62nd Cannes International Film Festival
8 May 2009
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62nd Cannes International Film Festival
May 13 to 24, 2009
Short Film Corner
Janice Y. Perez’s “Sabongero”
Aissa Peñafiel and Miguel Ocampo’s “Manong Maong” –animated short
Un Certen Regard (URC)
special section in the Main Competition
Raya Martin’s “Indepedencia”
Special screening
Bing Lao’s “Biyaheng Lupa” — soliloquy
Raymond Red’s “Himpapawid”
Adolfo Alix, Jr. and Raya Martin’s “Manila”
Palme d’Or (in Competition)
Brillante (Dante) Mendoza’s “Kinatay” (”Chop Chop”)
Complete List of Finalists:
- “Los Abrazos Rotos” (Broken Embraces) by Pedro Almodovar (Spain)
- “Fish Tank” by Andrea Arnold (Britain)
- “Un Prophete” (A Prophet) by Jacques Audiard (France)
- “Vincere” (To Conquer) by Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
- “Bright Star” by Jane Campion (New Zealand)
- “Map of the Sounds of Tokyo” by Isabel Coixet (Spain)
- “A l’Origine” (In the Beginning) by Xavier Giannoli (France)
- “Das Weisse Band” (The White Ribbon) by Michael Haneke (Germany)
- “Taking Woodstock” by Ang Lee (Taiwan-United States)
- “Looking for Eric” by Ken Loach (Britain)
- “Spring Fever” by Lou Ye (China)
- “Kinatay” (Butchered) by Brillante Mendoza (Philippines)
- “Soudain le Vide” (Enter the Void) by Gaspar Noe (France)
- “Bak-Jwi” (Thirst) by Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
- “Les Herbes Folles” (Wild Grasses) by Alain Resnais (France)
- “The Time That Remains” by Elia Suleiman (Palestinian)
- “Inglourious Basterds” by Quentin Tarantino (United States)
- “Vengeance” by Johnnie To (Hong Kong)
- “Visages” (Face) by Tsai Ming-Liang (Malaysia)
- “Antichrist” by Lars von Trier (Denmark)

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