Official poster of the 54th Cannes Film Festival. [1] | |
| Opening film | Moulin Rouge! |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Savage Souls |
| Location | Cannes, France |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Awards | Palme d'Or: The Son's Room |
| Hosted by | Charlotte Rampling |
| No. of films | 23 (In Competition) |
| Festival date | 9 May 2001 – 20 May 2001 |
| Website | festival-cannes |
The 54th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 20 May 2001. [1] [2] Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann was named Jury President for the main competition. Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti won the Palme d'Or for the drama film The Son's Room . [3] [4] [5]
The festival opened with Moulin Rouge! by Baz Luhrmann, [6] [7] and closed with Savage Souls by Raúl Ruiz. [8]
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or : [11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Desert Moon | 月の砂漠 | Shinji Aoyama | Japan |
| Distance | Hirokazu Kore-eda | ||
| I'm Going Home | Je rentre à la maison / Vou para Casa | Manoel de Oliveira | France, Portugal |
| In Praise of Love | Éloge de l'amour | Jean-Luc Godard | France, Switzerland |
| Kandahar | قندهار | Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Iran |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | Joel Coen | United States | |
| Millennium Mambo | 千禧曼波 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| Moulin Rouge! (opening film) | Baz Luhrmann | Australia, United States | |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | United States, France | |
| No Man's Land | Ничија земља | Danis Tanović | Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Belgium |
| The Officers' Ward | La Chambre des officiers | François Dupeyron | France |
| Pau and His Brother | Pau i el seu germà | Marc Recha | Spain, France |
| The Piano Teacher | La Pianiste | Michael Haneke | France, Austria, Germany |
| The Pledge | Sean Penn | United States | |
| The Profession of Arms | Il mestiere delle armi | Ermanno Olmi | Italy |
| Replay | La répétition | Catherine Corsini | France, Canada |
| Roberto Succo | Cédric Kahn | France | |
| Shrek | Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson | United States | |
| Taurus | Телец | Alexander Sokurov | Russia |
| The Son's Room | La stanza del figlio | Nanni Moretti | Italy |
| Va savoir | Jacques Rivette | France | |
| Warm Water Under a Red Bridge | 赤い橋の下のぬるい水 | Shōhei Imamura | Japan |
| What Time Is It There? | 你那邊幾點 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard : [11] [12]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: [11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABC Africa | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | |
| Apocalypse Now Redux | Francis Ford Coppola | United States | |
| Avalon | アヴァロン | Mamoru Oshii | Japan, Poland |
| The Center of the World | Wayne Wang | United States | |
| CQ | Roman Coppola | United States, Luxembourg, France, Italy | |
| Human Nature | Michel Gondry | United States, France | |
| My Voyage to Italy | Il mio viaggio in Italia | Martin Scorsese | United States, Italy |
| Savage Souls (closing film) | Les âmes fortes | Raúl Ruiz | France, Belgium, Switzerland |
| Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. | Sobibór, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures | Claude Lanzmann | France |
| Trouble Every Day | Claire Denis | France, Germany, Japan | |
The following films were selected for the competition of Cinéfondation : [11]
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [11]
The following films were screened for the 40th International Critics' Week (40e Semaine de la Critique): [13]
Feature film competition
Short film competition
Special screenings
The following films were screened for the 2001 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs): [14]