2006 Cannes Film Festival
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- DirectorKen LoachStarsCillian MurphyPádraic DelaneyLiam CunninghamAgainst the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.Palme d'Or
- DirectorBruno DumontStarsAdélaïde LerouxSamuel BoidinHenri CretelBruno Dumont follows up the controversial Twentynine Palms with this tale of a group of young soldiers who go off to war and experience some life-changing events. Flandres won the Grand Prix Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.Grand Prix
- DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsBrad PittCate BlanchettGael García BernalTragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, which jump starts an interlocking story involving four different families.Best Director Award
Vulcan Award
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsPenélope CruzCarmen MauraLola DueñasAfter her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.Best Screenplay Award
Best Actress - DirectorRachid BoucharebStarsSamy NaceriRoschdy ZemSami BouajilaDuring World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination.Best Actor
Prix François Chalais - DirectorAndrea ArnoldStarsKate DickieTony CurranMartin CompstonJackie works as a CCTV operator. Each day she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day a man appears on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she never wanted to see again. Now she has no choice, she is compelled to confront him.Prix du Jury
- DirectorChao WangStarsHe HuangYiqing LiYuan TianA country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works as an escort in a karaoke bar. Yanhong introduces him to a policeman who sympathizes with his plight and agrees to help him to find his son. The two quickly become friends. Yanhong also presents her father to her boyfriend, the owner of the karaoke, an older man, who drives a luxury car. However when the four of them meet for dinner one night the old policeman recognizes the boyfriend as a man he arrested over ten years ago...Prix Un Certain Regard
- DirectorRolf de HeerPeter DjigirrStarsCrusoe KurddalJamie GulpililRichard BirrinbirrinIn Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife.Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize
- DirectorCãtãlin MitulescuStarsDorotheea PetreTimotei DumaIoan AlbuIn Communist-era Romania, people live with hope for a new life of freedom.Prix d’interprétation féminine
- DirectorFrancisco VargasStarsÁngel TaviraGerardo TaracenaDagoberto GamaIn an unnamed Latin American country that closely resembles Mexico, the government fights a rural insurgency with torture, assault, rape, and murder. Soldiers descend on a town, cutting off the rebels from their cache of ammunition hidden in a field. A family of grandfather, son, and grandson are among the rebels in the hills. The grandfather, with his violin over his shoulder, tries to pass the checkpoint, ostensibly to tend his corn crop. The commanding officer lets him pass but insists on a daily music lesson. Can the old man ferry out the ammunition in his violin case under the soldiers' nose?Prix d’interprétation masculine
- DirectorPatrick GrandperretStarsHande KodjaCéline SalletteGianni GiardinelliNina and Lizzy meet at the mental institution they are committed to. Nina , who feels guilty for her father's death, has been depressed since the tragic event. As for Lizzy, a slightly unbalanced girl, she has been confined there after a suicide attempt. One Saturday night, Lizzy persuades Nina to sneak out of the clinic to paint the city red with her boyfriend Malik and their common friends. But things do not go according to plan. Not at all...Prix du Président du Jury Un Certain Regard
- DirectorCorneliu PorumboiuStarsMircea AndreescuTeodor CorbanIon SapdaruA local talk show host organizes an alcoholic professor and a pensioner known for playing Santa Claus to decide whether there was ever a revolution in their town Vaslui.Caméra d'Or
Label Europa Cinéma - DirectorNuri Bilge CeylanStarsEbru CeylanNuri Bilge CeylanNazan KesalDowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior.FIPRESCI Prize
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsAshley JuddMichael ShannonHarry Connick Jr.An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.FIPRESCI Prize
- DirectorPaz EncinaStarsRamon Del RioGeorgina GenesJorge LópezSet in 1935, a couple of aged smallholders are waiting for their son, for rain, for better days.FIPRESCI Prize
- DirectorRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheStarsMeriem SerbahAbel JafriRabah Ameur-ZaïmecheJust released from a French prison, Kamel is deported to his native Algeria. At first welcoming the altered pace of village life, he feels increasingly alienated by its sexism and violent intolerance, and gradually plots his escape.Award of the Youth
- DirectorEmmanuel BourdieuStarsMalik ZidiThibault VinçonAlexandre SteigerA group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liarGrand prix de la semaine de la critique
Prix SACD
Grand Rail d'or - DirectorMatthias LuthardtStarsSebastian UrzendowskyMarion MitterhammerClemens BergAfter his father's suicide, confused angsty 16 year old Paul goes to stay with his uncle's family. His uncle's wife is also unhappy with her life, so she and Paul have sex and only end up feeling even worse afterwards. Things get ugly.Prix SACD
Prix de la toute jeune critique - DirectorJens LienStarsTrond FausaPetronella BarkerPer SchaanningIn a strange city where every person seems content beyond reason a new man arrives in town and stirs up trouble by asking too many questions.Prix Acid
- DirectorKim Rossi StuartStarsAlessandro MoraceKim Rossi StuartBarbora BobulovaA young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.Prix Art and Essay
- DirectorJulia LoktevStarsLuisa WilliamsJosh Philip WeinsteinGareth SaxeA 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.Prix Regard Jeune