la mer by Hélène Milano (France)
  • Comme un seul homme by Jean-Louis Gonnet (France)
  • Deux cents dirham] by Laila Marrakchi (France, Morocco)
  • Entering indifference by Vincent Dieutre (France)
  • Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty by Soopum Sohn (South Korea, United States)
  • Insomniac by Matt Woo], Vanja Varasac (United States)
  • La Vie sur un fil by Steven Lippman (United States)
  • Mémoires incertaines by Michale Boganim (France, United Kingdom)
  • Mexicano by Toby McDonald (United Kingdom)
  • Muno by Bouli Lanners (Belgium)
  • Next Door by Jeff Rich (United States)
  • Présent inachevé by Johan Van der Keuken (Netherlands)
  • Phantom by Matthias Müller (Germany)
  • Portraits filmés 2002 by Valérie Mréjen (France)
  • Samson by Graham Dubose (United States)
  • The Girl in the Red Dress by Aletta Collins (United Kingdom)

1939 Palme d'Or

The inaugural Cannes Film Festival was to have been held in 1939, but was cancelled by the outbreak of the Second World War. The organizers of the 2002 festival assembled a jury of six members, including Dieter Kosslick and Alberto Barbera, to watch seven of the twelve features which had been entered in the 1939 competition, namely: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, La piste du nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. Union Pacific was retrospectively voted the winner of the 1939 Palme d'Or.[16]

Official Awards

Roman Polanski, Palme d'Or winner
Aki Kaurismäki, Gran Prix winner

The following films and people received the 2002 Official selection awards:[2][3][17]

Main Competition

  • First Prize: Um Sol Alaranjado by Eduardo Valente
  • Second Prize: Seule maman a les yeux bleus by Eric Forestier
  • Third Prize: Questions d'un ouvrier mort by Aya Somech

Short Films Competition

Independent Awards

Award of the Youth

References

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  9. ^ "Lelouch 'Ladies' to end Cannes". Variety.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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  14. ^ "41e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 2002". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
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  19. ^ "A web resource on Tareque Masud and his film "Matir Moyna" compiling many of his film reviews and interviews". Ctmasud.web.aplus.net. Archived from the original on 5 June 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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