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The 57th Cannes Film Festival took palce from 12 to 23 May 2004. American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino served as jury president for the main competition. While American filmmaker Michael Moore won the Palme d'Or for the documentary film Fahrenheit 9/11, becoming the first (and only) documentary to win the festival's main prize.[2][3][4]
Official poster of the 57th Cannes Film Festival featuring an illustration by Alerte Orange.[1] | |
| Opening film | Bad Education |
|---|---|
| Closing film | De-Lovely |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or: Fahrenheit 9/11 |
| Hosted by | Laura Morante |
| No. of films | 19 (Main Competition) |
| Festival date | 12 May 2004 – 23 May 2004 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The festival opening film was Bad Education directed by Pedro Almodóvar,[5] while De-Lovely directed by Irwin Winkler was the closing film.[6] Laura Morante was mistress of the ceremonies.[2]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[9]
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 on Ten | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | |
| Alexandria... New York | إسكندرية .. نيويورك | Youssef Chahine | Egypt, France |
| The Assassination of Richard Nixon | Niels Mueller | United States, Mexico | |
| Crónicas | Sebastián Cordero | Ecuador, Mexico | |
| Dear Frankie | Shona Auerbach | Scotland | |
| Don't Move | Non ti muovere | Sergio Castellitto | Italy |
| Earth and Ashes | خاکستر و خاک | Atiq Rahimi | Afghanistan |
| Hotel | Jessica Hausner | Austria | |
| In the Darkness of the Night | Noite Escura | João Canijo | Portugal |
| Kontroll | Nimród Antal | Hungary | |
| Lightweight | Poids léger | Jean-Pierre Améris | France |
| Marseille | Angela Schanelec | Germany | |
| Moolaadé | Ousmane Sembène | Senegal, France, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Morocco, Tunisia | |
| Nelly | À ce soir | Laure Duthilleul | France |
| Passages | 路程 | Yang Chao | China |
| Right Now | A Tout de Suite | Benoît Jacquot | France |
| Shiza | Gulshat Omarova | Kazakhstan, Russia, France, Germany | |
| Somersault | Cate Shortland | Australia | |
| Sword in the Moon | 청풍명월 | Kim Ui-seok | South Korea |
| Welcome to Switzerland | Bienvenue en Suisse | Léa Fazer | France, Switzerland |
| Whisky | Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll | Argentina, Germany, Spain, Uruguay | |
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[9]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 10th District Court: Moments of Trials | 10e chambre - Instants d'audience | Raymond Depardon | France |
| Bad Education (opening film) | La mala educación | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | United States | |
| Born to Film | Cinéastes à tout prix | Frédéric Sojcher | France |
| Breaking News | 大事件 | Johnnie To | Hong Kong |
| Dawn of the Dead | Zack Snyder | United States, France, Japan | |
| De-Lovely (closing film) | Irwin Winkler | United States | |
| The Gate of Sun | باب الشمس | Yousry Nasrallah | Egypt, France |
| Five | پنج | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil | Silvio Tendler | Brazil | |
| Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinémathèque | Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois | Jacques Richard | France |
| House of Flying Daggers | 十面埋伏 | Zhang Yimou | China, Hong Kong |
| I Died in Childhood... | Я умер в детстве... | Georgi Paradzhanov | Russia |
| Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Quentin Tarantino | United States | |
| Notre musique | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland | |
| Salvador Allende | Patricio Guzmán | Chile | |
| Troy | Wolfgang Petersen | United States, United Kingdom, Mexico, Malta | |
| Words in Progress | Épreuves d'artistes | Gilles Jacob | France |
| Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession | Alexandra Cassavetes | United States | |
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:[9]
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[9]
For the third year, the Cannes Festival selected "some of world cinema's masterpieces and rarities" for the audience. The following films were projected in the "Salle Buñuel" during the festival.[10][11][10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tributes | |||
| Black God, White Devil (1964) | Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol | Glauber Rocha | Brazil |
| Blowup (1966) | Michelangelo Antonioni | United Kingdom, Italy | |
| Bye Bye Brazil (1979) | Bye Bye Brasil | Carlos Diegues | Brazil, France, Argentina |
| College (1927) | James W. Horne | United States | |
| Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) | Dona Flor e seus dois maridos | Bruno Barreto | Brazil |
| Entranced Earth (1967) | Terra em transe | Glauber Rocha | |
| The Gaze of Michelangelo (short) (2004) | Lo sguardo di Michelangelo | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| The General (1926) | Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman | United States | |
| Keeper of Promises (1964) | O Pagador de Promessas | Anselmo Duarte | Brazil |
| Macunaíma (1968) | Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | ||
| Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) | Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner | United States | |
| Vidas Secas (1963) | Nelson Pereira dos Santos | Brazil | |
| Restored Prints | |||
| Amelie's Trip (1974) | Le voyage d'Amélie | Daniel Duval | France |
| The Battle of Algiers (1965) | La battaglia di Algeri | Gillo Pontecorvo | Italy, Algeria |
| Before the Revolution (1964) | Prima della rivoluzione | Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy |
| The Big Red One (1980) | Samuel Fuller | United States | |
| Deadlier Than the Male (1966) | Ralph Thomas | United Kingdom | |
| Hair (1979) | Miloš Forman | United States, West Germany | |
| The Inner Scar (1967) | La cicatrice intérieure | Philippe Garrel | France |
| The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom | |
| Mother India (1957) | Mehboob Khan | India | |
| The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971) | 新獨臂刀 | Chang Cheh | Hong Kong |
| Ordet (1955) | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Denmark | |
| Pickpocket (1959) | Robert Bresson | France | |
The following films were screened for the 43rd International Critics' Week (43e Semaine de la Critique):[12]
Competition
Short Films Competition
Special Screenings
The following films were screened for the 2004 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[13]
The following films and people received the 2004 Official selection awards:[2][3][14]
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