# 2001 Cannes Film Festival

The 54th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 20 May 2001. Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann was named Jury President for the main competition. Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti won the Palme d'Or for the drama film The Son's Room.
The festival opened with Moulin Rouge! by Baz Luhrmann, and closed with Savage Souls by Raúl Ruiz.

## Juries
### Main competition

* Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress and director - Jury President
* Mimmo Calopresti, Italian filmmaker and actor
* Charlotte Gainsbourg, English-French actress and singer
* Terry Gilliam, British filmmaker and actor
* Mathieu Kassovitz, French actor and filmmaker
* Sandrine Kiberlain, French actress
* Philippe Labro, French director and author
* Julia Ormond, British actress
* Moufida Tlatli, Tunisian filmmaker and editor
* Edward Yang, Taiwanese filmmaker

### Un Certain Regard

* Ariane Ascaride, French actress - Jury President
* Virginie Apiou, French film critic
* François-Guillaume Lorrain, French film critic
* Florence Malraux, French film critic
* Thomas Sotinel, French film critic

### Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition

* Erick Zonca, French director - Jury President
* Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Italian-French actress and filmmaker
* Samira Makhmalbaf, Iranian filmmaker
* Rithy Panh, Cambodian filmmaker
* Lynne Ramsay, Scottish filmmaker

### Camera d'Or

* Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director - Jury President
* Loïc Barbier, cinephile
* Stefano Della Casa, critic
* Sophie Denize, representative of the technical industries
* Franck Garbaz, critic
* Mercedes Goiz, critic
* Dominique Le Rigoleur, cinematographer
* Claire Simon, director

## Official Selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Desert Moon | 月の砂漠 | Shinji Aoyama | Japan |
| Distance | Distance | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| I'm Going Home | Je rentre à la maison / Vou para Casa | Manoel de Oliveira | France, Portugal |
| In Praise of Love | Éloge de l'amour | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland |
| Kandahar | قندهار | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Iran |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen | United States |
| Millennium Mambo | 千禧曼波 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| Moulin Rouge! (opening film) | Moulin Rouge! (opening film) | Baz Luhrmann | Australia, United States |
| Mulholland Drive | Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | United States, France |
| No Man's Land | Ничија земља | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| The Officers' Ward | La Chambre des officiers | François Dupeyron | France |
| Pau and His Brother | Pau i el seu germà | Marc Recha | Spain, France |
| The Piano Teacher | La Pianiste | Michael Haneke | France, Austria, Germany |
| The Pledge | The Pledge | Sean Penn | United States |
| The Profession of Arms | Il mestiere delle armi | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
| Replay | La répétition | Catherine Corsini | France, Canada |
| Roberto Succo | Roberto Succo | Cédric Kahn | France |
| Shrek | Shrek | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | United States |
| Taurus | Телец | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| The Son's Room | La stanza del figlio | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| Va savoir | Va savoir | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Warm Water Under a Red Bridge | 赤い橋の下のぬるい水 | Shōhei Imamura | Japan |
| What Time Is It There? | 你那邊幾點 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| The Anniversary Party | The Anniversary Party | Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming | United States |
| Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada |
| Boyhood Loves | Amour d'enfance | Yves Caumon | France |
| Carrément à l'Ouest | Carrément à l'Ouest | Jacques Doillon | France |
| The Chimp | Маймыл | Aktan Abdykalykov | Kyrgyzstan, Russia, France, Japan |
| Clément | Clément | Emmanuelle Bercot | France |
| Freedom | La libertad | Lisandro Alonso | Argentina |
| Get a Life | Ganhar a Vida | João Canijo | Portugal |
| H Story | H Story | Nobuhiro Suwa | Japan |
| Hijack Stories | Hijack Stories | Oliver Schmitz | South Africa |
| Just the Two of Us | Ты да я, да мы с тобой | Alexander Veledinsky | Russia |
| Lan Yu | 藍宇 | Stanley Kwan | China |
| Late Marriage | חתונה מאוחרת | Dover Kosashvili | Israel, France |
| Lovely Rita | Lovely Rita | Jessica Hausner | Austria |
| Man Walking on Snow | 歩く、人 | Masahiro Kobayashi | Japan |
| No Such Thing | Skrímsli | Hal Hartley | United States, Iceland |
| Pattiyude Divasam | പട്ടിയുടെ ദിവസം | Murali Nair | India |
| Pulse | 回路 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| The Road | Дорога | Darezhan Omirbaev | Kazakhstan, France, Japan |
| 'R Xmas | 'R Xmas | Abel Ferrara | United States |
| Storytelling | Storytelling | Todd Solondz | United States |
| Tears of the Black Tiger | ฟ้าทะลายโจร | Wisit Sasanatieng | Thailand |
| Tomorrow | Domani | Francesca Archibugi | Italy |
| The Words of My Father | Le parole di mio padre | Francesca Comencini | Italy |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| ABC Africa | ABC Africa | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| Apocalypse Now Redux | Apocalypse Now Redux | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Avalon | アヴァロン | Mamoru Oshii | Japan, Poland |
| The Center of the World | The Center of the World | Wayne Wang | United States |
| CQ | CQ | Roman Coppola | United States, Luxembourg, France, Italy |
| Human Nature | Human Nature | Michel Gondry | United States, France |
| My Voyage to Italy | Il mio viaggio in Italia | Martin Scorsese | United States, Italy |
| Savage Souls (closing film) | Les âmes fortes | Raúl Ruiz | France, Belgium, Switzerland |
| Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures | Claude Lanzmann | France |
| Trouble Every Day | Trouble Every Day | Claire Denis | France, Germany, Japan |

### Cinéfondation

The following films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:
* Antiromantika by Nariman Turebayev
* Bucarest - Vienne 8: 15 by Cătălin Mitulescu
* Crow Stone by Alicia Duffy
* Dai Bi by Chao Yang
* Fuldmane Vanvid by Anders Worm
* I Can Fly To You But You... by Young-Nam Kim
* J'espère, J'attends by Ewa Banaszkiewicz
* L'age Tendre by Eric Forestier
* La Cire, Ça Fait Mal by Maya Dreifuss
* Le Jour Où Toshi Est Né by Hikaru Yoshikawa
* Les Yeux Devorants by Syllas Tzoumerkas
* Martin Quatre Ans by Ben Hackworth
* Monsieur William, Les Traces D'une Vie Possible by Denis Gaubert
* Portrait by Sergei Luchishin
* Premiere Experience De Mort by Aida Begić
* Reparation by Jens Jonsson
* Svetlo by David Sukup
* Telecommande by Ethan Tobman
* Un Veau Pleurait, La Nuit by John Shank
* Zero Deficit by Ruth Mader

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Bean Cake by David Greenspan
* Chicken by Barry Dignam
* Bird in the Wire by Phillip Donnellon
* La Famille Sacree by Dong-Il Shin
* Daddy's Girl by Irvine Allan
* The Reel Truth by Tim Hamilton
* Just Little Birds (Les petits oiseaux) by Fred Louf
* Natural Glasses (Naturlige Briller) by Jens Lien
* Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson and Ola Simonsson
* Paulette by Louise-Marie Colon
* Pizza Passionata by Kari Juusonen

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 40th International Critics' Week (40e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
* Under the Moonlight (Zir-e Noor-e Maah) by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi (Iran)
* Unloved by Kunitoshi Manda (Japan)
* Bolivia by Adrián Caetano (Argentina)
* The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit) by Bernard Émond (Canada)
* The Pornographer (Le Pornographe) by Bertrand Bonello (France, Canada)
* Almost Blue by Alex Infascelli (Italy)
* Ephemeral Town (Efimeri poli) by Giorgos Zafiris (Greece)
Short film competition
* Le Dos au mur by Bruno Collet (France)
* Eat by Bill Plympton (United States)
* Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job (Staplerfahrer Klaus - Der erste Arbeitstag) by Jörg Wagner and Stefan Prehn (Germany)
* Field by Duane Hopkins (United Kingdom)
* L'Enfant de la haute mer by L. Gabrielli, P. Marteel, M. Renoux and M. Tourret (France)
* Stranger and Native (Biganeh va boumi) by Ali Mohammad Ghasem (Iran)
* Noche de Bodas by Carlos Cuarón (Mexico)
Special screenings
* The Black Beach (La plage noire) by Michel Piccoli (France) (opening film)
* Kes by Ken Loach (United Kingdom) (La séance du Parrain)
* Souffle by Muriel Coulin (France) (17 min.) (Prix de la Critique)
* True Love Waits (Taivas Tiella) by Johanna Vuoksenmaa (Finland) (34 min.) (Prix de la Critique)
* Clouds: Letters to My Son (Nuages: Lettres à mon fils) by Marion Hänsel (Belgium) (closing film)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2001 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Big Bad Love by Arliss Howard
* Bintou by Fanta Régina Nacro (31 min.)
* Boli shaonu by Lai Miu-suet
* That Old Dream That Moves (Ce vieux rêve qui bouge) by Alain Guiraudie (50 min.)
* Ceci est mon corps by Rodolphe Marconi
* Central by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (10 min.)
* Chelsea Walls by Ethan Hawke
* Cyber Palestine by Elia Suleiman (16 min.)
* Ecce homo by Mirjam Kubescha (50 min.)
* Fatma by Khaled Ghorbal
* Hautes Herbes by Mathieu Gérault (26 min.)
* HK by Xavier de Choudens (14 min.)
* Hush! by Ryosuke Hashiguchi
* I nostri anni by Daniele Gaglianone
* Je t'aime John Wayne by Toby MacDonald (10 min.)
* Jeunesse dorée by Zaïda Ghorab-Volta
* The Orphan of Anyang (Ānyáng de gūér) by Wang Chao
* La Trace de Moloktchon by Louis Jammes
* The Crossing (La Traversée) by Sébastien Lifshitz
* Le Système Zsygmondy by Luc Moullet (18 min.)
* Les Pleureuses by Jorane Castro (15 min.)
* Made in the USA by Cindy Babski and Sólveig Anspach
* Stuff and Dough (Marfa si Banii) by Cristi Puiu
* Martha... Martha by Sandrine Veysset
* A Place on Earth by Artur Aristakisyan
* Ming dai ahui zhu by Hsiao Ya-chuan
* On s'embrasse? by Pierre Olivier (6 min.)
* Operai, contadini by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub
* Pauline et Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer
* Queenie in Love by Amos Kollek
* Rain by Christine Jeffs
* Riyo by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (10 min.)
* Shon by Julien Sallé (15 min.)
* Slogans by Gjergj Xhuvani
* The Deep End by David Siegel and Scott McGehee
* The Heart of the World by Guy Maddin (5 min.)

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Palme d'Or: The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti
* Grand Prix: The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke
* Best Director:
** David Lynch for Mulholland Dr.
** Joel Coen for The Man Who Wasn't There
* Best Screenplay: No Man's Land by Danis Tanović
* Best Actress: Isabelle Huppert for The Piano Teacher
* Best Actor: Benoît Magimel for The Piano Teacher

### Un Certain Regard

* Boyhood Loves by Yves Caumon

### Cinéfondation

* First Prize: Portrait by Sergei Luchishin
* Second Prize: Reparation by Jens Jonsson
* Third Prize:
** Dai Bi by Chao Yang
** Crow Stone by Alicia Duffy

### Caméra d'Or

* Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk

### Short Film Palme d'Or

* Bean Cake by David Greenspan
* Short Film Jury Prize:
** Daddy's Girl by Irvine Allan
** Pizza Passionata by Kari Juusonen

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti (In competition)
* The Pornographer by Bertrand Bonello (International Critics Week)
* Pulse by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Un Certain Regard)
* Martha... Martha by Sandrine Veysset (Director's Fortnight)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Tu Duu-chih (Sound department) in What Time Is It There? and Millennium Mambo

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* Kandahar by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
** Special Mention: Pauline and Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer

### Award of the Youth

* French Film: Clément by Emmanuelle Bercot
* Foreign Film: Slogans by Gjergj Xhuvani

### International Critics' Week

* Grand Prix Primagaz: Under the Moonlight by Seyyed Reza Mir-Karimi
* Future talent Award: Unloved by Kunitoshi Manda
* Prix Grand Rail d'Or: Unloved by Kunitoshi Manda
* Prix Petit Rail d'Or: Le dos au mur by Bruno Collet
* Canal+ Award: Eat by Bill Plympton
* Young Critics Award - Best Short: Le dos au mur by Bruno Collet
* Young Critics Award - Best Feature: Bolivia by Adrián Caetano

### Directors' Fortnight

* Media Award 2001 of the European Union: Une liaison pornographique by Frédéric Fonteyne
* SACD Award: On s'embrasse? by Pierre Olivier
* Gras Savoye Award: HK by Xavier De Choudens
* Kodak Short Film Award: Bintou by Fanta Régina Nacro
* Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention: Le système Zsygmondy by Luc Moullet

### François Chalais Award

* Made in the USA by Sólveig Anspach