Jury

• Quentin Tarantino
  Quentin Tarantino
  Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
  
  , President ( United States)
• Emmanuelle Béart
  Emmanuelle Béart
  Emmanuelle Béart is a French film actress, who has appeared in over 50 film and television productions since 1972. Béart won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Manon des Sources . She has been nominated a further seven times for Most Promising Actress and Best Actress.- Early...
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• Edwidge Danticat ( United States/ Haiti)
• Tilda Swinton
  Tilda Swinton
  Katherine Mathilda "Tilda" Swinton is a British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading, The Beach, We Need to Talk About Kevin and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her...
  
   
• Kathleen Turner
  Kathleen Turner
  Mary Kathleen Turner is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Prizzi's Honor...
  
   ( United States)
• Benoît Poelvoorde
  Benoît Poelvoorde
  Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor and comedian who often associates cynicism, humour and drama in his movies.His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still young...
  
   ( Belgium)
• Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg is a photographer and film director.-Career:Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. He photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Esquire and McCalls. He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's Puzzle of a Downfall Child starring...
  
   ( United States)
• Tsui Hark
  Tsui Hark
  Tsui Hark , born Tsui Man-kong, is a Hong Kong New Wave film director and producer. He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema .-Early life:...
  
   ( Hong Kong)
• Peter Von Bagh
  Peter von Bagh
  Kari Peter Conrad von Bagh is a Finnish film historian and director. He currently works as a professor of film history in the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He has written around 20 books about film and worked as a presenter for numerous television and radio programs about film and other...
  
   ( Finland)

Films in Competition

• 2046
  2046 (film)
  2046 is a 2004 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. It is a loose sequel to the 1991 Hong Kong film Days of Being Wild and the 2000 Hong Kong film In the Mood for Love...
  
  by Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...
  
   ( Hong Kong)
• Clean by Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas
  Olivier Assayas is a French film director and screenwriter.He made his debut in 1986, after directing some short films and writing for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma.-Career:...
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• Comme une image
  Look at Me (film)
  Look at Me is a 2004 drama film directed by Agnès Jaoui. The movie won "Best Screenplay" award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The movie features a clip from the 1948 film Blood on the Moon.-Plot:...
  
  by Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• Dare mo shiranai by Hirokazu Koreeda
  Hirokazu Koreeda
  is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. His films explore themes of memory, death, and coming to terms with loss.Koreeda originally planned to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University instead worked as an assistant director on documentaries for TV Man Union...
  
   ( Japan)
• Diarios de motocicleta
  The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
  At the end of the film, after his sojourn at the leper colony, Guevara confirms his nascent egalitarian, anti-authority impulses, while making a birthday toast, which is also his first political speech. In it he evokes a pan-Latin American identity that transcends both the arbitrary boundaries of...
  
  by Walter Salles
  Walter Salles
  Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...
  
   ( Argentina)
• Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei
  The Edukators
  The Edukators is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2004. Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, it stars Daniel Brühl, Stipe Erceg and Julia Jentsch....
  
  by Hans Weingartner
  Hans Weingartner
  Hans Weingartner is an Austrian author, director and producer of films. He attended the Austrian Association of Cinematography and earned a diploma as a camera assistant. Later, he did a postgraduate at the Academy of Media Arts KHM in Cologne, Germany...
  
   ( Germany/ Austria)
• Exils
  Exils
  Exiles is a 2004 French film by Tony Gatlif. The film follows two young bohemians, Zano and Naima. After having sex the two spontaneously decide that they will travel to Algeria, where Naima's parents come from, and where Zano's pied-noir parents were once exiled...
  
  by Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• Fahrenheit 9/11
  Fahrenheit 9/11
  Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media...
  
  by Michael Moore
  Michael Moore
  Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
  
   ( United States)
• Innocence: Ghost in the Shell
  Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known simply as in japan, is a 2004 science fiction film and sequel to the anime film, Ghost in the Shell. Released in Japan on March 6, 2004, with an U.S. release on September 17, 2004, Innocence had a production budget of approximately $20 million...
  
  by Oshii Mamoru ( Japan)
• La niña santa
  The Holy Girl
  The Holy Girl is an Argentine, Spanish, and Italian drama film, directed by Lucrecia Martel. The picture was executive produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar, and Esther García...
  
  by Lucrecia Martel
  Lucrecia Martel
  Lucrecia Martel is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Lucrecia Martel is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c...
  
   ( Argentina)
• The Ladykillers
  The Ladykillers (2004 film)
  The Ladykillers is a 2004 dark comedy film directed, written and produced by the Coen brothers and stars Tom Hanks, with a supporting cast that includes J. K. Simmons, Marlon Wayans, Tzi Ma, Ryan Hurst and Irma P. Hall...
  
  by Joel and Ethan Coen ( United States)
• Le conseguenze dell'amore
  The Consequences of Love
  The Consequences of Love is a 2004 Italian psychological thriller film directed by Paolo Sorrentino. It tells the story of a lonely and secretive Italian businessman living in a Swiss hotel. The film competed at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. It won five David di Donatello awards including Best...
  
  by Paolo Sorrentino
  Paolo Sorrentino
  Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Naples.Sorrentino's first film as screenwriter, Polvere di Napoli, was released in 1998. He began directing several short movies, like L'amore non ha confini, in 1998, and La notte lunga, in 2001...
  
    ( Italy)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 film about the life of English comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis' book of the same name...
  
  by Stephen Hopkins
  Stephen Hopkins (director)
  Stephen Hopkins is a Jamaican-born film director and producer. He is best-known for his continuation of the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise with A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child and the Predator franchise with Predator 2...
  
   
• Mondovino
  Mondovino
  Mondovino is a 2004 documentary film on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions written and directed by American film maker Jonathan Nossiter...
  
  by Jonathan Nossiter
  Jonathan Nossiter
  Jonathan Nossiter is an American filmmaker. Son of Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent Bernard Nossiter, he was born in the United States in 1961. He was raised in France, England, Italy, Greece and India...
  
   ( United States)
• Oldboy
  Oldboy
  Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr...
  
  by Park Chan-wook
  Park Chan-wook
  Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is most known for his films Joint Security Area, Thirst and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of...
  
   ( South Korea)
• Shrek 2
  Shrek 2
  Shrek 2 is a 2004 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film, produced by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon. It is the second installment in the Shrek film series and the sequel to 2001's Shrek...
  
  , by Andrew Adamson
  Andrew Adamson
  Andrew Ralph Adamson, MNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer and screenwriter based mainly in Los Angeles, where he made the blockbuster animation films, Shrek and Shrek 2 for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He was director, executive producer, and scriptwriter for C. S....
  
  , Kelly Asbury
  Kelly Asbury
  Kelly Adam Asbury is an American director, writer, voice actor, author and illustrator.He attended Lamar University for two years before, in 1980, transferring to California Institute of the Arts, where he studied animation and filmmaking...
  
   and Conrad Vernon
  Conrad Vernon
  Conrad Vernon IV is an American director, writer, and voice actor, best known for his work on the DreamWorks animated films Shrek 2 and Monsters vs...
  
   ( United States)
• Sud pralad
  Tropical Malady
  Tropical Malady is a 2004 Thai romantic psychological drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It is a film in two segments – the first part a romance story about two homosexual men, and the second a mysterious tale about a soldier lost in the woods, bedeviled by the spirit of a shaman...
  
  by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...
  
   ( Thailand)
• Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda
  Woman Is the Future of Man
  Woman is the Future of Man is a 2004 South Korean film directed by Hong Sang-soo. The film wasn't a box-office hit, but was entered in the competition category of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and received screenings at several other festivals...
  
  by Hong Sang-soo
  Hong Sang-soo
  Hong Sang-soo is a South Korean film director. Hong's directorial debut, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well , was praised by South Korean critics for its originality and won international film prizes...
  
   ( South Korea)
• Život je čudo
  Life Is a Miracle
  Life is a Miracle is a Serbian drama film directed by Emir Kusturica in 2004. It was entered into the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Emir Kusturica
  Emir Kusturica
  Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
  
   ( Serbia and Montenegro)

Films out of Competition

• 10e chambre - Instants d'audience, by Raymond Depardon
  Raymond Depardon
  Raymond Depardon is a French photographer, photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.-Photographer:...
  
    ( Early Modern France)
• Bab el shams
  The Gate of Sun
  The Gate of Sun is a 2004 French-Egyptian war film directed by Yousry Nasrallah. It was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Hiam Abbass - Um Youness* Fady Abou-Samra - Dr...
  
  , by Yousry Nasrallah
  Yousry Nasrallah
  Yousry Nasrallah is an Egyptian film director.Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He graduated in economics and political science at Cairo University. Following, he worked as a film critic and directing assistant in Beirut from 1978 to 1982...
  
    ( Early Modern France/ Egypt)
• Bad Santa
  Bad Santa
  Bad Santa is a 2003 American screwball black comedy film directed and co-written by Terry Zwigoff, produced by the Coen brothers, and starring Billy Bob Thornton as the title character and Tony Cox as his partner in crime. Actors Bernie Mac and John Ritter co-star...
  
  , by Terry Zwigoff
  Terry Zwigoff
  Terry Zwigoff is an American filmmaker whose work often deals with misfits, antiheros, and themes of alienation. His fiction films are the features Ghost World , Bad Santa , and Art School Confidential...
  
   ( United States)
• Dà Shì Jiàn, by Johnnie To
  Johnnie To
  Johnnie To Kei-Fung, born 22 April 1955, is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas...
  
   ( Hong Kong)
• Cinéastes à tout prix, by Frédéric Sojcher ( Belgium)
• Dawn of the Dead
  Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
  Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 horror film directed by Zack Snyder in his directorial debut. It is a remake of George A. Romero's 1978 film of the same name and stars Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, and Jake Weber. The film depict a handful of human survivors living in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin shopping mall...
  
  , by Zack Snyder
  Zack Snyder
  Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer. After making his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead, he gained wide recognition with the 2007 box office hit 300, adapted from writer-artist Frank Miller's Dark Horse Comics...
  
   ( United States)
• De-Lovely
  De-Lovely
  De-Lovely is a 2004 musical biopic directed by Irwin Winkler. The screenplay by Jay Cocks is based on the life and career of Cole Porter, from his first meeting with Linda Lee Thomas until his death...
  
  , by Irwin Winkler
  Irwin Winkler
  Irwin Winkler is an American film producer and director. He is the producer or director of 50 major motion pictures, dating back to 1967's Double Trouble, starring Elvis Presley. The fourth film he produced, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? , starring Jane Fonda, was nominated for nine Academy Awards...
  
   ( United States)
• Épreuves d'artistes, by Gilles Jacob ( Early Modern France)
• Five, by Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
   ( Iran)
• Glauber o Filme, Labirinto do Brasil, by Silvio Tendler ( Brazil)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2
  Kill Bill
  Kill Bill Volume 1 is a 2003 action thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is the first of two volumes that were theatrically released several months apart, the second volume being Kill Bill Volume 2....
  
  , by Quentin Tarantino
  Quentin Tarantino
  Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
  
   ( United States)
• La mala educación
  Bad Education
  Bad Education is a 2004 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Lluís Homar. The plot is about two reunited childhood friends in the vein of a murder mystery...
  
  , by Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
  
   ( Spain)
• Le fantôme d'Henri Langlois, by Jacques Richard ( Early Modern France)
• Notre musique
  Notre musique
  Notre musique is a 2004 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The film reflects on violence, morality, and the representation of violence in film, and touches especially on past colonialism and the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
  
  , by Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• Salvador Allende
  Salvador Allende (film)
  Salvador Allende is a 2004 documentary film about Chilean president Salvador Allende, from his election campaign to the coup d'état which ended his presidency...
  
  , by Patricio Guzmán
  Patricio Guzmán
  Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director. He is internationally renowned for films such as The Battle of Chile and Salvador Allende....
  
   ( Chile)
• Shí miàn mái fú
  House of Flying Daggers
  House of Flying Daggers is a 2004 wuxia film directed by Zhang Yimou. It differs from other wuxia films in that it is more of a love story than a straight martial arts film....
  
  , by Zhang Yimou
  Zhang Yimou
  Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....
  
    ( Mainland China)
• Troy
  Troy (film)
  Troy is a 2004 epic war film written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen based on the events of the Trojan War. Its cast includes Brad Pitt as Achilles, Eric Bana as Hector.It was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design.-Plot:...
  
  , by Wolfgang Petersen
  Wolfgang Petersen
  Wolfgang Petersen is a German film director and screenwriter. His films include The NeverEnding Story, Enemy Mine, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, Troy, and Poseidon...
  
   ( United States)
• Ya umer v detstve..., by Georgi Paradzhanov  ( Russia)
• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
  Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
  Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a documentary about Los Angeles pay cable channel Z Channel that accompanied the DVD release of uncut version of Heaven's Gate...
  
  , by Alexandra Cassavetes
  Alexandra Cassavetes
  Alexandra Cassavetes , nicknamed "Xan", is an American actress and director. She is the daughter of Greek actor-director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands. She is the granddaughter of actress Katherine Cassavetes...
  
   ( United States)

Films competing in Un Certain Regard

• 10 on Ten
  10 on Ten
  10 on Ten is a 2004 Iranian documentary film directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  , by Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami
  Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries...
  
   ( Iran)
• À ce soir
  Nelly (film)
  Nelly is a 2004 French drama film directed by Laure Duthilleul. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Sophie Marceau - Nelly* Antoine Chappey - Jose* Fabio Zenoni - Serge* Gérald Laroche - René...
  
  , by Laure Duthilleul
  Laure Duthilleul
  Laure Duthilleul is a French actress. She has appeared in over 70 films and television shows since 1981. She has appeared in five films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* À toute allure...
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• A Tout de Suite, by Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot
  Benoît Jacquot is a French film director who has had a varied career in European cinema.Born in Paris, he began his career as assistant director of Marguerite Duras films including Nathalie Granger, India Song and also actor in the 1973 short film La Sœur du cadre.He turned to writing and...
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• Alexandrie... New York
  Alexandria... New York
  Alexandria... New York is a 2004 French-Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mahmoud Hemida - Yehia...
  
  , by Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine
  Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif...
  
   ( Egypt) - closing movie
• The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  The Assassination of Richard Nixon
  The Assassination of Richard Nixon is a 2004 American film, directed by Niels Mueller. It stars Sean Penn, Don Cheadle and Naomi Watts, and is based on the story of would-be assassin Samuel Byck, who plotted to kill Richard Nixon in 1974. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004...
  
  , by Niels Mueller
  Niels Mueller
  Niels Mueller is a filmmaker currently resident in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Tufts University where he earned a BA. While an undergraduate, he collaborated with fellow-student Gary Winick on a number of independent film projects. Mueller subsequently...
  
   ( United States)
• Bienvenue en Suisse
  Bienvenue en Suisse
  Bienvenue en Suisse is a 2004 French-Swiss comedy film directed by Léa Fazer. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Vincent Perez - Aloïs Couchepin* Emmanuelle Devos - Sophie* Denis Podalydès - Thierry...
  
  , by Léa Fazer
  Léa Fazer
  Léa Fazer is a Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress. She studied film at the University Paris Diderot. Her film Bienvenue en Suisse was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
   ( Switzerland) - opening movie
• Cheongpung myeongwol
  Sword in the Moon
  Sword in the Moon is a 2003 South Korean film. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  , by Kim Ui-seok
  Kim Ui-seok
  Kim Ui-seok is a South Korean film director. He has directed six films since 1992. His film Cheongpung myeongwol was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Gyeolhon iyagi...
  
   ( South Korea)
• Crónicas
  Crónicas
  Crónicas is a 2004 Ecuadorian thriller film, written and directed by Sebastián Cordero. The film was produced by Guillermo Del Toro, director of Pan's Labyrinth, and Alfonso Cuarón, director of Y Tu Mama Tambien...
  
  , by Sebastián Cordero
  Sebastián Cordero
  Sebastián Cordero is a film director, writer and editor, often recognized for his work in Ratas, Ratones, Rateros, his debut film which portrays the life in a poverty-stricken Ecuador...
  
   ( Ecuador)
• Dear Frankie
  Dear Frankie
  Dear Frankie is a 2004 British drama film directed by Shona Auerbach. The screenplay by Andrea Gibb focuses on a young single mother whose love for her son prompts her to perpetuate a deception designed to protect him from the truth about his father....
  
  , by Shona Auerbach
  Shona Auerbach
  Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer.Auerbach began her career as a stills photographer. She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at the Polish National Film School in Lodz...
  
   
• Hotel
  Hotel (2004 film)
  Hotel is a 2004 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Franziska Weisz - Irene* Birgit Minichmayr - Petra* Marlene Streeruwitz - Mrs. Maschek...
  
  , by Jessica Hausner
  Jessica Hausner
  Jessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   ( Austria)
• Khakestar-o-khak
  Earth and Ashes
  Earth and Ashes is a 2004 Afghan film directed by Atiq Rahimi. It was Afghanistan's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  , by Atiq Rahimi
  Atiq Rahimi
  Atiq Rahimi is a French-Afghan writer and film-maker.-Life:He was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal...
  
   ( Afghanistan)
• Kontroll
  Kontroll
  Kontroll is a Hungarian comedy-thriller released to theatres in 2003. Shown internationally, mainly in art house theatres, the film is a darkly comic thriller set in a Hungarian Metro system....
  
  , by Antal Nimród ( Hungary)
• Lu cheng
  Passages (film)
  Passages is a 2004 Chinese drama film directed by Yang Chao. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Caméra d'Or Mention Spéciale prize.-Plot:...
  
  , by Yang Chao ( Mainland China)
• Marseille
  Marseille (film)
  Marseille is a 2004 German drama film directed by Angela Schanelec. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Maren Eggert - Sophie* Emily Atef - Zelda* Alexis Loret - Pierre...
  
  , by Angela Schanelec ( Germany)
• Moolaadé
  Moolaadé
  Moolaadé is a 2004 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène. It addresses the subject of female genital mutilation, a common practice in a number of African countries, especially those immediately south of the Sahara Desert...
  
  , by Ousmane Sembène
  Ousmane Sembène
  Ousmane Sembène , often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer...
  
   ( Senegal)
• Noite Escura
  In the Darkness of the Night
  In the Darkness of the Night is a 2004 Portuguese drama film directed by João Canijo. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* Fernando Luís – Nelson Pinto* Rita Blanco – Celeste Pinto...
  
  , by João Canijo
  João Canijo
  João Canijo is a Portuguese film director. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Três Menos Eu * Lovely Child/ Filha da Mãe João Canijo (born 1957) is a Portuguese film director. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un...
  
   ( Portugal)
• Non ti muovere
  Don't Move (film)
  Don't Move is a 2004 Italian film directed by Sergio Castellitto. It stars Penélope Cruz, Claudia Gerini, Elena Perino and the director himself. Both Castellitto and Cruz received critical praise for their performances, as well as several awards, including the prestigious David di Donatello...
  
  , by Sergio Castellitto
  Sergio Castellitto
  Sergio Castellitto is an Italian actor and director.Castellitto attended the academy of dramatic art and dedicated himself to theatre soon after, working with many famous actors such as Luigi Squarzina, Aldo Trionfo and Enzo Muzii...
  
   ( Italy)
• Poids léger
  Lightweight (film)
  Lightweight is a 2004 French drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Améris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Nicolas Duvauchelle - Antoine* Bernard Campan - Chief* Maï Anh Le - Su...
  
  , by Jean-Pierre Améris
  Jean-Pierre Améris
  Jean-Pierre Améris is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed eleven films since 1993. His film Poids léger was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
   ( Early Modern France)
• Shiza
  Shiza
  Shiza a.k.a. Schizo is a 2004 Russian language film directed by Gulshat Omarova. The film was in the official selection from Kazakhstan for the 77th Academy Awards...
  
  , by Gulshat Omarova
  Gulshat Omarova
  Gulshat Omarova is a Kazakh film director, actress and screen writer. She was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan and now lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands...
  
   ( Kazakhstan)
• Somersault
  Somersault (film)
  Somersault is an Australian independent film, written and directed by Cate Shortland and released in September 2004. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
  
  , by Cate Shortland
  Cate Shortland
  Cate Shortland is an Australian writer and director of film and television.She was born 10 August 1968 in Temora, New South Wales. She graduated from the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where she received the Southern Star Award for most promising student.She has created several award...
  
   ( Australia)
• Whisky
  Whisky (film)
  Whisky is an Argentine-German-Spanish-Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004. The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It has very sparse dialogue and the three principal actors play very...
  
  , by Juan Pablo Rebella
  Juan Pablo Rebella
  Juan Pablo Rebella was an Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Pablo Stoll first began.After graduating in 1999 he...
  
   and Pablo Stoll
  Pablo Stoll
  Pablo Stoll is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter.He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Juan Pablo Rebella first began...
  
   ( Uruguay)

Awards

• Palme d'Or
  Palme d'Or
  The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
  
  : Fahrenheit 9/11
  Fahrenheit 9/11
  Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media...
  
  , by Michael Moore
  Michael Moore
  Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
  
  
• Grand Prix
  Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
  
  : Oldboy
  Oldboy
  Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr...
  
  , by Park Chan-wook
  Park Chan-wook
  Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is most known for his films Joint Security Area, Thirst and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of...
  
  
• Best Actress Award: Maggie Cheung
  Maggie Cheung
  Maggie Cheung Man yuk is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983...
  
   in Clean
  Clean (film)
  Clean is a 2004 film directed by French director Olivier Assayas, starring Nick Nolte and Maggie Cheung. It was jointly funded by Canada, France, and United Kingdom sources.-Plot:...
  
  
• Best Actor Award: Yûya Yagira
  Yûya Yagira
  Yuya Yagira is a Japanese actor from Higashiyamato, Tokyo. His portrayal of 12-year-old Akira in the highly acclaimed Nobody Knows won him a Best Actor Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   in Nobody Knows
• Best Director Award
  Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Director Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946....
  
  : Exils
  Exils
  Exiles is a 2004 French film by Tony Gatlif. The film follows two young bohemians, Zano and Naima. After having sex the two spontaneously decide that they will travel to Algeria, where Naima's parents come from, and where Zano's pied-noir parents were once exiled...
  
  , by Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif
  Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Best Screenplay Award
  Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival...
  
  : Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
  
   and Jean-Pierre Bacri
  Jean-Pierre Bacri
  Jean-Pierre Bacri is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui.-Life:One of his earliest film appearances was Subway...
  
   for Look at Me
  Look at Me (film)
  Look at Me is a 2004 drama film directed by Agnès Jaoui. The movie won "Best Screenplay" award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The movie features a clip from the 1948 film Blood on the Moon.-Plot:...
  
  
• Prix du Jury: Tropical Malady
  Tropical Malady
  Tropical Malady is a 2004 Thai romantic psychological drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It is a film in two segments – the first part a romance story about two homosexual men, and the second a mysterious tale about a soldier lost in the woods, bedeviled by the spirit of a shaman...
  
  , by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...
  
  
• Prix Un Certain Regard
  Un Certain Regard
  Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
  
  : Moolaadé
  Moolaadé
  Moolaadé is a 2004 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène. It addresses the subject of female genital mutilation, a common practice in a number of African countries, especially those immediately south of the Sahara Desert...
  
  by Ousmane Sembène
  Ousmane Sembène
  Ousmane Sembène , often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer...
  
  

External links

• 2004 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:2004 at Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...