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was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in
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, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the festival; films screened in competition compete for the Palme d'Or award. The award in 2010 was won by '' Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'', a Thai film directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, ...
. This was determined by the festival's jury members who reviewed films screened in competition. American
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Tim Burton was the president of the jury for the international competition, and other members of the jury for that competition included actors, screenwriters and composers, such as Kate Beckinsale,
Emmanuel Carrère Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director. Life Family Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insuranc ...
,
Benicio del Toro Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor and producer. He has garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen ...
, and Alexandre Desplat. Other categories for films screened in competition that have their own separate juries for other awards are for Short Films and the
Un Certain Regard (, meaning '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 w ...
category. Ridley Scott's '' Robin Hood'' opened the festival and Julie Bertuccelli's '' The Tree'' was the closing film. The full film lineup for the festival was announced on 15 April 2010. English actress Kristin Scott Thomas was the mistress of ceremonies.
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and Getty TV boycotted the press conference that announced the line-up for the festival, due to a dispute over access to the red carpet. In a press release, the agencies said that they "may be forced to suspend their presence at the festival altogether" if an agreement was not reached. Days before the festival was to begin, concerns were expressed that attendees might be delayed, or would not attend, due to plane flights to surrounding areas in France being delayed or canceled due to volcanic ash in the sky. Two days before the beginning of the festival, the just finished film ''
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'', directed by Ken Loach, was added to the main competition.


Juries


Main competition

The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2010 Official Selection: * Tim Burton (American director) Jury President * Alberto Barbera (Italian film critic) * Kate Beckinsale (English actress) *
Emmanuel Carrère Emmanuel Carrère (born 9 December 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and film director. Life Family Carrère was born into a wealthy family in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. His father, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, is a retired insuranc ...
(French author, screenwriter and director) *
Benicio del Toro Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez (born February 19, 1967) is a Puerto Rican actor and producer. He has garnered critical acclaim and numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, two Screen ...
(Puerto Rican actor) * Alexandre Desplat (French composer) * Víctor Erice (Spanish director) * Shekhar Kapur (Indian director) * Giovanna Mezzogiorno (Italian actress)


Un Certain Regard

* Claire Denis (French director) President * Patrick Ferla (Swiss journalist) * Kim Dong-ho (South Korean director of Busan Film Festival) * Helena Lindblad (Swedish critic) * Serge Toubiana (French General Director of the Cinémathèque Française)


Camera d'Or

* Gael García Bernal (Mexican director) President *
Gérard de Battista Gérard de Battista is a cinematographer, had a long relationship with the Spanish actress Victoria Abril and they have two sons together, one in 1990 (Martín) and another one in 1992 (Félix). Partial filmography *'' Sans peur et sans reproche' ...
(French cinematographer) *
Stéphane Brizé Stéphane Brizé (born 18 October 1966) is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Life and career Stéphane Brizé was born on 18 October 1966 in Rennes, France. He attended a University Institutes of Technology and moved to ...
(French director) * Didier Diaz (FICAM) * Charlotte Lipinska (French Union Critics)


Cinéfondation and short films

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(Canadian director) President * Emmanuelle Devos (French actress) * Carlos Diegues (Brazilian director) *
Dinara Droukarova Dinara Anatolyevna Drukarova (russian: Динара Анатольeвна Друкарова; born 3 January 1976) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director. Life and career Drukarova was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (no ...
(Russian actress) *
Marc Recha Marc Recha (born 18 October 1970) is a Catalan Spanish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 18 films (9 shorts and 9 feature films) since 1988. He mostly films his films in Catalan Language but also in French and Spanish. His film '' P ...
(Spanish Director)


Official selection


In competition - Feature films

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


Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of
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:


Films out of competition

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


Special screenings

The following films were shown as special screenings.


Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of
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: : * denotes first time a school was selected to compete


Short film competition

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


Cannes Classics

Cannes Classics places the spotlight on documentaries about cinema and restored masterworks from the past. World Cinema Foundation


Cinéma de la Plage

The Cinéma de la Plage is a part of the Official Selection of the festival. The outdoors screenings at the beach cinema of Cannes are open to the public.


Parallel sections


International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 49th International Critics' Week (49e Semaine de la Critique): Feature film competition * '' Armadillo'' by
Janus Metz Janus Metz Pedersen (born 1974) is a Danish people, Danish film director and documentary filmmaker. Work Metz worked as a documentary researcher and moved to South Africa. There he worked on the television drama ''Soul City'' before making his de ...
(Denmark) * '' Bedevilled'' by Jang Cheol-so (South Korea) * '' Belle Épine'' by
Rebecca Zlotowski Rebecca Zlotowski (born 21 April 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter. Education A former student at prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, Rebecca Zlotowski received her teaching qualification in French modern literature in 2003. S ...
(France) * ''Bi, Don't Be Afraid'' (''Bi, dung so!'') by Di Dang Phan (Vietnam, France, Germany) * ''
Sandcastle (film) ''Sandcastle'' is a 2010 feature film by Singaporean director Boo Junfeng. It was the first Singaporean film to be screened at the International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival. It won Best Feature Film and Best Director at the 1st Hano ...
'' by
Boo Junfeng Boo Junfeng (Chinese: 巫俊锋; pinyin: wū jùn fēng; born 4 December 1983) is a Singaporean filmmaker. Boo's films, Sandcastle (2010) and Apprentice (2016) have been screen at the Cannes Film Festival, beginning with his debut, Sandcastle, ...
(Singapore) * '' Sound of Noise'' by Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson (Sweden, France) * ''
The Myth of the American Sleepover ''The Myth of the American Sleepover'' is a 2010 American coming-of-age film written and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 13, 2010, and was released in the United States on July 22, 2011, ...
'' by David Robert Mitchell (United States) Short film competition * ''A distração'' by Ivan Cavi Borges, Gustavo Melo (Brazil) * ''Berik'' by
Daniel Joseph Borgman Daniel Joseph Borgman (born 9 August 1981) is a New Zealand film director. Education Borgman attended Bayfield High School, Dunedin, Bayfield High School. Borgman studied film science at Otago University in New Zealand, before moving to Copenha ...
(Denmark) * ''Deeper Than Yesterday'' by
Ariel Kleiman Ariel Kleiman (born 1985 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian director and filmmaker based in London. Biography Kleiman was born to a Jewish family in Melbourne, Australia; his parents emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in the 1970s. He graduat ...
(Australia) * ''Love Patate'' by Gilles Cuvelier (France) * '' Native Son'' by Scott Graham (United Kingdom) * ''The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Lion'' by Alois Di Leo (United Kingdom) * ''Vasco'' by Sébastien Laudenbach (France) Special screening *''
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'' (''Le Nom des gens'') by
Michel Leclerc Michel Leclerc (born 24 April 1965) is a French director and screenwriter. Career During the 1990s, Leclerc worked as a TV editor and cameraman. He also wrote and directed a number of shorts. For years, he was a columnist on television shows suc ...
(France) *'' Copacabana'' by Marc Fitoussi (France) *''
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'' by Quentin Dupieux (France) *'' Women Are Heroes'' by JR (France) :Short and medium length *''Bastard'' by Kirsten Dunst (United States) *''The Clerk’s Tale'' by James Franco (United States) *''L'Amour-propre'' by Nicolas Silhol (France) *''Cynthia todavía tienes las llaves'' by Gonzalo Tobal (Argentina) *''Fracture'' by Nicolas Sarkissian (France)


Directors' Fortnight

The documentary film ''
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street musicians Staff Benda Bilili had its world premiere at the festival, with the group in attendance and performing at the Director's Fortnight opening party. The following films were screened for the 2010
Directors' Fortnight The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festi ...
(Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): Feature films * ''All Good Children'' by Alicia Duffy (Ireland, Belgium, France, United Kingdom) * '' Año bisiesto'' by
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(Mexico) * ''
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'' by Renaud Barret, Florent de La Tullaye'' (France) * ''
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'' by Frederick Wiseman (United States) * ''Cleveland versus Wall Street'' (''Cleveland contre Wall Street'') by Jean-Stéphane Bron (Switzerland, France) * ''Des filles en noir'' by Jean Paul Civeyrac (France) * ''
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'' by Christoffer Boe (Denmark, Sweden, France) * '' Illegal'' (''Illégal'') by
Olivier Masset-Depasse Olivier Masset-Depasse is a Belgian film director and screenwriter. He made his feature-length debut in 2006 with ''Cages''. In 2010, he wrote and directed '' Illegal'', which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for eight M ...
(Belgium, Luxembourg, France) * '' The Invisible Eye'' (''La mirada invisible'') by
Diego Lerman Diego Lerman (born March 24, 1976, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina.. Directing and screenplay filmography * ''La Prueba'' (1999) * ''Tan de ...
(Argentina, France, Spain) * ''Le Vagabond'' by Avishai Sivan (Israel) * '' Le quattro volte'' by
Michelangelo Frammartino Michelangelo Frammartino (born 1968) is an Italian filmmaker. Biography Michelangelo Frammartino was born in Milan to Calabrian parents in 1968. In 1991 he enrolled in the Architecture Faculty of the Politecnico di Milano. Between 1994 and 1 ...
(Italy, Germany, Switzerland) * ''Petit bébé Jésus de Flandre'' by Gust Van den Berghe (Belgium) * '' Picco'' by Philip Koch (Germany) * ''Pieds nus sur les limaces'' by Fabienne Berthaud (France) * '' Shit Year'' by
Cam Archer Cam Archer (born 1981) is an American independent filmmaker, photographer and sound designer, currently residing in Santa Cruz, California. ''Cinemad'' Career Archer's first success was with his 2003 student produced short film, ''bobbycrush'' ...
(United States) * ''The Joy'' by Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande (Brazil) * '' The Light Thief'' (''Svet-Ake'') by Aktan Arym Kubat (Kirghizistan, Germany, France, Netherlands) * '' The Silent House'' by Gustavo Hernández (Uruguay) * ''The Tiger Factory'' by Ming jin Woo (Malaysia, Japan) * '' Two Gates of Sleep'' by Alistair Banks Griffin (United States) * '' Love Like Poison'' (''Un poison violent'') by
Katell Quillévéré Katell Quillévéré (born 30 January 1980) is a French film director and screenwriter, known for directing the films '' Love Like Poison'' (2010) and '' Suzanne'' (2013). In 2015 she was selected to be a member of the jury for the International ...
(France) * '' You All Are Captains'' (''Todos vós sodes capitáns'') by
Oliver Laxe Óliver Laxe Coro (born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. His debut feature film '' You All Are Captains'' premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Pri ...
(Spain) * '' We Are What We Are'' (''Somos lo que hay'') by Jorge Michel Grau (Mexico) Short films * ''A Silent Child'' by Jesper Klevenås (Sweden) * ''Light'' by André Schreuders (Netherlands) * ''Mary Last Seen'' by Sean Durkin (United States) * ''Petit tailleur'' by Louis Garrel (France) * ''Cautare'' by Ionuţ Piţurescu (Romania) * ''
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'' by
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(France) * ''Shikasha'' by Isamu Hirabayashi (Japan) * ''Three Hours'' by Annarita Zambrano (Italy, France) * ''ZedCrew'' by Noah Pink (Canada, Zambia)


Awards


Official awards

The Palme d'Or was won by the Thai film '' Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'' directed by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, ...
. It was the first time that an Asian movie won the award since 1997. Tim Burton, chairman of the jury that determined the award, stated about its decision: "You always want to be surprised by films and this film did that for most of us." French film '' Of Gods and Men'' was the runner up. The
Xavier Beauvois Xavier Beauvois (; born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Career His film ''Don't Forget You're Going to Die'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film '' Of Gods and ...
-directed film had been considered a favourite for the Palme d'Or along with
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's '' Another Year''. During the ceremony special attention was paid to Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi in hopes of increasing international pressure on the Iranian government to release Panahi from jail. The following films and people received the 2010 Official selection awards: In Competition * Palme d'Or: '' Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'' by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, ...
*
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: '' Of Gods and Men'' by
Xavier Beauvois Xavier Beauvois (; born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Career His film ''Don't Forget You're Going to Die'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film '' Of Gods and ...
* Best Director Award:
Mathieu Amalric Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film ''Quantum of Solace'', in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's ''Munich'', Wes Ander ...
for '' On Tour'' * Best Screenplay Award: ''
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'' by Lee Chang-dong * Best Actress Award:
Juliette Binoche Juliette Binoche (; born 9 March 1964) is a French actress and dancer. She has appeared in more than sixty feature films and has been the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Silver Bear, ...
for '' Certified Copy'' * Best Actor Award: Javier Bardem for ''
Biutiful ''Biutiful'' is a 2010 psychological drama film directed, produced and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. The project marks González Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish language since his debut ...
'' & Elio Germano for '' Our Life'' * Prix du Jury: '' A Screaming Man'' by
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ar, محمد الصالح هارون) was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both wri ...
Un Certain Regard *
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: '' Hahaha'' by Hong Sang-soo * Un Certain Regard Jury Prize: ''
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'' by Daniel Vega, Diego Vega * Un Certain Regard Best Actress Award: Adela Sanchez, Eva Bianco, Victoria Raposo for '' The Lips'' Cinéfondation * First Prize: – ''The Painting Sellers'' by
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* 2nd Prize: ''Anywhere Out of the World'' by Vincent Cardona * 3rd Prize: '' The Fifth Column'' by Vatche Boulghourjian and ''I Already Am Everything I Want to Have'' by Dane Komljen Golden Camera * Caméra d'Or: '' Año Bisiesto'' by
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Short films * Short Film Palme d'Or: ''Barking Island'' by
Serge Avédikian Serge Avédikian ( hy, Սերժ Ավետիքյան; born 1 December 1955), sometimes credited as Serje Avétikian, is an Armenian- French film and theatre actor, director, writer and producer, winner of Cannes Festival prize. Early life Avédiki ...
* Short Film Jury Prize: ''Bathing Micky'' by Frida Kempff


Independent awards

FIPRESCI Prizes * '' On Tour'' (''Tournée'') by
Mathieu Amalric Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film ''Quantum of Solace'', in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's ''Munich'', Wes Ander ...
(In Competition) * '' Adrienn Pál'' (''Pál Adrienn'') by
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(Un Certain Regard) * '' You All Are Captains'' (''Todos vós sodes capitáns'') by
Oliver Laxe Óliver Laxe Coro (born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galician ancestry. His debut feature film '' You All Are Captains'' premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Pri ...
(Directors' Fortnight) Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist *
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: Leslie Shatz, Bob Beemer, Jon Taylor (Sound Department) for ''
Biutiful ''Biutiful'' is a 2010 psychological drama film directed, produced and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. The project marks González Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish language since his debut ...
'' Ecumenical Jury * Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: '' Of Gods and Men'' (''Des hommes et des dieux'') by
Xavier Beauvois Xavier Beauvois (; born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Career His film ''Don't Forget You're Going to Die'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film '' Of Gods and ...
* Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: '' Another Year'' by
Mike Leigh Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Des ...
& ''
Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meani ...
'' (''Shi'') by Lee Chang-dong Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week * Critics Week Grand Prize: '' Armadillo'' by
Janus Metz Janus Metz Pedersen (born 1974) is a Danish people, Danish film director and documentary filmmaker. Work Metz worked as a documentary researcher and moved to South Africa. There he worked on the television drama ''Soul City'' before making his de ...
* SACD Award: ''Bi, Don't Be Afraid'' (''Bi, dung so!'') by Di Dang Phan * ACID Award: ''Bi, Don't Be Afraid'' (''Bi, dung so!'') by Di Dang Phan * Young Critics Award: '' Sound of Noise'' by Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson * Canal+ Gran Prix for short film: ''Berik'' by
Daniel Joseph Borgman Daniel Joseph Borgman (born 9 August 1981) is a New Zealand film director. Education Borgman attended Bayfield High School, Dunedin, Bayfield High School. Borgman studied film science at Otago University in New Zealand, before moving to Copenha ...
* Kodak Discovery Award for Best Short Film: ''Deeper Than Yesterday'' by
Ariel Kleiman Ariel Kleiman (born 1985 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian director and filmmaker based in London. Biography Kleiman was born to a Jewish family in Melbourne, Australia; his parents emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine in the 1970s. He graduat ...
Other awards * Regards Jeunes Prize: '' Heartbeats'' (''Les amours imaginaires'') by Xavier Dolan Association Prix François Chalais * Prix François Chalais: ''
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'' by
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References


External links


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