Cannes Film Festival 2003

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Cannes Film Festival 2003

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The 56th Cannes Film Festival 2003 starts 14 May 2003 and runs through 25 May 2003

• See the Official Festival Web site for all the films in and out of competition, updates and news on special events, concerts and more.

And the winners are: 

• Palm d'Or: Elephant Directed by Gus Van Sant

• Grand Jury Prize: Uzak Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan 

• Best Actor: Shared between for Muzaffer Ozdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak for Uzak

• Best Actress: Marie Josée Croze for her performance in Les Invasions Barbares 

• Best Director: Gus Van Sant for Elephant  

• Best Screenplay: Les Invasions Barbares  by Denys Arcand 

• Special Jury Prize: Samira Makhmalbaf for A Cinq heurs de l'apres-midi 

• Caméra d'Or: Reconstruction by Christoffer Boe 

Open to the Public

Films in and out of competition will be screened, for free, to the public during the Cannes Film Festival, in the days following the screening for the jury and press. Generally, foreign-language films will be subtitled in English.

You can get a day pass at the Cinéphiles tent in front of the Palais, or a pass per movie at the cinema before the show. Programmes will be available at the tent and in various hotels and gathering places. The queues are VERY long and VERY slow on the first few days, so either get there early, or be prepared to "people watch" while you wait for hours in line. The Cannes Tourist Office will be able to provide information. Take some form of identity and proof of being a resident of the area.

• Cannes Tourism
  Tel: 04 93 39 24 53
  Fax: 04 92 99 84 23

Public showings will be held at:

• Salle Raimu, MJC Ranguin, Centre de Ranguin, La Bocca.
  Tel: 04 93 47 21 16

• Studio 13, MJC Picaud 23, avenue du Docteur-Picaud.
  Tel: 04 93 06 29 90

• Théâtre La Licorne, Espace Mérimée, avenue Francvis-Tonner, La Bocca.
  Tel: 04 93 48 97 34

Cinéma de la Plage: Access is free to the open air beach cinema on the beach opposite the Majestic but unlike last year, you need to have a pass. You can:

• Show your Cinéphiles badge

• A festival badge (if you have accreditation to a area of the festival)

• Or get a free pass ticket to a screening from the Tourist Office at the Palais from 14:00 on the day of the show

Cinéma de la Plage programme:

The beach opens at 22:00 and the films start at 22:30. All films that are not VO English will be subtitled in English.

• Wednesday 14: Fanfan La Tulipe - 2003 - French Direted by Gérard Krawczyk (1h38)

• Thursday 15: La Strada - 1954 - (Italian). Directed by Frederico Fellini (2h37)

• Friday 16: La Dolce Vita - 1960 - (Italian). Directed by Frederico Fellini (2h37)

• Saturday 17: The Soul of a Man - 2002 - (English). Directed by Wim Wenders (1h40)

• Sunday 18: Qui a Tué Bambi?  (French). Directed by Gilles Marchand (2h06)

• Monday 19: Les Triplettes de Belville - 2003 -(French). Directed by Sylvain Chomet (1h19)

• Tuesday 20: E La Nave Va - 1983 - Directed by Frederico Fellini (2h11)

• Wednesday 21: Amarcord - 1973 - Directed by Frederico Fellini (1h15)

• Thursday 22: Prova d'Orchestra - 1979 - Directed by Frederico Fellini (1h15)

• Friday 23: Screening of the winner of the Prix Media 2003

• Saturday 24: Screening of the Short Films in competition FIBA (1h55)

• Sunday 25: Modern Times - 1936 - (English). Directed by Charles Chaplain (1h27)
  

This year's Festival celebrates Italian film-maker Federico Fellini on the 10th anniversary of his death. Free screenings of Fellini's film will be shown on the Cinéma de la Plage beach screen and the musical kiosks along the Croisette will be playing music from Fellini films.

You can watch the Festival at home with the Live TV Festival, broadcast 24 hours a day throughout in English and French from the 14th to 25th May, on: Canal Satellite  - channel  79 / Noos - channel 100 / France Telecom Cable - channel 93

Parking in Cannes is often very difficult – rather use the bus or train: Train timetable SNCF

What you can see

The Jury:

Jury President Patrice Chéreau (Director, France)

• Aishwarya Rai (Actress, India)

• Meg Ryan (Actress, USA)

• Karin Viard (Actress, France)

• Erri De Luca (Writer, Italy)

• Jean Rochefort (Actor, France)

• Steven Soderbergh (Director USA)

• Danis Tanovic (Director, Bosnia)

• Jiang Wen (Director, China)

Official Selection:

Opening Film (not in competition)

• Fanfan La Tulipe directed by Gérard Krawczyk

Closing film (not in competition)

• Modern Times directed by Charles Chaplin

Also Showing out of competition (with stars attending the opening ceremony) 

• The Matrix Reloaded directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski

Films in Competition

• A Cinq heurs de l'apres-midi  Directed by Samira Makhmalbaf

• Bright Future Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Carandiru directed by Hector Babenco

• Ce Jour-là Directed by Raoul Ruiz

• Dogville Directed by Lars Von Trier 

• Elephant Directed by Gus Van Sant

• Il Cuore Altrove Directed by Pupi Avati

• La Petite Lili Directed by Claude Miller 

• Les Côtelettes Directed by Bertrand Blier

• Les Égarés Directed by André Téchiné 

• Les Invasions Barbares Directed by Denys Arcand

• Mystic River Directed by Clint Eastwood

• Père et Fils Directed by Alexandre Sokourov

• Purple Butterfly Directed by Ye Lou

• Shara Directed by Naomi Kawase

• Swimming Pool Directed by François Ozon

• The Brown Bunny Directed by Vincent Gallo

• The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1 Directed by Peter Greenaway

• Tiresia Directed by Bertrand Bonello

• Uzak Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan 

Other Information

Regular news and press releases are added to the Official Cannes Festival Web site. Click here for the latest: 

This page will be updated as more information becomes available. And be sure to be back on AngloINFO next year for news on the Cannes Film Festival 2004!

Festival 2002

Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database