2006 Cannes Film Festival

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.[4]

2006 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 59th Cannes Film Festival featuring a still from Wong Kar-wai's 2001 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)[2]
Hosted byVincent Cassel
No. of films20 (En Competition)[3]
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

English director Ken Loach won the Palme d'Or with his movie The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Other winners were Pedro Almodóvar (Best Screenplay, Volver) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Best Director, Babel).[5][6][7][8] This also marked the first time in three years that no American film, actor, actress, or filmmaker won any awards in Cannes.

The festival opened with the premiere screening of The Da Vinci Code, based on the novel by Dan Brown.[9] Transylvania by Tony Gatlif closed the festival. Paris, je t'aime opened the Un Certain Regard section of the festival.[10]

2006 Un Certain Regard poster featuring an original drawing by Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.[11]

Juries
Wong Kar-wai, 2006 Jury President
Monte Hellman, President of the Un Certain Regard Jury

Main competition

The following people were appointed as the jury for the feature films of the 2006 Main Competition:[12]

Un Certain Regard

The following people were appointed as the jury of the 2006 Un Certain Regard:

  • Monte Hellman (director) (USA) President
  • Jean-Pierre Lavoignat (critic) (France)
  • Lars-Olav Beier (critic) (Germany)
  • Laura Winters (critic) (USA)
  • Marjane Satrapi (author) (Iran)
  • Maurizio Cabonat (critic) (Italy)

Cinéfondation and short films

The following people were appointed as the jury of the Cinéfondation and short films competition:

Camera d'Or

The following people were appointed as the jury of the 2006 Camera d'Or:

  • Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (directors) (Belgium) Presidents
  • Alain Riou (critic) (France)
  • Frédéric Maire (president of Locarno Festival) (Switzerland)
  • Jean-Paul Salomé (director) (France)
  • Jean-Louis Vialard (cinematographer) (France)
  • Jean-Pierre Neyrac (technician) (France)
  • Luiz Carlos Merten (critic) (Brazil)
  • Natacha Laurent (director of the cinémathèque of Toulouse) (France)

Official selection

In competition - Feature film

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]

Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[3]

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]

Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[3]

  • 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:[3]

  • 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.[13]

Tribute[14]

Documentaries about Cinema[13]

  • 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[15]

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 45th International Critics' Week (45e Semaine de la Critique):[16]

Feature film competition

  • Drama/Mex by Gerardo Naranjo (Mexico)
  • Fresh Air by Ágnes Kocsis (Hungary)
  • Komma by Martine Doyen (France, Belgium)
  • Les amitiés maléfiques by Emmanuel Bourdieu (France)
  • The Bothersome Man by Jens Lien (Norway)
  • Pingpong by Matthias Luthardt (Germany)
  • Sonhos de peixe by Kirill Mikhanovsky (Brazil)

Short film competition

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2006 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[17]

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

Awards
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:[2][5]

Un Certain Regard[18]

Cinéfondation

  • First Prize: Ge & Zeta by Gustavo Riet
  • Second Prize: Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker by Stefan Mueller
  • Third Prize: Mother by Siân Heder & Le virus by Ágnes Kocsis

Golden Camera

Short films

  • 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[19]

Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist

Ecumenical Jury[20][6]

Award of the Youth[6]

Awards in the frame of International Critics' Week[6]

Awards in the frame of Directors' Fortnight[6]

Association Prix François Chalais

References
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  2. "Awards 2006: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014.
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  8. "2006 Cannes Film Festival Winners". strangecultureblog.com. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  9. "Da Vinci Code to open 2006 Cannes film festival". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
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  11. "Posters 2006". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013.
  12. "All Juries 2006". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  13. "Cannes Classics — Documentaries about Cinema". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  14. "Cannes Classics — Tribute". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
  15. "Cannes Classics — Restored prints". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  16. "45e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 2006". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  17. "Quinzaine 2006". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
  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.

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