# 2002 Cannes Film Festival

The 55th Cannes Film Festival took place from 15 to 26 May 2002. American filmmaker David Lynch served as jury president for the main competition. Virginie Ledoyen hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film The Pianist. While American filmmaker Woody Allen was awarded with the inaugural Honorary Palme d'Or, given to a director who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won the regular Palme d'Or.
The festival opened with Hollywood Ending by Woody Allen, and closed with Claude Lelouch's And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* David Lynch, American filmmaker - Jury President
* Bille August, Danish filmmaker
* Christine Hakim, Indonesian actress
* Claude Miller, French filmmaker
* Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker
* Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker
* Sharon Stone, American actress
* Régis Wargnier, French filmmaker
* Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian actress

### Un Certain Regard

* Anne Fontaine, Luxembourger filmmaker - Jury President
* Fabienne Bradfer, film critic
* Jean-Sébastien Chauvin, film critic
* Louis Guichard, film critic
* Fabrice Pliskin, film critic
* David Tran, film critic
* Pierre Vavasseur, critic

### Cinéfondation and Short Film Competition

* Martin Scorsese, American filmmaker - Jury President
* Judith Godrèche, French actress
* Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian filmmaker
* Jan Schütte, German filmmaker
* Tilda Swinton, British actress

### Camera d'Or

* Geraldine Chaplin, American actress - Jury President
* Bahman Ghobadi, Iranian filmmaker
* Romain Goupil, French filmmaker
* Marthe Keller, Swiss actress
* Murali Nair, Indian director

## Official Selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 24 Hour Party People | 24 Hour Party People | Michael Winterbottom | United Kingdom |
| About Schmidt | About Schmidt | Alexander Payne | United States |
| The Adversary | L'Adversaire | Nicole Garcia | France |
| All or Nothing | All or Nothing | Mike Leigh | United Kingdom |
| Bowling for Columbine | Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore | United States, Canada, Germany |
| Chi-hwa-seon | Chi-hwa-seon | Im Kwon-taek | South Korea |
| Demonlover | Demonlover | Olivier Assayas | France |
| Divine Intervention | يد إلهية | Elia Suleiman | Palestine, France, Morocco, Germany |
| Irréversible | Irréversible | Gaspar Noé | France |
| Kedma | Kedma | Amos Gitai | Israel |
| Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers | Marie-Jo et ses deux amours | Robert Guédiguian | France |
| The Man Without a Past | Mies vailla menneisyyttä | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| My Mother's Smile | L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
| The Pianist | The Pianist | Roman Polanski | France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom |
| Punch-Drunk Love | Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | United States |
| Russian Ark | Русский ковчег | Alexander Sokurov | Russia, Germany, Canada, Finland |
| The Son | Le Fils | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, France |
| Spider | Spider | David Cronenberg | Canada, United Kingdom |
| Sweet Sixteen | Sweet Sixteen | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, Germany, Spain |
| Ten | ده | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran |
| The Uncertainty Principle | O Princípio da Incerteza | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| Unknown Pleasures | 任逍遥 | Jia Zhangke | China |

### Un Certain Regard

The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Angel on the Right | Фариштаи китфи рост | Jamshed Usmonov | Tajikistan |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | 巴尔扎克与小裁缝 | Dai Sijie | China, France |
| Blissfully Yours | สุดเสน่หา | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand |
| The Box of Life | صندوق الدنيا | Ossama Mohammed | Syria, France |
| El bonaerense | El bonaerense | Pablo Trapero | Argentina, France, Chile, Netherlands |
| Carnage | Carnages | Delphine Gleize | France |
| The Confession | İtiraf | Zeki Demirkubuz | Turkey |
| Cry Woman | 哭泣的女人 | Liu Bingjian | China |
| Double Vision | 雙瞳 | Chen Kuo-fu | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
| Fate | Yazgı | Zeki Demirkubuz | Turkey |
| Glowing Eyes | La chatte à deux têtes | Jacques Nolot | France |
| Madame Satã | Madame Satã | Karim Aïnouz | Brazil, France |
| Marooned in Iraq | گم‌گشته‌ای در عراق | Bahman Ghobadi | Iran |
| A Piece of Sky | Une part du ciel | Bénédicte Liénard | France, Belgium |
| Rachida | Rachida | Yamina Bachir | Algeria |
| Raising Victor Vargas | Raising Victor Vargas | Peter Sollett | United States |
| Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard | 17 fois Cécile Cassard | Christophe Honoré | France |
| Ten Minutes Older | Ten Minutes Older | Spike Lee, Aki Kaurismäki, Chen Kaige, Jim Jarmusch, Werner Herzog, Víctor Erice,Wim Wenders | China, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States |
| Terra incognita | Terra incognita | Ghassan Salhab | Lebanon, France |
| To Stay Alive | بمانی | Dariush Mehrjui | Iran |
| Tomorrow La Scala! | Tomorrow La Scala! | Francesca Joseph | United Kingdom |
| Waiting for Happiness | في انتظار السعادة | Abderrahmane Sissako | Mauritania, France |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| 16 December | 16 December | Mani Shankar | India |
| And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (closing film) | And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen (closing film) | Claude Lelouch | France, United Kingdom |
| Ararat | Ararat | Atom Egoyan | Canada, France |
| Carlo Giuliani, Boy | Carlo Giuliani, ragazzo | Francesca Comencini | Italy |
| City of God | Cidade de Deus | Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund | Brazil, France, Germany, United States |
| Devdas | Devdas | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | India |
| Femme Fatale | Femme Fatale | Brian De Palma | France, Germany, United States |
| From the Other Side | De l'autre côté | Chantal Akerman | Finland, France |
| Histoires de festival | Histoires de festival | Gilles Jacob | France |
| Hollywood Ending (opening film) | Hollywood Ending (opening film) | Woody Allen | United States |
| The Kid Stays in the Picture | The Kid Stays in the Picture | Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein | United States |
| The Last Letter | La dernière lettre | Frederick Wiseman | United States, France |
| Murder by Numbers | Murder by Numbers | Barbet Schroeder | United States |
| Searching for Debra Winger | Searching for Debra Winger | Rosanna Arquette | United States |
| Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook | United States |
| Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones | George Lucas | United States |
| To Be and to Have | Être et avoir | Nicolas Philibert | France |
| Women in the Mirror | 鏡の女たち | Yoshishige Yoshida | Japan |

### Cinéfondation

The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:
* 17 minute intarziere by Catalin Mitulescu (Romania)
* Chogyeoul Jumshim by Byung-Hwa Kang (South Korea)
* Honey Moon by Sung-Jin Park (South Korea)
* K-G I Nod Och Lust by Jens Jonsson (Sweden)
* Khoj by Tridib Poddar (India)
* La derniere journee d'Alfred Maassen by David Lammers (Netherlands)
* La mort en exil by Ayten Mutlu Saray (Switzerland)
* P.S. by Arni Asgeirsson (Poland)
* Um Sol Alaranjado by Eduardo Valente (Brazil)
* Questions d'un ouvrier mort by Aya Somech (Israel)
* Request by Jinoh Park (South Korea)
* Seule maman a les yeux bleus by Eric Forestier (France)
* Shearing by Eicke Bettinga (United Kingdom)
* Soshuu no neko by Masaaki Uchida (Japan)
* The Look Of Happiness by Marianela Maldonado (United Kingdom)
* Vals by Edgar Bartenev (Russia)

### Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* A Very Very Silent Film by Manish Jha
* After Rain (Esö után) by Péter Mészáros
* Daughter by Eduardo Rodríguez
* Le chaperon noir by Yannis Yapanis
* Retenir son souffle by Anthony Lucas
* Speel Met Me by Esther Rots
* Tai Tai by Nicholas Chin
* Tango de l'oubli by Alexis Mital Toledo
* The Stone of Folly by Jesse Rosensweet
* Vol 404 by Bruce Terris
* Yoake a Chewing-Gum Story by Roland Zumbühl

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following films were screened for the 41st International Critics' Week (41e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
* Respiro by Emanuele Crialese (Italy)
* Filles perdues, cheveux gras by Claude Duty (France)
* Rana’s Wedding by Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine)
* Too Young To Die (Jukeodo joha) by Park Jin-pyo (South Korea)
* Les Fils de Marie by Carole Laure (Canada - France)
* Kabala by Assane Kouyaté (Mali/France)
* Chicken Heart by Hiroshi Shimizu (Japan)
Short film competition
* Le Jour où je suis né by Kunitoshi Manda (Japan)
* Lettre au fils by Philippe Welsh (France)
* Malcom by Baker Karim (Sweden)
* Meeting Evil (Möte med ondskan) by Reza Parsa (Sweden)
* 2 Minutes (2 Minutter) by Jacob Tschernia (Denmark)
* Le Vigile by Frédéric Pelle (France)
* From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two (De Mesmer, con amor o Té para dos) by Salvador Lubezki & Alejandro Lubezki (Mexico)
Special screenings
* Intacto by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Spain) (opening film)
* More by Barbet Schroeder (Luxembourg) (La séance du Parrain)
* Bella Ciao by Roberto Torelli, Marco Giusti (Italy) (Documentary)
* Intimisto by Licia Eminenti (France) (Prix de la Critique)
* Anxiety by Christoffer Boe (Denmark) (Prix de la Critique)
* Da Zero a Dieci (From Zero to Ten) by Luciano Ligabue (Italy) (closing film)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 2002 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* Abouna by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (Chad, France)
* Angela by Roberta Torre (Italy)
* Apartment 5C by Raphaël Nadjari (France, Israel, United States)
* Blue Gate Crossing by Chih-yen Yee (Taiwan, France)
* Bord de mer by Julie Lopes-Curval (France)
* The Embalmer (L'imbalsamatore) by Matteo Garrone (Italy)
* Ingmar Bergman: Intermezzo (doc.) by Gunnar Bergdahl (Sweden)
* István Bibó, fragments by Péter Forgács (Hungary)
* Japón by Carlos Reygadas (Mexico, Spain, Germany)
* Matir Moina (The Clay Bird) by Tareque Masud (France, Bangladesh)
* Laurel Canyon by Lisa Cholodenko (United States)
* Morvern Callar by Lynne Ramsay (United Kingdom)
* Monrak Transistor by Pen-ek Ratanaruang (Thailand)
* Nada+ by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti (Cuba, France, Spain, Italy)
* Occident by Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
* Once Upon a Time in the Midlands by Shane Meadows (United Kingdom, Germany)
* Only the Strong Survive (doc.) by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus (United States)
* Un oso rojo by Israel Adrián Caetano (Argentina, France, Spain)
* Otello di Carmelo Bene by Carmelo Bene (Italy)
* Le pays du chien qui chante by Yann Dedet (France)
* Sex Is Comedy by Catherine Breillat (France)
* Two (Deux) by Werner Schroeter (France, Germany)
* Une pure coïncidence by Romain Goupil (France)
* Welcome to Collinwood by Joseph and Anthony Russo (United States)
    Short films
* A-20 by Geoff Hughes, Brad Warren (United States)
* Après l’enfance by Thomas Lilti (France)
* Bang Nhau… Egaux by Stéfan Sao Nélet (France)
* Bob the slob by Nate Theis (United States)
* Bus 44 by Dayyan Eng (Hong Kong, United States)
* L’Arrivée by Peter Tscherkassky (Austria)
* Comme ça j’entends la mer by Hélène Milano (France)
* Comme un seul homme by Jean-Louis Gonnet (France)
* Deux cents dirham] by Laila Marrakchi (France, Morocco)
* Entering indifference by Vincent Dieutre (France)
* Fish in the Sea is Not Thirsty by Soopum Sohn (South Korea, United States)
* Insomniac by Matt Woo], Vanja Varasac (United States)
* La Vie sur un fil by Steven Lippman (United States)
* Mémoires incertaines by Michale Boganim (France, United Kingdom)
* Mexicano by Toby McDonald (United Kingdom)
* Muno by Bouli Lanners (Belgium)
* Next Door by Jeff Rich (United States)
* Présent inachevé by Johan Van der Keuken (Netherlands)
* Phantom by Matthias Müller (Germany)
* Portraits filmés 2002 by Valérie Mréjen (France)
* Samson by Graham Dubose (United States)
* The Girl in the Red Dress by Aletta Collins (United Kingdom)

## 1939 Palme d'Or

The inaugural Cannes Film Festival was to have been held in 1939, but was cancelled by the outbreak of the Second World War. The organizers of the 2002 festival assembled a jury of six members, including Dieter Kosslick and Alberto Barbera, to watch seven of the twelve features which had been entered in the 1939 competition, namely: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, La piste du nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. Union Pacific was retrospectively voted the winner of the 1939 Palme d'Or.

## Official Awards

The following films and people received the 2002 Official selection awards:

### Main Competition

* Palme d'Or: The Pianist by Roman Polanski
* Grand Prix: The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismäki
* Best Director:
** Im Kwon-taek for Chi-hwa-seon
** Paul Thomas Anderson for Punch-Drunk Love
* Best Screenplay: Sweet Sixteen by Paul Laverty
* Best Actress: Kati Outinen for The Man Without a Past
* Best Actor: Olivier Gourmet for The Son
* Jury Prize: Divine Intervention by Elia Suleiman
* 55th Anniversary Prize: Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore

### Honorary Palme d'Or

* Woody Allen

### Un Certain Regard

* Blissfully Yours by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

### Cinéfondation

* First Prize: Um Sol Alaranjado by Eduardo Valente
* Second Prize: Seule maman a les yeux bleus by Eric Forestier
* Third Prize: Questions d'un ouvrier mort by Aya Somech

### Caméra d'Or

* Seaside by Julie Lopes-Curval
** Special Mention: Japón by Carlos Reygadas

### Short Films Competition

* Short Film Palme d'Or: After Rain by Péter Mészáros
* Short Film Jury Prize:
** A Very Very Silent Film by Manish Jha
** The Stone of Folly by Jesse Rosensweet

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prizes

* Divine Intervention by Elia Suleiman (Main Competition)
* Waiting for Happiness by Abderrahmane Sissako (Un Certain Regard)
* The Clay Bird by Tareque Masud (Directors' Fortnight)

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* The Man Without a Past by Aki Kaurismäki
** Special Mention:
*** My Mother's Smile by Marco Bellocchio
*** The Son by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenner

### Award of the Youth

* Foreign Film: Morvern Callar by Lynne Ramsay
* French Film: Carnages by Delphine Gleize

### International Critics' Week

* International Critics' Week Grand Prize: Respiro by Emanuele Crialese
* Grand Golden Rail: Hypnotized and Hysterical (Hairstylist Wanted) by Claude Duty
* Small Golden Rail: From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two by Salvador Aguirre, Alejandro Lubezki
* Canal+ Award: From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two by Salvador Aguirre, Alejandro Lubezki
* Young Critics Award - Best Short: Meeting Evil by Reza Parsa
* Young Critics Award - Best Feature: Respiro by Emanuele Crialese
* Kodak Short Film Award: From Mesmer, with Love or Tea for Two by Salvador Aguirre, Alejandro Lubezki

### Directors' Fortnight

* C.I.C.A.E. Award: Morvern Callar by Lynne Ramsay
* Gras Savoye Award: Mémoires incertaines by Michale Boganim

### François Chalais Award

* Marooned in Iraq by Bahman Ghobadi