 Official poster of the 68th Cannes Film Festival featuring a photo ofIngrid Bergman byDavid Seymour | |
| Opening film | Standing Tall |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Ice and the Sky |
| Location | Cannes,France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or: Dheepan |
| Hosted by | Lambert Wilson |
| No. of films | 19 (In Competition) |
| Festival date | 13 – 24 May 2015 |
| Website | www |
| Cannes Film Festival | |
The68thCannes Film Festival took place from 13 to 24 May 2015.[1]Ethan and Joel Coen were the Co-Presidents of the Jury for the main competition,[2] marking the first time that two people co-chaired the jury.[3] Since the Coen brothers each received a separate vote, they were joined by seven other jurors to form the customary nine-juror panel.[4]
French filmmakerJacques Audiard won thePalme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama filmDheepan.[5][6] During his speech, Audiard stated that "receive a prize from the Coen brothers is something pretty exceptional. I'm very touched".[7] French film directorAgnès Varda was presented with theHonorary Palme d'Or at the festival's closing ceremony. She was the first female filmmaker to ever receive the award.[8]
The festival's official poster featured Swedish actressIngrid Bergman, photographed byDavid Seymour. The poster was chosen to pay tribute to Bergman for her contributions to films; she also served as the Jury President at1973 Cannes Film Festival.[9] Once again, French actorLambert Wilson was the host for the opening and closing ceremonies.[10][11][12]
The edition was infamously marked by artistic directorThierry Frémaux pledge to celebrities to abstain from taking selfies on the red carpet. While he did not have the powers to ban the pictures from the red carpet altogether, Frémaux urged celebrities to resist the temptation.[13]
The festival opened withStanding Tall byEmmanuelle Bercot,[14] and closed withIce and the Sky byLuc Jacquet.[15][16][17]
The films competing for thePalme d'Or were announced at a press conference on 16 April 2015.[30] Two films were added to the main competition line-up on 23 April 2015,Valley of Love byGuillaume Nicloux andChronic byMichel Franco.[31] The following films were selected to compete for thePalme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Assassin | 聶隱娘 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan, China, Hong Kong |
| Carol(QP) | Todd Haynes | United Kingdom, United States | |
| Chronic | Michel Franco | Mexico, France | |
| Dheepan | Jacques Audiard | France | |
| The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | Greece, France, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom | |
| Louder Than Bombs | Joachim Trier | Norway, France, Denmark | |
| Macbeth | Justin Kurzel | United Kingdom, France | |
| Marguerite & Julien(QP) | Marguerite et Julien | Valérie Donzelli | France |
| The Measure of a Man | La Loi du marché | Stéphane Brizé | |
| Mia Madre | Nanni Moretti | Italy, France | |
| Mountains May Depart | 山河故人 | Jia Zhangke | China, Japan, France |
| My King | Mon Roi | Maïwenn | France |
| Our Little Sister | 海街diary | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| The Sea of Trees | Gus Van Sant | United States | |
| Sicario | Denis Villeneuve | ||
| Son of Saul(CdO) | Saul fia | László Nemes | Hungary |
| Tale of Tales | Il racconto dei racconti | Matteo Garrone | Italy, France, United Kingdom |
| Valley of Love | La Vallée de l'amour | Guillaume Nicloux | France |
| Youth | La giovinezza | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom |
The following films were selected to compete in theUn Certain Regard section:[30][31][33]Sweet Red Bean Paste byNaomi Kawase was the opening film.
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alias Maria | José Luis Rugeles Gracia | Colombia, Argentina, France | |
| Cemetery of Splendour | รักที่ขอนแก่น | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| The Chosen Ones | Las elegidas | David Pablos | Mexico |
| Disorder | Maryland | Alice Winocour | France |
| Fly Away Solo(CdO) | Masaan | Neeraj Ghaywan | India |
| The Fourth Direction | Chauthi Koot | Gurvinder Singh | |
| The High Sun | Zvizdan | Dalibor Matanić | Croatia, Slovenia |
| I Am a Soldier(CdO) | Je suis un soldat | Laurent Larivière | France, Belgium |
| Journey to the Shore | 岸辺の旅 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| Lamb(CdO) | Yared Zeleke | Ethiopia, France, Germany, Norway | |
| Madonna | 마돈나 | Shin Su-won | South Korea |
| Nahid(CdO) | ناهید | Ida Panahandeh | Iran |
| One Floor Below | Un etaj mai jos | Radu Muntean | Romania |
| The Other Side(ŒdO) | Roberto Minervini | United States, Italy | |
| Rams | Hrútar | Grímur Hákonarson | Iceland |
| The Shameless | 무뢰한 | Oh Seung-uk | South Korea |
| Sweet Bean(opening film) | あん | Naomi Kawase | Japan |
| Trap | Taklub | Brillante Mendoza | Philippines |
| The Treasure | Comoara | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania |
The following films were selected to screen out of competition:[14][15][30][31][34][35][36]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ice and the Sky(closing film)(ŒdO) | La Glace et le ciel | Luc Jacquet | France |
| Inside Out | Pete Docter | United States | |
| Irrational Man | Woody Allen | ||
| The Little Prince | Le Petit Prince | Mark Osborne | France |
| Mad Max: Fury Road | George Miller | Australia, United States | |
| Standing Tall(opening film) | La Tête haute | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| Midnight Screenings | |||
| Amy(ŒdO)(QP) | Asif Kapadia | United Kingdom | |
| Love(QP) | Gaspar Noé | France | |
| Office(CdO) | 오피스 | Hong Won-chan | South Korea |
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afterthought(CdO) | היורד למעלה | Elad Keidan | Israel |
| Amnesia | Barbet Schroeder | Switzerland, France | |
| Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad | Une histoire de fou | Robert Guédiguian | France |
| Macadam Stories | Asphalte | Samuel Benchetrit | |
| Our House(ŒdO) | Oka | Souleymane Cissé | Mali |
| Panama(CdO) | Pavle Vučković | Serbia | |
| A Tale of Love and Darkness(CdO) | סיפור על אהבה וחושך | Natalie Portman | United States, Israel |
TheCinéfondation section focuses on films made by students at film schools. The following 18 entries (14 fiction films and 4 animation films) were selected out of 1,600 submissions. More than one-third of the films selected represent schools participating inCinéfondation for the first time. It is also the first time that a film representing a Spanish film school had been selected.[37]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | School |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Steps | Четырнадцать шагов | Maksim Shavkin | Moscow School of New Cinema, Russia |
| Absent | Abwesend | Eliza Petkova | dffb, Germany |
| Amphibian | Anfibio | Héctor Silva Núñez | EICTV, Cuba |
| Leonardo | Félix Hazeaux, Thomas Nitsche, Edward Noonan, Franck Pina and Raphaëlle Plantier | MOPA (formerly Supinfocom-Arles), France | |
| Lost Queens | Locas perdidas | Ignacio Juricic Merillán | Carrera de Cine y TV Universidad de Chile, Chile |
| The Magnetic Nature | El ser mágnetico | Mateo Bendesky | Universidad del Cine, Argentina |
| Manoman | Simon Cartwright | National Film and Television School, United Kingdom | |
| Paradise | Het Paradijs | Laura Vandewynckel | RITS School of Arts Brussels, Belgium |
| Retriever | Tomáš Klein and Tomáš Merta | FAMU Prague, Czech Republic | |
| The Return of Erkin | возвращение Эркин | Maria Guskova | High Courses for Scriptwriters & Film Directors, Russia |
| Share | Pippa Bianco | AFI Directing Workshop for Women, United States | |
| Slaughterhouse | کشتارگاه | Behzad Azadi | Art University of Tehran, Iran |
| Ten Buildings Away | עשרה רחובות, מאה עצים | Miki Polonski | Minshar for Art, Israel |
| To Return Until | Ainahan ne palaa | Salla Sorri | Aalto University-ELO Film School Helsinki Finland |
| Tsunami | Sofie Kampmark | The Animation Workshop, Denmark | |
| Under the Sun | 日光之下 | Qiu Yang | The VCA, Film & TV School, Melbourne University, Australia |
| Victor XX | Ian Garrido López | ESCAC, Spain | |
| The Wheel of Emotions | Les Chercheurs | Aurélien Peilloux | La Fémis, France |
Out of 4,550 entries, the following films were selected to compete for theShort Film Palme d'Or:[37]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ave Maria | السلام عليك يا مريم | Basil Khalil | Palestine, France, Germany |
| Buddy | Copain | Jan Roosens and Raf Roosens | Belgium |
| The Guests | Shane Danielsen | Australia | |
| Love Is Blind | Dan Hodgson | United Kingdom | |
| Patriot | Eva Riley | United Kingdom | |
| Present Imperfect | Presente imperfecto | Iair Said | Argentina |
| P.S. I Can't Breathe | Monet Merchand and Rochelle White | United States | |
| Sunday Lunch | Le Repas dominical | Céline Devaux | France |
| Tuesday | Salı | Ziya Demirel | Turkey, France |
| Waves '98 | موج ٩٨ | Ely Dagher | Lebanon, Qatar |
The full line-up for the Cannes Classics section was announced on 30 April 2015. Greek-French film directorCosta-Gavras was announced as the guest of honor. In tribute to the recently deceased Portuguese film director, Cannes Classics screenedManoel de Oliveira's posthumous 1982 filmMemories and Confessions. The film was previously unseen outside of Portugal.[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restored Prints | |||
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) | 仁義なき戦い | Kinji Fukasaku | Japan |
| Black Girl (1966) | La Noire de... | Ousmane Sembène | France, Senegal |
| Elevator to the Gallows (1958) | Ascenseur pour l'échafaud | Louis Malle | France |
| Insiang (1976) | Lino Brocka | Philippines | |
| Marius (1931) | Alexander Korda | France | |
| La Marseillaise (1938) | Jean Renoir | ||
| The Official Story (1985) | La historia oficial | Luis Puenzo | Argentina |
| Orders (1974) | Les Ordres | Michel Brault | Canada |
| Panic (1946) | Panique | Julien Duvivier | France |
| Ran (1985) | 乱 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
| Rocco and His Brothers (1960) | Rocco e i suoi fratelli | Luchino Visconti | Italy, France |
| The Round-Up (1966) | Szegénylegények | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary |
| The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939) | 残菊物語 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| Sur (1988) | Fernando Solanas | Argentina, France | |
| The Third Man (1949) | Carol Reed | United Kingdom | |
| A Touch of Zen (1971) | 俠女 | King Hu | Taiwan |
| Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) | Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещён | Elem Klimov | Soviet Union |
| Les yeux brûlés (1986) | Laurent Roth | France | |
| Tributes | |||
| Citizen Kane (1941) | Orson Welles | United States | |
| The Lady from Shanghai (1947) | |||
| Lumière! | Louis Lumière | France | |
| More (1969) | Barbet Schroeder | West Germany, France, Luxembourg | |
| Visit or Memories and Confessions | Visita ou Memórias e Confissões | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| Z (1969) | Costa-Gavras | France, Algeria | |
| Documentaries about Cinema | |||
| By Sidney Lumet(ŒdO) | Nancy Buirski | United States | |
| Gérard Depardieu: Larger Than Life(CdO)(ŒdO) | Depardieu grandeur nature | Richard Melloul | France |
| Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story(ŒdO) | Daniel Raim | United States | |
| Hitchcock/Truffaut(ŒdO) | Kent Jones | ||
| Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words(ŒdO) | Jag är Ingrid | Stig Björkman | Sweden |
| Orson Welles: Shadows & Light(ŒdO) | Orson Welles, autopsie d'une légende | Elisabeth Kapnist | France |
| Sembene!(CdO)(ŒdO) | Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman | United States, Senegal | |
| Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans(ŒdO) | Gabriel Clarke and John McKenna | United States, United Kingdom | |
| This Is Orson Welles(ŒdO) | Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg | France | |
| Anniversary of the Sixty Years of the Creation of the Palme d'Or | |||
| The Golden Palm's Legend(CdO)(ŒdO) | La Légende de la Palme d'Or | Alexis Veller | France |
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:[47]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo 13 (1995) | Ron Howard | United States | |
| Hibernatus (1969) | Edouard Molinaro | France, Italy | |
| Hôtel du Nord (1938) | Marcel Carné | France | |
| Ivan the Terrible (1944) | Иван Грозный | Sergei Eisenstein | Soviet Union |
| Joe Hill (1971) | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, United States | |
| Rabid Dogs (2015) | Enragés | Eric Hannezo | France, Canada |
| Ran (1985) | Akira Kurosawa | Japan | |
| The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972) | Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire | Yves Robert | France |
| The Terminator (1984) | James Cameron | United States | |
| The Usual Suspects (1995) | Bryan Singer | ||
The full selection for theCritics' Week section was announced on 20 April 2015, at the section's website.[48]Les Anarchistes by Elie Wajeman, andLearn by Heart byMathieu Vadepied, were selected as the opening and closing films for the Critics' Week section.
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | |||
| Dégradé(CdO) | Tarzan and Arab Nasser | France, Qatar | |
| Krisha(CdO) | Trey Edward Shults | United States | |
| Land and Shade(CdO) | La tierra y la sombra | César Augusto Acevedo | Colombia, France, Netherlands, Chile, Brazil |
| Mediterranea(CdO) | Jonas Carpignano | Italy, France, United States, Germany | |
| Paulina | La patota | Santiago Mitre | Argentina, Brazil, France |
| Sleeping Giant(CdO) | Andrew Cividino | Canada | |
| The Wakhan Front(CdO)(QP) | Ni le ciel ni la terre | Clément Cogitore | France, Belgium |
| Special Screenings | |||
| The Anarchists(opening film) | Les Anarchistes | Elie Wajeman | France |
| Coin Locker Girl(CdO) | 차이나타운 | Han Jun-hee | South Korea |
| Learn by Heart(CdO) (closing film) | La Vie en grand | Mathieu Vadepied | France |
| Two Friends(CdO)(QP) | Les Deux Amis | Louis Garrel | |
| Shorts Films Competition | |||
| Boys | Pojkarna | Isabella Carbonell | Sweden |
| Chickenpox | Varicella | Fulvio Risuleo | Italy |
| Command Action | João Paulo Miranda Maria | Brazil | |
| The Dragon's Demise | La Fin de dragon | Marina Diaby | France |
| Everything Will Be Okay | Alles wird gut | Patrick Vollrath | Germany |
| The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might | Lucky Kuswandi | Indonesia | |
| Love Comes Later | Sonejuhi Sinha | United States | |
| Monsters Turn Into Lovers | Jeunesse des Loups-Garous | Yann Delattre | France |
| Ramona | Andrei Crețulescu | Romania | |
| Too Cool for School | Kevin Phillips | United States | |
The full selection for theDirectors' Fortnight section was announced on 21 April 2015, at the section's website.[49][50]In the Shadow of Women byPhilippe Garrel, andDope byRick Famuyiwa were selected as the opening and closing films for the section.[49][51]Actua 1, a previously unseen 1968 short film directed by Garrel, preceded the screening ofIn the Shadow of Women.[52]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabian Nights | As Mil e uma Noites | Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
| Beyond My Grandfather Allende(CdO)(ŒdO) | Allende, mi abuelo Allende | Marcia Tambutti Allende | Chile, Mexico |
| The Brand New Testament | Le Tout Nouveau Testament | Jaco Van Dormael | Luxembourg, France, Belgium |
| Cowboys(CdO) | Les Cowboys | Thomas Bidegain | France |
| Dope(QP) (closing film) | Rick Famuyiwa | United States | |
| Embrace of the Serpent | El abrazo de la serpiente | Ciro Guerra | Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina |
| Fatima | Phillipe Faucon | France | |
| Green Room | Jeremy Saulnier | United States | |
| The Here After(CdO) | Efterskalv | Magnus von Horn | France, Poland, Sweden |
| In the Shadow of Women(opening film) | L'Ombre des femmes | Philippe Garrel | France |
| Much Loved(QP) | Nabil Ayouch | Morocco, France | |
| Mustang(CdO)(QP) | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | France | |
| My Golden Days | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse | Arnaud Desplechin | |
| Peace to Us in Our Dreams | Šarūnas Bartas | Lithuania, France, Russia | |
| A Perfect Day | Fernando León de Aranoa | Spain | |
| Songs My Brothers Taught Me(CdO) | Chloé Zhao | United States | |
| Short Films | |||
| Backyard | Quintal | André Novais Oliveira | Brazil |
| Blue Thunder | Bleu tonnerre | Jean-Marc E. Roy & Philippe David Gagné | Canada |
| The Broken Past | El pasado roto | Martín Morgenfeld & Sebastián Schjaer | Argentina |
| Calme ta joie | Emmanuel Laskar | France | |
| The Exquisite Corpus | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | |
| A Few Seconds | Quelques secondes | Nora El Hourch | France |
| Kung Fury | David Sandberg | Sweden | |
| Pitchoune | Reda Kateb | France | |
| Pueblo | Elena López Riera | Spain | |
| Rate Me | Fyzal Boulifa | United Kingdom | |
| Trials, Exorcisms | Provas, Exorcismos | Susana Nobre | Portugal |
| Special Screenings | |||
| Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld | 極道大戦争 | Takashi Miike | Japan |
ACID, an association of French and foreign film directors, demonstrates its support for nine films each year, seeking to provide support from filmmakers to other filmmakers.[53][54] The full ACID selection was announced on 21 April 2015, at the section's website.[55]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Be)Longing | Volta à Terra | João Pedro Plácido | Portugal, Switzerland, France |
| Cosmodrama | Philippe Fernandez | France | |
| Gaz de France | Benoît Forgeard | ||
| The Grief of Others | Patrick Wang | United States | |
| I Am the People | Je suis le peuple | Anna Roussillon | France |
| Pauline(QP) | Pauline s'arrache | Emilie Brisavoine | |
| Raging Rose | Crache Coeur | Julia Kowalski | France, Poland |
| Vanity(QP) | La Vanité | Lionel Baier | Switzerland, France |
| Where There Is Shade(QP) | De l'ombre il y a | Nathan Nicholovitch | France |
