The 56th Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2003. French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer Patrice Chéreau was the President of the Jury for the main competition. Monica Bellucci hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
American filmmaker Gus Van Sant won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the drama film Elephant, based on the Columbine High School massacre. Ingmar Bergman was awarded with the Honorary Palme d'Or for his contributions to cinema throughout his career.
The festival opened with Fanfan la Tulipe by Gérard Krawczyk, and closed with by Richard Schickel.
Juries
The following people were appointed as the Jury for the various sections below:
Main competition
- Patrice Chéreau, French filmmaker, actor and producer - Jury President
- Erri De Luca, Italian poet
- Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, screenwriter and director
- Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
- Jean Rochefort, French actor
- Meg Ryan, American actress
- Steven Soderbergh, American filmmaker
- Danis TanoviÃÂ, Bosnian filmmaker
- Karin Viard, French actress
Un Certain Regard
Cinéfondation and Short Films Competition
Camera d'Or
- Wim Wenders, German filmmaker - Jury President
- Laurent Aknin, French critic
- Alain Champetier, French Representative of the technical industries
- Géraldine d'Haen, French secretary of the jury
- Gian Luca Farinelli, Italian cinephile
- Agnès Godard, French cinematographer
- Claude Makovski, French cinephile
- Bernard Uhlmann, Swizz cinephile
- Christian Vincent, French director
Official selection
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:
Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
Cinéfondation
The following short films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation:
- 19 At 11 by Michael Schwartz
- Am See by Ulrike von Ribbeck
- Bezi zeko bezi by Pavle VuÃÂkoviÃÂ
- Dremano oko by Vladimir Perisic
- Fish Never Sleep by Gaëlle Denis
- Five Deep Breaths by Seith Mann
- Free Loaders by Haim Tabakman
- Historia del desierto (short) by Celia Galan Julve
- Hitokoroshi no ana by Ikeda Chihiro
- Le pacte by Heidi Maria Faisst
- Like Twenty Impossibles by Annemarie Jacir
- Mechanika by David Sukup
- Rebeca a esas alturas by Luciana Jauffred Gorostiza
- Stuck by Jeremy Roberts
- The Box Man by Nirvan Mullick
- The Water Fight by Norah McGettigan
- TV City by Alejandra Tomei, Alberto Couceiro
- Empty for Love by Vimukthi Jayasundara
- Wonderful Day by Hyun-Pil Kim
- Zero by Carolina Rivas
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following films were screened for the 42nd International Critics' Week (42e Semaine de la Critique):
Feature film competition
Short film competition
Special screenings
- Off the map by Campbell Scott (United States) <small>(opening film)</small>
- Camarades by Marin Karmitz (France) <small>(La séance du Parrain)</small>
- Condor : les axes du mal by Rodrigo Vasque (France) <small>(Documentary)</small>
- Araki â The Killing of a Japanese Photographer by Anders Morgenthaller (Denmark) <small>(Short film)</small>
- Good Night by Chun Sun-Young (South Korea) <small>(Short film)</small>
- Nosferatu Tango by Zoltán Horváth (Switzerland, France) <small>(Short film)</small>
- B.B. & Il Cormorano by Edoardo Gabbriellini (Italy) <small>(closing film)</small>
Directors' Fortnight
Apart from 16 short films, the following feature films were screened for the 2003 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
- Bright Leaves (doc.) by Ross McElwee (United States, United Kingdom)
- Carême by José ÃÂlvaro Morais (Portugal)
- La chose publique by Mathieu Amalric (France)
- Cry No More (Les Yeux secs) by Narjiss Nejjar (France, Morocco)
- Deep Breath by Parviz Shahbazi (Iran)
- Feathers in My Head (Des plumes dans la tête) by Thomas De Thier (Belgium, France)
- Gozu by Takashi Miike (Japan)
- The Hours of the Day (Las horas del dÃÂa) by Jaime Rosales (Spain)
- Interstella 5555 by Kazuhisa Takenouchi (Japan, France)
- L'Isola by Costanza Quatriglio (Italy)
- James' Journey to Jerusalem by Ra'anan Alexandrowicz (Israel)
- Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra Kjøkkenet) by Bent Hamer (United States, Norway)
- Kleine Freiheit by Yüksel Yavuz (Germany)
- Les Lionceaux by Claire Doyon (France)
- Love Film (Filme de amor) by Júlio Bressane (Brazil)
- Mike Brant â Laisse moi t'aimer (doc.) by Erez Laufer (France, Israel)
- Le Monde vivant by Eugène Green (France, Belgium)
- The Mother by Roger Michell (United Kingdom)
- Naked Childhood (L'enfance nue) by Maurice Pialat (France)
- Niki and Flo (Niki Ardelean, colonel în rezerva) by Lucian Pintilie (Romania, France)
- No pasarán, album souvenir (doc.) by Henri-François Imbert (France)
- No Rest for the Brave (Pas de repos pour les braves) by Alain Guiraudie (France, Austria)
- Osama by Siddiq Barmak (Afghanistan, Netherlands, Japan, Ireland, Iran)
- Saltimbank by Jean-Claude Biette (France)
- Seducing Doctor Lewis (La grande séduction) by Jean-François Pouliot (Canada)
- The Forest (Le Silence de la forêt) by Bassek ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré (Cameroon, France)
- Sansa by Siegfried (Spain, France)
- Les Terres de l'ogre by Sami Kafati (Honduras, France)
- Watermark by Georgina Willis (Australia)
- The Woman Who Believed She Was President of the United States (A Mulher que Acreditava ser Presidente dos Estados Unidos da América) by João Botelho (Portugal)
- Im Anfang war der Blick by Bady Minck (Austria/Luxembourg)
Official Awards
In Competition
The following films and people received the 2003 Official selection awards:
Un Certain Regard
Cinéfondation
- First Prize: Run Rabbit Run by Pavle VuÃÂkoviÃÂ
- Second Prize: Historia del desierto by Celia Galan Julve
- Third Prize:
- TV City by Alejandra Tomei and Alberto Couceiro
- Rebeca a esas alturas by Luciana Jauffred Gorostiza
Short Films Competition
Independent Awards
Award of the Youth
Critics' Week
Honorary Golden Palm
Cinema Prize of the French National Education System
Golden Coach
AFCAE Award
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